Mike Loughnane is bringing his college basketball career home.
After spending one season at Davidson College in North Carolina, the 6-foot-4 guard from Quincy is transferring to Northeastern, he announced on X on Tuesday.
Loughnane led BC High to a Division 1 state championship and became the Eagles' all-time leading scorer as a senior in 2022, and played a post-grad year at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, before heading off to Davidson College as a college freshman in 2024.
This past season, the sophomore Loughnane started 32 games and averaged 5.1 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game on 43.9% shooting from the field and 37.4% from three. Davidson, which is famed for being the alma mater of Stephen Curry, finished with a 17-16 record.
Loughnane transfers into a Northeastern program that his father, Bill, walked onto and played for from 1976-1980 under Jim Calhoun, the legendary UConn coach who hails from Braintree.
Bill Loughnane was a four-year starting point guard who graduated as the program's all-time assist leader with a career total of 500. That record is now third on the Huskies' leaderboard, but Loughnane still holds the single-game assists record with 15 vs. Delaware in 1977.
Northeastern (17-15) finished this year with a loss to Hampton in the CAA (Colonial Athletic Association) Championship in Washington, D.C.
Mike Loughnane last played in Massachusetts as a visitor this past season. He put up 7 points and a season-high 7 assists in Davidson's 77-68 win over UMass in Amherst on Feb. 12.
Prior to that, his last in-state game of note was played as a BC High senior in 2022 as Loughnane scored a team-high 16 points in a win over Newton North in the Division 1 state championship at Tsongas Center in Lowell to conclude the Eagles' perfect 25-0 season.
Loughnane, the Catholic Conference MVP, averaged 27.2 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game that season.
This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Mike Loughnane transfers to Northeastern basketball from Davidson
