One can't call the Harvard men's basketball team "March's Team."

For the second consecutive season, the Crimson was swept in its final weekend of Ivy action--losing the opportunity to finish above the .500 mark in both years. A 73-62 loss to Penn last Friday and last Saturday's 73-64 loss to Princeton dropped the Crimson (11-15 overall, 7-7 Ivy) into a fourth-place tie with Cornell in the final 1989 Ivy League standings.

The Tigers--this year's Ivy champion--will advance to the NCAA Tournament, which starts March 16 at regional sites across the nation.

In the final weekend of the 1988 season, Harvard fell to Yale, 73-69, and Brown, 103-101 in overtime. The losses dropped the squad into sixth place with a 6-8 league record.

"I hope they'll just relax and go play tomorrow night," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said after Friday's loss. "We've played too well this year. They lost the last two games last year when they had a chance to finish with a winning record, and these guys deserve to finish with a win."

After losing to the Tigers, Roby pinpointed the difference between the Tiger's season and Harvard's.

"They came into our building and they beat us," Harvard's fourth-year coach said. "They went on the road to Cornell and Columbia and beat them, too."

Princeton finished on top in the games it was supposed to win this year--especially sweeps of Yale, Brown, Cornell and Columbia on the road. The Tigers also notched an even 3-3 record against the three toughest teams in the league: Dartmouth, Penn and Harvard.

The Crimson, however, lost two consecutive games on the road against then cellar-dweller Brown and Cornell, which knocked Harvard out of the Ivy race. The Crimson also won only one of its six games against Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton.

Somebody Call a Cop: The Penn-Harvard game almost got out of control last Friday following several altercation between Quaker and Crimson players.

Penn's Hassan Duncombe lived up to his reputation as the Ivy League's "Goon," getting involved in scuffles with Harvard's forwards, especially freshman Ron Mitchell.

Finally, a shouting match between Duncombe and Mitchell, which had to be broken up by teammates and the referees, incited Harvard Co-Captain Neil Phillips and Penn's Paul McMahon to start shouting them-selves. On the next play, the referees called a controversial loose-ball foul on Duncombe--his fourth in the game--in order to try and settle everyone down.

Nice try but no cigar, ref.

Duncombe went into a tirade, having to be restrained by teammate Scott Schewe in order to avoid a physical run-in with the referee. Duncombe was immediately removed from the game by Penn Coach Tom Schneider but, once he got to the bench area, found it within his dignity to hit a fan by kicking a chair into the stands.

Despite coaching a team in the middle of the Ivy League race, Schneider showed class by keeping Duncombe, his best forward, on the bench for the rest of the contest.