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...roughly equal points in the schedule (the second week of January), the difference between the 2002-2003 Crimson and this season’s incarnation is striking. Harvard stood 11-3 in conference play a year ago; this year the team is struggling to stay afloat in the ECAC at 6-7-1. Last year’s team was neck-and-neck with Cornell for the top seed in the playoffs; this year’s squad is hoping to have home ice in the first round...
Gone, realistically, are thoughts of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Gone, most likely, is a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs. But thoughts of postseason play should be removed from Harvard’s thought process. Before anything else, the Crimson needs to find a way to start winning games. The talent is there, undeniably, but the intensity is there only occasionally, in fits and in starts...
...Harvard would be fighting for a spot in the NCAA tournament. Instead, the Crimson’s 8-9-2 overall record has all but ended its chances at an at-large NCAA bid, and the team has only an outside chance at a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, awarded to the league’s top four teams...
Harvard enters the exam break in a tie for third place in the ECAC at 6-7-1 (13 points). However, it has played 14 conference games this season—the most in the league—and several schools (front-runners Cornell and Dartmouth included) have only played eight...
...most ECAC seasons, that is good enough for about seventh place, meaning the Crimson would miss a first-round bye and need to win two best-of-three series—one of them on the road—to make the ECAC Final Four...