The key baskets combined with Harvard shots that wouldn't fall created the decisive deficit.

But, it was a different night, different gym, different opponent, different Crimson on Saturday.

The game against Yale featured an aggressive Harvard squad that took control from the beginning and looked back only to see the Elis lagging behind.

A 16 point halftime lead was increased to a 29 point victory.

"The starters came out totally intense," said junior Katy Davis, who posted a career high 14 points in the victory. "We had three steals in the first few minutes of the game, and that got everything else going."

"I think our defense is mainly what set the tone last night," said Gettleman (9 points).

"We need to play tough pressure defense in order to get our offense going," Davis said.

The early steals helped restore the confidence and aggresiveness that was lacking the night before.

Freshman Allison Feaster led the Harvard scoring charge with 23 points followed by Davis, while captain Tammy Butler owned the boards with 15 rebounds.

Perhaps most encouraging about the victory was the total domination displayed by the women.

"We just hadn't put teams away in the past," Butler said. "After the half we just came out like it was a 0-0 game instead of the 16 points we were up."

Although split personalities may be disasterous, in basketball two well played halves make an impressive whole.

HARVARD, 83-54 at Payne Whitney Gymnasium Harvard  34  49  --  83 Yale  18  36  --  54

HARVARD: Butler 2-10 5-6 9; Reinhard 2-4 0-0 5; James 1-2 0-0 3; Black 0-1 3-6 3; Davis 6-7 2-2 14; Feaster 9-12 5-6 23; Grossman 0-6 0-0 0; Gelman 4-8 1-2 9; Proudfit 3-8 0-0 6; Brandt 1-5 0-0 2; Gettelman 4-11 0-0 9. TOTALS 32-74 16-22 83.

YALE: Demmo 2-14 0-1 5; Offer 1-2 2-4 4; Kalich 5-17 5-8 15; Totte 0-5 0-2 0; Hardaker 1-2 1-2 4; Willaims 0-4 5-7 5; Pearson 0-1 2-2 2; Porber 5-11 9-14 19. TOTALS: 14-51 24-38 54.