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Rookie Christian Webster forced Rosen to cough it up on Penn’s next possession, and Webster quickly looked up the court to find Lin streaking to the basket. Webster sent the pass to Lin, who pulled down the ball. After being knocked to the ground by a Penn defender, Lin looked for the foul call but was instead whistled for a travel...
...Casey switched onto Rosen immediately and forced the lefty sniper to give the ball up to center Mike Howlett on the perimeter with three seconds left. Howlett took two dribbles toward the basket, then let fly a fadeaway jumper from the left elbow that clanged off the back iron...
...then attempted to take the ball to the basket but was stripped entering the paint. Sophomore Keith Wright retained the Harvard possession, diving to the floor to force a jump ball. With the possession arrow facing the Crimson bench, Harvard drew up an inbounds play for Curry. But the point guard was forced to rush his shot with just five seconds left on the shot clock and his layup attempt went off target...
...final conference game of his career, Lin was held to eight points on 1-of-8 shooting from the field. Though he did go 5-of-6 from the free-throw line, the vaunted guard’s only made basket from the floor was a three-pointer late in the first half...
...fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue...