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The Crimson entered the game best in the Ivy League in overall scoring, but it certainly had its best defensive effort of the season against the Highlanders. NJIT’s 53 points was the lowest total allowed all season, and Harvard held the Highlanders to 36% from the field...
So far, says Shah, authorities have been "passive," favoring only "defensive measures" such as checkpoints - the layers of concrete blocks and razor wire at the entrance of each of Pakistan's major cities and athwart all their major thoroughfares, where a handful of policemen peek into vehicles and perfunctorily inspect...
But Harvard settled down in its defensive zone and then took to the attack. The Crimson cut the deficit in half 11:45 into the first, when senior forward Anna McDonald scored off of junior Ashley Wheeler’s assist.
“A tremendous defensive effort, I thought,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “To be able to hold them to [47 points] and then the shooting percentage…I was very pleased with that.”
In one defensive stretch midway through the second half, co-captain Jeremy Lin stole the ball four times in five possessions. The senior finished with six steals in the game.