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...First-round play on Thursday in the East Regional at Chapel Hill, N.C., has Missouri (19-10) meeting Rhode Island (26-6) and Syracuse (25-8) meeting North Carolina A&T (26-2) and seeking to break a seven-game tournament losing streak. Also at Chapel Hill on Thursday, Southern Methodist (27-6) meets Notre Dame (20-8) and second-seeded Duke (24-6) goes against Boston University...
...with Cleary. After a victory, or even after a loss, Cleary is usually jovial. This year, Harvard dropped both of its Beanpot games. Cleary has become so accustomed to such a fate--Harvard has failed to win a first-round 'Pot game since 1981--that he turns his post-game press conference into a Greek tragicomedy, in which he plays Sisyphus...
After receiving a first-round bye, Harvard's Darius Pandole crushed Bruce Haupteaur in straight-games. Pandole then met freshman sensation John Musto of Yale. Pandole recorded a hard-fought 9-15, 15-8, 15-8, 9-15, 15-12 victory...
...Cleary and his seniors, along with the rest of the icemen, faced the choice of winning their first-round Beanpot game or not making the NCAA Tournament, they would gladly...
Ever since Harvard captured its last Beanpot title in 1981, the Crimson has not won a first-round game. Last year, the Crimson's 1980's venture into the Beanpot reached a new low with the "goal-that-wasn't-but-still-was" fiasco against Boston College in the consolation game...