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...that improbability will become reality Sunday, when Harvard (15-12, 13-1 Ivy) will take on defending national champion Maryland (27-5, 11-4 ACC) in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. The Crimson is a 15-seed and Maryland is the second-ranked team in the tourney’s Dayton regional bracket. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn., and the game will be televised on ESPN and ESPNU...
...This is pretty amazing,” sophomore forward Katie Rollins said Monday night, when Harvard players and coaches gathered to watch the NCAA Selection Show at Donohue’s Bar and Grill in Watertown. “It’s just unbelievable to be playing the defending champions...
...Harvard women’s basketball team stunned the nation in one of the greatest moments in collegiate sports when, playing at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion, the Crimson entered collegiate history by defeating number-one seed Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. ESPN recently earmarked the accomplishment as sixth in its top 25 greatest moments in NCAA Tournament history. The Crimson’s 71-67 victory marks the only instance, in either men’s or women’s tournament history, that a sixteenth seed...
...began with the national quarterfinals in 2005, the first year the NCAA field expanded to eight teams, with Harvard hosting upstart Mercyhurst. The tenacious Lakers poured in four goals in regulation, matched tit-for-tat by a quartet of scores from Crimson winger Nicole Corriero ’05 (part of her record-setting total of 59 goals that year...
It’s not just fortuity, though. As the beat writer for the team at Harvard, I have been uniquely disposed to partake in these marathon affairs. A national powerhouse, the Crimson is a perennial qualifier for the NCAA Tournament, and as a Boston school, participates annually in the local Beanpot Tournament, where games are played with the 20-minute overtime periods usually reserved for postseason play...