But perhaps the most glaring weakness was under the basket.

Despite the Crimsons' obvious height advantage and frontcourt depth with the Johnson sisters and 6'2 freshman Kate Ides, the Huskies dominated the boards, especially on the offensive end. Northeastern outrebounded Harvard, 42-33, and 20-9 on the offensive glass.

"We need to work on rebounding," said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. "You can't win a ballgame if you let a team get 20 offensive rebounds."

Beth Hanewald, a 6'0 senior forward, sneaked in for nine rebounds, a number of which came from the weak side.

"In our timeouts, we talked about adjusting to the rebounds, but we just didn't ever bring it to the court," Sturdy said.

Melissa Johnson finished the game with 12 rebounds, four on offense. But some of those offensive boards came from her own missed shots from the floor.

"Even when we got the shots we wanted, at that point, nothing fell," Delaney-Smith said. "And we were outrebounded. That's supposed to be our answer. That was the overwhelming, glaring problem."

Indeed if the Crimson wants to do well in the Ivy League this year, which it has the capability of doing, the Harvard frontcourt players need to start using their height to their advantage. They need to be aggressive on the boards at both ends, meeting the ball rather than letting it come to them. When they have the ball on offense, they need to take it back up strong.