The Bears ran with the ball more as Barbara Maloni went on a tear. The freshman guard made a layup with 0:57 to go, giving Brown a 72-52 lead, its largest of the game. Maloni would lead all scorers with 30 points, tying her career-high.

"This is the league," Delaney-Smith said. "I'm not one bit surprised. It was Harvard beating Harvard. Brown played a nice game, but we basically assisted [them]."

The difference in the game seemed to be the turnovers. Harvard had a season-high 28, which Brown turned into 26 points. The Crimson took advantage of the Bears' 12 turnovers for just three points.

Both teams had poor games from the floor, with Brown shooting a slightly-better 37.3 percent and Harvard at 34.5.

Sturdy finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Crimson. Ides had 14 points off the bench and Kelley added 10.

Gates, who played in her first game in over a month against Brown with repercussions from a concussion, scored two points and grabbed two rebounds in eight minutes. She sat out the next day against Yale because she did not feel like she had fully recovered.

Monti, normally sure-handed and confident, played the weekend with the flu, giving up six turnovers against Brown but coming back to have a fine game against Yale.

"This is just a reminder that the league is wide open," Delaney-Smith. "It is a very competitive league. We say those words to the team all the time, but I'm sure that they were thinking, 'undefeated, undefeated,' and that's the wrong thing to think in this league, year in and year out. Only one team has ever done it. There are too many proud heads and hearts in this league. The student athlete in the Ivy League is a very special athlete."