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The Harvard Crimson’s Michael James reports Harvard center Brian Cusworth will sit out the Crimson’s final three non-league games and won’t play until the Ivy League opener against Dartmouth on January 7. Cusworth fractured his hand diving for a loose ball against Central Connecticut back on December 3 and has missed the four games since.
Game of the Week
Harvard (7-3) at #14 Boston College (7-2) – Thursday, December 22, 7:00 pm
This is Harvard’s one shot at non-league glory in 2005. The two teams last met three years ago, with very similar records. A senior-laden Harvard team rallied to trail by just two points with under three minutes remaining, but couldn’t complete the comeback, falling 84-77,
This weekend it was the Ivy League’s two most famous brands carrying the banner for the league on the hardwood with a pair of easy victories. Princeton suffered another under-20 half after a good first half at Wake and lost by 19, while Dartmouth couldn’t recover from a huge early deficit against a good Hofstra team at The Garden. And then there was Cornell getting pantsed at Bucknell…
It wasn’t a particularly good week for the league, which went 2-6 and saw Princeton and Cornell both suffer ugly losses. Penn playing #3 Villanova tough was another pleasant surprise, but in the end Harvard was the only Ivy team to win this week.
So there’s this entity. Its modern incarnation was birthed largely due to the efforts of an iconic leader, who continues to cast a long shadow — long after his departure. This leader had instituted a rigid system of rules and control, and after he was out of the picture, a “reform” movement began that sought to liberalize the entity. However, recently a hardliner has assumed control and many of the liberal reforms have been rolled back as part of a return to the orthodoxy.