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Harvard women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was upset with the way her team performed on the defensive end in Sunday’s loss to Vermont. Just two days later, the Crimson (7-5) responded by putting in one if its best performances of the year en route to a 80-56 victory over Holy Cross on Tuesday night at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard held the Crusaders (4-6) to just 30% shooting—much improved from Sunday, when the Crimson gave up 80 points and allowed Vermont to shoot over 60% from the field...
...Vermont shooters 20-plus points apiece, with a stronger showing against Holy Cross at home tonight.“Holy Cross is a confident team that works hard, is well-coached, and they’re going to come at us,” said Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “If we play any semblance of the defense we played [Sunday against Vermont], I would pick HC by twenty.”Holy Cross faced the University of Vermont in the Crusader’s season opener at home, falling 54-44.In the Crimson’s last...
...back to single digits. Delaney-Smith’s search for consistent production from her front line continues. Freshman Lisa Harchut was a pleasant surprise with seven rebounds in the first eight minutes of her collegiate career, but starting forwards Katie Rollins and Adrian Budischak contributed just four points apiece. Junior center Emma Moretzsohn scored six points, but grabbed just two rebounds in 10 minutes of action.“Our guards take most of our shots, and our forwards either need to get more shots or finish more shots,” Delaney-Smith said...
...thought our guards were missing the perimeter box-outs, until they tried to work on that in the second half,” Delaney-Smith said. “And they did better...
...They are Harvard student athletes,” Delaney-Smith said. “So when we tell them to look inside, they are one-dimensional because they want to do what they’re told. They’re not supposed to do that. That’s what happened to our offense. They were forcing it inside...