"Playing outdoors will help us a lot for spring break," Roiter said. "We have to get used to the sun and the wind."

Between the wind and the rain, the Florida weather became a third opponent.

"No one seemed to have any rhythm outside because the wind was really bad," Torres said.

The Crimson heads to California during spring break for its second outdoor road trip. It will face North-western, San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, UCLA and Fresno State in an effort to strengthen its chances at a national tournament bid.

Of those teams, only Fresno State--which is ranked 46th in the nation--is ranked behind the Crimson. The Bruins are ranked seventh, and they feature two of the top ten individual players in the country.

"We're going to have to beat some teams that are ranked highly in the nation to qualify for NCAAs," Roiter said.

Although Harvard's sojourn to the Sunshine State was more stormy than it had expected, the Crimson hope the bad bounces and bad weather will prepare them for the competition it will face out west.