Mike Beam, who was kept on the bench due tofoul trouble much of Saturday night and who hasbeen eclipsed by the emerging freshmen at times inthe past month, scored all 11 of his pointsagainst Princeton in the final 7:30 of regulationand overtime.

Beam worked without the basketball to get inthe offensive flow, then drained consecutivethrees to open the overtime period and put Harvardup for good.

"I struggled much of the game, but I got alittle more aggressive with the dribble, hit a bigshot, and got going," Beam said.

Even Dexter, who has seen little playing timein an injury-plagued Harvard career, got thestarting nod in his final home game and dropped athree-pointer in ten minutes of action.

Something just seemed to come together forthese four this weekend. Hill did not have to holdthe ball 30 seconds out of each shot clock. Beamshowed aggressiveness and mobility, and Harvardgot both interior defense and active, appropriatecontributions on defense.

"Our preparation for this weekend wasincredible," Beam said. "This was the best ideawe've had heading into the Penn-Princeton weekendin my career."

Whatever the reason, Carmody clearly summarizedthe cause of the upset best.

"Harvard was prepared for us, and we couldn'tthwart that confidence," Carmody said. "The thingsthat their guys can do well, they did well."

All this on a weekend when Clemente wasfrequently eliminated as the go-to guy on theoffensive end.

It was almost eerie, hearing Princeton, whichalso lost to Yale the previous weekend, compareits woes to Harvard's successes.

"Things just happen in the course of theballgame, and we never got control," Carmody saidin frustration. "Our mental status is not good,and we're struggling against senior teams [likeHarvard] that handle themselves well."

After nine years of frustration, that admissionmakes you feel awfully good about the journey ofthe men who made it happen