Feaster leads the team in personal fouls and was averaging only 22.6 minutes per game entering last night's contest.

It is imperative that Harvard find a way to keep Feaster out of foul trouble and on the court for greater periods of time.

3. Delaney Smith should also return Feaster to her physical, low-post game of last season.

Feaster has somewhat abandoned her low post play this year, preferring to step back shoot the trey.

"She appears to want the three," Delaney Smith said. "She's a short, Division I post-player, and she's not getting a lot of her shots in the paint."

Not that Feaster has been ineffective from long distance. Rather, the sophomore is making over 50 percent of her three-point attempts.

"I'm trying to be a little more versatile," Feaster said. "I feel as comfortable out there [behind the arc] as I do posting up."

A failure to make accurate entry passes into the post is also responsible for the paucity of inside scoring.

An example from last night: Harvard guards forced several passes into 6'3" freshman Alison Higgins, which resulted in turnovers.

"We have to give Allie [Higgins] the ball high. She likes the ball high, and we're not delivering the ball to her to fit her needs," Delaney Smith said. "We are just starting to pay attention to getting the ball into the five player, [and] we need to get more scoring from our post players."

But perhaps more than anything else, Harvard lacks the confidence and killer instinct necessary to win closely contested ballgames.

"I think when it gets down to two minutes we all have to get more aggressive and get assertive and want the ball and want to shoot the ball," Proudfit said. "We should have slaughtered [URI]. We were controlling them on defense, offensively, and on the boards."

If the women's basketball team is to win the Ivy League title this season, it must remedy these weaknesses and find the poise and mental toughness to excel in clutch situations.