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One factor aiding Clarkson in its quest for a slow tempo will be the television timeouts, which result in automatic stoppages at the 16-, 12- and 8-minute marks. Harvard rarely plays televised games, and the unusual stoppages could disrupt the Crimson’s fast-paced rhythm.
Indeed, Indonesia's war on terror has not been vigorously fought on every front. Take, for example, the mysterious case of Parlindungan Siregar. According to an Indonesian intelligence report obtained by TIME, he was a senior instructor at an al-Qaeda training camp 10 km outside Poso, on the island...
The odds are against Harvard winning at Lake Placid and earning an automatic NCAA berth. Even if the Crimson gets by a solid Clarkson squad, it would likely have to play Cornell in the final, by far the best team in the conference.
RPI rankings have been a remarkably good predictor of seeding in the lower quarter of the bracket. In the last two years, out of the 32 automatic qualifiers picked to fill the bottom quarter of the bracket, only three earned a seed worse than their RPI-projected seed.
So judging by the success of these projections, Harvard’s potential to be a No. 13 seed is high. As of Thursday morning, there were still four conferences—other than the eight previously mentioned—with no potential automatic qualifiers with an RPI above Harvard?...