Word: flatt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accustomed to the luxury of a double-figure lead, Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin got overconfident and replaced his five regulars with the second team after nine minutes. Highly-touted freshman guard Calvin Dixon and classmate Lamar Flatt, who is Harvard's one legitimate big man at 6-ft., 9-in., led the resulting mayhem. The subs put the ball everywhere but in the basket...
...Flatt muffed a chance to win the game in the final moments of the second overtime. With 36 seconds remaining and Harvard down, 79-78, guard Calvin Dixon penetrated to the middle of the lane and dumped a beautiful pass to Flatt under the basket--maybe being fouled in the process. Flatt went up with it--and he might have been half-fouled, too. Fordham collected the rebound...
Were it not for the foul line--where both teams had repeated chances to win the game--play might not have advanced into overtime at all. With Harvard ahead by two after Don Fleming's strong drive with 1:59 left in regulation, Flatt was on the line for a one-and-one that would have put Harvard up by three or four with 29 seconds...
...Flatt's first shot hit the front of the rim, seemed to hang there for a second, and fell away. Fordham took the rebound and moved the ball quickly upcourt, where Bill Calhoun tied it at 68 and forced the first extra period on a layup with six seconds to go. Harvard called time out but couldn't get off a shot in five seconds...
...Flatt's miss hurt Harvard, the Rams' freethrows were tantamount to suicide. Fordham went 15 for 30, and in the waning moments folded completely at the charity stripe...