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...disheartening loss to Brown the day before, Harvard hoped a win against its archrival Yale could put it back on track.The Bulldogs wouldn’t go along with the Crimson’s plan.Dominick Martin had 26 points, most of them within a few feet of the basket, as Yale defeated Harvard 77-66 at Lavietes Pavilion, sending the Crimson (12-11, 4-6 Ivy) to its fifth straight loss.The Bulldogs (14-11, 6-4) swept the season series from Harvard for the first time since the 2002-2003 season.“Just a discouraging weekend, a discouraging...
...nights, and especially tonight, was very soft near the rim area,” Sullivan said. “When we get back to trying to correct what we’ve got to work on for the next two weeks, one of them is getting tougher around the basket.”Yale’s perimeter players, chiefly point guard Eric Flato, were able to continually penetrate past Harvard’s initial line of defense to enter the paint. Senior center Brian Cusworth, charged with guarding Martin, was often forced to rotate on defense, leaving his assignment...
...Crimson came back to cut the lead to 17-14, but a quick 9-1 run by Brown (8-14, 4-5) established the double-digit lead that the Bears would enjoy for most of the game’s remainder. Continually getting to the basket with strong drives and crisp backdoor cuts, Brown outplayed Harvard at its own game, scoring 20 points in the paint in the first half to take a 37-24 lead into the break...
...evaporated within minutes on Friday. Brown scored Princeton’s first 10 points and 21 of the team’s first 28 in a dominant first half. “Our game plan was to not give her the looks she was used to close to the basket,” freshman forward Katie Rollins said. “I was defending her, and I definitely didn’t follow that game plan. She made five shots in a row early and got confident, and that momentum really carried her.” As Brown displayed...
With a little under three minutes to play in last Saturday’s loss at Cornell and Harvard leading 70-67, senior center Brian Cusworth misfired on a shot near the basket. Fighting for the offensive rebound, Cusworth reached over the back of Big Red forward Andrew Naeve in an attempt to rip the ball away, a violation that got Cusworth whistled for his fifth personal foul and prematurely ended his night. The play was a classic example of a foul borne completely of frustration, and it summed up the way Cusworth’s season has gone since...