Word: second-half
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...Crimson (16-4, 8-0 Ivy) survived a second-half rally by the Big Red (7-14, 1-7) to remain perfect in the Ivy League. The 77-71 victory over Cornell also extended the team’s winning streak to ten games...
...late-game poise Harvard showed in its clutch, early-season road wins at Fairfield and Rider was hard to find for the second straight week. As happened at Princeton on Jan. 31, the Crimson (10-9, 2-4 Ivy) owned second-half leads in both of this weekend’s games, only to surrender crushing runs unbecoming of Harvard’s veteran lineup...
...shooting, meanwhile, was fast, furious and off the mark, especially compared to Brown’s 61.5 percent second-half performance. Despite his team-high 21 points, Harvey had the Crimson’s most inauspicious line, launching 28 shots—nearly half as many as the entire Brown team—while converting just eight, and hitting on just 3-of-11 three-point attempts...
Harvard’s second-half defense showed visible improvement as it befuddled the Yale offensive scheme, possession after possession. The Elis shot a miserable 24 percent from the field in the second frame, as the Crimson tightened its defensive coils...
Anchored by veritable thieves—junior point guard Bev Moore and sophomore center Reka Cserny, who swiped five steals each—the defense allowed just 13 second-half points. Harvard held Princeton scoreless for the first four minutes of the second frame...