Word: crowning
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...Harvard women’s basketball team is not going to relinquish its Ivy League crown easily. Following last Friday’s ugly 24-point loss to Cornell, the league leader, the Crimson has won its last two games to stay in second place in the Ancient Eight. After regaining some confidence by putting away Columbia last Saturday, Harvard (14-9, 7-2 Ivy) began the second round of Ivy League play with a convincing 65-51 win at Princeton (5-19, 2-6) Friday night. “Each game is a championship for us right...
...Delaney-Smith said. “We moved the ball really well.”With four Ivy League games remaining, Harvard’s destiny remains in its own hands—four victories will ensure the team a chance to retain its Ivy League crown.“It ain’t over till it’s over,” Hallion said. “We’ve got everything in our control, so we just have to keep winning.”On the basis of Saturday’s performance against Penn...
...onto a 21-point halftime lead, defeating the Lions 73-65 in Levien Gymnasium. Junior Katie Rollins led the way for the Crimson with a career-high 23 points, and junior Emily Tay had a double-double to keep the team alive in the race for the Ivy League crown. “Tonight was a huge win,” said Rollins, who also finished with eight rebounds. “We picked it up when we needed it the most.” Harvard (13-9, 6-2 Ivy) went into the weekend in New York knowing...
BOSTON—As the Harvard men’s hockey team battled against the No. 7 Boston College Eagles (15-6-7) for the 56th Annual Beanpot Championship, the quest for the crown looked all but hopeless as the Crimson (9-11-3) were playing against a two-goal deficit with just 8:46 left in regulation. But in that moment of greatest uncertainty, Harvard’s resiliency as a team proved to be its defining strength as the Crimson rose its level of play to the stakes of the finals. “We talked from...
...campaign that was supposed to end continues to the states that didn't join the stampede to move their primaries forward. Far from being an afterthought as just about everyone had expected, they have the power to crown the winner. And if they don't? The decision may well fall to some 800 party insiders known as super-delegates. Yes, that's right: the perverse result of all this additional democracy, in which more people than ever before will have had a voice, could be that Democrats have to turn to old-style backroom politics to select a nominee...