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Having contented himself with the role of sixth man for three years, Merchant was universally recognized as one of those people due to inherit the earth. But there was nothing meek about his last-ever game against Princeton, when Merchant exploded for a game-high 22 points, his two three-pointers in the final minute singlehandedly bringing Harvard within a basket of toppling the Tigers...
...there certainly was nothing deferent about the last game he’ll ever play, when Merchant poured in an astounding, school-record 45 points in yet another valiant, but losing, effort against Brown...
Hell of a game, it was. Those there—Dave Merchant among them—watched what should have been the fading embers of a modestly successful career blaze up one last, magnificent time like a funeral pyre, as Merchant, heart afire, delivered a barnburner for the ages to Lavietes Pavilion...
...They saw Merchant, his career finished after being subbed out with under a minute to play, collapse into the somber comfort of hugs and tears along the bench, finally permitting himself release. And then, moments later, they saw him stride off the court arm-in-arm with Prasse-Freeman...
After that loss to Princeton in which he’d scored 22, Merchant, who never once beat the Tigers, still refused to concede anything. He made the next generation of Crimson men’s basketball vow to end the team’s futility streak against the Orange Menace...