HANOVER, N.H.—Frustration.

In a season that can only be described as disappointing for a team expected to run away with its third-straight Ivy League crown, the Harvard women’s basketball team has had to learn how to deal with its fair share of dissatisfaction, irritation and aggravation.

In last night’s much anticipated rematch with Dartmouth (15-12, 8-6 Ivy), the Crimson (16-11, 9-5) was able to dish out some of its own—blowing out the Big Green, 82-59.

Unable to curb a Harvard offense that had already jumped out to a 13-point lead, Dartmouth coach Chris Wielgus made a rare coaching decision—one part strategy and one part, well, frustration. With 6:34 left in the first half, she pulled all five starters.

“I just needed to talk to them,” Wielgus said. “We needed to talk defense. We weren’t getting the job done and I just had to take them all out to get everything together.”

But the tactic failed to produce substantial results.

“No way [did it work],” said Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. “She was trying to put a spark under their butt, but I don’t think they came to play. They’re young.”

Harvard built its big lead with some early sharp shooting, starting the game on an 11-3 run—a four-minute stretch in which the team converted all but one attempt from the floor.

“We scored easily, really easily. We ran the most basic plays that we run,” Delaney-Smith said. “The only problem is that when we score that easily, sometimes we tend to relax on defense.”

The Crimson eventually cooled, but Dartmouth was unable to muster enough offense to capitalize on the scoring lull. Compounding the problem, the Big Green gave up 10 Harvard offensive rebounds in the first half. The Crimson went into the locker room with a convincing 46-30 lead.

“Harvard always starts out strong and we knew that,” Wielgus said. “We just didn’t shoot well. We didn’t get good shots and we couldn’t convert on them. But most of all we just didn’t rebound.”

Things hardly improved for Dartmouth. In the second half, they could pull no closer than within 14 points of the Crimson’s total.

Unlike what transpired in the last meeting between these two teams—when the Big Green ended Harvard’s 26-game Ivy winning streak with a 93-88 victory on Jan. 10—youth was unable to overcome experience. Co-captain forward Hana Peljto closed out her Crimson career with an impressive 26-point performance.

Dartmouth freshman standout Elise Morrison—who scored 30 points in the teams’ first meeting—finished with only 15, many of which came after Harvard had already pulled its starters.

“She got her points, but they were mostly junk,” Delaney-Smith said. “She’s a great post player, but we just denied her the ball and tried to double down and it worked.”