Amaker was also quick to commend the efforts of Lin.

“He got off to a pretty good start early scoring,” Amaker said. “He’s a special player.”

Lin also dominated the highlight reel, throwing down a one-handed dunk in transition to extend the Crimson’s lead in the first half.

And once the game was in hand in the second, he turned the contest into the Jeremy Lin show with a series of circus shots and mid-air acrobatics, garnering “MVP” chants from the students.

“I was just trying to have fun out there,” Lin said.

But the highlight reel didn’t end with Lin. Sophomore wing Max Kenyi stole a pass in transition, looked over his shoulder and slammed the ball home with a one-handed tomahawk jam to seal the Harvard victory with a minute left in the game.

“Max has been talking about that for while,” Curry said.

Although Kenyi’s dunk capped the win for the Crimson, the home squad had pulled away for good much earlier. Harvard built on a 14-point halftime lead, stretching it to as many as 24 points when Lin hit a pair of free throws with five minutes remaining in the game.

The two free throws, Lin’s final points in his home gym, were followed by a standing ovation as he exited to allow McGeary to finish up the game.

“This is one I’ll never forget,” Lin said.