Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson hadnot won since 1988. But the 10-year drought cameto an end as Harvard posted identical 69-57 winsover Norfolk State in the first round and Loyola(Md.) in the championship game to capture theInvitational title. Those two wins were the secondand third in a six-game winning streak thatcarried Harvard into winter break and two contestsin South Carolina...
...Crimson dropped a heartbreaker, 72-69, toSouth Carolina on December 19 before bouncing backto drub Wofford two days later, 87-67. The victoryover Wofford began another winning streak, thisone eight games long, that carried Harvard intothe Ivy League season. Routs of Columbia, Cornell,Pennsylvania and Yale were intertwined with afive-point squeaker at home against Dartmouth, andan 86-81 overtime win against Brown...
...Princeton's defense--tops inthe nation in points allowed--stifle Harvard'soutside shooters and frustrate the Crimson'sballhandlers for 40 minutes. When it was over, alast-second three-point attempt by Harvardco-captain-elect Sarah Russell was just off themark, and Princeton had ended Harvard's 32-gameIvy winning streak with a 56-53 victory...
...Crimson soon showed there was no cause forconcern. Harvard's disappointing loss to theHuskies served as a wake-up call, and the teamproceeded to close out its regular season with asix-game winning streak to capture its thirdconsecutive Ivy League championship and earn itsthird NCAA Tournament berth in four years...
During the year in which the first bricks of the Harvard women's squash dynasty finally began to fall, as the Crimson snapped a 59-match winning streak and failed to win the Howe Cup championship for the first time since 1991, its captain flung the singles title monkey from her back with authority, beating the top two seeds en route to the individual championship...