Attandance: 1016.

"We went straight man and we went to sometraps, too," Blaney said. "It was two things. Thedefensive intensity just picked up and once we gotour running game going, that resulted in some easybaskets for us."

And when the Crusaders did break down on "D,"they found that fouling the Crimson could be justas profitable. Harvard shot only 42 percent fromthe foul line, hitting only five of 12 attempts ineach half.

But even if Harvard hit all of its foul shots,it still would have lost by five. The problem wason the offensive end. After scoring his 21stpoint, Mitchell found his teammates unable to workthe ball back to him. He only managed one morefield goal attempt over the last 18 minutes of thegame.

"We didn't react well to the pressure. We shottoo quickly," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said."That's what the trap is designed to do. You'renot going to be able to run a set of play whenpeople are double-teaming you. You have to get theball reversed, take the ball into the lane andmake something happen."

But the only thing happening for the Crimsonwas seeing the Crusaders rebound its missed shotsand quickly start up the other way.

The Good Part

The entire game didn't belong to Holy Crossoutright. Trailing, 15-8, just six minutes intothe game, the Crimson exploded on a 20-8 runbehind Co-Captain Fred Schernecker, who finishedwith 17 points, and Mitchell.

Schernecker's two three-point buckets got theCrimson started as he and Mitchell both workedinside for three easy layups to spark Harvard to a28-23 lead with eight minutes remaining in thehalf.

Holy Cross responded with a 16-0 run of its ownover the next three minutes behind Dickerson andfreshman Bill Walker, who tallied 11 points on5-for-6 shooting. Mitchell's 10 points at the endof the first half and the beginning of the secondclosed the gap to 46-43.

And then the Crusaders got the stick