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From the opening tip, it was apparent that the Harvard men’s basketball team was still affected by its recent three-game slide, which included buzzer-beater losses to Cornell and Princeton. Brown got six points in the paint in the first four minutes, en route to 43 on the game, as it hopped out to a 10-3 lead. “Brown was able to get too close to the rim all night long,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. Along with interior scoring, the Bears outrebounded the Crimson by five, a dramatic turnaround...
...start of the game was just the thing that a team that had lost two games at the buzzer did not need,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “And that was inability to score. Penn’s defense was terrific. It was played at another level than what we’ve seen in recent games...
...Quakers responded with a 10-2 run to expand their lead to 20.“The start of the game was just the thing,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said, “that a team that had just lost two games at the buzzer did not need.”Housman hit a three with 43 seconds left in the half to close the gap to 35-18 at the break.The first half belonged to Penn forward Mark Zoller, who poured in 17 points in the opening period. He added nine more in the second...
...trumped only by her willingness to dive on the floor after any semblance of a loose ball. Lackner’s defense and acumen on the offensive glass kept Harvard in its first Ivy showdown with Brown, though the Crimson eventually bowed out 64-62 on a buzzer-beater. More importantly, however, is the depth of the Harvard frontcourt, a luxury that coach Kathy Delaney-Smith could barely even dream of a year ago. “We had no low post players last year,” Delaney-Smith said. “No one who actually liked...
...giving Cornell (9-11, 4-2 Ivy) a 79-77 lead with 2.4 seconds to play.After inbounding the ball from under the Cornell basket, the best Harvard could manage was a futile mid-court heave from junior guard Ko Yada. As the shot fell harmlessly short and the final buzzer sounded, a group of jubilant Cornell fans rushed the court to congratulate Collins and his teammates. The stunning turnaround prevented the Crimson (12-7, 4-2) from accomplishing its first road sweep since 2000, and dealt a devastating blow to the team’s chances of catching unbeaten Penn...