Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came close to letting her senior year slip by without hoop. The season was two weeks old before she came to a Crimson practice. At that point she was planning not to play. 'The past three years of basketball here had been such bad experiences for me," she said, "that I didn't want to continue the painful times...
...basketball tournament at the Palestra, some intense rivalries developed. The weaker teams like Barnard and Dartmouth were trounced by powerful Princeton and Yale, but continuous action and constant tension sparked the gymnasium crowd. In its third year, the hoop tourney was more exciting than in previous years because of an improved level of play and the increased competitiveness of various squads...
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...
...Making do is not crossing the half-court line and throwing five consecutive passes of no more than three feet, none of which is towards the hoop, but rather away from the man-to-man defenses...
...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...