Word: seeds
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...down 1-0 at halftime, it fought back to win the first round of the NCAA Tournament by a 2-1 final at Ohiri Field on Saturday. Harvard’s victory over the Bearcats (9-7-0) earned it a trip to Los Angeles to play No. 8 seed UCLA in the second round.“They shut down our weapons in the first half,” Crimson coach John Kerr said. “I was just grateful that they didn’t score the second goal. Once we got ourselves back to halftime only...
...were picked to finish second in the increasingly competitive America East conference, which has received a good amount of buzz over the last several years thanks to the performance of its teams in the NCAA tournament. Vermont beat heavily favored Syracuse in 2005, and this past spring No. 16 seed Albany nearly pulled off the greatest upset in tournament history, leading for much of the game before falling to the UConn juggernaut. Harvard plays both Vermont and Albany later in the season. Maine will prove to be an early challenge to the Crimson’s commitment to improvement...
...have come to Montana for the final 72 hours of this closely watched campaign, Burns holds an unfathomably large potato above his head and discusses the relative advantage that Montana nematodes—whatever they are—hold over Idaho’s, and how the bountiful seed potatoes they make often go unrecognized. Making the rounds, he jokes that a recent Smith College graduate looks pregnant. (In fairness, she has something lodged in the front pocket of her Young Republicans sweater.) He also notes that his handlers want to “lock me in a closet?...
...three days of play in the Big Green Invitational, the Harvard men’s tennis team did not have impressive singles results. But things could not have been much better in the doubles draw. The team of juniors Ashwin Kumar and Kieran Burke were seeded No. 1 overall and made their way into the finals, but the freshman Michael Hayes and junior Dan Nguyen were just an after thought. And in the end, Hayes and Nguyen surprised not only most of the opposition—they were seeded No. 30 entering the tournament—but also upended their...
...sophomore, playing all 34 games and leading Crimson blueliners in goals.He tied for the team lead in goals again last year, his junior season, including five crucial points against Dartmouth and Cornell in Harvard’s run to the ECAC tournament title and the resulting No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Reese’s efforts earned him first team All-Ivy honors, second team All-ECAC honors, and a spot on the ECAC All-Tournament team.No one in the league is expecting him to disappoint this year, either, as indicated by the captain’s selection...