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Harvard has struggled against its reputation in the attempt to recruit talent strong enough to consistently challenge tradition-rich Penn and Princeton for the Ivy League title. Ten years ago, however, coach Frank Sullivan nearly landed a player who would have surely brought several banners to Lavietes Pavilion and helped land Cambridge on the major college basketball...
Wally Szczerbiak, the starting small forward of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, was extremely close to attending Harvard in 1995. Sullivan was one of the chief wooers of the 6’7 scoring machine from Cold Spring Harbor High School on Long Island...
...player of that caliber would have been huge,” Sullivan said. “He’s an interesting guy in that he wasn’t highly recruited. He wasn’t Wally Szczerbiak then...
...This was a very skilled player, with a wonderful family,” said Sullivan, who made a recruiting trip to Szczerbiak’s home during his senior year. “He had a good initial feeling about Harvard. [His family] understood Harvard—usually when you go recruiting you have to introduce Harvard, [but] his family welcomed Harvard as an option...
...would be huge, [but] it doesn’t happen as much,” Sullivan said of a player like Szczerbiak choosing an Ivy school. “You see more peer pressure than we’ve ever had to make decisions to go to the highest level of basketball. Ten years ago, it was a little bit different. Kids wanted to be pioneers—you weren’t as saturated with the big dance and the media attention that Division I college basketball has gotten...