i think the job that bill coen is doing is phenomenal. it's a lost similarities. he's a great guy as you probably know. he works as hard as anybody i know. >> mike: a great upgrade to matthews arena. i know you've been a part of that. after your playing days, it must be nice to see that too. >> it's great. they have fabulous facilities. everything about the university has improved so much in the last 30 years. i played here 30 years ago, so it's a lng time. >> mike: we need to see a few things and come back 30 years later and have the exact same thing? >> that's right. >> mike: doing real estate and coaching basketball, correct? >> i do. i help coach a girls' hoag high school tai.s been fun. it helped me get back in the game. i've been doing it about a dozen year now. i endiswroi a lot. >> mike: dave, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. see you again soon. >> thank you so much. >> mike: dave caligaris at halftime with northeastern leading george mason by 12. more after the break in boston. >> mike: northeastern wing at george mason at the half. 34-22.

. >> mike: bill coen knows it's a 40-minute ballgame. didn't seem too fired up there. his has played well in the first half. >> mark: 12 points is not a big lead. teams make runs. anything can happen in the second half. they have a whole 20 minutes. hoping that mason went into halftime able to regroup went out to play a better second half maybe than the first half. >> mike: coach larranaga whose team is 1-3 on the season. that's where their struggles have been. in the caa on the road, we know how difficult it is to win on the road in this league. at home, patriots are 33-5 over the last five years, but on the road they're 19-18. that's not that bad 26789-5 in the last seven. conference games on the road. both wilson have come against caw. they want to remain undefeated in the caa. they're down 12. second half is under way. 20 minutes for george mason. [ whistle ] >> mike: travel. that's not the way they want to start. >> mark: that's not a good sign. what mason needs to do, they need to work the ball around theperimeter. tried to get inside touches. work the inside to

chaisson allen, matt janning giving the huskies a 12-point lead at the break for bill coen's squad.

bill coen is in thinks fourth year and four starters back from last year's team that won 19 ballgames and his starting five looks like this. matt janning will lead the way we talked about him and chaisson allen in the backcourt. alwayne bigby and manny adako tonight. the tips brought to you by moore family of dealerships. what do you have? >> mark: it will be very important for georges to defend the paint. they'll have to stop the low post of adako and get back on offense, transition defense. that's for northeastern. defense is going to be very important. they're very cognizant of cam long getting out in the open court and rebounding. that will be very key. >> mike: here is the series history. mason leads 8-6, but northeastern has has defeated mason here at home three straight as they try to get the ball but threw it off his players out of bounds. keys to the game brought to you by the moore family dealerships as we get under way in boston, matthews arena. the patriots have a good start. isaiah tate. he's in the starting lineup now averaging close to six points a ballgame. he was unde

. >> coen brothers, you watch the movie. that's what they're experiencing today. >> it's a good day to stay inside and watch a movie. >>> other our big story, for the first time president obama just hours ago directly blamed a branch of al qaeda for the botched bomb plot on a detroit-bound plane. nbc's mike viqueira is at the white house for us. thfs pa this was part of his weekly radio address that essentially came in overnight. >> that's right, chris. vab available at 6:00 this morning. they called it aqap. while there have been many reports the past few days both from leaks from the intelligence community on capitol hill and background briefings from administration officials that yemen had something to do with that christmas day potential attack aboard that airliner over the skies of detroit, the president himself this morning confirmed it, talked about the role that yemen played eed and radicals within yemen played in staging that attack. >> we know that he travelled to yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty an