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...guest-blogged for The New York Times last March. For the first time in a long time, the Quakers should be free to blog by late February. 5. HARVARDThe arrival of Tommy Amaker in Cambridge has Crimson partisans dreaming big for the future. A season-opening 55-point loss at Stanford may move some to “wait ’til next year,” when the duo of point guard Drew Housman and forward Evan Harris will be seniors, a steady sophomore class will have another year of experience under its collective belt, and a bevy...
...with 12.9 points a game. She also led the team in assists and steals on her way to first-team All-Ivy honors. Junior Niki Finelli, a talented all-around player and dangerous three-point shooter, rounds out the backcourt. The Harvard frontcourt faces more of a challenge. The loss of Christiana Lackner, a dogged rebounder and one of last season’s captains, is one of the biggest problems for the Crimson. “We knew we had to fill Christiana’s shoes, and let me just officially state...
...what’s going on, whenever we go onto the practice court, we’re focused on getting done what we need to get done.”LOOKING TO THE FUTUREBut it doesn’t happen all at once.As Harvard’s 111-56 loss against No. 23 Stanford this past weekend proved, there is still a long way to go.For Amaker, this is the reality he must work through—for all the success he has had, he is still at Harvard and, more importantly, he is still in the Ivy League.But what...
...Harvard men’s basketball team this weekend at the three-day Basketball Travelers Classic at Maples Pavilion on the Stanford campus. The Crimson (1-2) kicked off its season with a mismatch against the 23rd-ranked host Cardinal on Friday night and suffered a 55-point loss, its worst in 18 years. A strong mid-major team, UC Santa Barbara, surged past Harvard in the second half on Saturday, but the Crimson rallied to blow out Northwestern State on Sunday for its first win of the Amaker Era. “We’re hopeful to build...
...Crimson lost, 167-131, in a close and hard-fought meet against the Big Red last year. Next Saturday, Harvard will travel down to New York for another ECAC meet at Columbia. Judging from the last trip to New York—when the Crimson suffered a close loss, 160.5-139.5—the Lions will surely be a fierce opponent for Harvard. “We need to prepare and rest a little bit,” Quinn said. “They are going to want to beat us in their pool [again].” After...