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...Crimson travels to Easton, Penn. next week to take on Lafayette before taking on the recently Bulldog-triumphant Cornell squad. With the parity in this league, it is anyone’s game. But if Harvard wants to be repeat Ivy champs??€”the first since Penn in 2003, and the first Crimson squad to accomplish the feat—then it’s going to have to win every game on the rest of its schedule...
After a night of defensive anxiety and hurried at-bats—thanks, in part, to the rowdy presence of the second-largest crowd in Fullerton history at 3,604 strong, as well as ESPN cameras and the pressure of playing the champs??€”the Crimson will benefit from playing before a customarily smallish crowd against Missouri...
Indeed, the Crimson applied plenty of pressure to the 2003-04 champs??€”to superlative effect...
...Tigers—the ten-time defending Ivy champs??€”had its 32-game conference winning streak snapped with the loss and fell to 1-5. The last time Princeton was downed by an Ivy rival was Oct. 9, 1999. Thanks to a punishing schedule, which has included matchups with No. 1 Maryland, No. 6 UCONN, No. 11 Northeastern and No. 14 Delaware, the Tigers have won only one of their first six contests, a 6-0 victory at Yale...
...major college sports (and here I might be stretching hockey’s popularity a bit): think about the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and the ruckus that erupted with USC being named National Champs by national sportswriters and LSU, the winner of Nokia Sugar Bowl, being named National Champs??€”through a contractual requirement with the BCS—by the coaches. The 16 teams that play in the Frozen Four tournament are selected strictly by the numbers, and since polls are not given any weight whatsoever, there is only a small degree of controversy...