Columbia at Harvard

Harvard will surely miss Brian Cusworth. He played his last game, after using up his eligibility. Cusworth was averaging 23-ppg in Ivy League play along with shooting well over 50% and pulling down 12 boards. He was also their presence on both ends of the court. Harvard is not a deep team and now they will be missing a lot from both ends of the floor and may take more time to create offense. These teams have played UNDER this number in nine of their last 10 meetings. The Harvard bench was getting about 45 minutes a game and Cusworth was getting 38 minutes. It just means all those bench minutes are gone to fill-in for a missing starter. Harvard will be hard pressed to maintain a 76-ppg offense and especially against a methodical Columbia team that scores just 64-points and allows 62-points. Look for this one to go UNDER the posted total.