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Smith had won more N.C.A.A. tournament games than any other active coach, but in six previous Final Fours had neglected to win the championship. So no body begrudged him his moment above the basket after 20 years. Or one all-out "hugger" - "that's when you run into the dressing room afterward," he explained, "and hug everybody." To Smith, "every body" naturally included Thompson. The warmth between them traces to when Thompson was the high school coach and guardian of a player recruited by Caroli na. Smith's concern for the boy, who never achieved much...
...activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle through the streets...
...score remained close through the first 20 minutes, Besides an early eight-point Yale advantage, neither team led by more than five. For most of the stanzas the Elis maintained a two-point advantage. Harvard trudged to the lockerroom at halftime faced with a one-basket deficit...
...factor that hurt Harvard throughout the contest but more so in the first half--was the squad's inability to box out and grab defensive rebounds. Except for Carrabino's under the basket tenacity. Harvard could not prevent Yale from capitalizing on second or third shots. In the game's opening 20 minutes the Elis tallied 12 points off their offensive boards...
...time around the Harvard basketball team, the mention of Donald Fleming conjures up many distinct and diverse images. The first, by its sheer power, has to be that of Fleming, crouched low, receiving a pass up high on the right post, maybe 15 feet from the basket. Sensing an opening. Fleming feints right, but flashes left, toward the basket. He takes the ball past his opponent and drives straight to the hoop, laying it off the glass and in. In Harvard basketball history, no one has ever possessed the offensive tools that Donald Fleming has used to become the school...