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Brian Cusworth has 18 games left to show the league, foreign teams, and himself just what he is capable of achieving on the court.No matter how well he plays, regardless of whether or not he finally becomes the game-changing dynamo that Crimson coach Frank Sullivan envisioned when he recruited the rangy seven-footer out of the John Burroughs School in St. Louis five years ago, Cusworth will not be in uniform when the Crimson men’s basketball team opens up the stretch drive of its Ivy League schedule at home against Columbia on February 2. By that...
...Crimson again led late—this time by six with under a minute to play—but a series of turnovers and clutch Princeton shots set up a buzzer-beating jumper by guard Noah Savage which gave the Tigers a 60-59 win. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan called it at the time “Not only the most heartbreaking loss of the season, but in awhile.”“We were crestfallen after the two buzzer beaters,” Sullivan adds in a recent interview. “They really took...
...most disappointing finish in school history. “At this time last year there was a lot of energy, a lot of hype, a lot of excitement about the return of Matt and Brian, because of their scoring, for their rebounding,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan says. “I think at the end we all realized this is a guard-dominated league, always was, always will be. You have to be solid at the one, two, and three spots.” An analysis of the Ivy League’s guard orientation must begin...
After watching his team endure a total collapse at the end of last year, Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank Sullivan spent his off-season trying to right the ship. He put together a recruiting class ripe with sharp-shooting guards and slashing swingmen, and also worked on developing the pieces returning to the Crimson fold. But with key veterans leaving, diplomas in hand, and the shocking and untimely loss of highly-touted recruit Tomas Balcetis due to a heart condition, many questions still remain unanswered for the Crimson. One gaping hole in particular is the three position...
...very good plus-minus numbers—that is, the difference in how many points the team scores compared to how much the opponent scores when the player is on the court. “Brad had a terrific game off the bench,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “When he was on the court, he was plus seven, so that was a big boost in the frontcourt. In the backcourt, Jeremy was plus eight, so that was very encouraging. But I think it will still be a work in progress sorting...