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...Clinton is favored by a large margin over Barack Obama. The (mostly white) talking heads have twisted themselves into knots trying to explain it. Let me help them out. We in the black community know full well that not enough white Americans will go into the voting booth and pull the lever for a black man to be the President, so we don't want to throw our votes away on an underdog black candidate. And 90% of black voters do not vote Republican because, while we might not always know who is for us, we definitely know...
...chance for the Crimson to pull away had been wasted and the game was heading towards crunch time, where, with the exception of a 61-57 Harvard win in Lavietes in 2005, Princeton could always be counted on to pull out the win. But the Crimson found a solution to Princeton’s tough defense in Housman, who repeatedly beat his man off the dribble for layups or jumpers. Scoring 12 of Harvard’s last 14 points in regulation, he tied the game at 56 with a pull-up three-pointer with 1:46 left...
...jumper. Perhaps Harvard could force two turnovers like the Tigers had in that matchup. Or Princeton would miss its free throws to give Harvard a chance to tie? Neither of those happened. The Tigers got a fast-break layup by Conway and four straight free throws from Savage to pull away...
...most immediate goal is the league’s finale at home against Yale on Wednesday. “We’re going to do some serious training and make some adjustments,” captain Ilan Oren said. “Hopefully we can pull it all together.” PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 3 Last year saw the Crimson drop the Ivy finale at home against Princeton, resulting in a three-way tie for first place along with Yale. This year, both teams entered the league’s biggest match undefeated, and the Tigers walked away...
...Jaaber’s dunk with 3:59 left in the half gave Penn a 23-21 lead, and it would not trail or be tied again.The Quakers took a 32-26 lead into halftime, but the Crimson scored the first five points of the second half to pull within three on a three-pointer by Housman and a layup by sophomore forward Evan Harris. That would be as close as Harvard would get, as Penn spent the next 11 minutes trading baskets with the visitors before its 10-0 run.“We were in it the whole...