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Post by larrytitan on Nov 12, 2020 20:50:15 GMT -5
Gymnastics season cancelled for my daughter at Brown. She is home this semester studying on line.
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Post by motorcitysam on Nov 13, 2020 8:43:11 GMT -5
Gymnastics season cancelled for my daughter at Brown. She is home this semester studying on line. Sorry to hear that, Larry. Must be disappointing for her.
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Post by motorcitysam on Aug 13, 2021 12:17:06 GMT -5
Brown got a commitment frmo AJ Lesburt, a 6-5 guard out of New Hampshire. Nothing really noteworthy about this commitment from our perspective; it's just been too long since we had some Ivy League news.
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 13, 2021 16:39:10 GMT -5
After missing a season of play due to the pandemic, Tommy Amaker is back on track with his recruiting. Harvard got a commitment from power forward Chisom Okpara from La Lumiere. ESPN ranks him a four star recruit, Rivals ranks him a three star and #143 in the class of 2022, and the 24/7 composite ranks him a four star and #87. His six finalists were Harvard, Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Pittsburgh, and Washington. 247sports.com/player/chisom-okpara-46098107/
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 23, 2021 18:41:55 GMT -5
Official prediction for the Ivy League. No surprise to see Yale and Harvard at the top.
1. Yale 2. Harvard 3. Princeton 4. Penn 5. Brown 6. Dartmouth 7. Cornell 8. Columbia
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Post by motorcitysam on Dec 17, 2021 17:38:42 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Feb 27, 2022 22:22:40 GMT -5
Really surprising ending to the Ivy League season for Harvard. The Crimson were picked to finish second in the conference, but their loss today left them at 13-12, 6-8. Harvard will not be playing in the conference tournament. As I read it, the Ivy League only allows the top four teams to participate in the conference tournament. Harvard's loss today puts them in fifth place, a game behind Cornell.
Strange year for Harvard. They just never seemed to find any kind of consistency.
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 24, 2022 13:56:29 GMT -5
Official prediction for the Ivy League. No surprise to see Yale and Harvard at the top. 1. Yale 2. Harvard 3. Princeton 4. Penn 5. Brown 6. Dartmouth 7. Cornell 8. Columbia Was going to make note of a couple of Ivy League notes, and then noticed that I never posted the Ivy League final standings. Here they are: 1. Princeton 12-2, 23-7 2. Yale 3. Pennsylvania 4. Cornell 5. Darthmouth 6. Harvard 7. Brown 8. Columbia As has been the case for what seems like a long time, injuries continued to cripple Harvard. They lost two starters to injury for the rest of the season in the first league game. Princeton shined all year, beating South Carolina and Oregon State in the non-con schedule. The Tigers lost to Yale in the conference tournament and went on to lose in the first round of the NIT to VCU. Yale lost to Purdue in the first round of the NCAA tourney.
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 30, 2022 22:17:25 GMT -5
Harvard making some noise in recruiting again. Tommy Amaker landed two class of 2023 recruits recently, getting commitments from two players from DC: three star point guard Malik Mack and three star forward Thomas Batties.
The Crimson also landed a four star recruit for 2024, guard Robert Hinton.
I expect Harvard to be improved this year, and their future continues to look bright.
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Post by motorcitysam on Nov 3, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -5
Officieal Ivy League 2022-23 Preseasn Poll:
1. Penn 2. Princeton 3. Yale 4. Harvard 5. Cornell 6. Brown 7. Darthmouth 8. Columbia
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Post by motorcitysam on Apr 15, 2023 15:40:30 GMT -5
Officieal Ivy League 2022-23 Preseasn Poll: 1. Penn 2. Princeton 3. Yale 4. Harvard 5. Cornell 6. Brown 7. Darthmouth 8. Columbia Final 2022-23 standings. 1. Princeton 10-4, 23-9 2. Yale 10-4, 21-9 3. Penn 4. Cornell 5. Brown 6. Dartmouth 7. Harvard 8. Columbia Princeton didn't just win the Ivy league title; as a #15 seed they upset Arizona and Missouri to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Yale took an NIT bid but fell in the first round. Since winning 20 games in the shortened 2019-20 season, Harvard has been in a rut. After the league resumed play in the 2021-22 season, the Crimson are exactly .500, going 13-13 and 14-14. Of course, prior to the Covid shutdown it was the injury plague that felled Seth Towns and Ankle Breakin' Bryce Aiken that did the damage.
