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725 Columbia/Harvard Under 144
Spear - I see where Wayne has Harvard +1 (from earlier -1) so already the line has changed and this is why.
Harvard will surely miss Brian Cusworth. He played his last game, after using up his
eligibility. Cusworth was averaging 23-ppg in Ivy League play along with shooting well over 50% and pulling down 12 boards. He was also their presence on both ends of the court. Harvard is not a deep team and now they will be missing a lot from both ends of the floor and may take more time to create offense. These teams have played UNDER this number in nine of their last 10 meetings. The Harvard bench was getting about 45 minutes a game and Cusworth was getting 38 minutes. It just means all those
bench minutes are gone to fill-in for a missing starter. Harvard will be hard
pressed to maintain a 76-ppg offense and especially against a methodical Columbia
team that scores just 64-points and allows 62-points. Look for this one to go UNDER the posted total.
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from Harvard news
After losing 88-78 at home to rival Yale on Friday, the Crimson came back the next night to beat Brown 92-88 at Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion.
In the process, Cusworth completed his college career with yet another strong performance. Cusworth missed his sophomore year with a stress fracture, but because the Ivy League doesn't allow athletes to redshirt, he sat out one semester as a sophomore so he could play one more semester this season. He played in Harvard's first 18 games and did his part as a scorer and rebounder to lead the Crimson to a 9-9 record, 2-2 in the Ivy League.
"Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I've done since I've been here," Cusworth said as he finished packing his Harvard gym bag for the last time. "It's tough, very tough. I think it'll hit me a little more when I'm sitting at home, and I'm listening [to Harvard's games] and watching on the internet."
As tough as it will be for Cusworth, just imagine how challenging it's going to be for Harvard to play without its best player over the final 10 games of the season, all of them against Ivy League opponents.
After playing two home games against Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Saturday, the Crimson must play four consecutive games against Princeton, Penn, Brown and Yale. How well Harvard handles this stretch without Cusworth will go a long way toward determining their eventual Ivy League fate.
Spear - I see where Wayne has Harvard +1 (from earlier -1) so already the line has changed and this is why.
Harvard will surely miss Brian Cusworth. He played his last game, after using up his
eligibility. Cusworth was averaging 23-ppg in Ivy League play along with shooting well over 50% and pulling down 12 boards. He was also their presence on both ends of the court. Harvard is not a deep team and now they will be missing a lot from both ends of the floor and may take more time to create offense. These teams have played UNDER this number in nine of their last 10 meetings. The Harvard bench was getting about 45 minutes a game and Cusworth was getting 38 minutes. It just means all those
bench minutes are gone to fill-in for a missing starter. Harvard will be hard
pressed to maintain a 76-ppg offense and especially against a methodical Columbia
team that scores just 64-points and allows 62-points. Look for this one to go UNDER the posted total.
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from Harvard news
After losing 88-78 at home to rival Yale on Friday, the Crimson came back the next night to beat Brown 92-88 at Harvard's Lavietes Pavilion.
In the process, Cusworth completed his college career with yet another strong performance. Cusworth missed his sophomore year with a stress fracture, but because the Ivy League doesn't allow athletes to redshirt, he sat out one semester as a sophomore so he could play one more semester this season. He played in Harvard's first 18 games and did his part as a scorer and rebounder to lead the Crimson to a 9-9 record, 2-2 in the Ivy League.
"Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I've done since I've been here," Cusworth said as he finished packing his Harvard gym bag for the last time. "It's tough, very tough. I think it'll hit me a little more when I'm sitting at home, and I'm listening [to Harvard's games] and watching on the internet."
As tough as it will be for Cusworth, just imagine how challenging it's going to be for Harvard to play without its best player over the final 10 games of the season, all of them against Ivy League opponents.
After playing two home games against Columbia on Friday and Cornell on Saturday, the Crimson must play four consecutive games against Princeton, Penn, Brown and Yale. How well Harvard handles this stretch without Cusworth will go a long way toward determining their eventual Ivy League fate.
Good Luck to All!!
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