The Hall-of-Famer is an assistant coach to Belinda "Boe" Pearman, his assistant when he coached the New England Blizzard of the now-defunct American Basketball League.
"She asked me if I would come down and work with her to help bring some attention to the women's game and to help with the players," Jones said.
"I'm doing it a couple of days a week. I go down there and try to make all the games I can," he added. "The fans like it and I bring some visibility to the women's program which makes me feel pretty good."
Arriving in the minute before the game started, Jones spent much of the game seated and sedate, not getting too involved in the coaching.
"Both [teams] played very well, in terms of being competitive," Jones said. "Harvard had a lot of size down low and they used it. Our team was just too short to deal with it. With us, we hustled."
Jones won eight NBA titles as a player for the Celtics with Bill Russell and Bob Cousy before retiring in 1967...
Zinobia Machanguana, a 5'9 junior guard on Rhode Island, has an interesting connection to the Harvard team.
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