After the ball rolled off a Sacred Heart guard with 2.8 seconds left to play, the Crimson had the ball under its own basket, and an in-bounds pass to Boger at the top of the key set up a buzzer-beating three-pointer with .8 seconds to go.

Although Delaney-Smith said her team was still a little slow, she was pleased with the effort.

"I think a lot of people stepped up today," Delaney-Smith said. "A lot of people are doing some scoring."

Johnson, who finished with 16 points, dominated the smaller Pioneers.

"I don't think she was reading the defense well in the first half and she did a nice job in the second half," Delaney-Smith said. "And when her shots didn't fall, she went after the rebound and that's all we have to do."

When told that Johnson had finished with 18 rebounds, Delaney-Smith said, "Oh shoot! I should have left her in for 20."

"When I was out there, I felt like every rebound should have been mine," Johnson said. "I felt like I was bigger than they were and I was working really hard to get to the paint. I felt like they were focusing on me in the post. What Kathy told me before the game was that if they do that, make sure you get great rebounding positioning."

The win was especially sweet for Johnson because it was in front of Jones and Hunter, two friends from her days back at the University of North Carolina before she transferred to Harvard last year.