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PALO ALTO, Calif.--"Here come the giant killers." Those were the words of a Stanford Event Staff Member as the Harvard women's basketball team quietly entered Maples Pavilion last night through the players' entrance. Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) was getting ready to battle ninth-seeded Arkansas in a second-round matchup of the NCAA Tournament with the winner earning a trip to the famed Sweet Sixteen...
...Stanford employee could see was the team that had pulled off the biggest upset in the history of college basketball just two nights earlier...
...they are--the giant killers," the man repeated. "Welcome back." "Thanks," responded Harvard sophomore Laela Sturdy. "It's nice to be back." The Crimson was back because it outplayed the Cardinal--a team that had made 10 consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearances between 1988 and 1997--on Saturday night. The Stanford Event Staff member knew that; unfortunately, it appears the rest of the West Coast does...
Harvard's historic achievement also snaps a 59-game winning streak at Maples Pavilion for the Cardinal that dated back to the final game of the 1993-94 season. It is the first time since 1982 that Stanford has lost in the first-round of the Tournament, and it is Stanford Coach Tara Van-Derveer's first-ever first-round loss as well...
...Americanconverted into a layup to pull Harvard to withinone. Following a missed shot by the Cardinal,Miller came back and hit an off-balance runnerfrom the foul line to put theB-3NCAAPeter DeSilvaJUMP AROUND: Sophomore LAELA STURDY(left) basks in the exhilaration of the Harvard'srecord-breaking victory at Stanford on Saturdaynight...