Six teams down, one more to go.

After knocking out its last remaining challenger for Dartmouth’s first-place standing—the now-all-but defunct Brown Bears (16-9, 8-4 Ivy)—the Harvard women’s basketball team (17-7, 9-2) narrowed the Ivy title race to two and cleared the way for a captivating final regular season weekend.

Behind captain Reka Cserny’s 31 points and 13 rebounds—her eighth, and most impressive, double-double of the season—the Crimson dismantled Brown at Providence’s Pizzitola Sports Center, 77-69.

Cserny mesmerized teammates and opposing fans by spearheading Harvard’s 13-5 run in the game’s final 3:41.

“Reka,” said Crimson point guard Jessica Holsey, “had so much fire and passion in her game [on Saturday night].”

On top of her dazzling offensive performance, the center from Budapest, Hungary, added five steals to the stat ledger.

“She did everything she simply could have done,” Holsey said. “She’s, well, awesome.”

Cserny, the Ivy League’s leading scorer, came alive at an appropriate time.

With its ninth win in 10 games, Harvard pulled within one game of Dartmouth, who tripped up against the Bears on Friday night.

With Dartmouth’s win at Yale on Saturday, the Crimson was forced to hold serve against the upstart Bears in order to stay within a game of the Big Green. Holsey said she was not surprised a sufficiently talented Brown team had upset Dartmouth the night before.

“I knew [Dartmouth] had four games before [they played] us,” she said. “Any four of those teams were capable of beating them.”

Harvard shot 51 percent from the field in Providence, and held its opponents to 35.3 percent. Holly Robertson, the 6’5 Brown center who averaged 15 points per game entering the weekend—the second-best total in the Ivy League—finished with only 13 points on 4-of-14 shooting.

“Our guards were really active on her passers,” said Cserny, who defended Robertson in the team’s man-to-man sets. “And she just didn’t get the shots she usually gets.”

The Crimson’s defensive game plan bewitched the Brown centers and forwards, who found the set “just confusing,” Cserny said.

Haunted by the teams’ first match-up—the Crimson fell to Brown 78-63 in Cambridge on Feb. 11 behind a bevy of deep three-pointers from the Bears—Harvard gave ample attention to Brown’s guards.