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...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...
...when Penn scored five straight down the stretch, and Drew Housman missed a tough potential game-tying three-pointer with five seconds left, that confidence turned to dismay, knowing that the streak of futility would go on. The saving grace was that the Crimson would get another shot at breaking another streak the next night at Princeton...
...close 2-7 loss to No. 5 Trinity (12-2) Wednesday evening in Hartford, Conn. The Bantams were the first top-5 team that the Crimson had faced after a relatively soft early season schedule. With the loss, Harvard fell from the ranks of the unbeaten with the toughest stretch of the season still ahead. “With exams and shopping period, I felt we were a little slow out of blocks,” head coach Satinder Bajwa said. “But I am proud of the team and how they played. I felt...