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Tulane battles Hofstra while Harvard meets Colgate in first-round play...
Depth and talent are not this team's problems. In fact, winning its first-round NCAA game will probably be the first big challenge of its season. Anything less than 14-0 in league playwould be, in the words of one writer at Penn'sstudent daily, "a huge disappointment...
Although he is the shortest player on the Harvard roster, Campbell can dunk. He did it last season in a game against Hartford's NBA first-round pick Vin Baker, and he does it again, in a triple-exposure photo, on a promotional poster currently being distributed by the Athletic Department...
Although the Crimson finished the weekend with back-to-back wins against MIT (14-9) and Queens (14-12), the first-round loss dropped the Crimson into the losers bracket, eliminated it from the NCAA tournament consideration and essentially ended its season...
...first-round five-shot lead is about as safe as a San Francisco Giants five-game NL West lead in May...it's not. Bad shots often beget more bad shots, and seemingly safe margins of error can quickly dissipate as repeated psychological blows take their toll (Kinda like the Giants losing eight in a row in September...