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This is probably the Crimson’s best remaining chance for a win this season. With some better free-throw shooting at Princeton, Harvard would likely have won that game. Now it goes against a Tiger team that may be without one of its top players, forward Kyle Koncz, who has battled a foot injury recently. Koncz has trouble playing on the second night of back-to-back games, though that didn’t prevent him from playing in that situation last week. If the Crimson can get offense from someone besides Drew Housman, it has a very...
...highlights, the Crimson finally went on the run that it had been denied up to that point. Harvard scored the next seven points to make it 65-59 after Pusar’s layup with 1:19 left. Despite McAndrew going only 1-of-2 from the free-throw line on Brown’s next two trips up the court, Harvard could not make it a one-possession game. The closest it came was four, after Housman’s layup with seven seconds left made it 70-66. But the Bears just inbounded the ball to Huffman...
...play that demonstrated his superior athleticism. Swooping in from the left wing towards the basket, McAndrew hung in the air underneath the hoop to avoid Harris, and then executed a remarkably acrobatic reverse layup, flipping the ball through the hoop while being fouled. The conversion from the free-throw line gave Brown a 65-52 lead with 4:52 left, effectively sealing the victory for the Bears.—Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...break.“We hadn’t really seen a consistent press, so we were playing conservatively against it,” Delaney-Smith said. “We were trying too hard. But once we made our adjustments, we were fine.”Defense and free-throw shooting won the day for Harvard, a team that frequently receives outstanding offensive performances but has evolved of late into a more-defensively minded team. The Crimson held Brown to just 26 percent shooting from the floor and made up for its own offensive sluggishness in the first half...
...sophomore guard Emily Tay, who was 7-of-12 from the field, along with a 5-of-6 effort by Hallion, helped keep the Quakers at bay until the final ticks of the game.The Crimson shot a collective 56 percent from the field and 85.7 percent from the free-throw line.HARVARD 80, PRINCETON 55Both the Crimson and the Tigers (10-11, 4-3) entered Lavietes on Friday tied for first in the Ivy League, but the top only has enough room for one team. With the two squads facing off, only one would leave with the coveted spot.After the final...