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...first half saw Harvard play perhaps its best basketball of the season in jumping to the 14-point lead. The Crimson, which led by as many as 19 points in the first frame, emphasized its transition game--getting defensive boards, outletting well and playing an up-tempo style...
Alone on the stage at Mama Kin's Music Hall, lead singer and songwriter Mark Kozelek opened the performance with a stirring, acoustic cover of the uplifting Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy." Characteristically, though, he slowed its traditionally buoyant tempo to a wistful drawl, and altered the inflection of his voice so as to awaken the song's theme from idyllic celebration into a brewing confusion, questioning, and loss. What does Christ's ready-made love actually mean? And what's to be done now with these damned drums...
...stretch, it was bad. In the first half, Harvard only held a one-rebound edge (22-21) to a team whose entire starting frontcourt was 6'4". Nevertheless, the Beavers--an up-tempo team that lives and dies with the outside shot--did a good job of slipping through the spread-out Harvard defense and fighting for contested balls...
After an uncharacteristically careless first half, the seventh-ranked Crimson (15-1-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) woke up and returned to form, punishing the outclassed Hawks (8-12-0) with two sparkling scoring strikes in the opening minutes of the second and then controlling the tempo of the game with solid play in the midfield and persistence on the attack...
...first half, however, UConn controlled most of the tempo, coming awfully close to scoring a number of times in the first seven minutes before Harvard was able to settle its defense down. But the Huskies later scored the first goal of the game on a penalty corner, when sophomore Jessica Inteman lifted the pass from Meredith Kirk-patrick into the chest of freshman goalie Anya Cowan, who deflected the ball in front...