Word: preseasonitis
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...Dartmouth, and Yale to follow Harvard in the Red Rolfe Division, while ranking Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn in order in the Lou Gehrig Division. The Crimson compiled the league’s top record (14-6) last season—a year in which it was also a preseason favorite—but fell to Princeton in the league’s best-of-three series that determined which squad received the NCAA berth. Harvard returns 22 letterwinners from last season, including junior Steffan Wilson, whom Baseball America named as the Ancient Eight’s preseason player...
...campaign in the early stages, he says, is often what it isn't doing. "If you hear one campaign is talking to Mayor Bag O'Doughnuts, you feel you've got to run and get a meeting with the mayor," Murphy says. "The campaigns that use the preseason well are the campaigns that are secure and ringwise enough...
...leader Niki Finelli will need her soft touch from the outside and forwards Katie Rollins and Christiana Lackner will have to get their teammates second chances on the boards. Wisconsin boasts not only a tough team defense, but individual players that can score at will against less disciplined opponents. Preseason Naismith Trophy candidate Jolene Anderson averages 17 points and eight rebounds from the guard spot, while classmate Janese Banks is chipping in 14 points a game of her own. The Crimson insists, however, that the keys to tonight’s game lie in its own hands...
...contrast, Albany has had a rough start to the season. Every opposing coach in the America East picked it to repeat as champions in the preseason poll, but it is only...
...some mindless, indescribable reason, I’ve been a big Florida fan the last three years. I’m not from there, I have no family there, and my travels to the state consist mostly of a few trips to Disney World. Still, my last three preseason title picks? Gators, Gators, Gators...