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8. The Big Dance
April 29, 1995
The women's water polo team entered the Eastern Regional Tournament with two aims: to qualify for the NCAA Tournament and to avenge two previous overtime losses to Brown.
The goals came in hand-in-hand: to get to the tournament the Crimson needed to vanquish the Bears. No problem. Harvard gave Brown a dose of its own medicine, gaining a 13-12 victory in overtime.
The win over Brown locked up a second-place finish for the Crimson in the Eastern Regional and a trip to water polo's Big Dance.
Harvard did not fair as well at the NCAA Tournament; the team entered the tournament seeded eighth out of eight and returned home with an eighth-place finish.
Nevertheless, as the saying goes, "You have to be in it to win it." And the Crimson was in it.
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