Word: basket
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...bunch of stupid fouls, and I played an uneven game.” “Cusworth took a lot of jump shots tonight—I could have him taking jump shots all day, I’d rather have him out there than at the basket,” Yale coach James Jones said. “He settled for those shots as opposed to going inside. With the big men in foul trouble, Yale forward Sam Kaplan and center Dominick Martin took advantage, combining to score 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting. “They...
...Harvard filed onto the team bus—the sheer noise level in the arena undoubtedly became a factor, with the decibels growing as each of the nine three pointers Yale used to bury the Crimson passed through the net. The Bulldogs’ band, packed in behind the basket next to Harvard’s bench, was a key contributor to that sonic influence as well...
...goal coming into every game is to use our strength, our size, and our power to attack the basket,” Cusworth said...
Walls is eloquent about the emotional cost of being honest on paper. Parts of The Glass Castle describe growing up desperately poor in West Virginia. "In school," she remembers, "I would go into the girls' bathroom and fish lunches out of the wastepaper basket. It was very, very embarrassing. It was something I had never told anybody." And both Walls and Karr vigorously maintain that nobody has been able to dispute the facts of their stories...
...indicative of a disturbing trend for this year’s Harvard squad: the Crimson has rarely put together a dominant half on both ends of the floor this year. Save for solid wins over Rhode Island and Colgate, Harvard has been sluggish putting the ball in the basket or stopping the other team from doing the same...