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Princeton's remaining league games are against last-place Pennsylvania, seventh-place Dartmouth and now third-place Harvard, affording the Tigers a legitimate shot at becoming the first undefeated Ivy League champion since their 1975-76 version ripped through the league. Princeton, which moved up to number 21 in this week's Associated Press college basketball top 25, has the third-best overall record (20-2) of those teams ranked, and the second-longest winning streak (12) in the nation, second only to the number-one ranked UNLV Runnin' Rebels...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: It's A Princeton 'Three-Peat' | 2/26/1991 | See Source »

...College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) chose Veneziano's 1987-88 men's basketball preview as the second-best season preview in their writing contest and voted his lead to that story as the third-best in the nation...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Veneziano Named Harvard SID | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...keep going over it in my head," Kingston said, "it's just incredible. We give up only two trys in seven games, none Saturday, and yet, we're only the third-best team in New England...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: S. Connecticut Cools Off Hot Ruggers, 3-0 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...tough for the team to swallow this," Kingston said. "It's tough for us to say we are the third-best team in New England when we gave up only two trys in seven games. All of this would have been much easier to accept if we had lost 20-0 instead...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: S. Connecticut Cools Off Hot Ruggers, 3-0 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Quarterback: Tom was terrific even in defeat. Last week against the University of Massachusetts, Tom Yohe completed 20 of 36 passes for 312 yards, the third-best passing day in Harvard history. He is second on the team in rushing with 65 yards. He can do it all. Sometimes, as against UMass, he is forced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

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