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Jeremy Lin And Harvard Hoops: Meet Cinderella

If you haven’t been following the goings-on in Cambridge this year hoops-wise, you are forgiven. The Ivies usually don’t merit much attention, and Harvard in particular has been a basketball Siberia since...well, forever.

↵But the times, they are a-changin’, due to the heroics of the Crimson’s star point guard Jeremy Lin and the hiring of head coach Tommy Amaker.

↵SI’s Pablo Torre chronicles how the Crimson have made a “private-equity like” turnaround (in Harvard’s words, of course). Check it out. When Harvard upsets a 4-seed in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, you’ll thank me.

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