Hanover, NH--In its first meeting with Dartmouth earlier this season, the Harvard men's basketball team capitalized on the strong play of junior guard Drew Gellert and the last-minute heroics of sophomore guard Pat Harvey to narrowly escape with a 79-78 win in Cambridge.

Last Saturday, before the television cameras of WMUR and the 1,500 spectators at Leede Arena, the Crimson (7-5, 2-0 Ivy) again benefited from the resilient play of Gellert and Harvey to edge Dartmouth (2-9, 0-2) with a dramatic 60-56 win.

The victory was Harvard's second Ivy win and it marked the fourth straight win against Dartmouth. This is the second straight season that the Crimson has swept its games versus the Big Green en route to 2-0 starts in Ivy play.

Despite its recent success against Dartmouth, Harvard came dangerously close to posting its first back-to-back loses of the season.

After a sloppy first half that ended 29-26 in the Crimson's favor, the Big Green came alive in the first minutes of the second stanza and rode the crowd momentum to take a 44-37 lead with 10 minutes left in the game.

Fueled by three-pointers from captain Dan Clemente and sophomore point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Harvard rattled off 15 unanswered points over the next six minutes to regain the lead and the momentum in the game.

Not to be denied in front of its home crowd, Dartmouth clawed back with three long-range three-pointers by junior forward Mark Kissling.

"I commend Kissling for throwing in some incredible shots down the stretch," said Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "Some of those were like radar shots."