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...school, it’s more of a natural position for me; I have better insticts. It’s like going home.”But where did this diamond in the rough come from?Last season fans could’ve found Jenkins working out with the defense??the secondary, to be exact. But gearing up for a tough Penn run game led by then-senior Joe Sandberg last November, coaches decided to use Jenkins as a scout tailback to prepare the defense for the ground attack. Impressed by his performance, the coaching staff returned...
...down the length of the court and send the game into overtime. In overtime, the once resigned crowd came alive with the sense that victory was within reach. The Crimson drained buckets at will, with Lin scorching the nets for a team-high 20 points. The Princeton defense??left dumbfounded by Harvard’s out-of-nowhere resurgence—surrendered 15 unanswered points through the fourth and into the extra period. With 2:30 remaining in overtime, the Crimson found itself with a comfortable seven-point cushion—a far cry from its eight-point...
...With a number of key roles filled by underclassmen, I predicted the offense would be much like last year’s defense??young and unable to find a rhythm...
...jitters seemed to affect the Crimson, which failed to convert easy opportunities around the basket early on. “We were just trying to settle it down—it was a matter of nerves,” Knox said. “We tried to focus on defense??that’s where all our offense starts.” While Harvard got back into the game and faced just a four-point deficit at the break, the halftime stats still weren’t pretty: Hallion shined with a game-high 10 points, but neither...
...favorite color, but it is fun to see the big wave of pink out there.” The “big wave of pink” cheered ever louder in the second half, when the Crimson used sharp shooting and a lockdown defense??the Bears made just eight shots from the field after halftime—to pull away from the league’s weakest team. With just one senior and two juniors on its roster, Brown proved unable to hang with a veteran Harvard team for 40 minutes. Guard Niki Finelli (14 points...