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...After all," it has been asked. "Why would a team like Texas come to the IAB...
...what people are starting to realize is that that hoped for rebirth has already been accomplished. Coach Frank McLaughlin has built a damn good squad in the musty confines of the half-century old IAB...
Senior guard Robert Taylor harbors a greater affinity for the IAB than most players on the squad, but his reaction to the postponed opening date (how does November 1982 grab you?) was fairly typical. "There's nothing wrong with the IAB at all. It's just that people don't like climbing four flights of stairs. As a player, the IAB is just fine...
Point guard Calvin Dixon--who can dribble in the IAB as well as he would be able to in the new arena--has adjusted easily to the delay, if a little less enthusiastically than Taylor. "I was really excited about playing Stanford in the opening game in Harvard's new arena," he said, "but then I asked when it would be ready, and when I heard late March or something like that, I just chalked it up to 'wait till next year...
...time being, it's back to the IAB, and, most likely, back to sparse crowds. There will be no tearful ceremony when Harvard bids farewell for the second (and, we all hope last) time, because, as Joe Bertagna, director of sports information, says, "It would be a little embarrassing...