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...PHILADELPHIA??With the score knotted at 58-58, Harvard took possession with just over 50 seconds left. Senior guard Drew Housman, who had carried the team with his season-high 22 points, cut into the lane. Penn’s defense converged on him, forcing him to kick the ball out to the top of the key, where junior guard Jeremy Lin was waiting to take the shot.“We were basically running a high pick and roll,” Housman said. “Coach [Tommy Amaker] put the ball in my hands...
...PHILADELPHIA??In trying to grab its first win at the Palestra since 1991—also the last time Harvard got a victory on the tough Princeton-Penn road trip—the Harvard men’s basketball team needed to correct the mistakes that contributed to its murky past on the “Killer P’s” road trip. The Crimson took advantage of many of the little things that had gone against it in its loss at Princeton the previous night as well as its 66-60 loss at home...
...PHILADELPHIA??Five times this season Harvard football has had its back to the wall, and four times the Crimson’s miracle train has kept on chugging.Other than the week two loss at Brown, Harvard has managed to come up with big play after big play to secure unbelievably close victories.Saturday’s win was no different.The game-sealing interception with less than 15 seconds left saved Harvard from many things, not the least of which was losing an Ivy League title shot next weekend against Yale—a sort of redemption after...
...PHILADELPHIA??When two teams are vying for the top spot in the league, their meeting is likely to get rough. Saturday’s pairing of Harvard and Penn—going into the game tied for first in the Ivies with Brown at 4-1—was nothing if not physical. “I give our kids a tremendous amount of credit for everything they’ve had to overcome, and the way they’ve fought and persevered, and I couldn’t be prouder of them...
...PHILADELPHIA??The demons of Franklin Field seemed to be rising again. The Crimson, an abysmal 1-12 at the Philadelphia landmark since 1982, was on the verge of coughing up a 17-0 third-quarter lead and, with it, first place in the Ivy League standings.But Harvard (8-1, 5-1 Ivy), as it has all season, finished with a flourish, as senior Ryan Barnes grabbed his third interception of the day in the end zone with 10 seconds remaining, and the Quakers (5-4, 4-2) threatening at the Crimson’s 12-yard line...