In the Harvard men's basketball team's first NCAA game in 66 years, sophomore wing Laurent Rivard scored a team-high 20 points in a 79-70 loss to Vanderbilt.
To say sophomore basketball player Laurent Rivard has had a busy year is an understatement. Knocking down 20 points for Harvard in its NCAA tournament game against Vanderbilt, coming in seventh in Crimson history with 127 career three-pointers, and being the third leading-scorer on the Crimson this season are just some of this Canadian sharpshooter’s season highlights. After helping his team get to the Big Dance this spring, the computer science concentrator solidified his spot in Harvard sports history.
But this resident of Cabot House is linked to Crimson athletics in more ways than one. Laurent’s girlfriend Christie DiSilvestro is a sophomore water polo player, and his roommate, and high school teammate, Matt Brown is a fellow guard on the basketball team. Continuing the series, for Love or The Game, we asked Laurent some quick questions, and then quizzed Christie and Matt on what they thought were the correct answers. So who actually knows the sharpshooter better, the baller or the shot-caller?
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If you’re a sports fan, you loved last week’s Harvard Sports Trivia Challenge. But looking back at the Challenge, we here at The Back Page decided we went a little too easy on you. Here are some trivia questions for the most ardent Crimson supporters.
Check back tomorrow for the answers.
1. What two countries’ national teams will the Harvard men’s soccer team be playing this month?
2. When was the last time Harvard men's hockey team won the Beanpot and who was its opponent in the finals?
3. When the Harvard women’s basketball team made history this year by becoming the first team in the Ivy League to record a win in the WNIT, who was its opponent?
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For those fans anxiously anticipating Jeremy Lin ’10’s return to the hardwood, the wait just got a little longer.
According to an interview that Lin gave on Sunday night, the second-year NBA guard now expects to remain on the inactive list at least through the first round of the playoffs—if the Knicks make it that far.
"I think unless something goes really well I wouldn't get there," Lin said. "All the doctors are saying this is normal.... [It’s only a]fter about 1.5 to two weeks is when you can see how well you're doing."
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Senior Jeff Cohen scored three goals in the Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s 14-10 loss at Cornell on Saturday, making Cohen Harvard’s all-time leader in career goals. Cohen’s third goal with 14:18 to play brought the Crimson within three, the closest Harvard came.
It was a mixed weekend for Harvard athletics. While softball dominated, outscoring its opponents 26-4 en route to four consecutive wins, baseball struggled, falling in three of weekend contests.
In the world of lacrosse, while senior Jeff Cohen became the top goalscorer in program history, No. 5 Cornell proved to be too much in a 14-10 win over the Crimson. Meanwhile, the women’s squad cruised to victory, 16-8, over Brown.
Check out the best of the weekend in sports photo here.
Books have already been written about the phenomenon of Jeremy Lin ’10, and movies are certainly just around the corner. But a Harvard man like Lin also deserves representation in the highest form of entertainment: theater. Therefore, we at The Back Page have put together a quick synopsis of what Lin’s season would look like in the form of a five-part play, with just enough bad puns based off the protagonist’s name to make you sick.
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