Rogus nailed his two shots from the charity stripe, after which he was sent to the bench to give his ankle some rest, and was not seen again until the 1:50 mark. Rogus fought through the pain to log 23 minutes on the night.

“Coach [Sullivan] was just trying to keep me safe,” Rogus said. “I’m dying and my body is falling apart. He was just looking out for me.”

The limited time for Rogus and the loss of sophomore forward Zach Martin—sidelined with a broken hand—forced the rest of the team to take on more minutes, including junior captain Jason Norman who did not sit once the entire game.

“[Rogus has] been really gutty the last two games,” Sullivan said. “He’s going to get through the rest of the season, but after that he’s going to need some time off. It’s a serious injury.”

Despite the pain Rogus must be feeling, he says it won’t prevent him from playing for the rest of the year.

“You know I’m just going to do the same thing I did last week,” Rogus said in between laughs. “I’m going to stay off it, practice and…wrap it up. There’s not much you can do. There’s two weeks left so I’m just going to play through the pain.”

GUARD THE GUARDS

Though the Crimson may have let Cornell’s Ka’Ron Barnes and Lenny Collins score 42 of the Big Red’s 46 second half points, Harvard guarded the perimeter well—an area in which it has struggled all year.

On Friday night Columbia torched the Harvard perimeter defense, knocking down 10 three-pointers—most of which were uncontested looks.

But on Saturday Cornell had just three treys on 16 attempts, tying the mark for the second-fewest number of trifectas by an opponent this season. In the last meeting the Big Red was eight for 22 from behind the arc.

“The biggest streak we were trying to avoid [Saturday night] was the three-point shooting,” Sullivan said. “They can put their threes together in bunches and they didn’t do that tonight.”

—Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu.