Yes, Harvard Beat Boston College!

Yes, it did happen!!! Not only did Harvard Crimson basketball team beat a ranked team for the first time in history, but they did it to the Boston College Eagles, the team that had just beaten North Carolina Tar Heels – up to that point the number one ranked college team. Isn’t this why college basketball is so wonderful, tnone of the NBA predictability here. It was such an upset that Google News search produced 442 articles covering the story.

From Around the Web

• Harvard’s Amaker Calls Upset Win a Defining Moment, Erik Matuszewski, Bloombeg.com

Before beating Boston College, Harvard’s most significant basketball win may have been an 88-82 victory over Bill Bradley’s Princeton University team that reached the Final Four of the 1965 NCAA tournament. Harvard’s only NCAA tournament appearance came from a 1946 team led by Wyndol Gray, who went on to play for the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association.

• Men’s Basketball Stuns No. 17 Boston College, 82-70, Ted Kirby, The Harvard Crimson
  

  Lin quite possibly had the game of his career. The junior posted an unreal stat line, shooting 11-of-16 from the floor, dishing out eight assists against two turnovers, and adding six steals to flabbergast the Eagle ballhanders. Defensively, he went head-to-head with an All-American guard, Rice, who had just torched UNC for 25 points in the previous game. Rice, BC’s leading scorer entering the contest, had just three points until there was 4:02 remaining in the game. He finished with 14 points.

• Harvard puts an end to BC’s celebration, Andy Katz, ESPN.com

Harvard beat Boston College Wednesday for the biggest win in Crimson history, just three days after BC pulled off one of its most impressive wins in its program history. BC had beaten North Carolina before, in Chapel Hill, in the ACC tournament and even in the NCAA tournament. But it was knocking of this Carolina team that made it historic since this Carolina team was a unanimous No. 1 and was being billed as a world-beater.

• Harvard upsets No. 17 Eagles, Julian Benbow, Boston Globe
  

  Harvard was the annoying Ivy League team that passed the ball without so much as taking a dribble. The Crimson ran the clock to 10 seconds before making a move toward the basket. If BC’s plan was to keep North Carolina from speeding, Harvard was trying everything to keep the game at a glacier’s pace.

• Giant-killer Eagles upset by Jeremy Lin, Harvard, Rich Thompson, Boston Herald
• Harvard Upsets No. 17 Boston College, The Associated Press, New York Times
  

  The architect of the most significant regular-season victory in Crimson history was junior guard Jeremy Lin, who connected on 11-of-16 from the floor for 27 points and added eight assists and six steals. Lin and his mates refused to be beaten. The Crimson played stubborn defense and executed a patient spread offense that produced points while draining the shot clock.

• In a New Era at Harvard, New Questions of Standards, Pete Thamel, The New York Times
  

  The recruiting analyst Dave Telep of Scout.com called Amaker’s potential class the best in Harvard history and, perhaps, in Ivy League history.