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...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...
...nights after upsetting top-seeded Stanford to become the first 16 seed ever to win an NCAA Tournament game, the Harvard women's basketball team awoke from its hoop dream...
...grace of giving up the ball to a teammate who has a better shot. Check out the box score of a Princeton game: the team gets two-thirds of its baskets off assists, a rarity in this era of run-and-gun shooters who have eyes only for the hoop...
...surge began when Rinaldi laced a pass to a wide-open Tortolani under the hoop for an easy lay-up. After a Harvard turnover, Rinaldi leapt toward a rebound of her own missed shot and tipped the ball to Tortolani for another lay-in that pulled Dartmouth to within...
...significance of this being the last home weekend of the careers of five seniors is imposing to consider. It marks the last basket that Allison Feaster will ever score in a Harvard hoop, as well as her last block, steal and rebound...