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...last play. After Princeton guard Dan Mavraides knocked down two free throws with four seconds to put the Tigers (10-11, 5-3 Ivy) up 56-55, Crimson junior guard Jeremy Lin brought the ball up the court for Harvard (10-13, 2-7 Ivy). Lin passed halfcourt and dished the ball to senior guard Drew Housman on the left side of the court. Housman—the game’s leading scorer with 16 points—pulled up for the game-tying attempt several feet behind the arc, but his shot was too strong and bounced...
...Tigers went to the line 24 times and hit 19 of them, including all six in the final four minutes. Their junior center Zach Finley was the only player to foul out, though not until he had driven from near halfcourt and threw down a slam over freshman forward Peter Boehm...
...free throw to cut the Big Green lead to seven. Harris then forced Dartmouth forward Alex Barnett to turn the ball over on the next possession, and Harvard seemed ready to go on a run.Instead, Big Green guard Robby Pride stole the ball from freshman guard T.J. Carey near halfcourt and dropped in an uncontested lay-up. That would spark a 14-4 run by the home team to end the game.Barnett was the game’s leading scorer with 21 points on 9-of-17 shooting. Just like his team, he bounced back from a frustrating performance last...
...second half, a three-pointer by team leading scorer Mark McAndrew spearheaded an 11-0 run that put some serious space between the Bears and the Crimson. Harvard got off only one shot during that run, an airballed jumper by captain Jim Goffredo, as it turned it over near halfcourt on three consecutive possessions to open the second frame. Brown capped its run with consecutive three-point plays by forward Matt Mullery and guard Damon Huffman. “Those first minutes of the second half are always critical to establishing yourself,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said...
When captain Jim Goffredo turned it over and the Tigers called timeout with two seconds left, it looked like we would be in for a repeat of the 2001 game. Yet neither Koncz, nor Savage, nor anyone else on Princeton got off a shot from halfcourt. Or anywhere...