Today's contest marks the Crimson's fifth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament and its eighth overall.
Harvard is 5-7 all-time in the postseason tourney. Its best performance came in 1997 when the Crimson advanced all the way to the quarterfinals before falling to eventual national champion North Carolina.
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"We're just really excited to get a chance," McCarthy said. "We know we
can play at that level and we know we are one of the top 48 teams in the
country."
Blessed with a clean slate, the Crimson can now forget its recent slump, which proved not to be as fatal as was originally thought.
"You take those [five losses] and spread them out over the entire season
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