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Senior Elliott Prasse-Freeman impressed by scoring 20 first-half points, but the entire Harvard team couldn’t muster much more than that in the second frame, suffering its fifth consecutive defeat to Yale, 73-68, Saturday evening...
...against Princeton a night earlier, Sullivan shuffled through different rotations in the first half. None particularly worked. One first-half lineup had Prasse-Freeman at the point, joined by sophomore guards Kevin Rogus and Jason Norman with Brian Cusworth and Sam Winter up front. That lineup produced two turnovers and two airballs in four consecutive possessions...
Penn’s Koko Archibong hadn’t seen daylight down low in the first twenty minutes against the Crimson Saturday night, but drilled a 23-footer 20 seconds after halftime. Harvard senior Sam Winter coughed the ball up on the ensuing possession, and the Quakers swung the ball around to an unguarded Jeff Schiffner. The shot fell. Just like that, the gains of a gritty, late first-half run by the Crimson had all but vanished. A six-point deficit had ballooned back to double-digits...
...free throws to give Harvard a late lead against Princeton. Nor was there any Palestra-induced hesitation in Jason Norman when—for a two-minute stretch, anyway—he became a profile of cornrowed fury, throwing down breakaway dunks on consecutive possessions to spark a first-half rally that kept the game close...
...holdover from that game in 1999 could be the difference-maker tonight. Harvey was a freshman reserve on the 1998-99 team, deploying his trademark running floater during a first-half Harvard spurt that helped lift the Crimson to victory. After taking a year off before his sophomore campaign, he’s been one of the league’s most prolific scorers. Despite being slowed by a foot injury and the massive attention paid to him by most opposing defenses, he’s looked more like his First Team All-Ivy self in recent games. He?...