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...Columbia (12-9, 3-5 Ivy) enters Lavietes Pavilion hoping to pick up the shattered pieces of a once-promising season. Since opening the league season at 3-1 and leading some to speculate that second-year coach Joe Jones had the Lions poised to contend for the championship, Columbia has lost four straight games to drop just a half game above last-place Dartmouth...
...Lions will be anxious to stop the bleeding against Harvard (9-12, 4-4), the last team Columbia beat. On Jan. 30, the Lions gritted out an ugly 57-55 decision by forcing Harvard to shoot 34 percent from the field and commit 19 turnovers...
...Columbia definitely is a team that takes all its assets and just works as hard as it can,” junior center Brian Cusworth said. “They take pride in trying to outwork their opponents...
...Harvard hopes to avenge its earlier road loss at Columbia on Friday night, it will have to play better in the early going. The Crimson has habitually started games slowly of late—Yale put 12 points on the board before Harvard scored a single basket in New Haven, and the Crimson was up by just one against Brown at halftime in a game they eventually won by double figures...
Harvard’s 74-65 win at Cornell, in which they outscored the Big Red by 10 in the first half, was played on a Friday night, when the team was fresh, whereas the losses at Columbia and Yale were both early Saturday games—2 p.m. in New York, and 5:30 p.m. in New Haven...