PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Forced to play two weekend road games going into finals period, the Harvard women's basketball team nearly pulled of an arduous sweep, but fell just short.
On the strength of a first-half defense that held its opposition to sub-20 percent shooting, the Crimson posted a comfortable 54-40 win at Yale on Friday.
In Saturday's game, freshman Nyema Mitchell put Brown up 59-57 with 6.4 seconds left by placidly draining a pair from the stripe, and the Bears (7-7, 2-0 Ivy) held on for the win. Harvard (4-11, 2-1) has not won at the Pizzitola Center since 1998.
"They played real well, they're [on] home court, and they're on break," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. "An away game for us, and we're going to exams so the circumstances are a little different. I thought we played hard and had an opportunity to win it, but we didn't."
Brown stepped up in the absence of top scorer Barbara Maloni, who will be out at least a month with multiple stress fractures.
With the loss, Harvard falls to third in the league behind Brown and preseason favorite Penn (8-5, 2-0), who has now won six straight.
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