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...POWER OUTAGE The Crimson power play went 0-for-7 Friday night, scoreless on 15 man-advantage shots. “We’re not getting the bounces,” said Murphy as he shook his head about his team’s recent 2-for-45 skid. “We’re so close—just a few bounces.” D’Alba’s acrobatic saves quashed Harvard’s run during a third-period 5-on-3, and the Crimson couldn’t muster anything with...
...SKID 1 to 3 ball revolutions On the first, oiled stretch, called the heads, the ball slides more than it rolls, moving more or less in a straight line...
...like the Harvard women’s basketball team had a chance to snap its losing streak at Lavietes Pavilion. But the Crimson let its eight-point lead quickly turn into a fifteen-point deficit. Hofstra (5-4) ultimately defeated Harvard 82-68, extending the Crimson’s skid to eight games and tying its longest losing streak since the 1983-1984 season. A barrage of three-pointers put Harvard (2-9) on top 22-14 at 15:03, but the Pride fought back with an aggressive defense that dominated the boards, snatching up 44 overall, compared...
...Even if the Big Green (4-7-0, 4-5-0) lacks a national ranking, and even if it stumbled to an abysmal 0-4-0 start, the Crimson-Dartmouth rivalry always promises to be a good one. The Big Green’s season-opening skid began with a 6-2 loss at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center and continued with a 3-0 shutout at Princeton, a 7-5 barnburner at Quinnipiac and a 3-2 home-opening defeat at the hands of Colgate. Successive wins over Cornell, Brown and Yale brought Dartmouth within a game...
...bottom of the basket,” Lackner said. “And we didn’t come out with enough defensive intensity. We show flashes of promising team defense, but we are still looking for consistency.” The Crimson looks to end its losing skid Tuesday against Boston University, just the second home game of the year for Harvard. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...