Word: postseason
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...last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains on the university system to which no other sport compares. Coupled with the additional time that student-athletes will be diverted from their studies, these disadvantages are simply too steep a price to pay for postseason glory. The persistent cancerous affects of the money and power that accompany big time athletics at American universities are ever-present. Within the past two weeks, scandals involving recruiting conduct at Indiana University and $300,000 in illicit gifts allegedly received by 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush while attending...
...wasn’t half bad, either. Though Grumet-Morris graduated, netminder John Daigneau ’06 filled in admirably, earning the John Tudor Memorial Cup as the team’s most valuable player and leading his team to another 21-win season, an ECAC postseason title, and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA playoffs...
March Madness, that postseason basketball binge of million-dollar sponsorships under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name...
Still, Murphy admitted that it is hard to justify the lack of a postseason for what is arguably Harvard’s most popular sport, when the rest of the University’s 41 Division I sports teams have the chance to continue playing once the regular season ends...
...five freshmen that have seen consistent playing time this season. The youngsters have performed admirably, playing sound defense and finding opportunities to score on a team full of scorers and making up for lack of experience with raw talent, but how they will respond to the pressures of the postseason remains to be seen.Kessler isn’t worried.“[The freshmen] know what to expect,” she said. “They’ve done a great job so far this season.”Cahow noted that the rookies—along with...