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...Crimson trailed by as many as 18, the California native nailed two triples early in the second half to cut the CCSU lead to 44-43. With Harvard leading and only a minute remaining, Housman iced the game with a straightaway three-point dagger. The shot silenced an anxious crowd and gave Harvard a 67-60 lead that forced CCSU to foul down the stretch...
...career, Andre Agassi reminded fans why they had come to love the former denim-clad, punk pariah. Although he was dogged by a bad back, Agassi outlasted a younger, faster Marcos Baghdatis in a five-set, second-round thriller that took almost four hours. The raucous New York City crowd roared with every winning shot; after losing a few days later, a weepy Agassi thanked fans for inspiring...
...backcourts in the Big 10. Anderson and Banks had 32 first half points between them, and Wisconsin shot a blistering 59.3 percent from the field in the opening frame. Harvard responded on offense with a 45.0 percent clip on the night, but untimely breakdowns and a deafening pro-Wisconsin crowd made for a long night on the defensive end. The Badgers broke the game open with a 15-0 run to begin the second half, propelled by a pair of back-to-back three pointers from Anderson and Mariah Dunham. Five Wisconsin players scored in the stretch before Anderson capped...
...second-half comeback. Trapani, a freshman who entered Sunday as Vermont’s leading scorer with 13.4 ppg, hit his third and fourth three-pointers of the game in rapid succession early in the second half, giving the Catamounts their largest lead at 49-40 and sending the crowd into a frenzy. Those were the last three pointers that Vermont would make, however. After Harvard coach Frank Sullivan called a timeout, the Crimson ran off a 12-3 run to tie the game at 52, a stretch highlighted by three-pointers from Goffredo and Housman and three critical offensive...
...turn the ball over,” Housman said. “When teams are pressuring you that much it’s easy to just give them one move and go around them.” Spurred on by a home crowd that seemed more full of middle-aged men than college students, Vermount aggressively defended Harvard’s perimeter attack. The strategy helped to contain the long-range jumpshooting of captain Jim Goffredo, who finished with 18 points on just 5-of-12 shooting and 2-of-7 from behind the arc. But it also opened...