Allgood was fouled, and though she missed the front end of the one-and-one, Edwards caught the rebound and was fouled on her way up to the basket. The junior made both her shots from the charity stripe to set a three-point lead, 62-59.

Cue Clark, the rookie who had drained the game-winning shot at Columbia last weekend. The guard showed no fear as she drove to the hoop and then let a shot fly while fading away. A fanatic crowd cheered as the ball dropped through the net, cutting the deficit to just one point.

“Christine is one heck of a player,” Delaney-Smith said. “She has never really played like a freshman. She does make mistakes because she doesn’t have college experience, but she makes up for them two-fold—no, 10-fold.”

Princeton wasted two possessions to add to its lead, and the Crimson made its Ivy rival pay. With 1:34 left to play, Lippert got the crowd on its feet as she caught the pass for an open three, which she coolly drained to make the score 64-62.

“Fabulous,” Delaney-Smith said. “She’s made out of the same mold [as Berry and Clark]. She wants the ball; she wants the shot. She’s ice.”

After Clark’s jumper made it a four-point game, Harvard controlled the outcome by playing strong defense and hitting its free throws. The Crimson hit 18-of-21 free throws, with Clark making all eight of her attempts—four of which came in the contest’s final 11 seconds.

“We just needed to keep our composure the entire game,” Berry said. “We knew it was going to come down to defense and rebounding the entire time, so we just tried to keep our focus on those things.”

After having lost both games of the season series against the Tigers last year, Harvard defeated Princeton for the first time in two years in a matchup that had been spotlighted by ESPN.

The Crimson showed how much the win meant emotionally—not to mention to its Ivy title aspirations—celebrating at midcourt after the game’s final seconds had ticked away.

—Staff writer Brian A. Campos can be reached at bcampos@fas.harvard.edu.