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Captain Damian Long, playing in his final home game, hit both ends of the one-and-one to get the Crimson to the final one-point deficit. Harvard then tried to steal the ball, but when the Quakers crosses half-court, it tried to foul any player...
Also coming off the bench hurt was junior center Melissa Johnson. Just seconds after coming into the game for the first time, she drew a foul underneath. The two free throws she hit right after were what sparked the Crimson comeback in the first half, but she ultimately was only able to play 13 minutes, shooting just 1-of-6 from the floor...
...basketball metaphor was appropriate for Bradley, the former Knick forward who threw his share of elbows against the Celtics in the '70s, but it also highlighted the biggest problem with negative campaigning: the guy who fights back is the one who gets called for the foul. It is a rhetorical and psychological truth that you cannot be the one to praise your own achievements. Just as true, alas, is the fact that you cannot be the one to protest and/or react to the harm done to you. It happens in basketball all the time--a player puts up with shoves...
...Dunk" came in the third quarter, when 6-5 shooting guard John Starks found an opening on the right side of the key and drove around once-Knick Bill Cartwright at the right foul line extended...
After a Yale foul and subsequent Monti free throw, Ides put in a rebound basket with 3:00 to go, and Kelley added another putback a minute later...