Men's Basketball Releases 2010-11 Schedule
The Harvard men's basketball team will open its 2010-11
season at George Mason Nov. 13 (photo courtesy of Gil
Talbot).
Harvard Men's Basketball 2010-11
Schedule
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard
men’s basketball team will play 14 home games at Lavietes
Pavilion and face 28 opponents overall, including teams from the
Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big Ten, Big XII, Atlantic 10
and Colonial Athletic Association, in the program’s 100th
season.
Under head coach Tommy Amaker, who is entering his fourth season
with the Crimson, Harvard will look to build off last year’s
21-8 mark, which established a new program record for victories and
saw the team compete in the postseason for the first time since
1946.
The Crimson will open the upcoming campaign by visiting George
Mason Nov. 13. Harvard will then open its home slate by
welcoming intrastate rival Holy Cross to Lavietes for a midweek
matchup Nov. 17.
Later that week, the Crimson will travel to Macon, Ga., to face
Mercer Nov. 20, before remaining on the road at Bryant on
Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 24).
On Nov. 28, Harvard will play host to Colorado of the Big XII in a
return game from a contest during the 2008-09 season. Three
days later, the Crimson welcomes Fordham to Lavietes, marking the
first time the programs will meet on the court since
1986.
Harvard will then head to Ann Arbor, Mich., for a contest at Big
Ten opponent Michigan Dec. 4. The Crimson has split its last
two meetings with the Wolverines after earning a 62-51 win in
2007. Harvard then returns to Cambridge to host WPI Dec. 7,
and Boston University Dec. 11.
The Crimson faces its third opponent from a Bowl Championship
Series conference Dec. 22, as Harvard goes on the road to face
Connecticut. After the holidays, Amaker and his squad returns
to action by hosting Monmouth Dec. 29, and Cambridge neighbor MIT
Dec. 31.
After the New Year, Harvard looks to grab its third straight
victory at Boston College of the ACC, as the Crimson visits the
Eagles in a midweek game Jan. 5. Harvard earned an 82-70
victory in January 2009, and followed that with a 74-67 victory
last December. Just a few days later, the Crimson begins its
quest for an Ivy League title by traveling to Dartmouth Jan.
8. After a road game at George Washington Jan.
15, Harvard returns to the Ancient Eight’s “14-game
tournament” by hosting the Big Green Jan. 22.
On the last weekend in January, Columbia and Cornell visit
Lavietes Pavilion, before the Crimson begins February with a trip
to Princeton and Penn Feb. 4-5. Following a pair of home
games against Yale and Brown Feb. 11-12, Harvard heads back on the
road for two straight weekends at Cornell and Columbia (Feb. 18-19)
and Brown and Yale (Feb. 25-26).
The Crimson will then return to Cambridge to close out the regular
season with games against Penn and Princeton March 4-5.
