The Crimson cagers deserved a curtain call last night in Providence when they upstaged Brown 72-59, their biggest margin of victory since the first regular season game against Springfield.

The second triumph over the Bruins in three weeks was especially gratifying because Brown had been the brightest star in the Ivy League after beating Columbia and Cornell before getting the rasberry last night.

The Bruins actually started off out-shining the offense with an early 10-2 lead but began to bow out of the ball game when Harvard center Steve Irion entered mainstage on the way to a 22 point performance.

The Crimson took a 31-29 lead with it into intermission, with the difference being a technical foul called on Brown's Azhar Haneef when he flubbed a stuff shot and was caught hanging on to the rim.

Brown drew close on a couple of occasions when play resumed but the Crimson's offensive repartee seldom flagged as the lead gradually mounted. The Bruins trailed 43-37 with 11:30 left to play and received the ball when a foul was called after the basket. That was the closest Brown came until a Chuck Mack fieldgoal made it 48-43 Harvard.

Backdoor Layup

The Crimson then began to really pan the home squad when Jonas Honick spot lighted Gary Ackerman for a backdoor layup that pushed the lead to 50-43. Ackerman went on to finish the evening with 18 points. Most of his scoring came off plexiglass pummeling inside. Honick also wound up in double figures, contributing 13 markers.

After Mack misfired on a jumper with 8:00 left to play, Honick pulled up off the fastbreak and hit from down town to make it 54-45.

The Harvard margin climbed 11 when Jeff Hill dropped a pair of free throws and it was 58-46 after Hill lobbed an alley oop scoring pass to Irion.

Honick followed a layup by hitting on both halves of a one-and-one situation to give the hoopsters a 64-50 edge that just about led down the final curtain. The cagers maintained the lead as Hill hit a basket in traffic and was fouled on the play.

A tinge of theatrical high drama was added to the resounding win when reserve center Charles Bergen netted a layup with 26 seconds remaining for his first points of the season. The cagers are hoping to bring down the house again tonight as they try for an encore performance at New Haven against Yale.