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At the end of the season, he was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year—the sixth in Harvard history and the first since 1998—and an honorable mention for All-Ivy.
For the most part, Ivy League basketball is a horizontal game—earthbound players embracing the fundamentals (the layup, the bank-shot, the bounce pass). The occasional dunk always excites the crowd because Ancient Eight basketball rarely occupies a vertical dimension.
For this reason, freshman forward Kyle Casey is a spectacle. The Medway, Mass. native is introducing flight to Ivy gymnasiums.
Take Harvard’s game at Dartmouth, for example. With the Crimson up two points midway through the second half, Casey caught the Big Green defense sleeping and cut backdoor. Sophomore guard Oliver McNally lofted a pass up to the rim that Casey snagged and flushed for an alley...
“[The freshmen] really did contribute in a great way—starting with Kyle being Rookie of the Year in our conference—but it didn’t start that way for him,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “As...