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Picture this:A bunch of renegade Penn fans storm the quiet town of Princeton, N.J. on a mission. They round up all the members of the 2005-2006 Tigers basketball team and lock them in a little room somewhere in the cavernous expanses of Jadwin Gym. Then, the Quaker faithful hire all of the members of the 2002-2003 Columbia team—the one that went 2-25 overall and 0-14 in the Ivies—to pose as Princeton players for the duration of the season.At the first practice in the fall, Princeton coach Joe Scott doesn?...
With half the season left, Penn was a full three games clear in the loss column, and the focus shifted to RPI and possible first-round NCAA matchups...
...game exhibition series preceding the Nagano Olympics seeded the hostilities. In one game, Granato and Wickenheiser engaged in a high-sticking duel. Then Wickenheiser and Ruggiero squared off to fight. By the time the teams reached Nagano, tension had reached Mount Fuji heights. In an otherwise meaningless first-round game, a flurry of illegal body checks-open-ice hitting is not allowed in the women's game-resulted in 48 penalty minutes. U.S.A. rallied from 1-4 in the third period for a 7-4 victory, setting the stage for its gold-medal upset...
...Even the wave herself knows that history becomes meaningless once the puck drops in the gold-medal round. "It comes down to one game, and any team can win that game," says Wickenheiser. "Even if we haven't seen their best, we know what they are capable of, and we fully respect that. We focus on ourselves, on our team, on playing our kind of hockey." Canadian-American hockey. Don't forget your mouth guards, ladies. You will need them...
...makes us so much more versatile,” McCaffery said. “We’ve had some strong post players, but never so many who are that strong on the inside. That’s something we’ll start to see in the second round of Ivies. People will be really scared of our post game and that will open up things on the perimeter.”—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...