“We didn’t shoot well,” Peljto said. “Shots Reka and I usually hit didn’t fall for us.”

In getting outrebounded 43-29, not one Harvard player had more than one offensive board.

“Usually we have someone crashing the boards on the weak side,” Dunham said. “We weren’t going after the ball as well as we should have.”

Princeton won the game despite shooting 28 percent in the second half.

But the Tigers’ poor second-half shooting didn’t make up for the fact that Harvard let Princeton hit 46.7 percent from the floor and 5-of-13 from behind the arc in the first half.

“We just came out with a lack of intensity and dug ourselves in a hole,” Peljto said. “We picked it up in second half, but it turned out it wasn’t enough.”