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Harvard basketball coach Tom Sanders doesn't have this job. This is college hoop, The Ivy League, and the pro draft--not Pencey Prep, the YMCA and The Most Improved Camper Award. But for some strange reason I didn't feel like I was watching a competitive college basketball team out there last night in Harvard's 82-61 loss to Penn. Just a group of "outstanding young men" going through the motions and trying to finish a ho-hum, well-what-can-I-say type of season...
...cagers have a challenging weekend coming up, with Ivy League hoop V.I.P.s Penn and Princeton sauntering up north for what they think will be easy conference victories. Only time will tell whether Harvard's renewed intensity will be fuel for some surprises...
Harvard closed the gap, 23-18, as star center Joe Beaulieu hovered over the basket during a twisting drive to drop the ball through. The Crimson isolated Beaulieu one-on-one against the Bulldog guarding him and Beaulieu had space clearance as he consistenly soared to the hoop unscathed...
Early on, it seemed as though the Yardlings might have some unexpected trouble, as they were matched hoop for hoop by their pesky opponents...
...Tigers have proved their mettle, though, bumping off a bevy of big name hoop powers while holding the opposition to less than 52 points a game. The team journeyed up to Rochester for the annual Kodak shindig, in which Harvard played last year, and proceeded to dispatch Ohio State and St. Bonaventure...