BROWN BREAKS FOR BEARS

Perhaps taking advantage of Harvard’s residual fatigue from the night before, Brown relied on its characteristic up-tempo pace to run the Crimson out of the gym in its win Saturday night.

The Bears finished with 23 fast-break points to Harvard’s two and shot 62.5 percent for the game, including a 69.7-percent first-half performance.

“Our style of game is not exactly fast-paced,” junior shooting guard Kevin Rogus said. “But that’s their style, so we were playing to what they wanted to do.”

“I think that’s one of the things that we kind of didn’t want to happen,” freshman guard Jim Goffredo said. “We kind of let the game get a little too fast for us.”

Point guard Jason Forte, who quarterbacked the Brown attack, finished with 24 points on 6-11 shooting and 10 assists.

“Our average speed and quickness—especially in conversion—shows up when the game goes up and down like that,” Sullivan said.

The night before, Yale had capitalized on 23 Crimson turnovers, converting them into 29 points.

“The obvious story for us was points off turnovers created by Yale,” Sullivan said. “It seemed that theirs were certainly more timely than ours were, certainly at critical points of the game.”

“They converted them and cashed them in as quick as anybody this season,” he added.

—Staff writer Alan G. Ginsberg can be reached at aginsber@fas.harvard.edu.