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Harvard will have to win three of four to tie Dartmouth in the standings at season’s end. There is no tiebreaker based on head-to-head record, so the teams would have to play the division title out. If the Crimson sweeps, it will take the Red Rolfe division outright...
...Rankings can be subjective,” Bothwell warns—but the team sounds confident that it will leapfrog Princeton in the next poll after the head-to-head win. The narrow margin of victory, however, might not be enough to surpass an otherwise flawless season for the Tigers so far. But irrespective of its ranking in the next poll, Radcliffe has a title in their sights after getting past Princeton at last...
...committee selects teams with a Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) above .500, and then uses four criteria to list the teams in comparison to one another. The four criteria are a team’s record against common opponents, its head-to-head competition, its performance against teams with RPIs at or above .500 (i.e. teams under consideration) and the team’s RPI itself (a combination of a team’s winning percentage and the winning percentage of the teams it faces). Bonus points are awarded for “good wins” with...
...Head-to-head, Peljto outplayed Clark each time. In Harvard’s first game against Penn, at Lavietes Pavilion on Feb. 2, Peljto scored 22, grabbed seven boards and dished four assists. Clark, in the 19 minutes she played before fouling out, had only nine, three and one, respectively. On March 6, in Philadelphia, Peljto poured in 19 points and snatched 10 rebounds compared to Clark’s 18 and six. Additionally, Peljto came up big in the final minutes, scoring nine straight points in the final three minutes and blocking Penn’s potential...
Bush the Candidate made his 2004 debut privately when he called Kerry to congratulate him on his Super Tuesday victory. This display of old-fashioned manners reminded me of the evening in October 2000 when Bush and Al Gore competed head-to-head at the New York Archdiocese's Al Smith dinner. A brief, humorous speech was called for--and Bush smoked Gore, making most of the jokes at his own expense. Gore was funny too, but less gracious. Bush won the evening when he said, "My opponent and I have had some strong differences...