North Carolina Coach Sam Perkins (Photo : Reuters)
Harvard and Northeastern have learned their NCAA tournament chances this evening as both locals are set to play their first games this coming Thursday. Harvard was given a number 13 seed on the Western area and will be playing North Carolina in Jacksonville, Florida. Moreover, Northeastern got a number 14 seed in the Midwest region and will be playinh on third-seeded Notre Dame in Pittsburgh.
The Huskies is ready top make their first appearance since 1991.
Harvard's game is already set at 7:20 PM and Northeastern will be having a 12:15 tipoff at Pittsburgh, according to The Boston Herald.
This upcoming game will be Harvard's fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament, where the Crimson are 2-5 overall.
The Crimson backed into the Ivy League's NCAA Tournament auto-bid which beats Yale on a 53-51 final score in a one-game playoffs vying for the conference season title. That game was made possible by Dartmouth's last-second comeback against Yale days prior.
The Crimson were in the lead scores this season because of senior guard Wesley Saunders, who has been averaging more than 16 points and four assists each game.
However, over the past two weeks the Crimson have been dealing with a major twist each time they looked up.
They were still caught in the swift events of the past nine days, which got them going from being on the brink of missing the tournament totally after losing to Yale on March 6 in their next-to-last game of the normal season and forcing a playoff game the next night since they managed to beat Brown while Yale lost. After surviving Saturday's Ivy League playoff at the Palestra, it instantly put their team in this position again, Boston Globe reported.
