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The Vermont men's basketball team begins the 2016 portion of its season with a road test at Ivy League power Harvard on Sunday in Cambridge, Mass. Tipoff against the four-time defending Ivy League Champs is scheduled for 2 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN3 with a simulcast on the Ivy League Digital Network.
 
The game can also be heard locally on ESPN 101.3 FM with AJ Kanell on the call.

RELATED LINKS
Vermont Game Notes (.pdf)
Harvard Game Notes
Harvard Game Coverage: Live Video (ESPN3) -- Live Audio -- Live Stats
Siena Game Coverage: Game Recap -- CatamounTV Highlights
 
Last Time Out vs. Siena: Vermont closed out the 2015 calendar year in style staying unbeaten at home and taking down MAAC rival Siena at Patrick Gym, 73-64 on Dec. 29. For the second straight season, Trae Bell-Haynes torched Siena in the second half as he scored 17 of his game-high 19 points after halftime. Kurt Steidl scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half as well to go along with five boards. Vermont turned up the intensity defensively in the second half and took a 44-43 lead at the 14:31 mark when Steidl buried a three-pointer curling off a screen. Siena answered quickly with four straight points on jumpers from Oliver and Kenny Wormley. The two sides went blow-for-blow over the next ten minutes and found themselves tied at 56 with 6:34 to play. That's when Bell-Haynes took over and keyed a 16-6 Vermont run to close the game. The sophomore hit a triple to ignite a stretch of seven straight Catamount points, all of which he scored, to put UVM up by eight with two minutes to play.
 
About Harvard: After struggling out of the gates this season, Harvard has found its stride having won four of its last five and comes into Sunday's game fresh off a 77-57 win over Wofford earlier in the week. Harvard's non-conference schedule featured three teams that have been featured the Associated Press Top 10 and six teams ranked in the RPI Top 150. The Crimson shot a season high 63.8% in the win over Wofford, an NCAA Tournament team a year ago, while dishing out 22 assists. Junior big man Zena Edosomwan powers the Crimson averaging a double-double this season scoring 14.5 points and grabbing 10.7 rebounds per game. Freshman Corey Johnson, who played prep ball at Vermont Academy, ranks second on the team in scoring with 9.7 per game. Tommy Amaker has led the Crimson to four straight NCAA Tournaments, five Ivy League titles and six straight 20-win seasons. He is 167-86 overall at Harvard.
 
Series History: This will be the 30^th all-time meeting between Harvard and Vermont. Harvard has won three of the last four meetings in the all-time series and leads overall, 18-11
 
Last Meeting vs. Harvard: Last season the Catamounts and Crimson locked up in a tight defensive affair that took two overtimes to decide a winner. Harvard outscored Vermont 14-2 in the second overtime to win 64-52 in front of 2,628 fans at Patrick Gym. Wesley Saunders scored 25 points to lead Harvard while Hector Harold was the high man for Vermont with 12.
 
Don't Go Breaking My Urquhart: Drew Urquhart, after scoring in double figures only three times in 2014-15, has reached double digits in each of his last three games. He is averaging 10.3 points per game during the stretch.
 
Cats in January: Since the start of the 2011-12 season, Vermont has gone 29-7 in the month of January. The Cats were 7-3 last season and 8-1 in 2013-14.