Fusco has been honored by the ECAC eight times so far this year, twice as Player of the Week and six times on the Honor Roll. He's been noted by the Ivy League for his performance 13 times, every week but the one during which the Crimson was idle for exams.

He is also rewriting the Harvard record book. He is presently enjoying the fifth-best single-season point total (his sophomore year ranks eighth), and he is Harvard's fourth all-time leading scorer with 160 career points, standing just one point shy of third place.

Fusco will climb no higher than third this year. If he decides to turn down the Hartford Whalers' offer and days a Harvard for his senior year, he will, baring injury, become the Crimson's all-time leading scorer and its first 200-point man.

In order to become the all-time leading scorer in ECAC history. Fusco would have to have a truly great year next season.

Assuming six more games this year, four ECAC playoff games and two NCAA playoff games, at three points a game. Fusco would finish the year with a 178 career points.

The ECAC record belongs to Cornell's Lance Nethery, with 271 in 1975-79.

So Fusco would need 93, not an unimaginable figure and 14 short of the ECAC single-season record of 108, Clarkson's Dave Taylor in 1976-77).

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Now a somewhat serious look at the upcoming ECAC quarterfinal.

First, the Princeton-RPI match-up that everyone's been waiting for.

This game was first played as the Christians vs, the Lions a millennium or two ago, and don't expect the outcome to be any different this time around.

Certainly, the fans in Troy will be little more educated or forgiving than the crowd in Rome was.

One thing the Tigers have going for them is tradition--they were last in the playoffs in 1968.

RPI, on the other hand, is the defending ECAC champion and has won--oh, about 25 in a row.

The Engineers, you may know, have a member of the 1984 Canadian Olympic Team playing on their secondline.