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STORRS, Conn.—Yesterday’s showdown at No. 9 UConn was the Harvard women’s soccer team’s first chance to test itself against a top-10 team. Thanks to the cancellation of the Sept. 16 game at No. 4 Penn State, the showdown at Storrs became the Crimson’s toughest challenge of the regular season...
Costello and the Crimson frontrunners will need to solve a UConn defense—led by Big East Goalkeeper of the Week Shanna Caldwell and Big East Defensive Player of the Week Casey Zimny—that has given up just one goal in its last four games. Against Princeton, Harvard scored just one goal on 21 shots...
...victory over UConn is no longer crucial in terms of securing an NCAA first-round bye, since there are no byes now that the tournament has expanded to 64 teams. But starting this year, only the top sixteen seeds get to host first and second-round games, so regional battles such as Harvard vs. UConn still have high stakes...
...UConn game has been critical in determining the team’s fate each of the past two seasons. In 1999, Harvard’s victory over UConn—its first since 1981—propelled the Crimson to a top regional ranking and a first-round...
...Crimson, like this year’s squad, was set to play UConn following the end of an eight-game win streak. Harvard lost its second straight game to the Huskies and went on to lose three more...