"We need some wins and we need them quick," Phillips said. "We have to pull together."
Now or Never
If the Crimson doesn't pull together now, it will have a very, very long Ivy season. Dartmouth isn't the only strong team among the Ancient Eight this year.
Princeton, which many experts expected to be a middle-of-the-pack Ivy team this season, defeated Big East power Seton Hall earlier this year. Cornell returns a number of key players from last year's second-place squad. Even Columbia, which was picked to finish near the bottom of the division, held a lead at halftime against national-power Wyoming.
And Harvard lost to Merrimack. By eight.
"Coming into this season I said that this team was a mystery to me, and tonight was what I had feared," Roby said. "Unless we're firing on all cylinders, I guess we're just not very good."
Harvard has to wake up now, or else the nightmare is just beginning.