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Despite this array of talent, the big bugaboo for the Crimson team may be Columbia's defense. They employ ball control and use a tight, aggressive man-to-man defense--the very formula which enabled Trinity to upset Harvard before vacation...
...outset, it looked like typical Crimson basketball: miserable. When the game was only 4:53 old, Cardinal senior Paul Brands--a magician with a basketball--had given Wesleyan a comfortable 14-5 lead. Brands scored 12 of the 14 points, driving through the Crimson man-to-man, defense repeatedly. He didn't miss a shot until midway in the third quarter...
Switches to Man-to-Man...
Before last week's disaster, the varsity had been the best defensive team in the league, holding their opponents to an average of 58 points per game. To bolster his faltering defense, coach Floyd Wilson switched to an unprecedented man-to-man in the second half of the Penn game...
...Amira and John Wideman, Penn's two representatives on the Ivies' list of top ten scorers, hit well for the Quakers, playing havoc with both Crimson defenses. The man-to-man proved particularly ineffective, however, against the two Penn guns...