When it comes to the Crimson’s scoring depth, the conversation has to start with sophomore center Tyler Moy—one of the most unconventional members of the Harvard men's ice hockey team.
When fourth-year defenseman Patrick McNally went down with a right leg injury in January, the Harvard men's ice hockey team's season took a turn for the worse. But sparked by the top-pair blue liner's improbable return to the ice prior to the Crimson's ECAC tournament quarterfinal series against Yale, the Crimson is rolling yet again.
Entering a losing locker room in the NCAA Tournament feels like walking into a painting. Players known for their movement are deathly still. A team that has learned to communicate so well is absolutely silent. It feels like the kind of place where the word somber was invented.
On Friday night, when the locker rooms empty at the start of the Frozen Four semifinal between Harvard and Boston College, three different teams will take the ice.
We writers like to write a lot about games and numbers. In basketball, we cover games, which is really just a reflection of how good a team is. Just like a doctor might look at the readouts during a check-up, it’s only a quantification of a snapshot.
Now, just about three decades after North Carolina coach Roy Williams first watched him play on his high school’s hardwood, Amaker will finally get the chance to face off against the program that he was taught to ‘hate’ and the coach whom sat on his rival’s sideline for so long.
According to play-by-play data compiled by The Crimson’s Data Science Team, the most valuable player Harvard has is not former Ivy League Player of the Year senior wing Wesley Saunders, but co-captain Steve Moundou-Missi—the league’s Defensive Player of the Year.
Brandyn Curry ’13-’14 was on a bus somewhere in Holland. His Dutch team had an 8 p.m.game Saturday, so Curry was getting on the bus for an hour-long ride as Yale took a halftime lead over the Harvard men’s basketball team 3700 miles away in the Ivy League playoff game at The Palestra.
The Harvard men's basketball team watched together at the Murr Center as it received a No. 13 seed for the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson will play North Carolina on Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla.
As the Harvard men's basketball team (22-7, 11-3 Ivy league) prepares to face the University of North Carolina (24-11, 11-7 ACC) Saturday, Crimson staff writer Jacob D. H. Feldman got in touch with a reporter on the Tar Heels beat to learn about this year's Carolina squad.
Before taking the ice for the ECAC Men’s Hockey Tournament semifinal matchup against No. 7/7 Quinnipiac, Vesey was named the ECAC Media Association Player of the Year.
With Harvard's NCAA Frozen Four semifinal matchup against crosstown foe Boston College less than a day away, The Back Page presents some of the key quotes from Thursday afternoon's press conference in Minneapolis.
As the Harvard women's ice hockey team continues to the NCAA Frozen Four, relive the team's journey through a series of the best photographs of the season.
On Thursday night, the Harvard men's basketball team will look to complete its third consecutive NCAA Tournament upset. When it takes on North Carolina in its second-round matchup, the Crimson will aim to extend a season that has been full of ups and downs—and the story of this 2014-2015 campaign can be told through the pictures in this gallery.
Before the Crimson kick off its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament campaign Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla., The Back Page takes a look at what online prediction markets are saying about the Crimson’s chances.
North Carolina and Harvard have essentially equal experience playing on the big stage of the tournament, something that more and more Davids have become able to say as they step up to slay Goliath.
In anticipation of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s second-round NCAA Tournament game against North Carolina, The Back Page takes a look at five of the other things to do in Jacksonville while waiting for the Crimson to tip off.
The Harvard men's basketball team takes on fourth-seeded North Carolina Thursday evening in the second round of the NCAA tournament. But first, the Crimson took to the podium for Media Day on Wednesday. Follow @THCSports for all the latest updates from Jacksonville, Fla.
Harvard (21-12-3, 11-8-3 ECAC) enters the tournament hot, having gone 6-1 in the ECAC Tournament that spanned the last three weekends. Junior Jimmy Vesey set a tournament record with nine goals in the team’s seven games en route to being named the tourney’s Most Outstanding Player. The Crimson outscored its opponents 25-15 in its run for the team’s first conference championship since 2006.
Harvard coach Katey Stone suggested that her team's eight-goal loss to BC was one of the best things that could have happened to her team—a statement that held true on Friday as the Crimson upended the Eagles in the NCAA semifinals to advance to the national title game.
With less than a minute to go—the Harvard men’s basketball team (22-8, 11-3 Ivy) saw three chances to take the lead. Thrice the Crimson got a look it would take again, barely contested threes by its two best scorers, senior wing Wesley Saunders and junior co-captain Siyani Chambers.
During Wednesday’s press conference, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker said he was glad his players did not notice his reaction when North Carolina was matched with the Crimson during Sunday’s selection show.
Trailing 2-1 in the final minutes of regulation, Harvard’s season appeared to be on life support. But a late goal from Patrick McNally and a Jimmy Vesey double-overtime winner launched Harvard into next weekend's ECAC tournament semifinals in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Three times this season, the Crimson pulled out 2-1 wins over Quinnipiac. But on Saturday, Harvard exploded for five goals against the Bobcats to earn a spot in the Frozen Four next weekend in Minnesota.
The Harvard men’s basketball team is going dancing again. Co-captain and forward Steve Moundou-Missi hit a jumper from the top of the key in the final seconds to give the Crimson a 53-51 win over Yale in Saturday’s Ivy League Playoff.
All attention was on senior wing Wesley Saunders as he, head down, barreled his way into the paint. As he planted his left foot in the heart of the key, his defender took a slight step backward, likely anticipating the trademark Saunders spin move—not the reverse pivot that took place instead, and certainly not his shovel pass to co-captain Steve Moundou-Missi that took place moments later.
For the Harvard men’s ice hockey team, five seconds in the final minute made the difference in a 2-0 loss in Game 2 of the ECAC tournament quarterfinals on Saturday.
For the first time in over a decade, the Harvard men’s ice hockey team came away with a win at Ingalls Rink on Friday, edging Yale in Game 1 of the ECAC tournament quarterfinals, 3-2.
Junior forward Jimmy Vesey came away with his first win against Yale as a member of the Crimson on Friday, netting the 50th goal of his Harvard career in the victory.
Harvard took care of business in its win over Brown Saturday evening. And in a wild 13 seconds of play in Hanover, Dartmouth climbed back from a four-point deficit, defeating Yale on a last-moment score to give Harvard a share of the Ivy League crown and keep its NCAA Tournament hopes alive.