Word: penns
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Starting last year, however, Columbia brought excitement to campus in the form of head coach Norries Wilson. The physically imposing former offensive lineman at Minnesota has rapidly become my favorite coach to interview in the Ivy League, despite snapping on a group of reporters after a loss to Penn last season and questioning their ability to report on the game...
There is no gray area with Wilson, for players or reporters; we learned that last season during his tirade at Penn, as well as when he looked incredulously at the local reporter who asked him to “assess the team’s position” in the Ivy race. After staring for a brief second, mouth agape, Wilson recovered to explain, simply, “well, we’re in last place...
...finish sixth in the league—the same as its final standing last season—by the 16-voter poll despite the arrival of new coach Tommy Amaker. Cornell was picked to win the league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn...
...times, we show our inexperience,” Leone said. “And tonight was just one of those nights.” Despite the loss, Harvard has an outside shot at making the NCAA Tournament via an at-large berth if it can beat Penn in its final match of the season. “We’d like to finish with more heart at home against Penn,” Leone said. That contest kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on Ohiri Field...
...Crimson remains undefeated in the Ivies in its quest for its first title in three years, but a game like this is enough to worry Harvard supporters. The team that showed up in New York on Saturday is not one that will beat Yale on Nov. 17, or even Penn this coming weekend, for that matter. Every game this season I have wondered when I’ll see that decisive victory, the one in which the Crimson finally breaks free of its growing pains and shows its full strength. And every time Harvard makes a few bad decisions...