Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson still had to wait until the next day to find out if it would get the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. (if Columbia beat Dartmouth, then the Lions would head for the tourney...
...building as a freshman, my interest in journalism strong but unfocused. He sold me on sports with a stirring speech about the joys of covering college sport at its highest level (in sportswriting circles, this is known as the "free stuff" speech) and promising me the men's basketball beat in the winter...
...then reality hit, disguised as the as-promised men's basketball team (slogan: wait 'til next year to the 92nd power). And I found out why Pete could promise the beat to me so easily. The team stunk. It always stinks, but that year it stunk real bad. The team started out 0-11 and finished 6-20, including a 100-62 loss to Division III Babson...
Things did not get too much better over the next five games. Harvard beat a pair of unspectacular teams--Springfield and Cornell--before bowing to B.U., 4-2, and Penn, 5-2. Both of the losses were close games until the closing minutes, when the Crimson's opponents broke out with bunches of goals...
...this point, the Crimson was 3-6 and things looked bleak. But Harvard beat Yale, 1-0, in its next game, and after losing to B.C. and Princeton upset No. 8 Northeastern--the latter three all teams that went to the 12-team NCAA Tournament...