Notebooks
NOTEBOOK: Men's Lacrosse Comes Up Just Short Against Duke
The Crimson (4-5, 1-1 Ivy) entered Saturday night’s contest at Soldiers Field looking to upset the No. 10/12 team in the nation for the first time in four seasons. With a controlled attack and a few key stops, Harvard came oh-so-close to its first signature win of the season in front of a nationally-televised audience.
NOTEBOOK: Chambers Returns to Form
With 21 seconds on the clock on Saturday night, point guard Siyani Chambers closed the door on his first Ivy League season, clinching his first conference title and NCAA tournament berth.
NOTEBOOK: Hummer Does It All For Princeton
Princeton senior Ian Hummer sat for only three minutes in Friday night’s contest against Harvard. Two of those minutes were in the first half—if his opening period statistics were adjusted to put him on the floor for those 120 missed seconds, Hummer would have been just about one point short of a double-double before intermission. Instead, the forward went for eight points and eight rebounds in the first period, the latter figure already 2.4 boards better than his season average.
NOTEBOOK: Men's Basketball Wins Battle Of Cold-Shooting Teams
At times, the Harvard men’s basketball team’s performance on Friday night seemed to leave the door open for a potential upset that would have shaken up the Ivy standings. But just as soon as Brown had capitalized on a Crimson dry spell to cut its deficit to six in the second half, the Bears’ self-destructive play prevented them from making things interesting.
NOTEBOOK: Spearheaded By Two Bigs, Harvard Slips Past Princeton
When Princeton came into Lavietes Pavilion on Saturday night, the game not only featured a match-up of the two tops teams in the league, but also the conference’s two top players—Harvard’s Wesley Saunders and the Tigers’ Ian Hummer.
NOTEBOOK: Smith's Near-Triple Double Leads Harvard Past Penn
On a night when most of the Ivy basketball world was looking ahead to Saturday, the Harvard men’s basketball team made sure it took care of business at home on Friday night first. The Crimson (14-7, 6-1 Ivy) cruised to an easy victory over Penn (5-18, 2-4) at Lavietes Pavilion—its first stress-free win of conference play thus far—to set up a much-anticipated contest against Princeton on Saturday that will place one of those two teams alone atop Ivy standings midway through the conference season.
Art for the Ages
This week, FM emailed professors to find out which artistic work in their field they think most shaped history.
NOTEBOOK: Despite Loss, Beanpot Provides Positives for Harvard
In this year’s Beanpot championship, Harvard found itself in a similar position. Heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Crimson was losing, 8-0, despite six hits and only one fielding error.
NOTEBOOK: Early BU Lead Too Much For Women's Hockey to Handle
The first-round Beanpot matchup between the No. 7/8 Harvard women’s hockey team and crosstown rival Boston University was expected to be a physical one.
A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN
A 37-20 victory over two-time defending league champion Penn Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium gave the Crimson its 14th Ancient Eight title with one week remaining in the 2011 schedule.
NOTEBOOK: Chapple Stakes Claim to Starting Job
It appears as if Harvard senior quarterback Collier Winters may have been “Wally Pipped.”
Crimson Readies for League Opener
With the Crimson’s Ivy League opener against Yale on Saturday in New Haven, Junot emphasized maintaining a strong game plan as a key goal of this matchup in preparation for the weekend.
Experimentation Pays Off for Leone
The women’s soccer team’s preseason made it clear that Harvard coach Ray Leone had some kinks to work out.
Backup QB Chapple Shines as Starter
Colton Chapple did not know that he was definitely playing until right before kickoff of Friday night’s Ivy home opener ...
Crusaders Unveil Harvard Weaknesses
For the first five minutes of the game, it felt like it was all Holy Cross. For the rest of the first quarter, Harvard held all the momentum and looked to be running away with the game. But with 17 points in the second quarter, the Crusaders controlled the afternoon from then on.
