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Down 38-22 after shooting 36 percent from the field and nine percent from beyond the arc, Yale was able to mount a torrid comeback to open the second half by converting on 61 percent of its shots while holding Harvard scoreless for a seven-minute stretch...
Harvard went 1-for-14 from the arc during the first half against Brown. After going 2-for-13 against Colgate, the poor percentage was attributed to rust and an “off night.” Against the Elis, the Crimson went 0-for-7 in the first half, improving to 4-for-11 in the second, but still finished shooting just 22.2 percent from behind the arc...
Sparking Yale’s offensive attack is the young backcourt combination of freshmen Edwin Draughan and Alex Gamboa. Both starters have averaged double-digits in points per game. Both are legitimate Rookie of the Year candidates, though Gamboa is shooting better from beyond the arc (44.1 percent) and sports a 1.29 assist-turnover ratio...
...plus side, the sound track revives some pleasures, including the theme song, Killing Joke's Eighties, which captured the decade better in a few minutes than the pilot does in half an hour. That '80s Show buys into the pop-historical arc, familiar from movies like Boogie Nights and Blow, in which the relatively innocuous, goofy '70s (pot, disco, TM) sour into the cold, aggressive '80s (coke, heavy metal, M.B.A.s). It's hard to cultivate warmth for a decade that you're portraying as soulless and lame, especially if your characters are equally empty. There's easy nostalgia (remember Dynasty...
...Tigers’ poor second-half shooting didn’t make up for the fact that Harvard let Princeton hit 46.7 percent from the floor and 5-of-13 from behind the arc in the first half...