In what may have been the breakout performance of his young career, Harris carried the team in the first half and followed this effort up in the second frame by dominating on both ends of the court.

He finished with a career-high 20 points, throwing in six boards while also grabbing a career-high four steals.

The performance was something Harvard fans have been waiting to see, and last night, in every facet of the game—defense, offense, free throws, and determination—Harris did not dissapoint.

"In the beginning I was attacking, and they weren’t stopping me," Harris said.

"Luckily for us, they didn’t stop me all night."

A HARD RAIN’S GONNA FALL

There are good first halves, and then there are halves that CCSU sophomore Joe Seymore had last night.

Some players catch fire, but it’s often fleeting. Some players, like Seymore, simply give new meaning to the popular NBA Showtime phrase, "he’s on fire!"

This is what happens when a player does not miss a three-point field goal until there is 6:41 left in the first half. And during that half, he shoots five of them.

Suffice it to say that Seymore let it rain last night, lighting up the small Blue Devil court in New Britain by going 5-5 from downtown over the first thirteen minutes of Harvard’s improbable 72-65 victory over his squad.

"We knew we were better than that, especially with one guy destroying us," Harris said. "I looked up at the scoreboard and realized [Seymore] was beating us by himself-—we can’t allow that."

But despite the Crimson’s best efforts, CCSU went as Seymore did, as the team jumped out to a 27-11 lead after his fifth three pointer. Harvard’s determination eventually did pay off, for as Seymore began to struggle, so did the Blue Devils, who allowed the Crimson to storm back to within six by halftime.

Although the half came to a less than perfect end for Seymore, with Cusworth emphatically blocking his final shot of the half, it did not detract from the three-point clinic he displayed earlier.

His rampage began five minutes into the first half, as he received a pass into the right corner and nailed the jumper to tie the game at 9-9.

On the next possession, in the exact same spot, Seymore connected on his second trifecta, this time with a running Housmann contesting.

His next two attempts came from the left side of the arc, putting CCSU up 22-11. And with his fifth shot from downtown, over the outstretched hand of Harvard junior Brian Unger, his fifteen-point outburst was complete, and the Blue Devils were now up 27-11.

But every player, even a Devil, must cool off at some point, and Seymore, who has only averaged 5.3 points in this his freshman campaign, went ice cold after that.

But for 11 minutes Thursday night, he was "en fuego."

—Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu.