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Harvard was never able to harass the Lions' deliberate, patterned offense sufficiently. "They handle the ball well and we had to adjust to their style of play," McLaughlin said. Cy Booker led the cagers with 12 points, while Brian Banks chipped in 10. Bob Hooft scored 11 points but rode the pine most of the second half. Playmaker Fine, after being tapped for last week's All-ECAC team, failed to score...
...ensuing play, Bob Hooft, high scorer with 21 points, worked himself free underneath, and Konstantynowicz fired the pass, but the ball slipped through Hooftie's fingers. And things looked even grimmer after both Davis and Carter sank a pair of free throws to put the score at 75-69 with 40 seconds left...
Fine drew his fourth foul immediately at the open of the second half and was gone at the 11-minute mark; Banks was gone with five minutes to go. Despite strong second-half efforts by Hooft and Booker and Allen's last-second heroics, without Banks and Fine Harvard could neither stop Davis, who scored 14 in the second half, nor score frequently enough to stay ahead...
Harvard certainly had no shortage of heroes Saturday night. Hooft's streak of scintillating shooting in the second half brought back memories of another left-hander of the West named Lynn Shackleford, who used to shoot the lights out for UCLA...
...Saturday night, the Harvard cagers were hot. They burned up the nets with their feverish shooting and even John Travolta could not out-hustle the likes of Glenn Fine, Bob Hooft, and Cyrus Booker...