The Harvard men's basketball team saved its best basketball of the year for its final homestand against perennial Ivy League powers Penn and Princeton.

Led by its seniors, who were determined to go out a winner on their home floor, the Crimson played inspired basketball, nearly pulling off an upset of Penn on Friday night, and then coming back the next evening to do the seemingly impossible--defeat Princeton.

The 81-75 loss to the Quakers was a tough one to swallow, as Harvard outplayed Penn for much of the game. Nonetheless, the Crimson did not have a let down against the Tigers, as they came out smoking, winning for the first time in 17 tries against Princeton, 87-79 in overtime.

King of the Hill

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The value of senior point guard Tim Hill was never more evident then on this history-making weekend of Harvard hoops.

Hill was sensational in the contests against Penn and Princeton, making his claim to First Team All-Ivy honors against the two premier teams in the league.

In the two ball games, Hill scored 44 total points, dishing out 14 assists with only one turnover in a whopping 82 minutes of action. In the process of leading the Crimson to its biggest victory of the season, the senior star became Harvard's all-time career assist leader, passing Tarik Campbell '94's 570 by one with two games left to play.

On Friday night, Hill faced off against the Quaker's super-talent, junior Michael Jordan, in round two of the highly anticipated match-up of the league's two best point guards. In their first meeting neither of the two had the clear advantage, with Hill scoring 11 points with three assists versus Jordan's 10 points and four assists.

This time around, it was again a close call between the two.