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Good News—The Crimson played the toughest schedule in its region by far. The seven losses are against teams with a combined win percentage of 75 percent. Only three of its opponents thus far—BU, Brown, and Vermont—are below .500. Harvard has wins against Ivy auto-qualifier Princeton and likely Northeast Conference champion Central Connecticut State...
...News—Harvard’s only victory over a current top-20 team is against No. 19 BU, who barely belongs in the top 20, anyway. A head-to-head loss to Boston College could loom large since the two teams were fairly comparable prior to that defeat. Harvard has a worse record against common opponents than Iowa, another bubble team...
...tandem finished eighth and ninth in the final two races, which allowed boats from BU and Dartmouth to sneak ahead of Harvard in a tightly contested division...
Harvard has typically had stronger nonconference wins to its credit. Last year the Crimson beat both NCAA qualifying Boston University and Hartford. This year, Harvard lost to Hartford and beat BU, but the Terriers are sub-.500 this year. That hurts because primary selection criteria include record against teams already selected for the tournament and teams under consideration...
...Crimson played well defensively, as it allowed BU just two shots on goal, both of them on corners in the second half...