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This past weekend, the Crimson traveled to Yale for its best shot of the season at realizing its division-title aspirations: four games against the then-two-games-up Elis. Harvard lost the first three badly and then, with all hopes of even splitting the series down the tubes, pulled...
And Yale is on the way down. After two quick wins, the Elis are in the midst of the first mini-slump of their season with straight two losses. With a 7-3 run of their own, Yale is keeping just above .500 overall with an 11-10 mark.
This theme has painfully resonated throughout the season, as game after game Harvard has played well for teasingly most of 40 minutes. Against the Elis, the Crimson was once again in the game until the lapse came.
In that outing, the Elis capitalized on a string of Harvard turnovers to turn a deficit into a eight point lead that they would never relinquish with a little over eight minutes to play. That Yale victory ended a nine-game Harvard winning streak against the hated Elis.
The Crimson shot only 38.5 percent (25-65) from the field against Yale and went 0-9 during the Elis' fateful second-half run. Yale, a more physical team, shot 46.2 percent (24-52) from the floor.