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Since his outstanding freshman year, when he reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championships, 285-pound Harvard tri-captain Bode Ogunwole has been the foundation of the Crimson wrestling team...
...ninth for the sixth straight time, the Crimson kicked off a promising new season at the University of New Hampshire Carnival this weekend. The Nordic team headed to Jackson XC, and the alpine team hit the slopes at Attitash, the sites of this year’s upcoming NCAA championships. “We were in ninth place again,” said Crimson Nordic coach Peter Graves. “That’s where we were every carnival last year…You can have great performances and still be in ninth place overall.” Although...
Harvard remains the team to beat in Ivy League baseball, according to Baseball America, which picked the Crimson to win the league title and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in its Jan. 29 college preview issue. The magazine selected Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale to follow Harvard in the Red Rolfe Division, while ranking Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn in order in the Lou Gehrig Division. The Crimson compiled the league’s top record (14-6) last season—a year in which it was also a preseason favorite—but fell to Princeton...
...which Cusworth hopes will turn into an opportunity to play basketball professionally. That Cusworth’s season is about to end abruptly, before the meat of the Ivy slate—the final 10 games of league play which decide who earns the automatic berth to the NCAA tournament—is especially painful for himself and Harvard given that the center finally seems to have come into his own as a force on the hardwood. He ranks first in the Ivy League in rebounds per game (9.2) and blocks (36) and is second in points per game...
...indication. Last season, without the services of their respective corps of elite players, both the Crimson and the Big Green slipped from their usual habitats in the top five of the national polls, a perch they have regained in 2007. Harvard was bounced from the NCAA Tournament in the opening round, while Dartmouth, after posting a losing record, didn’t even get a whiff of the national playoffs. It is simplistic to reduce the Ivy powerhouses’ recent reclamations to the return of their Olympians, who missed last season to participate in the Winter Games in Turin...