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Kosh is a veteran guard on a young team. With the loss of its leading scorers, the Crimson will look to Kosh to increase her scoring and to be a leader on the court and off. In addition, a knee injury has sidelined Kosh for much of the pre-season and threatens to be a burden during the regular season...
Smith averaged just 3.1 p.p.g. last year, but his ball-handling ability should free Gielen for far more. In the squad's pre-season scrimmage against St. Francis Xavier, Gielen was a fiery 10-for-17 from the field for 27 points...
What makes this all the more striking is that no one expected a distinguished season for Notre Dame this year. Playing one of the toughest schedules in the NCAA and lacking the services of 1987 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, who graduated, the Irish were ranked 13th in pre-season projections. Eleven of the 22 first-stringers were starting for the first time. To compensate for the lack of experience, Holtz relentlessly drilled his specialty squads and relied on raw speed. In the season opener, the Irish edged out tenth-ranked University of Michigan 19-17 on the strength...
Frustrating for everyone--players and fans alike--who knew Harvard had the talent to match its number-one pre-season ranking, but wasn't seeing that skill, that domination, on the field...
...finish near the bottom of the Ivy pack, the Elis will be no simple challenge for the Crimson. Yale was the only league team to make the national rankings during the season, having defeated formidable non-league foes Connecticut and Seton Hall. Harvard had been listed first in the pre-season predictions...