Harvard Could Beat North Carolina

Apparently they can play some ball in the Ivy League. Okay maybe Harvard wouldn't beat UNC, though, fellow Ivy Leaguer, Penn only lost by 15 to the Tar Heels.

Still the team that just went down to Chapel Hill to beat UNC comes home and loses at home to Harvard, 82-70. So, you could at least make connection. Or, you could chalk this one up to the classic let down game and/or looking past a presumed gimme.

''I tried to pre-warn them,'' said [Boston College coach, Al] Skinner after one of the Eagles' more disappointing regular season losses in many years. ''We were capable of being this team and capable of being another team.''
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''I told them its a short trip from the main house to the big house to the out house,'' Skinner said.

Apparently, Coach Skinner tried to give them a message.

The Eagles were guaranteed to struggle when their best player, guard Tyrese Rice, was held to only 3 points for the first 36 minutes. The best guard tonight was Harvard's Jeremy Lin who went for 27 points and did his damage inside -- 9-11 shooting from inside the arc.

So BC follows up handing the top team in the country their first defeat by coming home and losing to what was a 7-6 Harvard team that had losses to Boston University, Northeastern and William and Mary. It doesn't erase the win from Sunday, but it sure makes it look like a fluke.