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After being upset by Ivy basement-dweller Penn the following week, the Crimson returned to Cambridge for its last and most historic home game. Backed by timely scoring and a solid performance by emerging starter Krieger in the cage, Harvard upset Princeton, 11-8—its first win against the Tigers since 1990. The win put the Crimson back in the postseason picture, granting Harvard a win-and-in scenario with one game left at archrival Yale...
...Cambridge on the heels of a 6-8-2 season, Harvard’s seniors never once failed to reach the NCAA tournament during their careers. When the team started to fall off track, with a 4-0 loss to then-No. 17 UConn and a 2-1 upset by unranked Princeton, it was the seniors who set the team straight...
...race for the Ivy title. When Harvard’s six-game winning streak was snapped by Wake Forest, the Crimson didn’t miss a beat in its following games, when the team tied Cornell and rallied to knock off then-No. 15 Brown. And when an upset loss to Princeton threatened to dismantle the team’s Ivy title hopes, Harvard responded by going undefeated for the rest of the regular season to capture the crown. Throughout the year, the Crimson athletes played with confidence, speed, and teamwork, demonstrating on the field the kind of chemistry...
...students who marketed the games to the student body. The women’s basketball program never had students fighting to get tickets to its games. Furthermore, women’s basketball has won at least a share of 11 Ivy League championships in its history, including a devastating upset of No. 1 seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament. Men’s basketball has yet to win even one title. Not to mention that women’s basketball only became a varsity sport at Harvard 20 years after the men. So where’s the love...
Many representatives feared the drama of the election had significantly damaged the UC’s reputation. Some were especially upset because they felt the events did not reflect the current Council, but were rather a product of former members who had been involved in the “partisan politics of last year,” according to Antunes...