Fittingly, McNally ignited the run with a deep ball while Curry capped if off with a three-pointer.

McNally’s shot that got things started came with just a few ticks left on the shot clock. A loose ball found itself in the hands of sophomore Max Kenyi, who then kicked it out to McNally, spotted up a step outside the perimeter. When McNally’s shot sailed home, the Crimson’s deficit was cut to just two.

McNally tied the score on Harvard’s next possession, this time faking the deep shot and then getting to the basket, where the 6’3” guard finished with a left-handed layup.

The Bears regained the lead with two free throws from Matt Sullivan, but Curry answered for the Crimson with a deep two. Harvard took the lead for good when Curry intercepted a pass and found sophomore Keith Wright as he cut to the basket in transition for the layup.

From there, the Crimson lead would grow.

Senior Pat Magnarelli, playing in his first game since suffering an injury in late January, got open for an easy layup. Then Curry got an and-one layup and an alley-oop from Lin to fall.

The freshman ended the run off a catch-and-shoot three-pointer from classmate Christian Webster to extend Harvard’s lead to 14.

“I was just wide open, just taking my shots,” Curry said. “My teammates had a lot of great passes. I was just shooting my shots.”

By the end of the first half, the Crimson lead ballooned to 21 as Harvard finished with 54 first-half points.

“I was very pleased with our first half—I thought we played very efficiently,” Amaker said. “We really wanted to push the ball up the floor. We wanted to transition as quickly and as efficiently as possible.”

While Harvard allowed Brown to net some easy baskets early in the second half, the team settled down and cruised to the 20-point victory.

—Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu.