The first came with roughly four minutes left in the opening frame. Curry and Magnarelli teamed up to steal the ball from Yale forward Michael Sands in the post, and Lin raced down the floor.

He received the ball along the left sideline and took it hard to the rim where he finished with a one-handed tomahawk slam.

“I was pretty determined to throw that one down,” Lin said. “I hadn’t gotten one in a while, and I thought here’s my chance. I just wanted to...muster enough energy to get up one last time.”

The other noteworthy dunk came with one minute remaining in the contest. Freshman guard Max Kenyi stole the ball from Bulldogs forward Paul Nelson at midcourt and took off with no one in pursuit.

Kenyi jumped off one leg, cocked the ball behind his head, and threw down a violent dunk to punctuate the victory.

“Max has been talking about that for a while,” Curry said. “He’s always talking about, ‘Imma get one this game.’ He got one. He really took off. He threw it down.”

TEAM RECORD

The victory was the Crimson’s 20th on the season, breaking the old record of 19 wins set in 1945-46.

“That’s just a lot of hard work,” Lin said of the milestone. “We’re just glad that we can break records.”

The 1945-46 team was the last squad to make the NCAA tournament.Harvard has similar ambitions this season. Although Cornell has all but wrapped up the league title, the Crimson has a shot at a number of postseason tournaments.

In the more immediate future, Harvard has a chance to tie its record for league wins—11—next weekend when it takes on Penn and Princeton.

—Staff writer Timothy J. Walsh can be reached at tjwalsh@fas.harvard.edu.