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...fact, the parallel gets a bit more eerie, when you consider that both Cornell and Harvard dropped a road contest followed by a heartbreaking Friday night home loss to Princeton and a double-digit defeat at the hands of Penn to fall back to .500. The Crimson added to its troubles by getting swept at home by Brown and Yale the following weekend, and now the Big Red has the opportunity to do the same...
...victory in Ithaca. For Penn and Princeton both, however, last weekend was not perfect, thanks to the lowly Lions of Columbia. The same Columbia squad that had one Ivy victory before last weekend shocked the top two teams in the league, sinking buzzer-beaters both times to defeat Princeton 65-64 and Penn 59-57. Although the Tigers and Quakers lost last weekend, their struggles are trivial compared to Harvard’s current three-week slide. “The first two games were buzzer-beaters,” said head coach Frank Sullivan...
...fallen behind in the opening minutes by scores of 10-2 to Princeton, 11-0 to Penn, 10-3 to Brown and 18-9 to Yale. Harvard has generally recovered to play better in the second half, notably outscoring Penn by four after halftime in the 81-68 defeat, but in each game was unable to fully extricate itself from the early hole...
...fashioned a seemingly solid six-point cushion with 1:17 remaining when big man Brian Cusworth converted a pair of free throws. From there, Harvard pulled a Jacobellis. That is to say, minus the snow and the gratuitous “method air,” it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. First, Princeton guard Edwin Buffmire, who has only a few more inches in height that I do and considerably less hair, yanked down an offensive rebound in the middle of the paint and put it back through the hoop to trim the lead to four. Then...
...have a shot at getting a share of the Ivy title, so it’s going to be a successful season in my book if we do that.” HARVARD 3, TRINITY 6 Trinity dominated the matches at the bottom of its player rotation to defeat Harvard by a score of 6-3 in the CSA semifinals. It advanced to face Princeton in the title game on Sunday, and edged out the Tigers 5-4. Junior Siddharth Suchde had an easy win at the first position to remain undefeated on the year, beating Shaun Johnstone...