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Eastern Sprints will be a test.For the Radcliffe lightweights, it will be a challenge to reassert its lost number one ranking.And for the heavyweights, Sunday will determine if the team’s streak of eight straight NCAA championship births continues.Both squads simply hope they can pass.Over the past eight seasons, the Radcliffe heavyweights have received a bid to the NCAA Championships—to which only 12 teams are invited annually—an unprecedented modern run. This year, however, the streak is in jeopardy, as the heavyweights have lost four straight regattas and post a No. 18 ranking...
It’s been ten years since the Harvard men’s lacrosse team got a taste of what it was like to play in the NCAA tournament.What has changed since then?Not much, really. The Crimson battled in a tough Ivy League just like they did a decade ago, failing to win the conference and still making it in as an at-large bid. Scott Anderson is still the head coach, and Princeton, Virginia, and Maryland are still near-perennial title-contenders. The records are a little different—Harvard posted a 6-6 mark this...
...surprise of coaches, players, and fans, the Crimson received one of the 10 at-large bids handed out by the Division I men’s lacrosse selection committee to enter the NCAA tournament unseeded...
...Porter said. A Harvard co-ed team which has hovered around the top of the rankings all year would most likely have been looked kindly upon by the selection committee, which selects its nationals participants much in the same way that committees select at-large bids for their NCAA tournaments in sports like basketball and lacrosse.The committee had little sympathy for the Crimson, however, in its scheduling of nationals. This year’s event begins during Harvard’s exam period—May 24—and ends June 2.“It?...
...ending a campaign that seemed destined to culminate in another Ancient Eight title. But the visiting Tigers (18-23-1) intervened, bouncing Harvard (21-20-1) with superior pitching and timely hitting in 9-3 and 8-2 victories and earning the Ivies’ automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. “It was just a tough day,” Crimson head coach Joe Walsh said. “That’s it. There was no turnaround point...I thought the best they could do against us was split. We didn?...