During the 74th minute, with Harvard taking a corner kick, Friedman launched a dangerous cross into the penalty box, but a foul was called on the Crimson before the ball could connect with the head of a Harvard attacker.

Harvard continued maintained its attack on the Lions’ back line for much of the second half, but despite its best efforts the Crimson was unable to finish any chances.

“Though we weren’t able to fully come back against Columbia like we did against Colgate, I think the last two games have shown our level of resiliency,” McCarthy said. “When we go down, we are good at picking each other up and trying to get back in the game and continuing to compete.”

With the victory, Columbia moves into a tie for third place in the Ivy League, and Harvard was sent back to Cambridge still in search of its first conference victory. The Crimson will attempt to grab its first Ivy win in its season finale against Penn Saturday.

“[Penn] is going to be another game where we enter it thinking that we are the better team and fully expecting to get three points from it,” McCarthy said. “Some of the results haven’t gone our way this year, but that hasn’t changed our mentality or the fact that we have a lot of quality talent on our team.”

—Staff writer Oluwatoni A. Campbell can be reached at oluwatoni.campbell@college.harvard.edu.