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Post by motorcitysam on May 19, 2023 19:41:18 GMT -5
The injury bug is not leaving Harvard alone. Seth Towns is still out heading into tonight's game, as is Ankle Breakin' Bryce Aiken, who also missed the season opener against MIT. It looks like we're never going to see that highly ranked Harvard class of 2016 reach its full potential. Seeing Seth Towns in the transfer portal this week got me thinking about that great class of 2016 that Tommy Amaker recruited to Harvard and how it seemed that it could be a launching pad for a great run for the Crimson. Reality turned out to be different, unfortunately. Here's a breakdown of that highly regarded class and what happened with them. Star and class rankings from 24/7 Sports. Bryce Aiken, four-star guard, ranked # 95 in the nation. Aiken was a Titan target under Coach Ray and I immediately nicknamed him Ankle Breakin' Bryce Aiken, but the nickname never took. Bryce had a strong freshman year, scoring 14.5 points per game. Injuries limited his sophomore year to 14 games, and the worst was yet to come. He played 18 games his junior year due to knee issues, and only 7 games in his senior year. Aiken transferred then, landing at Seton Hall, where injuries again limited him to 29 games over two seasons. Chris Lewis, four-star power forward recruit, ranked #97. Lewis scored 11 points per game while shooting 61% from the floor over four seasons with Harvard. He was solid. Seth Towns, three-star small forward, ranked #128. Seth had two great years at Harvard, including being named conference player of the year as a sophomore. Then injuries took him down. He lost his third and fourth years completely to injury and then transferred to Ohio State. Robert Baker, three-star power forward, ranked # 130. Baker played four years at Harvard, but never quite lived up to expectations. His first two years he was overshadowed by both Towns and Lewis, and when Towns went down with injury, Baker still was competing with Lewis for minutes and opportunities and couldn't break through. He averaged 4.5 ppg for his career. Justin Bassey, three-star shooting guard ranked # 280. Bassey was a capable guard in the Ivy League from the time he hit campus, a solid rotation guy. An excellent rebounder from the backcourt, he averaged 5.6 boards per game for his career to go with 7 ppg. Henry Welsh, three-star center, ranked #284. Henry appeared in 77 games in his four-year Harvard career, averaging 2.5 ppg. Best year was his junior year, where he averaged 3 and 3 in 12 minutes per contest. Christian Juzang, two-star guard, ranked #424. Juzang started slowly as a freshman, averaging less than a point per game, but bumped that up to 7 as a sophomore. He stayed at that level for the rest of his career at Harvard, playing all four years. Record-wise, Harvard did pretty good during this stretch. 2016-17: 18-10, 10-4, 2nd place in conference. Fell to Yale by 2 in the conference tournament. 2017-18: 18-14, 12-2, tied for 1st place in conference. Lost to Penn by 3 in the conference tournament. Lost by 7 to Marquette in round 1 of the NIT. 2018-19: 19-12, 10-4, tied for 1st place in conference. Lost to Yale by 7 in the conference tournament. Beat Georgetown in the first round of the NIT, then lost to NC State. 2019-20: 20-7, 10-4, 2nd place in conference. Closed the regular season strong, winning 8 of their last 10 regular season contests. Confidence was high going into the league tourney...and then Covid hit and cancelled everything. So, that was four straight years of finishing first or second in league play. Injuries and a couple of bad bounces on the court kept them from making the Big Dance during that time. A recruiting class that showed such promise when it was assembled had a good run, but it had things gone another way, it could have been great.
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Post by motorcitysam on Jul 26, 2023 19:10:07 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Jul 29, 2023 17:11:55 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 1, 2023 12:13:32 GMT -5
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