BOSTON--It was 50's Night in Case Gym at Boston University last night, and the score showed it, as the Terriers topped the Harvard men's basketball team 58-57.

The Crimson (3-3) handed B.U. (1-5) its first win of the season when captain Damian Long's 10-foot baseline jump shot with 0.8 seconds remaining rimmed in and out.

The Crimson trailed 58-56 after a lay-up by the Terriers' Matt Turner with 1:35 remaining, and had a chance to tie the game when freshman point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman shot a pair of free throws with 13.7 seconds remaining.

But Prasse-Freeman missed the first before making the second, and Long's potential game-winner didn't fall, dropping Harvard to .500.

"One shot and we could have been down here patting each other on the heads," said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan. "I told them in the timeout that it would be hard to get the shot off in that short corner."

If the Crimson had shot better than 3-of-22 from three-point range, or if it had made more than two-thirds of its free throws, it might be 4-2 now instead of 3-3.

The Terriers had tied the game at 53-53 with 3:08 remaining, capping a 5-0 run with a free throw by forward Jean Avebe. Avebe led B.U. with 14 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field and added six boards.

After Avebe's free throw, junior Tim Coleman missed an outside jump shot, giving the ball back to the Terriers.