Word: frontcourts
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...whether it be in Europe or somewhere else.Cusworth does not know where basketball will lead him in the future. His immediate task, however, is much more clear. He has just half a season to wash away the bad taste of last year, when the team’s stellar frontcourt of Cusworth and captain Matt Stehle ’06, the motivating factor behind Harvard’s preseason No. 2 ranking, could not prevent the Crimson’s best shot in years at the Ivy title from flaming out in a late-season eight-game league losing streak...
...very young Columbia team is also very deep. Juniors John Baumann and Ben Nwachukwu anchor the Ivy League’s best frontcourt (a lot of good that did Harvard last year) and there are a number of nice options on the perimeter as well, most notably the Japanese sharpshooter ace K.J. Matsui. Try to avoid calling those three-point makes “bombs...
...unchanging landscape will pound your squad into submission. The 2005-06 campaign was the most highly anticipated in Harvard’s recent history, as the Crimson was expected to challenge Penn and Princeton for its first-ever league title on the strength of a formidable frontcourt. Harvard was picked second in the preseason media poll mainly based on the presence of first-team All-Ivy forward Matt Stehle ’06 and second-team All Ivy center Brian Cusworth, the league’s top two returning scorers and rebounders. Harvard would bludgeon teams with its post presence...
...defenses into the post, where Rollins, Tindal and Emma Moretzsohn will give Harvard a sizeable advantage. Tindal is the smallest of the three at 6’3. “They’re all power inside players,” Delaney-Smith says of her trio of frontcourt players. “They’re a little different from each other, so if you can stop one, you’re not going to stop three.”Heading into the season, the Crimson is armed with enough weapons to be the top team...
...opponent scores when the player is on the court. “Brad had a terrific game off the bench,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “When he was on the court, he was plus seven, so that was a big boost in the frontcourt. In the backcourt, Jeremy was plus eight, so that was very encouraging. But I think it will still be a work in progress sorting out who is going to be consistent over a period of time. It was great to have that kind of help off the bench from those...