Crimson Hopes to Beat Champs

After splitting its final home games of the season against Penn and Princeton last weekend, the Harvard men’s squash team will head to Princeton on Friday to participate in the CSA Championships, where they will play for nothing less than the national title.

The tournament places teams into five different brackets of eight teams each. The Crimson plays in the first bracket, which also includes No. 1 Trinity, Yale, Princeton, Penn, University of Western Ontario, Dartmouth, and Williams. Fourth-seeded Harvard (5-2, 4-1 Ivy) will face fifth-seeded Penn (6-4, 2-2) on Friday in a rematch of last Saturday’s action, in which the Crimson easily defeated the Quakers 6-3.

Also on Friday, the second-seeded Bulldogs (11-1, 4-0) will face the seventh-seeded Big Green (10-4, 2-3), with Yale as the clear favorite.

The third-seeded Tigers (8-2, 5-1) will face sixth-seeded UWO.

Should Harvard advance to Saturday, it will most likely face top-seeded Trinity, which boasts an undefeated 16-0 record this season and is looking to add its eight straight national title in the championships this weekend. To break the Bantam’s 141-game winning streak-- the longest such streak in collegiate sports-- Harvard will depend on players like junior Siddharth Suchde and captain Will Broadbent. If the Crimson wins the tournament this weekend, it will claim a share of the national title.

Harvard also looks forward to its trip to Yale next Wednesday where it will continue its quest to score a share of the Ivy League title, for which it is competing against the Tigers and the Bulldogs.

—Staff writer Tony D. Qian be reached at tonyqian@fas.harvard.edu.