The Crimson basketball team, recovering from its ignominious performance against Cornell Saturday, bombed Dartmouth, 96 to 80, last night at Hanover.

Brilliant shooting by Keith Sedlacek and Merle McClung gave Harvard its second Ivy League victory of the season. In the first half Sedlacek scored 21-points, hitting nine of 19 shots, mostly jump shots from outside the circle. He had 29 points for the game, bringing his League scoring average to 25.0.

McClung was just as impressive. After being held to eight points in the first half, he started bucketing his fallaway from the corner and his patented McClung Over-the-Head Flip, and wound up with 32 points. It was at Dartmouth last year that McClung set the all-time Harvard scoring record with 39 points.

The sophomore-dominated Indians never threatened. Harvard took the early lead, expanded it to 47-35 at half-time, and pulled away by 20 points before Coach Floyd Wilson started substituting freely. Although Dartmouth has the tallest team in the League (with two starters at 6-7 and one at 6-5), McClung and Barry Williams dominated the rebounding.

Brilliant Shooting

The Indians never could put together a hot streak to counterbalance the Crimson's brilliant shooting--42 out of 79 from the floor.

Dartmouth won the freshman contest, 67 to 64.

Harvard's next Ivy League game will be against Brown in the IAB Saturday, and the quintet will close out its pre-exam period activities against Dartmouth here next Wednesday. Barring unforeseen disaster, the Crimson should win both games, and take a respectable 4-1 Ivy record into the exam period recess.