Junior point guard Dirkje Dunham accounted for 13 of the 32 Crimson turnovers in a full 40 minutes of action. Delaney-Smith admitted after the game that she would have to rethink her decision to not give Dunham any rest.

Delaney-Smith said she would also have to rethink her decision to keep junior guard Beverly Moore on the bench. Moore tallied 14 points in the season opener, but Delaney-Smith only gave Moore three minutes of playing time based on how she expected Moore would handle BU’s pressure.

Regrets aside, Harvard can salvage some confidence from its victories going into a tough weekend of action at Vanderbilt, ranked No. 8 by USA Today and No. 11 by the AP. Harvard will likely play Vanderbilt at 3 p.m. on Sunday if it can beat Central Michigan on Saturday.

Vanderbilt is also 2-0, having played the exact same opponents as Harvard. The Commodores beat Syracuse 73-65 and BU 68-51. But Vanderbilt actually trailed the Terriers 23-22 at halftime. Harvard leaves BU having scored more than twice as many first half points as the Commodores did against the Terriers.

“I think we’re really confident going in there,” Ides said of the upcoming trip. “For a while we had an incredible lead.”

—Staff writer David R. De Remer can be reached at remer@fas.harvard.edu.