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...back to Dec. 1. “My focus is allowing our team to have the right mindset and the right spirit,” coach Tommy Amaker said. “There is no better way to do that than to get your first conference win.” The Crimson built a first-half lead with crisp passing that set up high-percentage looks at the basket inside. Big Green leading scorer Alex Barnett poured in Dartmouth’s first six points to keep his team within range in the early going, but the Harvard frontcourt responded...
...second-half run fell just short for the Harvard women’s basketball team Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion, as the Crimson started its Ivy League title defense with a tough 52-47 loss to rival Dartmouth. Despite the comeback effort, Harvard’s poor first-half display, in which it shot just 8-for-29 and turned the ball over 14 times, spelled its first league loss in nearly a year. “We’re a much better team than we showed tonight,” junior forward Katie Rollins said. Last year...
...great energy, emotion and execution in the first half.” Harvard did come out strong, taking the lead just over a minute into the game and holding it for the next 38 minutes. Strong defense and balanced scoring were the keys to the Crimson’s first-half success, and junior forward Evan Harris added a breakaway dunk to please the home crowd. Harvard received double-doubles from Lin (20 points, career-high 13 rebounds) and Magnarelli (17 points, 12 rebounds), while Harris added 15 points and eight rebounds off the bench. “[Magnarelli...
...very talented, but our forwards need to step up and do a better job.”The Crimson kept pace with Vermont in the first half, shooting above 40 percent for the period to head into the locker room down by only five points. But first-half free-throw shooting was a problem once again for Harvard, which made just two of eight freebies in the opening frame of its 78-64 loss to Providence on Dec. 5 at Lavietes Pavilion. “We played pretty poorly in the first half, but were still able to compete...
...thought [a win] was in reach,” Delaney-Smith said about her team’s first-half effort. “I thought that BU’s system wasn’t working for them. They were capitalizing on our defensive errors. I thought that if we could minimize or get rid of our defensive errors, I felt we would do a better...