Harvard held Thompkins to 18 points, including a 1-for-9 effort on three-pointers, back in January.

Columbia has shot almost 200 more threes than its opponents and three-point attempts have comprised over half of the Lions' shots.

In a victory over Yale at New Haven this week, Columbia connected on 15 of 20 attempts from behind the perimeter. The next night, the Lions made ten threes against Brown.

"If we take their three-point shooting away, we'll be in a good position to win the game," senior captain Dave Demian said.

Harvard is currently tied with Cornell for fourth place in the league.

"We need to put emphasis on being better on defense," Sullivan said. "We struggled to guard Penn and Princeton with consistency over 40 minutes [last weekend]. We were frustrated with our defense, and this was compounded on offense. We were pressing to make shots."

Before the two weekend losses, however, Harvard had held six of seven opponents to under 40 percent shooting.

"We came out flat against Penn and Princeton," Snowden said.

However, Harvard is a balanced team that can score in a variety of different ways. Harvard is holding its opponents to 60 points per game and is getting to the line more often.

"We've had good practices all week," Snowden said. "Now we've got to get back to work.