After failing to break double digits in scoring on Friday against the Milwaukee Bucks, Jeremy Lin ’10 put up 20 points during Saturday night’s contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers (8-27).
On the way to a road victory, 112-104, the Houston Rockets guard also contributed four rebounds and five assists. In the win, the Rockets (20-14) retained their position as first among all teams in points per game, with 106.2, and extended their winning streak to four games.
While you may still be in holiday mode, Harvard athletes are in the midst of a busy January filled with plenty of activity. Read on for a preview of five upcoming games that are sure to be exciting and crucial to rest of the season.
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While your fall semester classes are now a distant memory, here’s an unfortunate newsflash to sap the last bit of holiday spirit from your break: Grades are up. Instead of regretting your multiple choice answers on that make-or-break final, or waiting anxiously to see if your last class’ results are in, take a break from your Student Record to see if some of your favorite fall sports made the grade this semester.
As the calendar closes in on the anniversary of Linsanity, Jeremy Lin ’10 had eight points and seven assists as the Houston Rockets dispatched the Milwaukee Bucks, 115-101 Friday. With Lin at the helm, the Rockets score the most points in the NBA, at 106.1 per game, and are sixth in the league in assists, at 23 per contest, led by Lin’s 6.4 a game. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the 11th game in which the Rockets have scored 115 or more points this season. No other team in the NBA has more than seven such games.
Lin left the game with 10:34 left in the third quarter after colliding with Bucks forward Larry Sanders in a scramble for a loose ball near midcourt. He sat out for only seven minutes before getting stitches and coming back into the game. Lin added four assists and four points in a pivotal fourth quarter, during which the Rockets scored 38 points and quickly turned a six-point advantage into a comfortable 14-point lead.
“I just know that when I came back, our guys were flying around with high energy,” Lin said in his postgame press conference. “We were getting stops, just the way we’re supposed to play, the way that we’ve played in the past in some spurts. And then we just tried to carry it over to the fourth quarter.”
Lin recorded four steals for the third time in four games and contributed seven or more assists for the fifth game in a row. After starting the season slow, Lin has come on to score in double figures in six of his last ten games and in that span has contributed six or fewer dimes only twice.
Over that same span, the Rockets have gone 8-2 with their only two losses coming to the Oklahoma City Thunder and the San Antonio Spurs—two top teams in the Western Conference. Along the way, the Rockets posted double-digit wins against the Chicago Bulls, Memphis Grizzlies, New York Knicks, and Philadelphia 76ers—all playoff teams from a year ago.
While many of us have been relaxing during our winter break, freshman forward Jimmy Vesey of the Harvard men’s hockey team has been busy on the ice with the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia.
After two exhibition matches before Christmas, USA finished 2-2 in pool play, routing Germany, 8-0, and Slovakia, 9-3, while falling to Russia, 2-1, and Canada, 2-1.
