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Working in Harvard’s favor is that all seven of its losses are against teams likely bound for NCAAs. Also, the Crimson was ranked a solid fourth in the Northeast region—one of six regions nationwide—entering the week, prior to losing to Connecticut and Dartmouth, the two top ranked teams in the region...
What’s working against Harvard this season, relatively speaking, is that its only marquee win all season was against Princeton. Its strongest nonconference wins were against Boston College, a team that lost in the Big East quarterfinals, and Central Connecticut, the Northeast Conference regular season champions...
Harvard typically has had stronger nonconference wins against regionally-ranked teams outside of the Northeast, such as wins against BYU in 1999, Loyola Marymount and Davidson in 2000 and Marquette in 2001. This season Harvard scheduled harder out-of-region opponents and didn’t beat any of them...
Thanks to a pair of exciting come-from-behind victories this past week at the ITA Regionals in Philadelphia, Lingman and Riddell managed to upset two of the top teams in the Northeast on their way to the championship...
...victory over UConn, the Northeast region’s top-ranked team, would have gone a long way in helping to secure an NCAA at-large berth. The Crimson fortunately has another chance to prove itself against Dartmouth, the region’s second-ranked team, this weekend...