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...basketball teams have been under the round-robin system for two years but have also participated in an Ivy tournament at the end of the season with the seeding for the tournament determined from the results of the round robin. But change will not rebound off the hoopster's backboard; next year, women's basketball will switch to a double round robin in lieu of the tournament, with every team playing each other twice during the year...
...that point, Home and sophomore Sarah Albee took control of the St. Anselm's backboard, grabbing nine rebounds, and the Crimson offense, led by Albee and freshman guard Andy Mainelli, quickly tied the contest...
...Crimson defensemen continually knocked the puck away from Wildcats breaking into the zone, and if, on a rare occasion, they let somebody slip by for a shot, Lau was playing backboard in the net. That's nothing new for him against UNH, though, as he's now 4-0 against the Wildcats, including a 4-1 win in Durham two years...
Thus the two teams brought distinctive styles to the championship series; the Celtics swift and efficient, fast-break artists who could run Mercury off the court; the Rockets muscular and intimidating, backboard battlers who could shove Hercules out of the gym. They took turns imposing those styles on one another: Houston won the fourth game, manhandling Boston under the boards, and the Celtics replied by streaking to a 29-point fast-break blitz in the fifth game. In the end the Celtics carried the series with versatility, speed, Bird's brilliant rebounding and a tight defense that kept...
...Clean Gene did it somehow. He must have had that Glenn Marcus shooting free throws until midnight all summer, probably on some broken-down backboard nailed to a pole somewhere. Imagine a guy hitting 12 in a row from the line in the space of five minutes...