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...Texas. The man opponent Magic Johnson called the "best backcourt defender of all time" excelled in postseason games. His most famous play with Bird was in the last five seconds of Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Championship against the Detroit Pistons, in which Bird whipped Johnson the ball after stealing a pass--and Johnson, off-balance, pushed aside an opponent to lay it up and win the game by a point. Immediately afterward, amid a crowd roaring his praises, Johnson searched for Bird to congratulate him, because, Johnson said, "he made the pass...
...Ithaca last season, and with both Matt Stehle ‘06 and Brian Cusworth ‘06-07 having fouled out, Harvard watched as Cornell extracted the life from its season. Captain Lenny Collins nailed two huge threes to tie the game, then shot up an air ball on the final possession, which somehow found the hands of forward Jason Hartford, who put in the open layup for the win. That loss was the first of eight straight for Harvard...
...Gideon is court savvy,” Fish said, “Once he gets any ball in the middle of the court he knows how to drive it hard enough to bother...
...just wanted to get out here and be as fierce as I could possibly be,” Clayton said. “I make it a point to go be over-energized. In college ball, you just have to go out there and tear...
...said of last year’s game at Cornell. “The players after the game [this season] were saying that the basketball gods paid us back for that one,” Sullivan added. “On that last play, Drew [Housman] actually passed a ball through a guy’s legs [to Harris]. That too was a bizarre sequence.” Whether last second heroics will decide the outcome again this time around is unclear, but the Big Red will certainly be looking to avenge its loss tonight playing on its home court...