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PALO ALTO, Calif.--"Here come the giant killers." Those were the words of a Stanford Event Staff Member as the Harvard women's basketball team quietly entered Maples Pavilion last night through the players' entrance. Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) was getting ready to battle ninth-seeded Arkansas in a second-round matchup of the NCAA Tournament with the winner earning a trip to the famed Sweet Sixteen...
Stanford had won 59 consecutive games on its home floor at Maples Pavilion before Saturday night's loss; its senior class had never lost at Maples. Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer, one of the winningest coaches ever in college basketball, had never lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...
...biggest challenge may still lie ahead. When 16th-seeded Harvard (23-4, 12-2 Ivy) locks horns with the ninth-seeded Arkansas Lady Razorbacks (19-10, 7-7 SEC) in a second-round matchup tonight at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, it will face a quicker, more athletic and perhaps more confident team than the one it faced Saturday night--and this time the Crimson has just two days to prepare...
...team in the history of the men's or women's NCAA Tournament has ever done before--it won. The Crimson became the first 16 seed ever to win a game in the Big Dance, shocking top seed Stanford (21-6, 17-1 Pac-10), 71-67, at Maples Pavilion in the West Region's first-round matchup. It was the first victory ever by an Ivy League women's team in the NCAAs...
Harvard's historic achievement also snaps a 59-game winning streak at Maples Pavilion for the Cardinal that dated back to the final game of the 1993-94 season. It is the first time since 1982 that Stanford has lost in the first-round of the Tournament, and it is Stanford Coach Tara Van-Derveer's first-ever first-round loss as well...