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...blinders don't come with the business cards at TIME.com, so it's only fair to remind ourselves that college sports are rife with greed and hypocrisy, and that gambling is a big attraction to the tourney. But that's not why most people will be glued to the tube, apart from an innocuous $5 office pool. They'll watch for the right reasons...
However, the current standings have the Crimson in a perilous place--fighting for the fourth and final tourney spot. The lack of any automatic bids this year through the conference tournaments makes each game crucially important...
...this odd year of random goings-on. Will Harvard continue in the tradition of the 1945-46 team and finish without back-to-back losses? Will the Crimson upset Penn and Princeton and make it to the Big Dance like their old counterparts? Can Harvard, once in the tourney, ride the March Madness all the way to a National Championship...
While Harvard has a chance to be the Gonzaga of this year's tourney, last year it was the women's soccer equivalent of Duke or Michigan State. The 1999 Crimson won 14 games in the regular season, soared as high as seventh in the national polls, and received a first-round bye in the tournament. But Harvard was upset in the first round by Boston College...
...Year Diana Caramanico, a threat to Allison Feaster's '98 conference scoring record. Defending league champion Dartmouth returns last year's Ivy Rookie of the Year Katherine Hanks. But the graduation of Penn's Mandy West, Dartmouth's Courtney Banghart and Harvard's Sturdy leaves the automatic NCAA tourney bid up for grabs...