In the last five minutes of last Saturday's game, junior center Fred Schernecker and James each missed one of two foul shots and then failed on the front end of a one-and-one.

Co-Captain Neil Phillips has hit only one of his last nine foul shots spanning the last four games.

Pressure Cooker: Harvard's press continues to strike fear in the minds of opposing coaches and probably is the top reason for the Crimson's improvement during the last six weeks.

"When you're going to get after people and run and press, you don't fear anybody," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "Pressure is an attitude, and that attitude is helping us to win."

Princeton and Penn committed only 21 turnovers in the Crimson's two games this weekend, but the press took both teams out of their offensive rhythm in the half-court offense.

"As long as we can press," Phillips said, "we play our style of basketball. I do think that Penn did a good job of bringing the ball up the court, but we didn't lose because of that."

Big Wins Are Hard to Come By: "Where we've come from in four years when these guys were freshmen, it's like night and day," said Roby, referring to the direction of the Harvard basketball program. "We just have to continue to get better and get a couple big wins under belt to let people know where our program is."

Pretty tight belt, coach. Harvard is 1-3 against the Ivy's other top three teams, Penn, Princeton and Dartmouth. The Quakers are 2-1, the Tigers are 2-1, and Dartmouth is 2-2. The Crimson won't win its first Ivy title without beating the Penns and Princetons in this world. Weekend Games

Friday

Yale at HARVARD

Princeton at Columbia

Penn at Cornell

Brown at Dartmouth

Saturday

HARVARD at Brown

Yale at Dartmouth

Penn at Columbia

Princeton at Cornell