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...dominant 35-point, 13-rebound effort from co-captain and Kodak All-American Allison Feaster, Harvard became the first 16th seed in the history of the men's or women's NCAA Tournament to defeat a No. 1 seed, stunning Stanford to the tune of a 71-67 upset in front of a live television audience on ESPN. With one night's work, Harvard entered the realm of prime-time college athletics behind an emphatic and deafening charge whose effects are still resonating nearly three months later and probably will continue to do so for many months to come...
Harvard rebounded in strong fashion with a68-54 defeat of Mt. St. Mary's before heading intothe Harvard Invitational, which the Crimson hadnot won since 1988. But the 10-year drought cameto an end as Harvard posted identical 69-57 winsover Norfolk State in the first round and Loyola(Md.) in the championship game to capture theInvitational title. Those two wins were the secondand third in a six-game winning streak thatcarried Harvard into winter break and two contestsin South Carolina...
...following evening Harvard put on a shootingclinic, connecting on 14 three-pointers to destroyPenn, 98-63, and clinch a share of its thirdstraight and sixth overall Ivy title. Six dayslater the Crimson secured the conferencechampionship outright with a 77-62 win at Yale.But after a 93-76 defeat of Brown in which theCrimson tied a school record by connecting on 16treys, Harvard was upended at Dartmouth in itsfinal regular season game, 78-67. It appeared thatHarvard would enter the NCAA Tournament on a sournote...
Season highlights included solid, back-to-back, three-goal wins over traditional ECAC powers Providence and Cornell. And after advancing to the Beanpot Championship with a sound defeat of Boston College, Harvard took second-ranked Northeastern to the brink, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period before finally losing the `Pot to the Huskies by a slim 5-4 margin...
After rebounding to reach .500 with wins against Boston University and Villanova, the Crimson suffered a 13-6 defeat at the hands of No. 3 Maryland to enter the Ivy season with a 2-3 record...