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Cagers Looking Up, Ahead to Next Year

Phillips excellent play limited the time givento two other juniors, Tedd Evers and KevinCollins, who both played well early in the season.

Tri-Captain Kyle Dodson was fifth on the teamin scoring, and played a greater role in theoffense when the Crimson began to look insidemore.

Center: Tri-Captain Bill Mohler andjunior David Lang shared time in the pivot. Mohlerwas an outstanding shot-blocker, and finished theseason with 50 rejections.

On offense, the Crimson centers were helpedwhen the offense began to look inside more. Mohlerposted career-high offensive numbers (6.6 p.p.g.,5.9 r.p.g.) after a slow start while Lang chippedin 3.4 p.p.g.

Coaching: Roby improved greatly as agame coach as the season progressed. He becamemore adept at calling timeouts before changes inmomentum became too costly, rather than after itwas too late.

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Roby was also flexible with his strategy,willingly changing things that weren't working, onboth offense and defense.

When it was clear that Harvard wasn't gettingenough rebounding, he shifted from constantpressure to a two-three zone. And Roby moved moremen into the paint to improve the inside game andto get additional spacing for the perimetershooters.

The Crimson has gradually improved duringRoby's three-year tenure. Next year, when Harvardwill a squad spearheaded by five seniors, theCrimson should be in a position to make a run forit first-ever Ivy title.NEIL PHILLIPS (15)

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