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Given Harvard's recent consolation game record--0-4 going back to 1987's Beanpot blooper to Boston College--and the fact that the Crimson was the now defrocked and disappointed favorite to reach the final of the ECAC Tournament, Saturday's Harvard-Vermont ECAC consolation game shaped up as just another walk down Disconsolate Drive...
With its fourth-place Beanpot finish relegated to the bad memory file, the Crimson will face Clarkson tonight (9 p.m., WHRB broadcast) in the semifinals of the ECAC Tournament. Vermont and St. Lawrence will square off in the other game...
Harvard 4, Clarkson 2: The Knights will whisper "Beanpot" in the ears of the Crimson, but Harvard will play RPI-deaf...
...with Cleary. After a victory, or even after a loss, Cleary is usually jovial. This year, Harvard dropped both of its Beanpot games. Cleary has become so accustomed to such a fate--Harvard has failed to win a first-round 'Pot game since 1981--that he turns his post-game press conference into a Greek tragicomedy, in which he plays Sisyphus...
...reponse to The Question--"Why haven't you won the Beanpot in so long, coach?"--is always the same...