PALO ALTO, Calif.--As surely as night turns into day, all dreams must come to an end.

Two nights after upsetting top-seeded Stanford to become the first 16 seed ever to win an NCAA Tournament game, the Harvard women's basketball team awoke from its hoop dream.

Behind 19 points and 11 assists from senior All-American Christy smith, a relentless press and unconscious three-point shooting, the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks (20-10, 7-7 SEC) bounced Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) from the NCAA Tournament, 82-64, last night at Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto.

After a three-pointer by co-captain Megan Basil gave Harvard an early 5-2 lead, Arkansas mounted a 20-5 run and never looked back. The Crimson, Playing without the services of junior center Rose Janowski, seemed unable to simultaneously contain Arkansas post players and prevent the Lady 'Backs three-point bombers from heating up. Janowski was hospitalized late Sunday night with an ovarian cyst.

Freshman Wendi Willits connected on 6-of-8 from three-point range for 18 points as Harvard was repeatedly slow on its defensive rotations to the outside.

The Lady 'Backs shot a mindboggling 50 percent from distance in the game.

Compound that with Harvard's 18 turnovers, 13 of which came in the first half, and you get Arkansas in a runaway.

"We're starting to play good basketball and we're getting in synch," Arkansas Coach Gary Blair said. "Our press was working so well we were stealing the ball and missing lay-ups. But that didn't bother me at all because it was all from hustle."

Senior All-American Allison Feaster led all scorers with 28 points on 10-of-20 shooting, but it was not enough. Blair's strategy of containing Harvard's perimeter game first and focusing on Feaster second worked to perfection, as the Crimson was consistently unable to free its outside shooters.

Harvard, which entered the Tournament second in the nation in three-pointers per game (7.6), finished 8-of-22 from downtown, but many of those threes fell in the game's waning minutes.

Junior Suzie Miller, engineer of two of the biggest shots in Harvard basketball history against Stanford, was held scoreless in the first half. She finished with eight points, and was 0-for-4 from three-point range.

"Our goal was to hold Feaster to 19 points and shut down everyone else, and we did pretty well," Blair said.

Arkansas led comfortably for most of the first half, and the Lady 'Backs entered the locker room with a 13-point lead, 45-32. Willits, who led the team with 45 treys during the regular season, ignited the first-half run with a three-pointer from the right wing.

Willits connected on her first five threes and scored 15 of Arkansas' first 25 points over a stretch of 7:33 early in the game.

"[Smith] did a great job of setting me up," Willits said. "As soon as I hit my first one, I didn't think twice about it."