Word: defeatism
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Three of those four losses have come this season in the form of a two-point loss at Columbia, a one-point defeat at Yale, and a four-point setback at home against Cornell last Saturday night...
With the feeling of that bitter defeat still fresh in the minds of the Harvard players, the squad will look to exact a bit of revenge tonight...
Then came a 57-52 home defeat to Brown. That loss should have set off the warning bells; not since 1995-96 had the Tigers dropped their Ivy opener. Most fans and pundits, however, figured it was just a bump in an otherwise smooth road to the NCAA tournament. But after a win over Yale, Princeton traveled to Hanover and got beaten by the Big Green. And not beaten in any conventional manner—Dartmouth scored 18 of the game’s final 19 points to pull off the upset. Something was clearly wrong...
...That defeat, though sufficiently painful, was far from the lowlight of the season, which would instead come the following Friday night. Hosting Cornell, Princeton again led well into the second half. But an inexplicable 20-0 run from the Big Red erased an eight-point deficit and resulted in Cornell’s first win at Jadwin Gym in 20 years...
...indoor contests, the No. 18 Harvard women’s tennis team traveled to Georgia Tech two days early to prepare for some rare outdoor play. The early arrival paid off, as the Crimson (6-2) won its fifth straight match—a 5-2 defeat of the No. 23 Yellow Jackets (5-1) on Sunday—without its injured co-captains. Unfortunately for Harvard, the streak ended a day later at the hands of No. 16 Clemson (4-4), in a tight 4-3 President’s Day decision...