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Come the end of the season, that confidence was well justified. Though Grumet-Morris and the rest of the Crimson struggled during the regular season, both elevated their play for the postseason. During Harvard’s 7-0 run to the NCAA playoffs, Grumet-Morris allowed only 10 goals and recorded a pair of shutouts to start the winning streak...
Then, with only 16.5 seconds left in the first, Bernakevitch followed Packard’s shot in front for his 11th goal of the season and team-leading 11th postseason point...
...being grouped in with Michigan, Maine, Minnesota and New Hampshire is pretty heady company. But while those teams have won national finals, or lost in them, or at least made the semi-finals, Harvard alone has gone winless in three chances. That is what separates those teams from Harvard, postseason victories versus postseason futilities...
...outing against Merrimack. That changed with 16.5 seconds left in the period, when top-line hosses Dennis Packard and Brendan Bernakevitch bull-rushed the net. Bernakevitch followed Packard’s shot in front with his 11th goal of the season and team-leading 11th postseason point. Any mystique Howard had left after the first goal was gone...
Modesty is just one virtue of Air Force's surprising basketball team, which ended its season with a 22-6 record, ensuring it a postseason-tournament berth for the first time since 1962. Air Force hasn't even had a winning season since '78. One reason is its tough league--the Mountain West Conference, dominated by teams like Utah and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Another major handicap: the Air Force places a height limit on recruits who want to become pilots, which eliminates most players over 6 ft. 8 in. (The actual measure is sitting height, which allows...