Word: preseasonitis
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...Harvard battled the Bears to a 38-35 double-overtime win at Harvard Stadium. It was the first double-overtime game in Harvard football history. To get to even one overtime, though, Harvard had to play a familiar game of catch-up.The Bears, picked to finish third in the Ivy preseason poll—Harvard was projected at No. 2—blazed to a 16-0 lead before the first quarter had ended. Brown scored in three of its first four possessions. Newly minted Harvard starting quarterback Liam O’Hagan was intercepted twice. While the defense tried...
...point guards, Drew Housman and Eric Groszyk, were expected to need a gradual introduction to the rigors of running a Division I offense. That contingency plan turned out to be entirely unnecessary. Housman immediately showed that he was no conventional first-year player and, after playing well in the preseason, was named the starter for the season opener against Vermont. The rookie scored 13 points, handed out 3 assists, grabbed four rebounds, and never looked back.“I put a lot of hard work in over the summer [and] during the year,” Housman said...
...hoops hierarchy.With the league’s top two returning scorers and rebounders in captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth—Harvard’s twin frontcourt anchors—the Crimson was picked to finish second behind Penn in the league’s preseason poll. That ranking only fueled the high expectations, as Harvard was thought to be facing perhaps its best opportunity to unseat powerhouses Penn and Princeton and claim the school’s first Ivy title and first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1946. Those dreams, however, faded into bitter memory...
...Dartmouth game, “is that we’re literally one play away from being tied for first, a 5-2 team.”Nonetheless, a rejuvenated Harvard squad showed it was back in the hunt when it dismantled Columbia 55-7. The Crimson then demolished preseason favorite Penn in Harvard Stadium 29-3 behind three touchdown catches by senior fullback Kelly Widman and a 12-yard scoring scamper by O’Hagan.With its title hopes still alive, the team traveled to Yale for The Game needing a win and a Brown loss to last-place...
...preseason has been solid,” said senior third baseman Erin Halpenny. “It hasn’t been spectacular, but we’ve done a lot of the things that we needed...