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...HAVEN, Conn.—With 10 minutes remaining in the Crimson’s Saturday night loss at Yale, Harvard captain Jim Goffredo connected on his first shot of the night, a straight-away three-pointer that cut the Yale lead to 56-51. It looked like the type of shot that could revitalize Goffredo, a streaky outside shooter who relies on rhythm and confidence, and give Harvard the perimeter attack it was sorely missing...
...from putting together anything resembling a run until the final five minutes. Harvard, which had won its last two games at Brown’s Pizzatola Sports Center, lost its third straight road game. With Brown up 32-29 in the first minute of the second half, a three-pointer by team leading scorer Mark McAndrew spearheaded an 11-0 run that put some serious space between the Bears and the Crimson. Harvard got off only one shot during that run, an airballed jumper by captain Jim Goffredo, as it turned it over near halfcourt on three consecutive possessions...
...game, as both teams made a few early stops. Three buckets and an impressive assist by Tay sparked a 10-0 run that gave Harvard a 24-8 lead.The lead did not stay comfortable for long, though, when Yale’s Jamie Van Horne drained a few three-pointers. She finished the first half with five shots made from downtown and helped Yale cut Harvard’s lead to five by the first buzzer.Though Van Horne had the hot hand in the first half, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith thought the Crimson could have done a better...
...with 3:59 left in the half gave Penn a 23-21 lead, and it would not trail or be tied again.The Quakers took a 32-26 lead into halftime, but the Crimson scored the first five points of the second half to pull within three on a three-pointer by Housman and a layup by sophomore forward Evan Harris. That would be as close as Harvard would get, as Penn spent the next 11 minutes trading baskets with the visitors before its 10-0 run.“We were in it the whole time,” Housman...
...lead for good. On a night characterized more by Harvard’s shooting woes, which afflicted junior Brad Unger, an 83.3 percent free-throw shooter who missed two from the stripe with 58 seconds remaining in regulation, and Goffredo, who tallied only seven points and one three-pointer, there was one other bright spot for the Crimson—sophomore Evan Harris.Harris was all over the court in the first half, tallying 10 of the team’s 32 points, including an emphatic left-handed slam over two Tiger defenders that absolutely silenced the “Jadwin...