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...burden didn’t get much lighter as the season progressed. Though Harvard performed reasonably well in the preseason, it quickly became apparent that the defending league champion was going to struggle to compete...
...talent that earned Harvard men’s basketball team the No. 2 spot in the Ivy League preseason media poll was on display Saturday afternoon at Lavietes Pavilion, as the Crimson beat Division II Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 85-65 in Harvard’s first and only exhibition of the 2005-06 season. All 14 active Harvard players saw significant minutes in the first action of the fall campaign, as Crimson coach Frank Sullivan tested his freshman recruits in anticipation of the team’s run for the Ivy League title.“The goal...
...beat Dartmouth—it’s something I don’t think a lot of people thought was possible,” Pecknold laughed. Despite finishing the 2004-2005 season first in Atlantic Hockey, Quinnipiac was picked to finish dead last in both ECAC preseason polls, conducted by coaches and media. But for now, at least for this week, the Bobcats get to enjoy a tie for the lead, however brief or irrelevant it may be in the long run. The weekend wasn’t just good for the hockey program, Pecknold said. It was good...
Princeton, meanwhile, has flown under the radar to a 4-1 mark, taking two of three road contests against the preseason Big Three (Penn, Harvard and Brown). The Tigers stand within two wins—over Yale and Dartmouth—of claiming their first Ivy title in 10 years...
Penn and Dartmouth were named the unanimous favorites to win the men’s and women’s Ivy basketball titles, respectively, in the league’s preseason media poll that was released yesterday. Both the Crimson men and women immediately trailed behind the winners, as the men picked up 96 points—13 better thaan third place Princeton—and the women garnered 95—two better than the Tigers. Three starters for the women’s team, including Ivy Player of the Year Reka Cserny, have departed from a team that...