Fresh off a victory at Dartmouth that placed them atop the Ivy League, the Harvard men's basketball team hits the road this weekend looking to extend its undefeated conference record.
Lucky for the Crimson, its opponents are perennial Ivy League bottom-feeders Yale and Brown. Neither team poses a major threat to the Crimson, but in the world of Ivy League basketball, where everybody knows everybody else's offense inside and out, the players aren't taking a chance.
"We can't not win these games," said Harvard center Tim Coleman. "Even if we beat Penn and Princeton later, we still have to win these games to stay on top."
The Crimson (7-7, 2-0 Ivy) has been on the up and up since last Wednesday, when they posted a 78-60 win over SUNY-Albany. It followed that victory with its second win over Dartmouth, a defensive struggle that gave Harvard a 48-43 victory.
Captain Damian Long has come up big in those two wins, leading all scorers with eleven points against Dartmouth and adding three steals and eight rebounds.
YALE
Today's game shouldn't be any harder. Yale is a new team, but not much better than last year's squad, which went 4-22 and 2-12 in the Ivy.
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