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Harvard men's basketball coach Frank McLaughlin is generally a fun guy, but this season he has relied increasingly on a variety of zones to compensate for the Crimson's lack of lightning speed. In Saturday's 75-73 loss to UMass, McLaughlin avoided man-to-man for almost the entire game. He was happy with the results, but the strategy has its weaknesses...
...Minutemen did pull off a 57-per-cent performance (versus a respectable 50 per cent for the Crimson), but part of that may be connected to Harvard's lapses into complacency in the zone. When Smith and Russell continued their hot-dogging heroism in the second half, a little man-to-man pressure might have been just the thing to bring them down to earth...
Perhaps the zone would work more effectively if combined with a periodic burst of man-to-man coverage, at least until the hoopsters "pull closer together and work a little harder on the team defense," as Fleming said they must do before the Ivy season begins in earnest next month...
Hitting outside shots and penetrating the Crimson's man-to-man defense with ease, Springfield, last year's Division 2 Eastern Regional champions, jumped out to an early 19-6 lead...
Abandoning the man-to-man defense in favor of a press, the Crimson stymied the potent Springfield offense. More effective passing and aggressive shooting helped the squad score eight unanswered points and cut the Maroon's 31-point advantage...