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Daily Digits: A Year in Numbers

1,174Career points scored by women's basketball senior tri-captain Jess Powers, who is third on the all-time Tufts scoring list. She became the eighth Tufts player to hit the thousand-point mark in a Dec. 10 win over Wellesley.

118Career goals scored by women's lacrosse senior tri-captain Dena Miller. Miller became the 10th player in program history to hit the centennial mark with her first of two goals in an Apr. 11 loss to powerhouse Middlebury.

9Hamilton Pool records broken by the 2005-2006 men's swimming team. Under second-year head coach Adam Hoyt, the Jumbos swam their way to a highest-ever second-place finish at NESCACs and 10th-place finish at Nationals.

56Margin of victory by the men's cross country team at NCAA New England Championship as it took its third straight Regional title en route to a fifth-place finish at Nationals. Five runners finished in the top 20, and six Jumbos earned All-Region honors.

1996Last time the volleyball team went to the NCAA tournament. This year, Coach Cora Thompson, a member of that 1996 team, led the Jumbos to a 29-7 clip, a No. 2 regional ranking, and a run to the Regional Semifinals of the NCAA tournament this year.

4,5Rankings held by Tufts in the Director's Cup standings, after the fall and winter seasons, respectively. The Cup is presented annually to the best athletics program in the country, as determined by postseason appearances in select sports.

16:51.04Time run by sophomore Catherine Beck to break Nancy Benson's 1988 school record in the 5,000 meters (16:54.4). Beck's time gave her fourth place in the Olympic Development 5,000 at the Penn Relays and placed her at No. 2 on the National list.

2Number of times the men's basketball team was thwarted by Amherst in overtime, both in the final two weeks of the season. The first came in the NESCAC title game, and the other in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.