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...August 2000, Bhargava recalls, shuddering at the site's initial reliability problems. The breakthrough came a year later, when the company hired a well-known poker player, Mike Sexton. He came up with a gimmick that got gamblers' attention: a $1 million first-place prize for an all-comers tournament...
Szczerbiak got plenty of media attention while leading the RedHawks to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament in 1999. After scoring 24 points a game in his senior season at Miami, he averaged 30 in the tournament to lead all scorers, and was selected by the Timberwolves with the sixth pick of the 1999 draft...
...cannot say whether Szczerbiak would have taken Harvard that deep into the NCAA tournament. It is likely, however, that just one tournament appearance would lead to higher profile recruits and greater goals. The Crimson narrowly missed out on a player who would have helped build a program strong enough to punch through the massive barrier separating Penn and Princeton from the rest of the league...
While Harvard has never won the Ivy title, it has participated in the NCAA tournament. After posting a 19-1 regular season mark—still the school record for most wins in a season—during the 1945-46 campaign, the Crimson earned a berth in the tourney, but lost both of its contests to Ohio State...
...That’s the only thing I remember.”* * *Holsey’s basketball dreams never burned so brightly as they did during her freshman year at Harvard. The Crimson was well on its way to a perfect Ivy League season and an NCAA Tournament bid. Holsey was doing her part, averaging 15 minutes per game in early action, and even saw significant floor time in a 79-76 stunner of Syracuse, her first collegiate game. She drained two three-pointers and finished with nine points. Her season, and her budding career, soon went sour. Against Yale...