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...Harvard women’s basketball team. For the second straight year, a final-day loss to Dartmouth derailed the Crimson’s shot at a NCAA Tournament spot—and this year, the Ivy League title slipped away with it.Playing for a share of the championship and a chance at a one-game playoff for the league’s tournament spot, Harvard fell uncharacteristically flat, going down, 64-51, to the Big Green in Hanover, N.H. on March 10.“Unfortunately, in the biggest game of the season, we played our worst...
...League season, dropping both games of a doubleheader to Columbia. But Harvard soon caught fire against its Ancient Eight foes, jumping out to an 8-4 league record and giving itself an outside chance to catch Rolfe Division-leading Dartmouth and earn a spot in the Ivy League Championship Series. Unfortunately for the Crimson, its offense hit a cold spell at the worst possible time, and the team suffered a sweep by Brown in a four-game series that knocked Harvard out of Rolfe contention.“That was a real shot to the gut,” Stack...
Though it wasn’t always pretty, the No. 6 Radcliffe women’s heavyweight crew team is back where it ended last season—at the NCAA Championships. The 2009 season held its share of losses to perennial rivals, but the Black and White saved some of its most competitive racing for May and managed to earn a bid to Camden, New Jersey.In addition to the victories on the race course, four rowers—sophomore Olivia Coffey, incoming co-captain Laura Huppert, senior Esther Lofgren and captain Anna Kendrick—were named...
...entered the tournament ranked 10th. Harvard ultimately sent nine individuals to the NCAA Tournament. “Our women were the stars this year,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “Overall, this was one of our best years since [the national championship in] ’06 because so many individuals made NCAAs. It was a stellar year for us.” Early in the season, Brand expressed concern for the lack of depth on his women’s squad, but was reassured early by Cross that the team would pull through...
...comparison to its fellow New England colleges this year. While the season’s first five carnivals were marked with 10th-place efforts, the Crimson’s alpine and nordic squads combined to place ninth at their final competition of the winter, the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championship in Sugarloaf, Maine. The men’s alpine and women’s nordic teams led the way for Harvard this year, often earning the most points for the team at its weekly carnivals throughout New England. The men’s alpine squad’s performances this...