Friday, May 11, 2012

#23 Harvard Crimson (22-2) – NCAA Edition/How to order Ivy League Champion clothing

#23 Harvard Crimson (22-2) – NCAA Edition

 

Harvard Travels South to the University of Florida

 

The Crimson Netmen arrived on Wednesday evening in Gainesville, Florida – the site of their regional NCAA Championship bracket.  The #23 Harvard Crimson are the second seed and will face #45 Virginia Tech this Saturday at 9am.  The winner will most likely face the University of Florida, who was ranked #11 in the country in the last computer rankings and seeded first in this bracket.   The winner of this region will qualify for the Sweet 16 in Athens, Georgia.  You can follow the matches via live scoring at the University of Florida website (click here) as well as getting match updates via Twitter @HMTofficial.  If you would like to try Twitter, but don't have a clue...ask someone younger than 30 to help you...it's kind of fun!  You can view the interactive draw on the NCAA.com page.

 

Some of you might remember the last NCAA encounter between the Gators and the Crimson back in 1996 which was played in Cambridge.  The match was forced indoors due to rain and the Gators had to battle in the loud and dank Palmer-Dixon indoor courts.  Harvard would win 4-3 with Todd Meringoff pulling out the deciding match  against #2 Jason Appell to advance to the Sweet 16 in Georgia.  Other stars from that team included Thomas Blake (who defeated Damian Henkle), Mitty Arnold, Phil Tseng, Kunj Majmudar, Mike Passarella and Josh Hausman.

 

You can watch the NCAA preview video by clicking here.

 

Other awards and notes…

 

The Ivy awards have just come out and the Crimson was well represented.  Our top singles dog, Jonathan Pearlman, was a unanimous pick for the first team All-Ivy in singles.  Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster were also named first team All-Ivy in doubles.  Denis Nguyen was a second team selection in singles.   These awards recognize their hard work and contribution to the team. 

 

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N.B.

The Men's Tennis Ivy League Championship store is now open!  Visit www.Skor4packages.com and select the package code HCWG.
The store will be open until June 1st and then all orders will be processed and shipped. After June 1st the logos will still be available at www.GoCrimson.com/fanshop.



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Dave Fish
E. Scott Mead Family Head Coach of Men's Tennis
Harvard University Dept of Athletics
Murr Center
65 N. Harvard St.
Boston, MA 02163
fish@fas.harvard.edu

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