March Madness 2012: The Harvard Crimson are Dancing in the NCAA Tournament

We’ll be doing NCAA Tournament profiles for all automatic bid conference winners leading up to Selection Sunday, for links to others, see bottom of this post.

Conference: Ivy League (26-4)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Famous Alums: Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss

They’re Back! First time for Harvard in the NCAA Tournament since the soldiers came home and started making Baby Boomers in 1946.

Resume: Wins over Florida State, Central Florida, and St. Joseph’s. Loss to Connecticut. Harvard won the Ivy officially last night, when Penn lost at Princeton. In doing so, they avoided having to play in a playoff for the Ivy League automatic bid, and you might remember how it ended last year.

Notable Player(s): Forward Kyle Casey leads the team in points, rebounds, and blocked shots.

Team Style/Strengths: Tommy Amaker’s Crimson play a deliberate style, get back on defense, and limit opponent’s on the offensive glass. They play very good defense in the paint, too.

All-Important Rankings: 36 (RPI), 37 (Pomeroy)

Projected Outlook/Seed: Harvard will likely get a 9 or 10 seed in the tournament.

[photo via US Presswire]

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8 Responses to “March Madness 2012: The Harvard Crimson are Dancing in the NCAA Tournament”

HuskerDawg Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:04 AM

Imagine how long the “Famous Alums” list would be if you tried to nail them all down for Harvard?

cleet Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:05 AM

Great, these elitist snobs are bringing their liberal agenda to the NCAA tournament.

HuskerDawg Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:06 AM

Team Style/Strengths: Tommy Amaker’s Crimson play a deliberate style, get back on defense, and limit opponent’s on the offensive glass. They play very good defense in the paint, too.

So they play like a team devoid of natural athletic ability?

Clayton Cargill Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:07 AM

Famous Alums: Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss

it’s funny because you are so defiant

RexKramerDangerSeeker Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:16 AM

The Winkelvoss twins should sue Jeremy Lin just for shits ‘n grins.

Great series of posts, Mr. Lisk. Haven’t watched much hoops this season, but am always jacked for the tourney, so these have been good reads.

José Ovechkin Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:17 AM

Amaker got Harvard in the tourney but couldn’t get it done at Michigan. That seems odd.

MP Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 10:22 AM

So they play like a team devoid of natural athletic ability?

Been to a few of their games this year, and other than Casey, you’re right. They have a white point guard, a pair of white shooters, and a lanky goon. They go 10-deep (with 4 freshmen) though, so they have no problem wearing down most teams.

vajayjay redick Says:
March 7th, 2012 at 11:03 AM