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...John Baumann and Ben Nwachukwu anchor the Ivy League’s best frontcourt (a lot of good that did Harvard last year) and there are a number of nice options on the perimeter as well, most notably the Japanese sharpshooter ace K.J. Matsui. Try to avoid calling those three-point makes “bombs...
...senior forwards Mark Zoller, a first-team All Ivy selection last year, and Steve Danley.Stopping the notorious Princeton offense will require patience and excellent fundamental defense from the Crimson, especially on the perimeter—an area where they struggled mightily last year, finishing seventh in the Ivies in three-point field goal percentage defense.A season full of statement games will force Harvard’s youngsters to grow up quickly and send a message to the other Ivies: we are better than our preseason No. 7 league ranking. Beating Penn and Princeton would prove that, and enact a measure...
...league finishes in both three-point field goal percentage and percentage defense. “We’ve looked all summer at our defensive principles in terms of how we guard the three-point line,” Sullivan says. “Were we giving up threes because of the fast break? Were we giving up threes because of screening? Were we giving up threes because of penetration and pitching? Was it extra passing, was it slow rotation? Turns out [it was] a little bit of everything.”The Crimson simply had no answer...
...from the start of his junior year. This past season, Goffredo exploded onto the Ivy radar when he tallied an Ivy League season-best 33 points in the team’s first Ivy game, a win over Dartmouth. En route to finishing second on the team in points and first with a 14.9 ppg average, he was a constant threat from long range, Only Cornell’s Adam Gore had more three-point field goals than Goffredo’s 62 among Ivy shooters.But with great skill comes great defensive pressure.As last season’s conference schedule...
...lead the Terriers in scoring in his first collegiate game. More than half of BU’s points came from three-pointers. The Terriers made 10 of 27 long range attempts against the Colonials. In last year’s game, BU made 61.5% of its threes, going 8 for 13 from beyond the arch. Last year, the Crimson had a hard time behind the arc-- it ranked seventh in the Ivy League last year in three-point field goal defense, allowing opponents to shoot 36.8 percent from downtown. Vast improvement was shown against Maine. Going up against...