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Teaming with fellow freshman playmaker Ann Scannel; Boutillier frequently found forward Karen Smith open under the hoop for easy back door lay-ups and short jumpers. Smith, in one of her best efforts this year, netted 18 points while snatching seven rebounds...
...university nearly obsessed with records, anniversaries and the like, isn't it a little surprising that this landmark has gone by unnoticed? Not at all, because the IAB is an embarrassment and everyone knows it. Men's hoop coach Frank McLaughlin says of the Harvard administration: "They recognize we can't keep playing in the worst basketball facility in the country...
Smith comes across the same way on the court. She doesn't race down the floor, she glides. She doesn't jump, jerk, fake and twist her shots in; she floats up, arches and guides the ball through the hoop...
Smith's "laid back" approach tends to exasperate coach Carole Kleinfelder on occasion, who sees in Smith the potential for one of the best hoop players in the Ivy League...
...Hoop hope...