While its commitment to playing tough kept thegame close early on, the plan seemed to backfireas the Crimson frontline got into deep foultrouble early on against the stronger and quickerPenn big men. With nine minutes left in the half,Clemente and Ewing had each picked up two foulsalready, and sophomore forward Tim Coleman hadthree.

Playing without Fisher made things even moredifficult.

"Experience and size were a big factor in ourfoul trouble," Sullivan said. "[Senior powerforward Paul] Romanczuk and Owens are a reallydifficult match-up, and we struggled in that. Ourtrying to be aggressive also had a lot to do withit."

In addition to the foul trouble, the energythat Harvard had expended against Princeton andPenn early on seemed to finally catch up withthem. After valiantly battling the stellar Quakersquad for 11 minutes, the Crimson seemed gassed.

After having its lead trimmed to five at 23-18with 10 minutes to go in the half, Penn explodedfor a 17-2 run over the next six minutes. Duringthe run, Harvard was simply out-quicked,out-hustled and out-shot by the superior squad andwas never able to recover.

The Crimson continued to fight, however,clawing back from its 20-point deficit. Over thefinal three minutes of the half, the Crimsonoutscored Penn 10-2 to cut the halftime lead to42-30.

Despite going into the break on a somewhatpositive note, Harvard did not look in any shapeto mount a comeback attempt as it did in Princetonthe night before. The Crimson frontline ofClemente, Ewing and Coleman combined for ninefouls between them and was noticeably fatiguedagainst the strong Penn frontline.

The Quakers came out smoking in the secondhalf, going on an 11-2 run over the first fiveminutes, opening its lead to 21 points, virtuallysealing the game. Harvard never got closer than 15the rest of the way.

The game was all but done when Clemente andfreshman guard Drew Gellert had to leave the gamewith five fouls each. Without Clemente's scoringability or Gellert's defensive presence, theCrimson were no match for the Quakers down thestretch.

Freshman Patrick Harvey had a strong offensiveshowing, scoring 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting, butit was not nearly enough on this night forHarvard.

In one of the night's subplots, the muchanticipated match-up between point guards, seniorTim Hill for Harvard and junior Michael Jordan forPenn, never really materialized.

Jordan was held scoreless in the first halfwith only one assist but scored 11 in the second,helping put the Crimson away. He finished withfour assists.

Hill--who was booed by the Quaker faithful everytime he touched the ball--did not have aparticularly good game. The Harvard floor leaderhad only 11 points on 5-of-15 shooting with onlythree assists.

"We're disappointed, but we know that they haveto come to Harvard in a couple of weeks, and we'llbe ready," Ewing said. "As seniors, these are ourlast home games, and we're going to go outswinging."

Princeton 66, Harvard 60