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That day Jordan made his debut against the Indiana Pacers, and though he shot only 7 of 28, he moved well considering he had been playing baseball for a year. The game, on NBC, was the most-watched regular-season N.B.A. game in history. Three nights later, in his final appearance in the soon-to-be-scrapped Boston Garden, he scored 27 points in just 26 minutes. His performance was nearly as impressive as the 63 points he scored in a 1986 play-off game on the same parquet floor...
Those seniors (except Breistroff, who took last year off) leave the same way they came in--with a loss to RPI in the ECAC quarterfinals. But they won three straight ECAC regular-season titles, the 1993 Beanpot, and the 1994 ECAC tournament; they qualified for two consecutive NCAA tournaments and came just one goal away from playing in last year's national championship--not too shabby...
Then there was the big disappointment three years ago. RPI--a big underdog--came into Bright Hockey Center and shocked ECAC regular-season champion Harvard in a 4-3 overtime quarterfinal thriller. Because of that game, the ECAC changed to its current best-of-three format...
Remember, nobody on this year's Crimson outside of Michel Breistroff (who took last year off) has played for a Harvard team that didn't win the regular-season crown...
With home-ice for the first round of the ECAC playoffs precarious at best, this weekend's final regular-season games are the perfect stage to display exactly what level of talent Harvard...