The Harvard women's basketball stands at the halfway point of its season with two blemishes on its Ivy record. The time to make amends for those mistakes is now.
The Crimson (8-12, 5-2 Ivy) will tip off against Brown (10-11, 5-3) at 6 p.m. in Lavietes Pavilion tonight. The Bears defeated Harvard, 59-57, in their last meeting on the cusp of Harvard's exam period.
The Crimson led by as many as seven points in the second half in that game, but Brown's unexpected sharp shooting and Harvard's free throw woes allowed the Bears to come back.
Freshman forwards Hana Peljto and Tricia Tubridy each hit clutch shots to propel Harvard down the stretch, but the Bears outwitted the Crimson in the end, stifling junior guard Jenn Monti with a double-team on the game's last play.
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith believes that the Crimson is sufficiently capable of reversing those results tonight.
"We can beat Brown, I know that," Delaney-Smith said. "That game was stolen from us, but we shouldn't have been in the place where it was stolen. I hope we will change that."
Tonight's game is critically important to the Ivy title race. Penn (15-5, 7-0) has won 14 straight--albeit some in precarious fashion--to move two games up on the rest of the league. Harvard and Brown, second and third in the Ivies, have little margin for error in catching the Quakers.
"Penn is a great team and they connect well with each other," Peljto said. "But there's still time to see who'll came out on top. The title is still up for grabs."
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