“It’s always going to be in my head now that a comeback in not complete until you win the fifth game,” Mihir said. “No matter how hard you try you have to get the win.”

With the Crimson already having lost the match, intercollegiate No. 9 sophomore Ilan Oren dropped his match in four games to Shaun Johnstone. Sophomore Garnett Booth followed suit—losing his match in four games at the No. 7 position.

By the time the marquee matchup pitting intercollegiate No. 4 sophomore Siddharth Suchde against No. 5 Bernardo Samper took center court, the outcome to the contest had long been decided and the once overflowing crowd had thinned.

Suchde, clearly disappointed that his match meant nothing and slightly hampered by a sore hamstring, couldn’t keep up with Samper. The Bantams’ premier player ran Suchde all over the court, beating him handily in three straight games.

With Suchde’s loss, the damage was complete and the Crimson was left to wonder how it could still have so far to go to catch up to Trinity.

When Bajwa addressed the massive crowd before the match, he said that Trinity had “raised the bar for collegiate squash.”

After Thursday’s display, it appears that the bar may still be out of Harvard’s reach.

—Staff writer David H. Stearns can be reached at stearns@fas.harvard.edu.