Harvard’s defense beyond the arc had been quite different the night before. Princeton leading scorer Spencer Gloger had a dismal outing Friday, missing all seven of his attempts from long range. Senior forward Sam Winter guarded Gloger for most of the night, and Gloger’s only easy bucket came off a late fast break.
“Anytime Spencer gets four points on 2-for-14, it goes hand-in-hand with the overall defense of the Princeton team,” Sullivan said after that game. “Clearly, a lot of attention went into him because he’s been such a leader in the scoring column, so we did a couple of things we thought were real positive for us.”
But Princeton also had easy misses. A number of Princeton threes came on open looks that could and should have fallen.
“I think he was just off tonight,” Princeton Coach John Thompson III said of Gloger. “Not that they didn’t do a good job, but I think he was off.”
Off or not, the long range shots didn’t fall for Princeton. They did for Penn. In the end, both games were still losses.
—Staff writer Martin S. Bell can be reached at msbell@fas.harvard.edu.