The team's goal is to find itself in another special position in December: the NCAA Championships, hosted by Pepperdine University. Last year, the Crimson overcame a rocky 3-7 stretch in the first few weeks of the season and rode an eight-game win streak into the Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Division Championships.
There, Harvard lost a game that would have brought it a berth in the Eastern Championships and a shot at the NCAAs. The loss was to Brown.
Having already beaten the Bears this year, the team's optimism seems justified. After Harvard's 12-4 loss to No. 14 UMass concluded the first match of the year, Floerchinger was still pleased.
"We're not losing to them by eight again this year," he said. "It just won't happen. It'll probably be a situation where we get a little closer each time we meet them, and I think we'll catch them before it's all done."