The Harvard basketball team, limping along with an 0-3 record, will run against Boston College's highly touted, top-twenty team tonight in a 7:30 p.m. contest at the IAB.

The Eagles will be sporting press clippings galore when they take to the floor against the Crimson. Last year Bob Zuffelato's boys nearly made the final four in the NCAA's but were knocked out by Kansas St. in the Eastern regional semifinals. This year the hoopsters from the Heights look to be even better.

B.C. is led by a trio of Boston-bred seniors who have been monopolizing the winter sports pages since they were about sixteen. Captain Bill Russell Collins, at 6 ft 10 in., is the backbone of the Eagle defense. He's joined by high school cohorts Will Morrison and Bobby "Smooth" Carrington, a Keith-Wilkes-type-22-points-a-game cornerman.

It is this core, along with sophomore guard Jeff Bailey, which led the Eagles to their 21-9 record last year. But that, unfortunately for the Crimson, just covers the "alum", for Carrington and company also boast of a corps of freshmen who can put the ball in the hoop quicker than you can say All-American.

Yardling Starters

Six ft. 9 in. Tom Meggers and 6 ft. 7 in. guard James Jackson are just two of five potential starts Zuffelato has in his yardling ranks.

However, all this seems to mean nothing to Tom Sanders' charges. In the past two years the Crimson's cagers have met similar Eagle teams early in the season and proceeded to extend the "hot shots from across town" right down to the last minute before succumbing.

Crimson captain Bill Carey said yesterday the squad will most likely throw up a zone defense to slow down the Eagles run-and-gun offense. "B.C. simply has a lot of talent," Carey said, "but we really get up for them and should have our best game of the year tonight."