Word: quintets
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Harvard plunged into basketball oblivion over the weekend as the quintet lost to Cornell and Columbia, ran its losing streak to five games, and guaranteed the Crimson its 17th straight second division finish in the Ivy League...
Since 1947 no Harvard basketball team has finished in the first division of the Ivy League, but this tradition of frustration will be broken if the Crimson quintet can whip Cornell and Columbia this week...
Since its shocking upset over Princeton, the Harvard quintet has gone straight downhill into the second division of the Ivy League. Merle McClung has continued to play well, but the rest of the squad has been sporadic at best. Even in the department where the team has been superb all season-rebounding-the Crimson has been disgraced recently...
Although the quintet is two games behind Cornell in the Ivy standings, a sweep of this weekend's contests would virtually guarantee Harvard a first division berth. The Big Red plays at Penn and Princeton next weekend and should lose both of those games; combined with a loss tonight, that would give them an 8-6 final Ivy record. Harvard has lost 3-6 final Ivy record...
...Quakers are probably the best quintet in the Ivy League, and there are two reasons for their supremacy: Jeff Neuman and Ramon Carazo. This hustling backcourt combination put on a show last Saturday that almost made the 1000 fans in the IAB forget about Bill Bradley. Carazo punched holes in the Crimson's usually effective zone defense with high, arching 25-foot jumpers, while Neuman left the fans exophthalmic with his ball-handling wizardry...