CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – No. 2 Harvard (12-1, 5-1 Ivy) begins the journey toward what it hopes will be a third-consecutive CSA Team Championship as the Crimson ready for play at the 2022 Potter Cup. This year's championship is hosted by Penn and will feature a total of eight teams vying for national supremacy.
All quarterfinal matches will be played on Friday (Feb. 18), followed by the semifinals on Saturday (Feb. 19) and the finals on Sunday (Feb. 20). The Potter Cup also contains a consolation bracket, meaning all eight teams are guaranteed a total of three matches on the weekend.
Harvard enters the tournament as the No. 2 seed and will face the No. 7 seed Virginia Cavaliers in its first match, Friday at 11 a.m. The Crimson will then take on either No. 3 Trinity or No. 6 Columbia on Saturday.
Penn is the tournament's top seed after going a perfect 16-0 on the regular season.
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What to Know
- Harvard is gunning for its third straight Potter Cup and 34th National Championship all-time.
- Victor Crouin, Marwan Tarek, Samuel Scherl and George Crowne were all selected to the All-Ivy First-Team this past Wednesday. Harvard's four honorees were the most of any Ivy League School.
- Five of the eight participating teams in this year's tournament are Ivy-League members (Harvard, Penn, Yale, Princeton and Columbia).
- UVA is the lone entrant in the draw that the Crimson has not faced this season. Harvard has faced the other six participating schools once, going 5-1 in these matches.
- Scherl (12-0) and Crowne (10-0) both went undefeated as individuals this season.
- Harvard individuals are a combined 101-16 on the year.
- The Crimson has swept seven opponents by a score of 9-0.
- Harvard has not lost a match at the third or fourth positions on the ladder this year going a combined 26-0 at these spots.
- Under Mike Way, the Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 Endowed Coach for Squash at Harvard University, the Crimson is 22-8 in Potter Cup play.
Leading the Way:
Mike Way is in his 12th season as the Gregory Lee '87 and Russell Ball '88 Endowed Coach for Squash at Harvard University. Way boasts an overall record of 147-30 during his time at Harvard and has won three National Championships.
Up Next:
Harvard will look forward to the CSA Men's Individual National Championships, held back in Philadelphia March 4-6. Draws will be announced the week of the tournament.
