Word: seconded
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...continued to prove that the setback did not faze him just moments after his second free throw sailed through the net. The Colonials Tony Taylor tried to bring the ball up the court for his team, but Lin came away with his fifth steal of the half. The 6’3 guard raced down the left sideline before crossing over to his right and thundering home a dunk that gave his team a three-point advantage with 56 seconds remaining in the period...
...Jeremy being Jeremy,” said freshman Kyle Casey, who finished with a career-high fifteen points and five rebounds. “He’s a clutch player. It was a big time shot. It definitely gave us the momentum going into the second half. He’s the leader of our team and he stepped up and knocked it down...
...Crimson carried its momentum into the second half, going on a 13-2 run to open the period. Harvard’s defense held strong throughout the half, limiting the Colonials to just 18 points...
...Crimson only managed 28 points, shooting just one-of-nine from deep in the second half, but it was good enough to earn Harvard the 13-point victory—a drastic turnaround from last year’s 15-point loss to George Washington on the road...
...face it: Lin's ethnicity might be a bigger surprise. Fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players are Asian-American. Sure, the occasional giant from China, like Yao Ming, has played in the NBA. But in the U.S., basketball stars are African Americans first, Caucasians second, and Asians ... somewhere far down the line. (One historical footnote: Wat Misaka, a Japanese American, became in 1947 the first nonwhite person to play in the NBA.) (See the classic sports photography of Walter Iooss...