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Free throws made the difference for the Crimson in the first half. Although Harvard led by nine, both Harvard and Penn made an equal number of buckets from the field. The Quakers narrowly edged out the Crimson in shooting percentage...
Penn’s downfall came in the 12 fouls it committed, which translated to 13 points for Harvard on 16 shots from the charity line. Throughout the first half, the Crimson committed only six fouls. This difference represented an important turnaround from the night before, when Princeton racked up 15 points off of free throws in a game decided by one possession...
...tables turned in the second half as Harvard reached the bonus mark with 3:28 to go. Penn’s 87 percent free-throw percentage and 15 points off of fouls alone in the second half chipped away at the Crimson’s lead and nearly allowed the visiting team to mount a successful comeback effort...
...Crimson was not up to the challenge, particularly in the first half. The hosts shot a middling 7-of-27 from the floor in the opening 20 minutes, allowing Princeton to pull away to a 29-20 lead at intermission...
...majority of the squad’s troubles took place behind the arc, where Harvard missed all but three of its 15 attempts. Most crippling was a string of seven straight long-range misses over a span of six minutes late in the first half, a drought coinciding with a 13-0 run by the Tigers...