But Brown knows how it feels to come in second place. The bears have finished second the last two years.

"I feel so great," Brown Captain Shonica Tunstall said. "I feel like I've been waiting for this so long. We finally did it."

Tunstall finally got a championship ring in her senior year.

"We did it for Shonica," Brown sophomore guard Michelle Pagliaro said. "Shonica leads by example. I remember when she went down in the pre-season with a sprained ankle.

"We were pratically in tears when the doctor told us she'd be out for eight weeks. But she came back. She's incredible."

Harvard's Captain, Healey, just missed sharing the title with Tunstall. After the game the two captains hugged.

"You want to end your career with a championship," Healey reflected. "But [senior] Heather [Harris] and I got ours last year."

Not everyone at Briggs Cage was as charitable as Healey.

The Brown fans came out in force and gave the Crimson fits all night. They seemed more like Duke fans actually.

Whenever the Harvard guards would touch the ball, the Brown crowd would hum, "Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh."

Several times during the night they broke into choruses of "Aiir-ball, Air-ball," and with the game well in hand, they crooned an old basketball favorite: "Na-Na-Na-Na...Hey, Hey, Goodbye!"

Looking on in amusement were two reporters from the BBC, who were shooting a documentary.

"We're just filming around Boston and Harvard's a part of Boston so we thought we'd stop by," correspondent Brian Davis said. "I like this game. It's very exciting."