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...thing the Crimson will likely not be confronted with defensively throughout the remainder of the Ivy slate is the zone defense it saw against Brown. Largely aimed at clogging the interior passing lanes and bogging down post players with help defense, zone defenses are weakest at the perimeters and are vulnerable to the probes of a pure jump shooter, as Goffredo taught the Bears on Saturday...
...tying the 10th best showing in Harvard history). Fast-forward to Saturday night’s game against Brown. Goffredo entered as the league’s leading scorer, averaging 21 points through Harvard’s first three Ivy games. Still, the Bears chose to stick with their zone in order to shut down Stehle and Cusworth. They wouldn’t let the preseason players of the year beat them. So, the current player of the year did.After the Crimson jumped out to a 19-9 lead with 7:52 left in the half, Brown center Mark McDonald...
...have in him handling these situations. I think he showed some resiliency today, and certainly when guys make shots your assists go up.” Housman and Goffredo’s two-man game in the first half was aided by Brown’s 2-3 zone defense, which was designed to collapse upon the interior to prevent captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth from hurting the smaller Bears inside. While the zone didn’t slow down Stehle, who finished with 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting, it allowed Goffredo to find open...
...through. It tipped off of Watters and then hit me in the arm or the butt or something. Then it went in.” Dan Murphy scored his team-leading tenth goal of the season at 7:25 in the third when he skated into the RPI zone and fired a shot past Lange as he was being dragged down.Charlie Johnson finished the scoring for the Crimson when he took a pass from Kevin Du through the crease and poked it in. Johnson’s fourth goal of the season came at 9:36 of the final period...
...reasons you go to zone is to stop the inside play," Goffredo said. "Towards the end of the half the big guys did a great job of setting screens on the outside players-Matt set a couple of great screens and I got wide open looks in the corner...