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After a brutal five-game Ivy League stretch on the road that lasted nearly a month, the Harvard men’s basketball team (6-16, 1-5 Ivy) finally returns home this weekend. The going will likely remain tough as the Crimson plays host to two New York Ivy League foes, Cornell and Columbia. After its lone Ivy League bright spot this season, a league-opening victory over Dartmouth at home in early January, the Harvard men have suffered through five straight Ivy League defeats away from Cambridge. Among them was a 13-point loss at the hands...
...standings, the Harvard women’s basketball team appears to be firing on all cylinders. The Crimson (12-8, 5-1 Ivy), the current leaders of the Ivy league and the defending champs, will have to endure a serious threat this weekend as the team begins a crucial stretch of four consecutive league games away from the comforts of Lavietes Pavilion...
...been all well and good, but comparisons to last year’s team will become officially legitimate if the team can continue its success away from Cambridge. The Crimson won’t have to wait long to see what it’s made of: the road stretch begins tomorrow in Ithaca against Cornell, who shares the league’s top spot with Harvard. Night to night, the Crimson is finding a different way to win, whether it’s getting a last-minute jumper to beat Penn one day, then blowing out Princeton the next...
...wakeup call for the defending league champions. After Cornell kept pace with Harvard’s two wins with a Princeton-Penn sweep on the road, the two teams are tied atop the Ancient Eight standings with matching 5-1 records. The Crimson now faces a key stretch of Ivy games on the road, with a showdown in Ithaca coming Friday night before a trip to New York City to face Columbia.“We realized that we can’t play the way we played the first 20 minutes and expect to be Ivy League champions?...
...Crimson shot just 22 percent from the floor and logged one assist against eight turnovers, while Brown converted field goals at a 56 percent clip. The team’s youngsters, most notably Blankenau and Fitzgerald, helped to keep the deficit in the 20-point range down the stretch. “We dug ourselves a deep hole—I was pleased with the kids who played part of the minutes in the second half,” Amaker said. “I thought they battled and competed and showed some life and some signs of valuing their...