Most matchups between two of the top 10 women's basketball teams in the country are exciting in and of themselves. But when you throw other factors into the mix -- a bitter rivalry that has played out on the biggest of stages and produced rather extraordinary drama, for instance -- you get something a little bit more than your run-of-the-mill clash of two national powerhouses.
In these cases, you get one of the most highly anticipated regular season basketball games in school history.
On Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym, nationally ranked No. 10 Tufts will host No. 1 Amherst in the latest chapter of one of the NESCAC's best rivalries. Aside from the hysteria that would typically accompany a matchup of elite teams, this weekend's contest will also be played against the backdrop of a contentious history, one that hasn't exactly been kind to the Jumbos in recent years.
Since the beginning of the 2007-08 season, Tufts has won 66 of the 77 (.857) games it has played, but not once during
