The Harvard women's hockey team entered the weekend needing four points to set up a showdown with No.1 Dartmouth for the conference lead.
Instead, it came away with only two points and a very costly defeat.
The No.4 Crimson (15-7-0, 15-3-0 ECAC) split its final H-Y-P series of the year, defeating Yale 4-2 on Saturday but suffering a devastating loss, 3-1, to Princeton yesterday.
With the championship game of the Beanpot and the battle against the Big Green looming in the future, Harvard's season received a critical blow from the Tigers.
Princeton's victory means that the Crimson will not be able to overtake Dartmouth with a win against it this Saturday, and will need help from other teams to claim the ECAC regular season title.
The loss also severely hurts Harvard in the pair-wise rankings, the system that determines which teams will receive the four bids for the NCAA tournament, and will most likely drop it behind Brown and St. Lawrence in the national polls.
Princeton 3, Harvard 1
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