"Their record is definitely misleading," Sturdy said. "You have to take everyone in the Ivy season seriously."
Brown freshman guard Barbara Maloni is coming off a career weekend that earned her the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award.
Maloni, who has the quickness to give Harvard point guard Jenn Monti a challenge, scored 30 points and grabbed eight boards against Cornell and tallied 23 points and six rebounds against Columbia the previous night. She is averaging 14.4 points per game.
In the two teams' previous meeting, Maloni had 18 points and six assists in 39 minutes.
Another player the Crimson will have to contend with is sophomore center Rachael McDonald. McDonald scored 22 points against the Crimson the first time around and averages 10.9 ppg.
"We're going to try and double if she gets hot," Sturdy said.
But Harvard won't be able to combat McDonald without Johnson, one of the team's top guns in both scoring and rebounding. Johnson is out indefinitely with a torn miniscus and slightly-torn ACL after going down in the first half of last Friday's game against Penn.
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