The 2014–15 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team represented

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during the

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. The Crimson, led by eighth year head coach

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, played their home games at

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and were members of the

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. They finished the season 22–8, 11–3 in Ivy League play to share to the regular season Ivy League title with

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. They earned the Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament after defeating Yale in a

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, the ninth one-game playoff tie breaker in Ivy League history. In the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson lost to North Carolina in the second round.

Recruits

Class of 2014

Class of 2015

Roster

Preseason

Harvard was again the unanimous preseason top team in the Ivy League media poll. The team entered the season ranked 25th in the

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Schedule

In the penultimate game of the regular season on March 6, the team lost to

, falling behind them by a game in the standings with one game to play. However, the teams finished the season tied for the Ivy League title and Harvard won the one-game playoff on March 14 to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The 2014–15 team was the first Ivy League team to make a fifth consecutive postseason appearance since the 2001–02 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team completed a seven-year run for Princeton. They were the third Ivy team to make four consecutive NCAA basketball tournament appearances, a feat last accomplished by the

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. On March 19 in the 2015 NCAA tournament the team overcame a 16-point second half deficit against fourth-seeded

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to take the lead before surrendering it in the final minute of play. , - !colspan=9 style="background:#991111; color:#FFFFFF;", Regular season , - !colspan=9 style="background:#991111; color:#FFFFFF;", Ivy League one game playoff , - !colspan=9 style="background:#991111; color:#FFFFFF;", NCAA tournament Source:

Honors

Wesley Saunders Wesley Saunders (born June 16, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Memphis Hustle of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Harvard Crimson. High school career Saunders lettered in basketba ...

was First Team All-Ivy selection, while

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and Steve Moundou-Missi were second team selections. Moundou-Missi was the Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Saunders joined Don Flemming as the only players to have earned three consecutive first team all-league selections. Saunders was a 2014–15 Men's All-District I Team selection by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

Rankings

References

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Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Harvard Crimson men's basketball The Harvard Crimson men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at Harvard University. The team currently competes in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and plays home ga ...