Beam's second trey of the half closed theColgate advantage to 62-61 with just 50 secondsremaining, but the Red Raiders pulled away bymaking their free throws over the last minute topull out the win.
"We had a couple of defensive breakdowns,"Fisher said. "Our offense wasn't able to generateany points and they converted on a couple ofthree-point plays. They had more confidence on theoffense."
Harvard also got stung by the turnover bugagain, giving the ball away 17 times after doingit 20 times against Boston University. Fisher ledthe sin list with five.
"We did a poor job of protecting the ball,"Beam said. "The ball is precious, especially onthe road in a close game and we didn't treat itthat way."
Sophomore forward Dan Clemente added eightpoints on 4-of-8 shooting, but eschewed thethree-pointer taking and missing just one, aftergoing 0-of-7 against B.U.
Notes
Hill, who earlier this season became the firstHarvard basketball player in history to score1,000 points and dish 400 assists, moved into atie for 12th place on the all-time Crimson scoringlist with 1,079, equaling Tony Jenkins '74'stotal. The next marks to fall should be 11th-placeKeith Webster '87's at 1,083 and 10th-place MikeGielen '89's at 1,104.
Beam's 2-of-5 from distance left him the IvyLeague leader in three-point percentage. At19-of-39, his 48.7 percent clip leaves him fivepoints better than Yale's Isaiah Cavaco.
Ewing, who set the school record for blocks ina game when he swatted six shots against SacredHeart, added another on Friday to boost his seasontotal to 16. He trails only Cornell's Jeff Aubryon the League leader board.
When the Crimson opens the Ivy slate onWednesday at Lavietes Pavilion against Dartmouth,it will do so from the same position in which itended last season--fourth place.
Based on non-conference play, preseasonfavorite Princeton is in first place at 4-2,trailed by Dartmouth (3-3) and Penn (2-2).Thoughthey've seen limited action, the Quakers haveplayed the most impressive ball of the youngseason, falling 61-56 to then No. 2 Kansas, andupsetting then No. 6 Temple 73-70 in overtime.
"It's time to get serious now," Fisher said."The warm-ups are over and there's no more messingaround. This is the real deal."