And don’t let that record fool you. Coming out of the Big 10—“the toughest conference in the country, even tougher than the Pac 10” according to Graham—it’s nothing to sneeze at.

“They’re good front-runners,” Graham said. “We want to get up on them early.”

Given his squad’s level of experience in the NCAAs, Graham won’t need to tell his team twice.

Aiding in that effort should be a sold-out crowd, cementing a home-court advantage virtually unparalleled among Harvard teams.

Not even Graham can definitively remember the squad’s last home loss—his best guess is a 4-3 decision to Duke a couple of years back—but most of those came in front of relatively empty bleachers.

“Usually for our home matches it’s just the court that’s the determining factor,” Graham said. “But this time we’ll have the crowd and the court.”

Matches begin today at 11 a.m. at the Beren Tennis Center.

—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.