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Despite a second-half meltdown against the Elis where Harvard’s 16-point halftime lead quickly evaporated, the Crimson gave the fans plenty to cheer about. Firstly, except for the second half Saturday night the team was making its shots. Dating back to the Penn game in early January, Harvard was shooting over 50 percent. Timely buckets, and junior guard Pat Harvey’s propensity for finishing off drives in spectacular, Allen Iverson-like manner got the fans on their feet every time...
...such a roll, it was like, ‘Let’s just get the ball to Pat,’” Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said of his team’s second-half strategy...
...matter-of-fact resilience displayed by the Harvard men’s basketball team Saturday night—first in forgetting a heartbreaking defeat to Princeton the night before, then in overcoming a 14-0 second-half run by Penn—is exactly what the junior point guard has always predicted would be the proof that Harvard had finally come...
...Tigers’ poor second-half shooting didn’t make up for the fact that Harvard let Princeton hit 46.7 percent from the floor and 5-of-13 from behind the arc in the first half...
...Saints have gone from a team that absolutely struck fear into the hearts of opposing goaltenders last year to one in the ECAC cellar this time around. However, St. Lawrence was a second-half team last season, and Coach Joe Marsh is a legendary figure behind the bench who has a lot of young talent at his disposal. As Harvard found out in a nail-biting win earlier this year, SLU is a very opportunistic team capable of skating with pretty much anyone in the league. GRADE...