Word: buzzers
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...absence of buzzer beaters, Dick Vitale (seriously, who’s missing him?), and bracket busters, fill out your bracket, but don’t lament our near-annual diss from the Big Dance...
...points, respectively. Harvard did manage to make more trips to the free-throw line than its rival—20 compared to eight—but the extra shots did not help erase the deficit. The Big Green would only continue its dominance until the final buzzer sounded, stretching its advantage to as much as 25 points. Losing the final game of the season, the Crimson could not send its four seniors a proper farewell. Franklin, captain Maureen McCaffery, and guards Laura Robinson and Jessica Holsey all saw their final action last night in a meancholy defeat. McCaffery tallied only...
...season was the prime year to be young and inexperienced.As the Crimson fell in a heartbreaker in Providence and got embarrassed at Princeton, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s rag-tag rookie bunch got a season’s worth of lessons. The Crimson gave up a buzzer-beater to Brown at home, got pummeled by Dartmouth in the Ivy opener and the Ivy Finale, threw a game away against the Tigers and came out sluggish against Penn twice. Only two times did Harvard sweep an Ivy weekend, a rare up-and-down for any Delaney-Smith-coached...
Whatever it is, something about that halftime buzzer and the retreat to the locker room flips a switch for the Harvard women’s basketball team. Yet another second half surge, this one spurred on by the Crimson bench, led Harvard to a 78-69 win in Ithaca and a season sweep of the Big Red on Friday. The Crimson reserves exploded for 28 second-half points as Harvard erased a nine-point halftime deficit and overcame Cornell’s torrid shooting from beyond the arc. “We’ve got to get ourselves motivated...
...fingertips as Jaaber missed the second of his free throw attempts, leaving a loose ball with the Crimson trailing by just three, but Zoller corralled the rebound for Penn. The Quakers sank three more from the stripe to push the lead to six, before a meaningless three at the buzzer by senior swingman Michael Beal pulled the Crimson to within three. Jaaber guided Penn to a 12-point lead, its largest of the game, early in the second half after knocking down a trifecta, while getting fouled by Stehle. Jaaber sunk the free throw to put the Quakers...