Tag: NCAA
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Campus & Community
More about flexibility than big-money deals
Harvard Athletics Director Erin McDermott shared Harvard’s NIL policy with student-athletes to help them navigate opportunities and share best practices for managing potential consequences, which could include tax obligations and financial aid implications.
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Campus & Community
Sprinting to the finish
Gabby Thomas, who concentrated in neurobiology, has a contract with New Balance and is aiming to compete in the 2020 Olympics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard comes up one shot short
On a day full of upsets the 13th-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team seemed destined to knock off fourth-seeded North Carolina Thursday night, but Wesley Saunders 3-pointer at the buzzer was off the mark as the Tar Heels held off for a 67-65 victory.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball receives No. 13 seed in NCAA tournament
The Harvard men’s basketball team, with a No. 13 seed, will play No. 4 North Carolina on Thursday in the NCAA tournament.
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Campus & Community
One-game playoff with NCAA bid at stake
Collegiate athletics’ oldest rivals will meet at the famed Palestra with an NCAA tournament berth on the line as the Harvard men’s basketball team and Yale square off in a one-game playoff Saturday.
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Campus & Community
Crimson holds off Brown, 72-62, shares Ivy title
The Harvard men’s basketball team did its part with a 72-62 win over Brown Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion and Dartmouth returned the favor, upsetting Yale 59-58 to give the Crimson a share of the Ivy League championship and force a one-game playoff to decide the Ancient Eight’s bid to the NCAA tournament.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball suffers setback to Yale, 62-52
Steve Moundou-Missi posted a double-double, scoring 21 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, but the Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Yale in front of a sold-out Lavietes Pavilion crowd Friday evening, 62-52.
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Health
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.
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Health
Mixed results in report on concussions
While most colleges and universities in the National Collegiate Athletic Association have created programs to help diagnose and treat concussions sustained by their athletes, many are not fully meeting the NCAA’s standards, according to new research.
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Nation & World
Paychecks for college athletes?
Peter Carfagna, a sports law expert at Harvard Law School, talks about growing legal pressure on the NCAA to reconsider the way it treats student-athletes.
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Campus & Community
Harvard men’s basketball moves past Cincinnati, 61-57
Twelfth-seeded Harvard men’s basketball team had a 61-57 win over fifth-seeded Cincinnati in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday. It faces Michigan State on Saturday.
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Campus & Community
Men’s basketball readies for Cincinnati
The Harvard men’s basketball team received a 12 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament and will face 5th-seeded Cincinnati in the second round Thursday at 2:10 p.m. The game will be televised live on TNT.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
It’s 1946, all over again
In its first trip to the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship tournament in decades, the Harvard men’s team slashed an 18-point deficit to 5 before falling to heralded Vanderbilt, 79-70. Despite the loss, the Crimson and their fans can look back on an Ivy title and a record 26 wins — and forward to…
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Campus & Community
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.
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Campus & Community
Ivy champs look to ‘Big Dance’
The Harvard men’s basketball team won the Ivy League championship outright this year — the first time in program history — and secured the Crimson’s first trip to the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship since 1946.
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Campus & Community
Drive, they said
After winning a share of the Ivy League championship last season and setting a program record for wins, Harvard’s men’s basketball team looks to build on its success when the season starts Nov. 11 against M.I.T.
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Campus & Community
Brown holds court
The undergraduates on Harvard’s men’s basketball team got a thrill Oct. 30 when Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown led them through their paces in front of more than 150 youth, high school, and college coaches from in and around New England. The drills and accompanying lecture at Lavietes Pavilion were part of the annual…
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Campus & Community
No quit in Crimson
The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.
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Campus & Community
Ivy League, Harvard announce unintentional secondary basketball violation
The Ivy League and Harvard University announced today that Harvard has declared an unintentional secondary violation in connection with conversations in the summer of 2007 between current assistant men’s basketball…
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Campus & Community
Pumping up sports spirits
The road to Harvard wasn’t an easy one for Cheng Ho ’10, who at 13 came to America from Taiwan after losing his father to cancer while his mother struggled with mental illness. And then there was football to learn …
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Campus & Community
Not yet done
In its second-round NCAA tournament match against Monmouth, the men’s soccer team shows just how good it is, with a 3-0 win.
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Campus & Community
Clayton and Ko receive Player of the Year honors
The Ivy League has recently announced that both Chris Clayton ’09 of the Harvard men’s tennis team and Beier Ko ’09 of the Harvard women’s tennis team have been honored as the 2009 recipients of the Ivy League Player of the Year award.
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Women’s golf take second consecutive Ivy crown; Women’s tennis claim Ivy title; Crimson men’s lacrosse down Yale; Two Crimson football players sign with NFL teams
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Campus & Community
Crimson shut out Cornell twice; Will play in ECAC semifinal
In their two ECAC quarterfinal matchups against Cornell at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimson women’s hockey team shut down the Cornell Big Red 3-0 on Friday (Feb. 27) and 4-0 on Saturday (Feb. 28) to advance to the semifinal round where Harvard will play Rensselaer at home Saturday (March 7) at 1 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Crimson win despite surrendering an early lead at Penn; Crushing NCAA first-round loss completes memorable season; Men’s soccer drops final contest in OT, still receives NCAA berth; Icers rebound, skate into first place; Crimson swept in weekend series despite the return of Stone and Vaillancourt
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Campus & Community
Crimson Frozen Four-bound
With the Harvard women’s hockey team protecting a 5-1 advantage in the closing minutes of its NCAA regional showdown versus Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon (March 15), a small contingent of Crimson fans suddenly filled Bright Hockey Center with a battle cry. “Min-ah-so-ta” they sang, followed by a rhythmic succession of hand claps (two slow, three…
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Senior saberist Tim Hagamen edged Notre Dame’s Patrick Ghattas, 15-14, in the gold medal bout of the NCAA national championships March 23 in Madison, N.J., to become the first Harvard man to win an individual title in the saber event.
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Campus & Community
Goal busters
At 127:09, Saturday evening’s (March 10) wild marathon featuring the women icers of Harvard vs. Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA tournament appeared to be the result of some sort of daylight-savings glitch. Boasting four overtimes, the game lasted so long (four and a half hours including breaks) that the Kohl Center’s stat-tracking…