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...HAVEN, Conn.--On February 3, Harvard hosted the Yale basketball team at the IAB, and won handily, racking up 100 points for the first time in more than five years en route...
Most basketball arenas save the exercise for the playing surface, but the architects who contrived the IAB about 50 years ago bucked the trend. No, the IAB exercise comes in the getting up there, in the journey skyward. Four flights, past the browning (beyond yellowing) photographs of the 20-3 1945 basketball team and the 1934 fencers. Only after that ordeal can one gain access to the sanctum of Harvard hoop...
...sank into an understandable, if ineffective, stall--like North Carolina's four corners with a man in the penalty. And the people were bored. And the players were bored. When Dartmouth scored its first point, almost seven minutes into the game, the crowd cheered lustily. The game was painted IAB green...
That is something new. The hoop status quo (and the IAB) might have been best described by famed ECAC ref Austin McArthur. He once missed a game at the IAB because he spent the evening in his car, looking for a basketball court. Of course, he drove right by the IAB. And if he was looking for a basketball team, he might have kept on driving as well...
...buzzer, guaranteeing him a smidgen of immortality. After the sparse crowd filed out, and while a baby McLaughlin and a baby Fleming played on the deserted bleachers, one of the old wooden backboards, as if of its own volition, sank slowly into the ready position. Intramurals own the IAB...