Last year's Crimson blocked-shots leader had just seven all year.

Mohler has also cleaned the rebounding glass effectively--averaging nearly six boards per game--and is just two behind Phillips for second place on the team in that department.

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This week's trivia question comes to us from our New York correspondent, who asks: Who is currently second in scoring in the Belgian professional basketball league, averaging nearly 30 points per game? Answer below.

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From the How Time Flies department: This year's team is obviously very different from last year's 15-9 squad in a number of ways, but you may not realize just how different it is. To wit:

* Last year, three players accounted for 74 percent of Harvard's scoring. Through Harvard's first four games this year, the five top-scoring cagers were responsible for only 71 percent of Crimson points.

* All but one of Harvard's players--Pat Smith--has recorded his career high in one of the Crimson's first five ballgames, a fact which shows you how little court experience the 1985-'86 cagers had before the year began.

* Nine Cantabs have 10 or more points on the year, and the other six players on the roster are likely to reach that mark before long. Last year, only seven hoopsters reached the decade mark.

* The 1984-85 Crimson shot a blistering 52.3 percent from the floor, but with many of those dead-eyes graduated, Harvard is hitting barely 45 percent of its shots (134-for-296) this year.

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But while many things may change, some, it seems, will always stay the same in the Harvard men's basketball program.

Take free throws, for instance. Harvard has led the nation from the charity stripe the last two seasons, hitting at a 81.1 percent clip last year, the third highest mark in NCAA history.

And the year before last, the Crimson set an all-time, all-division NCAA record by connecting on 82.3 percent of its free throw opportunities.

Harvard is at it again this year already, hitting 76 of its 95 free throws (80 percent)--while opponents, given 21 more chances, have only managed to hit the same number as the Crimson.