Word: ncaas
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...ball in Los Angeles, backyard power UCLA didn't recruit him. So he dashed to the desert--the University of Arizona--where he took the number 0--in his mind, the number of minutes his doubters thought he would play as a freshman. After helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have a first-round pick...
...wait until next year. Looking to defeat a Boston College team that ended its seven-year streak of consecutive Beanpot titles last season, the Harvard women’s hockey team came up short, suffering an agonizing 4-3 defeat in the longest women’s game in NCAA history.After 114 minutes and 13 seconds, the Eagles’ Anna McDonald put a pass from teammate Kelli Stack into the back of the Crimson net, ending the epic contest in triple overtime.“It was a great hockey game,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone...
...official from a crew that whistled a mere eight penalties in nearly two game’s worth of hockey, the rest of the Crimson long since headed for the solace of the visitors’ locker room. There is only history, having participated in the longest game in NCAA history, since the organization began keeping records for women’s hockey in 2000. Longer even than the Crimson’s memorable triple-overtime war of attrition with Mercyhurst in the Frozen Eight two years ago. Longer, the press box consensus went, than any college women?...
...fans who travel all the way to Madison, N.J. The team makes history when it captures a second consecutive national championship, pointing to its support on campus as the reason for its success. Nov. 2: After cruising through the Ivy League and drawing a number 10 seed in the NCAA tournament, NCAA Player of the Year Andre U. Akpan ’10 scores 10 goals in three games to lead the Crimson men’s soccer team to the Final Four. The squad bows out to number one seed (and eventual champion) Virginia, 2-1, in penalty kicks...
...Harvard’s distance swimmers set the mark for the squad, as evidenced by their 1-2-3 finish in the 1650 yard freestyle. Junior Sam Wollner narrowly edged teammate Eric Lynch to grab first, and freshman Alex Meyer rounded out the top three. Wollner and Lynch notched NCAA provisional marks in the event. In addition, the duo continued their domination in the 500 yard freestyle. This time, Lynch snuck in .02 seconds ahead of Wollner for a strong top two finish. Meyer and fellow freshman Mason Brunnick finished seventh and sixth, respectively, in the event...