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...just two of its last 38 power play opportunities, roughly a five percent success rate. The Brown game will be Harvard’s last of three post-exam break contests before Monday’s opening round of the Beanpot, held in the TD Banknorth Garden, against defending champion Boston University. The oddly timed exam break and subsequent light schedule leading into the tournament has traditionally hindered the Crimson, “but I don’t think we’ll have any trouble getting motivated,” Donato said. “It?...
Harvard was not tabbed to win it all last year, but went a league-best 15-5 in league play and swept Cornell in the ILCS. It bowed out of the NCAA tournament in June with losses to Missouri and 2004 National Champion Cal State-Fullerton...
...energy and excitement. We haven’t seen that this year, [in] any venue that we’ve been.” Yale has fed off of that energy to win 13 of its last 16 Ivy League home games, included an upset victory over league champion Penn last year, although certainly no match up elicits the emotion that pervades Lee for a battle between the oldest of the Ancient Eight. While Housman experienced the negative aspect of that emotion, Yale first-year point guard Chris Andrews, who helped seal the victory by scoring 10 points...
Yale has fed off that energy to win 13 of its last 16 Ivy League home games, included an upset victory over league champion Penn last year, although certainly no match up elicits the emotion that pervades Lee for a battle between the oldest of the Ancient Eight. While Housman’s experienced the negative aspect of that emotion, Yale first year point guard Chris Andrews, who helped seal the victory by scoring 10 points on 10-of-12 shooting from the free throw line in the final seven minutes, was introduced to the power of his home crowd...
...sojourn to the East had taught Cohen anything, it was that only she could make herself a winner. "I was always looking for a coach to make me a champion," she said. "But ultimately you have to make it happen." Cohen and Nicks now have more of a collaboration than a coach-student relationship. To toughen her psyche against the crushing pressures of competition, Cohen devours self-help books and inspirational stories of champion athletes. (She recently finished Lance Armstrong's bio.) "Mentally, I'm more prepared," she said. "Physically, I'm stronger. I used to do my long program...