Freshman forward Laurent Rivard went 4-for-5 on threes in the first half and 5-of-7 on the night.

After a slow start, sophomore guard Christian Webster went 2-of-4 from deep in the second frame.

“Laurent and Webbie, I think, are the two best shooters in the league,” Curry said. “They were just knocking shots down.”

“I would be surprised if there’s a harder worker in the league on his jumper [than Rivard],” junior co-captain Oliver McNally said. “It just showed tonight...When you give Laurent [open] looks, he’s going to knock those down.”

The entire team was seemingly dialed in.

McNally went 2-of-5 from three-point land, and Curry and freshman guard Matt Brown hit one of two attempts.

As a whole, Harvard connected on 47.8 percent of its 23 treys.

CHARITY STRIPE

Free throws are often the difference in close games, so they were a bit of an afterthought in Friday’s blowout.

But both the Crimson and the Quakers put on a virtuosic performance at the charity stripe.

Harvard, the second-best free throw shooting team in the country (trailing only Wisconsin), went to the line 16 times and hit all 16 freebies.

Curry led the way by going 6-of-6, and Rivard’s hot shooting extended to the line where he knocked down four free throws.

Sophomore forward Kyle Casey, McNally, and Webster each chipped in a pair.

Penn, who entered the game shooting 73.4 percent, also was automatic from the stripe.

The Quakers went 19-of-20 from the free throw line on the night.

The work was spread between seven players with Mike Howlett and Jack Eggleston leading the way with four free throws.

Collectively the two teams shot 97.2 percent from the line.

The lone miss for either team came from Fran Dougherty, who bricked a freebie midway through the second half.

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