"You can't count on an at-large bid to get to the NCAA's," McCarthy said. "So every Ivy League game is really important for us."
With a critical game against Princeton (7-1, 3-0) in two weeks, the objective is to keep the Tigers' lead in the Ivy loss column at one until then.
Harvard will resume its Ivy charge today at 3 p.m. at Ohiri Field against a Cornell team that has had trouble finding the back of the net this year. The contest will count as both a tournament and league game.
The Big Red (1-7, 1-2) has lost five straight since beating Columbia in its first Ivy League game, 2-1. During that stretch, Cornell has only managed to put more than one goal on the board on one occasion.
The Big Red skid includes 2-1 losses to Penn and Yale.
However, Harvard is not about to estimate the damage a team down on its luck can do.
"We expect a battle," McCarthy said. "They're a better team than their record. All the games they've lost have been really close."
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