Word: postseason
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...fall for Maasdorp, but Saturday’s victory gives the Crimson an NCAA berth for the first time since the 2002 season. The first team to secure a spot in this year’s tournament field, Harvard is riding a three-game winning streak into postseason play...
With its regular season over, Moran says that the team will practice on Monday and then will gather together to listen to the 2004 NCAA Tournament selection show in order to find out if Harvard has received an at-large bid for postseason play...
...team that had comported every characteristic of human frailty would become the immortals of New England, the ones who reversed the curse. They rallied somehow to win that game and took the next seven--a record run of eight straight postseason victories. Did you hear that, Babe? Not since the visiting Redcoats lost to the hometown Colonials in 1776 has Boston celebrated like this. As victory drew near--the finale was a 3-0 game in which the Cards played as though the curse had struck them--thousands of fans gathered near Fenway, while across New England, from the Maine...
...casual swagger was exemplified by players like center fielder Johnny Damon, the leadoff hitter whose long hair and beard evoke the style "modern caveman." His philosophy could generously be described as early developmental. "We are just the idiots," he mused during the postseason, referring to the moniker that the team had adopted. This in a city with 100 colleges. Damon was echoing his teammates' mantra: they were playing a kid's game, they were having fun, but they were also going to "grind you out." "We try to eliminate the thinking and let our natural abilities take over...
Harvard topped Cornell in consecutive ECAC quarterfinal games last postseason, ending the Big Red’s year. Cornell began this season near the bottom of the conference, ranked eighth...