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...This season, with some tough road wins at UNH, Dartmouth, and of course, over then-No. 24 Boston College, the road monkey is off the team’s proverbial back...
...Penn as the Quakers took a huge game between teams hoping for the Ivy League crown. With the game knotted up 56-56, Rosen faked and drove to the hoop to draw a foul from Lin. Rosen hit both shots and his Harvard counterpart, Oliver McNally, had a tough jumper barely rim out, which Penn forward Cameron Lewis tied up for a jump-ball with the possession arrow in his team’s favor. After a time out, the Quakers ran a perfect play as soon as the ball was passed in, with Rosen finding a wide-open Eggleston...
...stop. With the exception of a ten-second violation forced by Housman and two missed free throws, Princeton scored on every trip down court to close out the contest. It posted a 23-15 run to finish the game.“They hit some tough shots, it wasn’t a lack of effort,” Housman said. “We need to improve on our communication. They confused us.”It was disappointing for the Crimson, which lost despite correcting its major flaws from the night before. Against Penn, Harvard struggled with turnovers...
...score, I’m more concerned with the effort, but we didn’t compete hard.”Junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor echoed his coach’s assessment, making a note of the need for improvement.“It was tough outing,” he said. “Everything that could have gone wrong did, and we just wrestled poorly. We’re going to try to put [the BU match] behind us very quickly.”The Crimson did pick up two wins, but suffered four...
...thought overall our defense did a good job of eliminating the real quality scoring chances,” Donato said. “I thought [Union] generated some good shots, but I thought we did a pretty good job of not allowing second or third shots from tough areas...