* Free-throw percentage, at 74 percent.

* Three-point field-goal percent age. This one's a no-brainer. Harvard shot an amazing 44 percent from downtown. Yale, the next-best team, shot 34 percent.

* Scoring offense. Not surprising, really, at 77.7 points per game.

The problem was in scoring defense, where Harvard finished seventh--allowing 70.8 points per night.

"It was just an amazing season," Flandermeyer said." "It was an incredible team to play on."

There's even more good news. Both Maher and Butler were two time Players of the Week, and freshman point guard Elizabeth Proudfit won the rookie of the Week award the times.

"I thought we could win the Ivy League this year with the talent we had," Maher said. "But next year's team should be just as good. A lot of players will step up and have really good seasons."

Wait 'til next year. If Yogi didn't say it, he should have.

All-Timers

These were heady times for Coach Kathy Delaney Smith.

In her last four recruiting classes, she has come up with Maher and Flandermeyer--who finished one two on Harvard's all-time scoring list--as well as Butler, who finished with the single-season Harvard rebounding record with 285 boards.

Butler averaged a double-double each night, with 16.2 points and 11.8 rebounds.

Those Darn Bears

Harvard and Brown are developing the kind of rivalry that use to he the exclusive province of the Red Sox and the Yankees.

But while the two teams match up evenly on paper, the Bears have taken the last four matchups.

"Its hard to say why," Flandermeyer said. "They just had two great games against us this year. The games have all been very close. They just get really "up' to play us."

It's not for a lack of familiarity between the teams. Delaney Smith had her entire team watch the Bears play twice this season--once against Northeastern in Boston (a 61-62 loss for the Bears) and again against Cornell at Brown (an 82-63 Bear win).

"It was really funny," Flandermeyer said. "They were paying more attention to us than the game. During timeouts they would keep looking at us in the stands."