With Selection Sunday just around the corner, the Harvard men’s basketball team will know who it will be matched up with in the round of 64 of the NCAA tournament soon enough. But sometimes speculation is more fun than reality, so we at The Back Page decided to look at what we consider to be the Crimson’s potential opponents in the NCAA tournament and to try and speculate what chance—if any—Harvard will have at pulling the upset. Here, we take a look at the No. 13 Florida Gators from the SEC.

Record: 25-6 (14-4 SEC)

Best Wins: Wisconsin, Marquette, Missouri

Worst Losses: at Arkansas, at Tennessee, at Kentucky

RPI: 8

Ken Pomeroy Ranking: 1

Projected seed (from ESPN’s Joe Lunardi): 3

Star Players: Erik Murphy (Sr. Forward) 12.9 ppg, 5.4 rpg, Patric Young (Jr. Center) 10.5 ppg, 6.2 rpg, Scottie Wilbekin (Jr. Guard) 9.2 ppg, 5.0 apg

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For the second straight season, the Harvard men’s basketball team is going dancing.

Last Saturday, the Crimson won its third straight Ivy League championship and clinched the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, topping Cornell in its regular season finale.

This Sunday, Harvard will learn its next opponent when the NCAA tournament field is announced on CBS at 6 pm.

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When he arrived on campus in September, rookie point guard Siyani Chambers, the reigning Minnesota Mr. Basketball, likely was not expecting to end his first collegiate season with another significant award.

Chambers was projected to receive sparse minutes off the bench behind then-senior co-captain Brandyn Curry as the former slowly came to adapt to the collegiate game.

But within weeks, Curry had left school, and Chambers was handed the keys to the car far sooner than anyone had expected coming into the year.

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With Selection Sunday just around the corner, the Harvard men’s basketball team will know who it will be matched up with in the round of 64 of the NCAA tournament soon enough. But sometimes speculation is more fun than reality, so we at The Back Page decided to look at what we consider to be the Crimson’s potential opponents in the NCAA tournament and to try and speculate what chance—if any—Harvard will have at pulling the upset. Here, we take a look at the No. 15 New Mexico Lobos from the Mountain West.

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