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“We know that we’re going to give up some of those kinds of shots given the way that we wanted to play them,” Amaker said. “We tried to pressure and force them into speeding the game up a...
But Harvard’s pressure defense did not let up in the second half, and when the three pointers stopped falling for the Engineers, things began to get ugly fast for MIT.
The Engineers came out hot to start the second half, as Billy Bender knocked down a long ball from the corner to cut the Crimson’s lead to six. Lin countered with a full-court layup and then forced a steal moments later. The star guard raced up...
The Engineers were only able to knock down two more trifectas for the rest of the game, and their deficit grew to 20 midway through the period.
“We felt like if we kept playing our pressure defense, we thought that maybe we could wear them down—and I thought that certainly is what happened in the second half,” Amaker said.