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When the two big men perform this task, Mike Griffin, Arnie Needleman, and Bill Carey are free to concentrate on taking the good shots, instead of forcing low percentage attempts in order to compensate for the lack of scoring punch from Silver and Banks...
Bill Carey wasn't forced to take as many shots as he has had to recently, but when he did shoot, he usually connected (five for eight), and accounted for ten points. Arnie Needleman was even hotter than Carey, hitting four of six shots, most of them in the early going, and ending with 13 points...
...teams traded baskets throughout the second half, with a Silver Jumper with 36 seconds remaining in regulation play creating an 80-80 deadlock. Each side had one final chance to win the game before the final buzzer sounded, but Brian Banks blocked Yale's attempt, and an Arnie Needleman off-balance jumper with two seconds left fell short...
...begin with, Harvard played without Arnie Needleman, its sharp-shooting guard, who was injured, and Doc Hines, who was in New York. Even without these starting performers, however, the Crimson should have had little difficulty with a Brandeis team over which it had a considerable height advantage...
After the break, however, Harvard cooled down, but worse, the Crimson forgot how to play defense. Bruin forwards consistently found themselves free under the boards for easy lay-ups, and only the miraculous shooting of Griffin and Arnie Needleman kept Harvard alive...