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Clifford is the Harvard women's basketball Sports Information Director, and she probably feels like the busiest person in the nation right now. Following Harvard's stunning, 71-67, upset of fifth-ranked. Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, it seems everyone wants a piece of the Crimson. And it is Clifford's job to streamline the media frenzy and make sure that everyone, from Sports Illustrated to USA Today, is accommodated...
...after All-American Allison Feaster capped a 35-point, 13-rebound performance with a key steal and two crucial free throws in the waning seconds of the game, even the crowed of 5,000 plus fans--the vast majority of them Stanford supporters--sat silently in disbelief of what was happening to their beloved Cardinal...
...Stanford had won 59 consecutive games on its home floor at Maples Pavilion before Saturday night's loss; its senior class had never lost at Maples. Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer, one of the winningest coaches ever in college basketball, had never lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...
...Stanford's earliest exit from the Tournament since the 1981-82 season. The Cardinal also had three consecutive Final Four appearances in the last three years, six Final Four appearances in the last eight years and two National Championships in that span (1990 and 1992). Stanford is considered by most college basketball experts the team of the 1990s...
...Beating Stanford] gave me a glimpse of what big-time basketball is all about--what a lot of us passed up to come to Harvard," Miller said. "A lot of people passed up scholarships to some pretty good schools, and maybe could have experienced this before, but there's nothing like experiencing it with the Harvard basketball team, especially because we play for the love of the sport...