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...emotional hugs between coaches and departing seniors.Why is that? Why is the NCAA Tournament so unique in its unabashed outpouring of frustration and triumph? In other sporting events, why are there so few displays like the famous Bryce Drew bellyflop after sending Ole Miss home with a buzzer beater? After three weeks of agonizingly peripheral contact with the NCAA Tournament, I’ve come to a few conclusions. In the international world of sports, there remain few outlets for college athletes to attain the fame and renown so common to the NCAA Tournament. There are no Christian Laettner moments...
...around and the whole place was yellow,” Lonergan said afterwards—and the favorites pulled away from there. The fight in the Hawks stayed for the entire game, personified by Taylor, who had 22 points, six steals and five rebounds the night after his buzzer-beater had given Hartford a 49-47 win over Stony Brook in the first round. He fouled out with 1:37 left and walked off the court in a Hawk uniform for the last time to a standing ovation from the entire crowd and proceeded to hug coach Dan Leibovitz...
...Jadwin Gym in the last four years--is whether the team can avoid a repeat of last year’s post-Princeton dissolution. The circumstances this year are slightly different, of course. In 2006, the squad blew a last-minute lead at home to fall on a buzzer-beater in the final second, which lead to a string of six more losses, a swoon that served as the emblem for Harvard’s most disappointing season in recent memory. This year’s team held an eight-point lead early in the second half last Friday night...
Housman made the second, but it just seemed to be leading up to the inevitable buzzer-beater, as Princeton had 30 seconds to set up a winning shot. Yet the Crimson survived again, with the Tigers just passing the ball around for 28 ticks until realizing, too late, that it was time to shoot...
Last year, Harvard swept Columbia, winning 69-59 at New York and 69-64 in the season finale in Allston. The Big Red, on the other hand, took both games from the Crimson, winning 79-77 on a buzzer-beater in Ithaca, and then blowing out Harvard 71-44 at Lavietes...