Golen recorded career-highs in points (7), rebounds (8),
assists (1) and blocks (1) vs. Butler (Gil Talbot).
The Storyline
The Harvard women's basketball team is set to visit Providence on
Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m., in search of its first win of the
season. The Crimson is 2-9 all-time against the Friars and has lost
each of the last four meetings between the teams. Harvard's last
victory in the series came on Dec. 22, 2003, a 73-59 win in
Providence.
Fans can listen to an audio only stream of Friday's game live on
GoCrimson.com by clicking here.
Last Time Out
The Crimson opened the year 0-2 at the KCRG-TV 9 Hawkeye Challenge
in Iowa City, Iowa, where it fell to Iowa, 90-81, and Butler,
69-68. All-tournament selection Christine Clark
matched her career-high with 28 points against the Hawkeyes on
Saturday, and returned to the court to score 17 against the
Bulldogs on Sunday. Brogan Berry led
Harvard with 18 points against Butler.
Click here to watch highlights from the Hawkeye Classic
on GoCrimson.com.
You Can Count on Clark
Christine Clark matched her career-high of 28 points in Harvard's
season opener at Iowa, hitting 10-of-20 shots from the floor and
going 7-of-11 at the line. She scored 17 the following day against
Butler, including 15 in the second half, shooting an economical
5-of-7 from the floor and 7-of-8 at the line. Trailing by nine
against the Bulldogs with 1:38 seconds remaining, Clark scored five
straight points to spark Harvard's comeback as the Crimson pulled
to within one.
Clark was named to the Hawkeye Classic All-Tournament Team and the
CollegeSportsMadness.com Ivy League Player of the Week for her
efforts.
Player to Watch
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry, who led the Crimson with 13.6 ppg
and 4.6 apg last season, was featured on Graham Hays' list of mid-major players to watch on
ESPN.com.
"The 5-8 Ohio native averaged 4.6 assists per game as a junior and
ranked ninth in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio. She's not
all pass, holding onto the ball often enough to lead the Crimson by
averaging 13.6 points per game and shoot 39 percent from the
3-point line."
Now Starting for Harvard...
Junior Emma
Golen made her first career start at Iowa while senior Brogan
Berry made her 87th. Harvard used the same starting lineup for both
games at the Hawkeye Challenge, which included Berry (88 career
starts), Christine Clark (30), Victoria Lippert
(48), Golen (2) and Miriam Rutzen
(14).
At the Line
Harvard shot 90.5 percent at the line against Butler, connecting
on 19-of-21 attempts. The Crimson ranked 16th in the NCAA last
season in free-throw percentage (75.9), and have led the Ivy League
each of the past two seasons.
Milestone Moments
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry became the 15th member of Harvard
women's basketball's 1,000 point club last season. Berry is
currently ranked 13th in program history with 1,097 points, needing
131 points to break into the school's top 10 and 283 points to
enter the Ivy League's top 30.
Berry also ranks fifth at Harvard with 406 career assists and is
20th in Ancient Eight history. This season she could join Emily Tay
'09 (1,263 pts., 514 ast.) as one of only two student-athletes in
program history to score 1,200 points and dish out 500 assists.
Her career free-throw percentage of 81.7 is good for ninth in the
Ivy League record book.
Click here to visit the Media Center on GoCrimson.com
to access Harvard's most up-to-date career records.
Career Scoring (Harvard)
1. Allison Feaster '98
2,312
13. Brogan Berry '12 1,097
Career Assists (Harvard)
1. Jennifer Monti '02 558
5. Brogan Berry '12 406
Career Assists (Ivy)
1. Jennifer Monti '02, Harvard
558
20. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard
406
Career Free-Throw Percentage (Ivy)
1. Angela Soriaga '06, Dartmouth
89.9
9. Brogan Berry '12, Harvard
81.7
Mid-Major Top 25
Harvard was listed as receiving votes in the CollegeInsider.com
Preseason Mid-Major Top 25, but dropped out of the most recent poll
released Nov. 15. Four of the Crimson's opponents in 2011-12 are
currently in the rankings, including Princeton (3), Butler (RV),
Boston University (RV) and Hartford (RV).
CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25
Preseason RV
Nov. 15 --
A CLASS Act
Senior co-captain Brogan Berry has been selected as a candidate
for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. Berry, a three-time All-Ivy
honoree and 1,000 point scorer, is a psychology concentrator at
Harvard and has been a member of the university's Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee for three years. During the 2009-10 academic
year she served as the committee's community service co-chair and
was responsible for raising more than $1,700 towards breast cancer
research with the event Bench Press for Breast Cancer. Berry is
also actively involved with the organization Athletes in Action, is
a member of Harvard's Isis Club, and has led her teammates in
several community service initiatives in the Cambridge
community.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in
School®, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total
student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in
athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their
communities. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must
be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable
achievements in four areas of excellence – community,
classroom, character and competition.
