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03-04-16 08:18 PM - Post#203375
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Harvard scoring at will to start, getting inside pretty easily. Weisz with two big treys to keep it close with 12:40 left in the first half.
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03-04-16 08:31 PM - Post#203377
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Down 5 with 7:57 left in the half. I get keeping them off the arc, but they may be overdoing it a bit, as Harvard is getting a ton of easy drives to the rim. Cannady looking sharp, Weisz very active offensively, Cook playing hard.
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03-04-16 08:41 PM - Post#203378
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Patented late-first-half surge begins, PU within two with about four minutes left. Amaker takes a TO. Cook with a spectacular block and save from out of bounds.
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03-04-16 08:47 PM - Post#203382
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Harvard gets six straight after the timeout and PU still looks sloppy turning the ball over and committing fouls. The Tiger defensive pressure at the arc is not only letting in drives but ORs. Harvard snagging nearly half their misses and they're shooting over 55%. The defensive efficiency stats for this half will be dire.
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03-04-16 08:52 PM - Post#203385
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Steeves hits a trey with two guys on him at the end of the half. PU down 35-43. This is serious--championship could be lost unless a substantial comeback is mounted.
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03-04-16 08:58 PM - Post#203387
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Down 8 at half. Harvard playing well at both ends. Game is troubling. We can't get a run going. Cannady did one out of control drive and picked up an offensive foul.
Mitch has to come up with something special at halftime. Harvard won't give this game away. How does Harvard have such a crappy record?
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03-04-16 09:04 PM - Post#203388
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There is no excuse for having one more TO than this Harvard group, even though their guards have improved some. If there's not going to be interior help in the interest of stopping the three, then perimeter defenders have to stay in front of their men and charge in hard for DRs after misses. Harvard has 7 ORs on 14 misses, which is unacceptable. Even if PU were shooting 6-9 instead of 3-9 from three they'd still only be up by one. Fortunately, the Tigers drew a lot of shooting fouls and knocked in 10-12 FTs.
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03-04-16 09:25 PM - Post#203391
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Nice 13-5 run, forcing TOs from the Crimson and getting rebounds, but a ton of misses on shots usually made leaves Harvard still up two with 11:08 left. Princeton will probably be shooting a lot of fouls down the stretch because the Crimson are hacking a lot.
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03-04-16 09:41 PM - Post#203397
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Terrible defensive mistake leaving red-hot Steeves alone at the arc, followed by two horrible officals' calls that hurt Princeton.
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03-04-16 09:46 PM - Post#203399
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Brutal sequence of Bell missing two FTs, then missing about four tip-ins after the OR, then Stephens misses one of two, then Cook gets called for a bogus charge (even the announcers were bewildered).
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03-04-16 09:48 PM - Post#203401
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Harvard up 3 with 3:31 left, Okolie going to the FT line for one-and-one. Crimson's primary ballhandlers have both fouled out. My stomach is twisted but my brain says that Princeton ought to be able to win this. Only bad sign is that Cannady's magic is not working this game.
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03-04-16 09:56 PM - Post#203404
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PU down one with 2:23 left after Stephens' dunk off a Cook missed trey. Harvard travels again but not called, Edosomwan draws OR foul and makes one of two.
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03-04-16 10:01 PM - Post#203406
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Big trey by Cook but then horrible rebounding gives Harvard a second chance and Edosomwan with the three-point play. Cannady drives for a layup, then a phantom foul on Cook puts Steeves on the line. He hits two, PU down two with 7.2 seconds left.
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03-04-16 10:02 PM - Post#203408
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Wow...
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03-04-16 10:03 PM - Post#203409
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Several good looks at the end, but it doesn't go in. Of course, the refs swallow their whistles in the melee this time. We need Columbia now to get PU to a playoff opportunity.
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03-04-16 10:04 PM - Post#203410
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Go Columbia.
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03-04-16 10:06 PM - Post#203412
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phantom foul on Cook
Would have been nice to see a replay.
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03-04-16 10:08 PM - Post#203415
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We find new ways to embarrass ourselves every season. Harvard came to play; our guys did not. They just messed around casually expecting Harvard to quit. Same old story. Unfortunately, there was no Cannady magic to steal the game.
MH simply doesn't have it as a motivator. Forget Columbia. I highly doubt Yale is as lazy as we always are. Even if they somehow lose tomorrow, I expect MH's squad to drop one or both of the next two games.
Really pathetic. Don't know if this program will ever win another title in our lifetimes. MH isn't a head coach to me. He's a great assistant, an Xs-and-Os guy, an ace recruiter. Head coach? Don't see any sign of that.
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03-04-16 10:26 PM - Post#203419
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A rare loss, but on the road vs a team with some serious players... And MH has the Princeton program in impressive shape. This team is unbelievable and next year flat out scary. MH seems to me one of the brightest young rising stars out there.
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03-04-16 10:31 PM - Post#203422
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Very tough loss but not surprising that Harvard would give it their all. Tigers are going to need good fortune and luck to get to a playoff. Yale's victory against Dartmouth last Saturday was crucial and it was not surprising that they would ambush Cornell tonight. They will play with fire against Columbia tomorrow night but it should be a battle. Tigers need to regroup against Dartmouth and I think they will.
Unfortunately, they may well be heading to the NIT but you never know in this crazy league.
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