In February of 1999, a freshman guard named Jenn Monti drove the length of the floor in 5.7 seconds and hit an off-balance three at the buzzer to propel Harvard over Brown.

On Saturday, Brown Coach Jean Marie Burr refused to let it happen again.

Trailing 59-57 with 6.4 seconds left, the Crimson put the ball in Monti's hands, and Brown put two aggressive defenders in her face. It took the entire clock for Monti just to fight past half court, where she threw up a desperate shot that barely reached the free-throw line. The ending left Delaney-Smith regretful of her climatic decision.

"I'm going to rethink that one unfortunately," she said. "As good as [Jenn] is in those situations, I should have seen that coming. We should have put the ball in [junior guard Lisa Kowal's] hands. Teams are going to anticipate Jenn being the buzzer-beater."

The conclusion wasted a career-high-matching 15-point effort from junior forward Katie Gates and seven assists from Monti, without whom Harvard would never have been in the game to begin with.

When Harvard fell behind 23-15 with six minutes left in the first half, Gates hit a pair of three-pointers and a lay-up to pace a Harvard run that resulted in a 30-29 halftime lead. Senior forward Carrie Larkworthy hit the three-pointer from the corner that ignited the comeback.

In the second half, the Monti-to-Gates-underneath combination put five points on the board and gave Harvard its largest lead of the night at 43-36 with 14 minutes remaining. But then Gates's scoring touch turned cold, and she came up empty for the rest of the night.

Brown came back, shocking the Crimson by hitting a number of outside shots. The Bears shot 43 percent from three-point range and 46 percent overall--far above their respective averages of 30 percent and 37 percent for the season.