Berry is one of 30 women's basketball student-athletes up for the
award, and from the list of 30 candidates a national media
committee will select 10 finalists for the 2011-12 Lowe's Senior
CLASS Award in late January. Those 10 names will then be placed on
the official ballot for a nationwide vote. Fan balloting will be
coupled with votes from coaches and media to determine the
recipient of the award.
Welcome Back
The Crimson return three All-Ivy selections and a total of 10
student-athletes from last year's team which went 18-10 overall and
finished second in the Ivy League with a 10-4 conference mark.
Headlining that group is senior co-captain Brogan Berry, a
three-time All-Ivy honoree and first team pick in 2011. Victoria
Lippert has been named to the second team in each of the past two
seasons and Christine Clark was an Ivy League All-Rookie pick a
year ago. Each of the three finished among the top 10 in scoring in
the conference in 2010-11.
Starting Fresh
Harvard has welcomed five new faces to the team for 2011-12, a
recruiting class which was ranked 31st in the nation by ESPN. This
group includes guards Ali Curtis and Kaitlyn
Dinkins, and forwards Temi Fagbenle, Christine
Mansour and Erin
McDonnell.
"In my 30 years in the league I have had and seen some
extraordinary classes, and this one shoots to the top of the list,
" said Head Coach Kathy
Delaney-Smith. "With the addition of the Class of 2015, we are
extremely excited to continue striving for higher levels of success
while building on the championship tradition we have established
here at Harvard."
On the Bench
Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith returns for her 30th season as the
head coach of the Harvard women's basketball program.
Delaney-Smith's 456 career victories make her the winningest
women's basketball coach in Ivy League history and she ranks second
only to Princeton's legendary coach Pete Carril (514) for wins by
an Ancient Eight coach. Under her guidance the Crimson has won 11
Ivy League titles, has made six trips to the NCAA Tournament and
has twice appeared in the WNIT.
Kelly
Finley is in her fourth season as an assistant coach under
Delaney-Smith and will be joined on sidelines by first year
assistants Lindsay Hallion '08 and Juanise
Cornell. Kristan Strout returns for a fifth season as the
program's director of basketball operations.
Preseason Poll
With three returning All-Ivy selections and coming off an 18-10
season, the Harvard women's basketball team was picked second in
the 2011-12 Ivy League Preseason Poll. The Crimson, which has
finished second in the conference in each of the past three
seasons, received 117 points and garnered three of the poll's
first-place votes. Two-time defending Ivy League Champion Princeton
was tabbed first, receiving 133 points and 14 first-place votes,
while Yale (103) and Penn (68) rounded out the top four. Brown
(66), Columbia (52), Dartmouth (52) and Cornell (21) ranked fifth
through eighth, respectively.
2011-12 Ivy League Preseason Poll
1. Princeton (14) 133
2. Harvard (3) 117
3. Yale 103
4. Penn 68
5. Brown 66
6. Columbia 52
Dartmouth 52
8. Cornell 21
Captaining the Ship
Seniors Brogan Berry and Lindsay Louie were
chosen by their teammates as captains for the 2011-12 season. Berry
is a three-year starter and two-time team MVP, while Louie earned
the Harvard Pride Award following the 2009-10 season.
Opening Act
Harvard is 19-19 all-time in season openers and 17-15 under Head
Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. The Crimson fell to Iowa, 90-81, in it's
2011-12 opener to snap a two-game winning streak in season opening
contests.
A League of Their Own
Four Crimson were named to the All-Ivy teams in 2010-11, the most
of any school in the conference. Brogan Berry was a unanimous first
team selection while Victoria Lippert and Emma Markley '11 were
named to the second team. Christine Clark was unanimously voted to
the All-Rookie squad.
Light Up the Scoreboard
Harvard's 71.4 ppg led the Ivy League in 2010-11 and ranked 39th
in the NCAA. The Crimson return 64 percent of its scoring from a
year ago, including three of the conference's top 10 scorers.
Brogran Berry ranked second in the league with 13.9 ppg while
Victoria Lippert was fourth with 13.5 ppg. Christine Clark was the
eighth leading scorer in the Ivy League at 12.1 ppg.
Catch the Crimson in 2011-12
Harvard fans can watch each of the team's 12 home games in 2011-12
live online through GoCrimson.com. A women's basketball pass costs
just $59.95 and this year also includes audio broadcasts for the
team's games at Providence, New Hampshire and Brown. Click here to sign up today.
Inside Ivy League Basketball
"Inside Ivy League Basketball," an online radio show dedicated to
talking basketball in the Ancient Eight, launched Thursday, Nov. 10
on BlogTalkRadio.com. "Inside Ivy League Basketball" takes an
in-depth look at all the news and notes surrounding Ivy men's and
women's basketball on and off the courts. Click here to listen now.
