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...performance against teams with RPIs at or above .500 (i.e. teams under consideration) and the team’s RPI itself (a combination of a team’s winning percentage and the winning percentage of the teams it faces). Bonus points are awarded for “good wins?? with the exact amount of the bonus (which is a closely kept secret each year) varying according to whether the win occurred at home, on a neutral site, or on the road...
...perhaps the coaches went with the old “Give the Award to the Best Player on the Team That Wins?? thing. That philosophy is all well and good for a player of the game or series award, but not for a player of the year award. The player of the year, or MVP, award should go to the best player of a competitive team. Thus Tom Brady did not win the NFL MVP even though his team owned the best record and went on to win the Super Bowl. But Steve McNair and Peyton Manning shared...
...poised to do just that. After defeating Cornell 81-78 Saturday night in a back-and-forth game, which saw five lead changes or ties in the final five minutes and the biggest lead at any time only amount to seven points, the team now has as many league wins??three—as the 2002-’03 squad did at this point last season
...coincidentally, two of Johnson’s goals this season came in one of the Crimson’s biggest wins??a 5-3 victory over nationally-ranked UMass in December. While comeback victories at Union and at Yale were important in the context of Harvard’s struggles this season, the team’s wins over UMass and BU (and its solid performance in two losses to Boston College, the No. 1 team in the land) ended the Crimson’s well-documented reputation of folding in the face of non-conference foes...
...Crimson (2-1) took second place behind the Bears (4-0) at this past weekend’s season opening Ivy League Tournament at Yale, losing in the championship game 8-1. The loss came after two Harvard wins??a decisive 9-3 victory over Yale and a 17-4 trouncing of Cornell, respectively— on Saturday...