After a brutal stretch of four consecutive road losses to the best teams in the Ivy League, the Harvard men’s basketball team was looking forward to feasting on a home-cooked meal of traditional Ivy cupcakes Columbia and Cornell.

But the Crimson (11-10, 3-5 Ivy) missed its chance to even its league record, zoning out against the Big Red on Saturday after staving off the Lions the night before.

The loss to Cornell snapped the Crimson’s six-game home win streak.

“We dodged a bullet [Friday] night [against Columbia],” said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan. “And it just came back to haunt us [versus Cornell].”

The lopsided loss to the Big Red (8-13, 3-5) was the Crimson’s worst home effort against Cornell in 10 years and was only the Big Red’s third win in the series in the last seven years.

And though Harvard coasted to an eventual 14-point victory against Columbia (2-19, 0-8), the Crimson went cold in the second half and suffered a scare when its 23-point lead shrank to six.

Despite the disappointing weekend, Harvard will refocus and prepare for its most important homestand of the season this weekend when Penn and Princeton pay a visit to Lavietes Pavilion.

Cornell 82, Harvard 69

Once burned, twice shy. But eleven times?

Cornell stunned Harvard largely on the strength of its pinpoint accuracy from beyond the arc, converting 11-for-19 three-pointers for the game. The Big Red shot a scorching 7-for-9 in the first half alone.

“Our poor field goal percentage against the three was the most devastating element of the game,” Sullivan said.

The three-point barrage was led by Cornell point guard Ka’Ron Barnes (4-for-6), forward Lenny Collins (3-for-4) and forward Cody Toppert (3-for-7). Barnes led all scorers with a career-high 25 points, while Toppert and Collins combined for 26 points and 12 rebounds.

In stark contrast to the success of the Big Red bombers, the Crimson was unable to establish any rhythm in its offense, particularly with its perimeter shooting. A night after drilling 10 three-pointers on 21 attempts against Columbia, Harvard could only muster six long-distance buckets in 28 attempts (21 percent).

“Our execution was not to our standard,” Coach Sullivan said of the offense. “Their defense definitely kept us on our heels.”

Cornell relied heavily on the zone defense against Harvard. The zone has been the Big Red’s strategy of choice for most of the season, Cornell coach Steve Donahue said after the game, because of its general lack of size in the middle.