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With the start of its national college basketball tournament approaching, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) warned its student athletes and athletic staffs not to join any type of gambling pool. But despite the warning, some student athletes—including at least one Crimson basketball player—have joined March Madness pools on the Facebook. Although the Harvard men’s basketball team will not be playing in the NCAA tournament, rules discouraging gambling on college sports still apply. And while the Facebook pools are free to enter, contestants can win up to $25,000. Winning that...
...NCAA Selection Committee picked the women’s basketball team as the No. 15 seed in the Dayton Regional of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament last night. Harvard will play defending national champion Maryland, who was named the No. 2 team in arguably the strongest of the four divisions of the 64-team tournament. The first-round game between the Crimson and the Terrapins will take place Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn. The team’s placement as a No. 15 seed was a surprise...
MADISON, Wis.—A year full of heartbreaking finishes crescendoed on Saturday night, as the Harvard women’s hockey team’s season ended with a 1-0 quadruple-overtime loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA quarterfinals at the Kohl Center...
Sophomore goaltender Brittany Martin was brilliant in her first career NCAA appearance, blanking Wisconsin for more than two games’ worth of hockey before finally letting one by. Threatened with countless odd-man rushes, Martin calmly stood up to charging forwards, fearlessly dove to cover loose pucks, and speared shot after shot with her glove. In all, Martin saw 68 shots, saving 67 to tie Cheryl Tate’s 25-year-old school record for saves in a game...
Saturday night’s game brought 5,125 fans to the rink, ranking just behind the Harvard-Minnesota-Duluth 2003 national final for attendance at a women’s college game in the NCAA...