Heartbreaker
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — What with all the lights, cameras, and raucous action pervading the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven this Saturday (March 12), one could be forgiven for thinking that the one-game playoff pitting the Harvard men’s basketball team against Princeton was a scripted affair. Unfortunately for the 2011 Ivy League co-champion Crimson, it was the Tigers who managed to score the Hollywood ending. After clawing their way back from a 7-point deficit at the half, Princeton — which shot miserably in the opening stanza (33 percent) — forged a 10 to 2 run in the final six minutes capped by a fall-away jumper at the final buzzer. With Harvard up 62-61 in the closing seconds, Doug Davis of Princeton netted the game-winning field goal (promptly reviewed by the referees on the monitor) to silence the sizable Harvard entourage while unleashing a flood of orange upon the hardwood....