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...second half, however, Harvard won the battle in the interior, netting 18 points in the paint and holding SMU to 12. A more assertive man-to-man defense clamped down on the Mustangs’ post game, as the Crimson forced 12 second-half turnovers and held SMU’s starting frontcourt to just four points after the break. Mustang forward Derrick Roberts—who compiled 10 first half points on 5-of-9 shooting—took just one shot in the second half...
Harvard captain Matt Stehle spent most of the game battling foul trouble and uncharacteristic poor shooting. Stehle, the Crimson’s leading scorer and chief target of SMU’s man-to-man defense, went without a shot in the first half. The Mustangs hedged screens and switched regularly to cut down Stehle’s open looks from the outside in the first half...
...Crimson’s guards are dual threats on the perimeter and off the dribble, a strength that will open up the lane for the Harvard forwards and create match-up problems for both man-to-man and zone defenses. Delaney-Smith has also installed a new-look motion offense that emphasizes more ball movement and high-low exchanges in the post...
Before all of that there is this man-to-man exercise, the palpable event of settling into one of those big, brown leather chairs (Reagan carefully studied the advance pictures of the stark Reykjavík meeting room) and looking into the eyes of Mikhail Gorbachev and trying to discern what they are saying even as strange language tumbles out of his lips and is unscrambled by an interpreter between them...
Besieged by an aggressive man-to-man defense, Harvard’s star center managed only six points in the first half and found little room in the lane...