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...make it to the championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...
This intersection of populism and accuracy in the 2008 Tournament makes the outcome particularly infuriating to experts. Anyone with the ability to count could have predicted the Final Four. In fact, Kelly Evans ’10 did just that, and picked the higher seed in every single game. She’s currently in third place out of 115 entries in the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective’s pool. (This puts her 24 places ahead of yours truly. Ever the non-conformist, I spiced up my bracket with a two seed, Duke, and a three seed, Louisville...
...March 22 at the Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., the No. 15 Tigers (22-13-0) ended Harvard’s season and extended their own, clinching the ECAC tournament title and the accompanying NCAA bid. While Princeton lost 5-1 to No. 1 seed North Dakota in the Midwest region in the first round, the Crimson spent a second consecutive spring break without any NCAA hockey to look forward to. “We didn’t finish it off exactly the way we wanted to,” Harvard coach Ted Donato...
...what they lost in the tsunami," says Hidayat, a stocky 46-year-old with a square jaw and flat-top hairstyle. Yet, just over three years on, Hidayat has managed to pull his life together, remarrying and starting a small coffee stand near the capital's main port with seed money from an aid organization. Like Hidayat, too, the province is feeling its way back to normalcy. Pipes for clean water are being laid, swampland converted into shrimp farms, and hotels built for aid workers remaining in the area...
When El-Erian assumed leadership of HMC in 2006, the firm was severely in need of rebuilding, having lost more than 30 employees when the previous CEO, Jack R. Meyer left to form his own hedge fund with $500 million in seed money from the University...