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Harvard made quick work of Holy Cross in the best-of-three series, sweeping the Crusaders, 7-4 and 6-0, and the Crimson entered the Regionals riding an 11-game winning streak, the third longest in the nation at the time. Harvard was seeded fourth of four teams in Region 5 and traveled to Amherst, Mass. to square off against top-seed and No. 7 Oklahoma in the first round of the double-elimination Regional...
...Crimson traveled to Palo Alto as the 16th seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament to face the No. 1-seeded and fifth-ranked Stanford Cardinal on its home court in the first round...
...dominant 35-point, 13-rebound effort from co-captain and Kodak All-American Allison Feaster, Harvard became the first 16th seed in the history of the men's or women's NCAA Tournament to defeat a No. 1 seed, stunning Stanford to the tune of a 71-67 upset in front of a live television audience on ESPN. With one night's work, Harvard entered the realm of prime-time college athletics behind an emphatic and deafening charge whose effects are still resonating nearly three months later and probably will continue to do so for many months to come...
...Crimson's accomplishment cannot be overstated. Simply put, it made national history. Even if another 16 seed comes along one day and duplicates the feat, Harvard was still the first. Moreover, the likelihood of another non-scholarship school matching the Crimson's achievement is slim, at best...
...Harvard's historic win did not come easily. Despite an impressive 9-2 pre-conference record and a third consecutive outright Ivy League Championship--the first Ivy team ever to win three consecutive outright titles--the Crimson was given a 16 seed for the second straight year. And despite leading by as many as 12 points in the first half versus Stanford, Harvard found itself trailing by three with under three minutes to play, and it seemed as though the Crimson's threat of an upset would remain just that--a threat...