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...This marks the second consecutive year that Harvard has come just short of winning its 12th national title. Last season, the Crimson was knocked off in the semifinals by Yale before coming back to defeat Princeton in the third-place game. The team has not won the title since...
With six games remaining in the league season, the question for a Harvard squad coming off yet another wrenching loss to the Tigers--the second double-overtime defeat at Jadwin Gym in the last four years--is whether the team can avoid a repeat of last year’s post-Princeton dissolution. The circumstances this year are slightly different, of course. In 2006, the squad blew a last-minute lead at home to fall on a buzzer-beater in the final second, which lead to a string of six more losses, a swoon that served as the emblem...
...little arena on the north side of the Brown campus that plays host to a Bears squad that has lost its last two games and nine of its last 11. Harvard has won two straight at Brown, and last year, Goffredo scored 30 points in a ringing road defeat of the Bears early in the league season, back when there was still authentic hope that it was finally Harvard’s year. Harvard by six, as Goffredo gets out of his personal shooting rut to post a game-high...
Harvard’s recent two-loss week, which included the gut-wrenching triple-overtime defeat against BC in the Beanpot’s opening round last Tuesday and an upset at Colgate, did not affect the squad in the national rankings, as the Crimson remained perched at sixth in the new poll released Monday...
...very rewarding.”On any other night, in any other arena, this effort would prove more than adequate to secure a huge Ivy victory. But this was against Princeton, in Princeton, where not only the Tigers basketball team, but also the demons of Jadwin past worked to defeat the Crimson. “It was a really courageous effort, especially on the defensive end,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “[But] it’s even more heartbreaking given the circumstances.”Harvard appeared to have the Jadwin riddle solved...