Brown (5-10, 0-2), reeling from a 40-point loss the night before against Dartmouth, came out against Harvard determined to prove it could have a better game.

Unfortunately, that determination didn't show until it was too late.

Behind by 32 points with 10:12 left in the second half, the Bears mounted an impressive run, only to be held off in the final minute as Harvard captain Laela Sturdy hit a clutch three-pointer to end a four-and-a-half minute Crimson scoring drought. She finished with 14 points on the night.

"In having Ivy League weekends, it's always harder on the second night," Monti said. "We played 30 minutes, and then 10 minutes we took off, and it showed in the score."

After sophomore center Lindsay Ryba hit a lay-up with 9:16 left, the Crimson managed just seven other points on the game.

"I think that there were some [player] combinations out there that I probably would do differently if I had it to do over again," Delaney-Smith said. "There were some times when there wasn't a lot of experience on the floor."

The last 10 minutes were a completely different game than the first 30, in which both Harvard's first and second strings dominated Brown's best players.

The Crimson got off to an 18-4 start, buoyed by Egelhoff's strong play. Matched up against her sister, she had three assists and two rebounds and a bucket in the first six minutes. But most impressively, she held sister Heidi Egelhoff to just four points on 1-of-8 shooting on the night.