As Dartmouth's Flinder Boyd inbounded the ball, Harvey stepped in the way and made the crucial takeaway. Boyd fouled Harvey with 3.7 seconds left and sent him to the charity stripe with a chance to win the game.
With the enormous pressure of his team's hopes and the intense attention of over 1,000 spectators, Harvey calmly converted on both free throws to clinch the 79-78 win for the Crimson.
"There is no one else I would rather have on the line than Pat," said sophomore point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman.
Harvey, who is second in the nation with a 96.4 percent free throw average, was just as stoic and understated after the game as he was at the line.
"We needed somebody to come up big," Harvey said. "The ball kind of bounced our way and we hit the big shots when we needed to."
The Crimson certainly hit the shots it needed down the stretch, but the fact remains that it was Harvey's individual performance which gave Harvard its first Ivy League victory.
Harvey's teammates realize that they must continue to work hard in the Ivy League to ensure that future games need not be won at the last minute.
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