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Appropriate and clutch. Harvard's 6-0 sweep of singles against the Tigers gives the 13th-ranked Crimson an excellent shot at snaring an at-large bid tomorrow for the upcoming NCAA tournament. Harvard's hopes for an Eastern Regional bid in the tourney were dashed last week when the team lost, 6-3, to streaking West Virginia, which had just come off an upset of sixth-ranked Miami. Crimson Coach Dave Fish is optimistic, however, that his team will receive the bid on Thursday...
...Crimson received the top seed in the national tourney, earning a bye from first-round action this Saturday. Maryland, which dropped an 11-10 decision to Harvard last month, received the other free pass to the Final Four in Princeton, N.J., with the number-two ranking...
...Harvard beats Yale, the two schools would be co-champs of the toughest conference in Division I tax. The Crimson, rather than the Bulldogs, would probably be the idle team on May 16--the opening date of the NCAA tourney...
...aptly dubbed Black Course, widely regarded as one of the toughest public courses in the country, was murder on the Crimson, who finished only above cellar-dweller Brown in the eight-school tourney. Yale easily captured the Ivy title, with its five players tallying a team score of 945 for the 54 holes...
...Crimson fully expects to trip up against top-seeded Slippery Rock in the 23-game tourney featuring the top eight Eastern collegiate squads and three club teams. But Hafferty thinks his inexperienced team can pose a threat to second-seeded Michigan, which it plays today at 4:30 p.m. Harvard also plays Maryland today...