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STORRS, Conn.—Harvard had been getting closer and closer to beating Connecticut in recent years. Two years ago when UConn was ranked No. 1 in the country, the Crimson played the Huskies to a one-goal game, and one year ago, the Harvard-UConn contest was tied at one up until the final five minutes...
...UConn team the Crimson faced yesterday was also a bit downgraded from last year. The Huskies graduated two All-Americans and returned just one senior. Granted, the Crimson lost its own All-American in co-captain Maisa Badawy ’01, fellow co-captain Liz Sarles ’01 and its leading goal-scorer in Kate Nagle ’01. But considering how Harvard out-seniored UConn by six-to-one, it seemed as if there ever was a chance for Harvard to win at Storrs, where the Huskies are 69-6 all-time, this...
There’s no reason to get too worked up about yesterday’s defeat. It was a non-conference game. It was a Wednesday afternoon game following a several-day layoff. Harvard’s 1-2 start thus far, beating Vermont, and losing to UConn and New Hampshire, is on par with last season. Beating UConn was not the primary goal of the Crimson’s season...
...Eventually, however, the goals stopped coming and Harvard was whitewashed in its next three games, losing to Penn State, UConn and Dartmouth. The loss to the Big Green sent then-No. 11 Harvard plummeting in the rankings, but more importantly, it crippled the Crimson's chances at defending its 1999 Ivy championship...
...point, right? If Duke could lose to UConn in 1999 despite being 15 point favorites, no sane person can predict with little more than a hunch who will be dancing on the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome court three Monday nights from...