“Playing on the road against those two teams in those environments was difficult, and I thought our guys did a good job being gritty and fighting to the end,” Yale coach Joe Jones said.

At Columbia Saturday, the Bulldogs rallied from a 21-point deficit with 11:30 left in the second half to come away with a 59-58 victory—its fourth in five games, including a home sweep of Penn and Princeton.

While Ivy scoring and rebounding leader Greg Mangano had just 11 points and six boards, forward Reggie Willhite scored six of his squad’s last nine points against the Lions, including the eventual game-winner.

He finished with a career-high 24 points and five assists, which earned the senior a spot on the league’s weekly Honor Roll. Since Yale’s first meeting with Harvard on Jan. 27, Willhite is averaging 15.0 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

The night before, the Bulldogs found themselves on the other end of a one-point margin, falling in overtime to the Big Red, 85-84, in a loss that could have devastated their Ivy title hopes.

Instead Yale will take to the road in four of its six final games with plenty to play for; its 16 current victories are the most for any Bulldog team since the 2001-02 edition won 21.

Critical to Yale’s hopes of avenging their earlier loss to the Crimson—the most lopsided in the history between the two rivals—will be its ability to hold onto the ball. The Bulldogs rank 284th in the country in turnover percentage and gave the ball away to Harvard 22 times back in New Haven.

On Friday it again lost the turnover battle to Cornell, 15-11, but coughed it up only 14 times to the Lions’ 21 the following night.