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...nothing melodrama. That applies again this year, when some pretty intriguing head-to-head races are shaping up. Can Crash, the quintessential L.A. indie drama, make a stretch run to overtake the early favorite, Brokeback Mountain? Can Hollywood's most dapper leading man, George Clooney, beat out schlumpy but likable Paul Giamatti? Is dark horse Felicity Huffman the one to knock off everyone's darling, Reese Witherspoon? Will anyone catch Philip Seymour Hoffman...
...chance to even the score by playing the Bulldogs and Big Red at home down the stretch.The last time an Ivy League squad made it into the NIT was 2002, when Penn, Yale and Princeton finished in a three-way tie for the title. The Quakers (25-6) beat out both the Bulldogs and the Tigers in the playoff to make the NCAA tournament, but Yale, with a record of 20-9, and Princeton, at 16-12, were both tabbed as members of the then newly enlarged NIT field.This year, with the NCAA takeover, an Ivy League team could have...
...Crimson by five, a dramatic turnaround from the first time these two teams met, with Harvard winning the battle of the boards by 14 in that one. “We talked about having some pride tonight,” Brown coach Glen Miller said. “Harvard beat us twice last year, and they thumped us the first game [this year]. We wanted to compete for 40 minutes, and that means there’s no excuse for us not being able to win the hustle areas.” Brown also tacked on 11 second-chance points...
...tacked onto the gift-wrapped NCAA bid that goes to the Ivy League’s regular season champion. The Quakers will still have some work to do to make it all tidy and mathematically official, but if they can sweep two teams that they combined to beat by 72 one month ago, they’ll be no worse than two games clear with five to play.As Penn takes that long bus ride back from Ithaca Saturday night, it will have nearly four weeks and five meaningless games standing between it and a matchup with...
...That’s right, you BEG to differ,” said Mansfield, without missing a beat...