Tag: Basketball

  • Nation & World

    ‘Believe it’

    This may be Carrie Moore’s first time in the top job of a program, but the new and inaugural Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach for Harvard Women’s Basketball has a long resume.

    6 minutes
    Carrie Moore.
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    There is more to Jeremy Lin than ‘Linsanity’

    NBA star and activist Jeremy Lin ’10 spoke to graduating seniors about how he’s come to see his identity as a barrier-breaking Asian American in a new light.

    8 minutes
    Jeremy Lin.
  • Nation & World

    Hoop-la

    Athlete, philanthropist, and the star behind “Linsanity,” Jeremy Lin ’10 has been named Class Day speaker by the Harvard College Class of 2021.

    7 minutes
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    How they leveled the playing field

    Zachary Nowak’s fall course, HIST 1852: “The Game: College Sports as History,” had current students interview 99 former Harvard athletes, 96 of whom were women, and used the resulting transcripts as the foundations for their final papers.

    6 minutes
    Radcliffe 1915 women's hockey team.
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    Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors

    Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    3 minutes
    Gabrielle Donaldson and family.
  • Nation & World

    High court press

    Harvard men’s basketball team got a behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court.

    2 minutes
    Harvard basketball team.
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    The NBA-HBS career connection

    When NBA Meets M.B.A.: A new Harvard Business School program pairs NBA players with M.B.A. student mentors to help young athletes up their business game.

    12 minutes
    Photos by Kwame Owusu-Kesse/K.KESS Photography
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    Gift from Jeremy Lin ’10 funds financial aid and Lavietes Pavilion renovation

    A $1 million gift from Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin ’10 will go towards supporting the Harvard Financial Aid initiative and improvements to the Lavietes Pavilion.

    3 minutes
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    March mammal madness

    An assistant professor of evolutionary biology, Katie Hinde is also the creator of Mammal March Madness, a tournament that emulates the college basketball playoffs and pits species against each other in simulated combat.

    5 minutes
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    Going forward, a look back

    The Harvard Campaign, milestones in the arts, and scientific breakthroughs marked 2013-14 at Harvard.

    20 minutes
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    Bringing order to the court

    New Harvard research points to a sharper method for evaluating basketball players.

    4 minutes
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    Men’s basketball defeats Dartmouth, 61-45

    The Harvard men’s basketball team used a 16-2 run to pull away in the second half as it opened the “14-Game Tournament” with a 61-45 win over Dartmouth Saturday at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson will host Princeton and Penn on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.

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  • Nation & World

    A year of change, month by month

    2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.

    22 minutes
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    Going back to the dance

    For the second straight year, the Harvard men’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Physics and … basketball?

    At first glance, physics and basketball seem worlds apart, but at Harvard they’re connected in more ways than one.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Paperwork for a new future

    Harvard University has submitted a new development agenda for Allston, detailing nine projects slated for development in the next decade. The projects will complement planned activity on the Health and Life Science Center and the residential and retail development envisioned for Barry’s Corner.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

    16 minutes
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    Harvard basketball prepares for March Madness

    The men’s basketball team at Harvard University returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1946.

    1 minute
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    In OT thriller, Harvard upends Columbia, 77-70

    Keith Wright scored 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting and had eight rebounds, while Kyle Casey had 19 points, as the Harvard men’s basketball team earned a 77-70 win in overtime on the road at Columbia Friday.

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  • Nation & World

    Basketball, with perspective

    Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, set to pass the 1,000-point scoring milestone, has other interests too, ranging from volunteer work to crime-fighting technology.

    3 minutes
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    Harvard tops Dartmouth, 63-47

    The Crimson toppled Dartmouth and next take on George Washington University in a sold-out game on Jan. 14.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Harvard men win Battle 4 Atlantis

    The Harvard men’s basketball team bested Central Florida, 59-49, in the championship game of the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament Nov. 26.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    It was a very good year

    With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.

    17 minutes
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    On the ball

    The Harlem Globetrotters, children from the Martin Luther King School in Cambridge, and Harvard now have something in common — CHEER. And there was plenty of cheering during the Globetrotter’s appearance at Harvard’s Malkin Athletic Center.

    3 minutes
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    Something to shoot for

    A number of girls and boys from Cambridge and Allston-Brighton who, along with their families, cheered the Crimson to an 83-70 win over UMass. The game capped a series of three Community Days sponsored by the Harvard men’s and women’s basketball teams that offered free admission to Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents over the winter break.

    3 minutes
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    Rebound

    The Harvard men’s basketball team is on the up and up, thanks to its newest coach Tommy Amaker.

    5 minutes
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    No ordinary leader

    Dominant. That’s the only word to describe the Harvard women’s basketball team over the past 25 years. The team has won 11 Ivy League championships since 1986 — a little less than one every other year — and 70 percent of its games in interleague play.

    4 minutes
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    Men’s basketball releases 2010-11 schedule

    The Harvard men’s basketball team has released its 2010-11 schedule, and will play its first game against George Mason on Nov. 13.

    1 minute
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    Golden state for Lin

    Former Harvard star Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent guard, was signed by the Golden State Warriors yesterday…

    1 minute
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    Jeremy Lin ’10 signs with Warriors

    Former Crimson basketball co-captain Jeremy Lin ’10 has been signed as a point guard to the Golden State Warriors.

    2 minutes