The 2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team represented

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during the

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. The Crimson, led by seventh 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 27–5, 13–1 in Ivy League play to win the Ivy League championship and earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, as a 12-seed, the Crimson upset 5-seed Cincinnati in the first round before losing in the second round to 4-seed Michigan State.

Preseason

On September 27, ''

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'' Scott Gleeson named Harvard the 31st best team in the country and projected the team to earn a number 8 seed in the

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. When the preseason

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was released on October 17, three-time Ivy League defending champion Harvard received 28 points (the 32nd highest point total). When the preseason

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poll was released, Harvard had 46 points (the 31st highest total). ''

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'' listed Harvard 20th in its College Basketball edition. Its support was largely based upon the return of 2013 Ivy Rookie of the Year Siyani Chambers and the 2013 Ivy League scoring champion Wesley Saunders as well as the return of Kyle Casey and

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, who had

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ted the previous season due to the 2012 Harvard cheating scandal. Casey and Curry had been 2011–12 All-Ivy League first and second team selections, respectively. Harvard was the unanimous selection of the 17-member Ivy League media poll selection committee when it was released on October 23, 2013. Harvard was also the preseason selection of ''

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'' and

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, but ''

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'' selected them second to

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. Saunders was selected as the preseason Ivy League player of the year according to ''Athlon Sports'', ''Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook'', ''Lindy's Sports'', NBCSports.com and ''Sporting News'' and was a CollegeInsider.Com Lou Henson Preseason Mid-Major All-America Team selection. Both Curry and Chambers were preseason

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watchlist selections. The team selected Casey and Curry to be its co-

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Recruits

Class of 2013

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's multiple times and reclassify into the class of 2013 while pursuing a post-graduate year at

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. Edosomwan declined basketball scholarships from

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, Wake Forest,

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, Notre Dame,

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, Vanderbilt, and

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to attend Harvard. He is the first player rated among the top 100 by Scout.com to ever commit to Harvard.

Class of 2014

On September 29, 2013 4-star recruit Chris Egi and 3-star recruit Andre Chatfield both made verbal commitments to Harvard. Egi is the second top 100 recruit in two years for Harvard.

Roster

Schedule

Harvard opened its season on November 10 with a victory over in-state

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rival Holy Cross at the

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. They then defeated

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rival on November 12 in the home opener at

. After scoring 14 points and adding 6 assists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks while playing 37 minutes in the first game of the season, Curry missed the next three games due to a foot injury. After starting the season 4–0, the team lost its first game on the road against

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on November 24. Curry re-aggravated his foot against Colorado and was described as out indefinitely by Amaker. In the

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, Harvard defeated

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, Green Bay and

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to win the November 27–30 tournament. , - !colspan=9 style="background:#991111; color:#FFFFFF;", Regular season , - !colspan=9 style="background:#991111; color:#FFFFFF;", NCAA tournament

Honors

On March 11 Saunders was named to the District I (ME, VT, NH, RI, MA, CT) team by the

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(USBWA). Saunders was listed on The

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Division I All-District 13 first team on March 12.

Rankings

References

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