“She’s the kind of player you can’t stop from scoring,” Delaney-Smith said. “I thought we did a good job on her. She got some layups I wasn’t happy about, but for the most part we threw some defense at her that made her as uncomfortable as we could. I thought we stuck to our game plan against her.”

Harvard also had a tough time maintaining possession of the basketball on Saturday. A night after committing 24 turnovers, the team lost the ball 16 times against Penn.

“We are a kind of team that puts too much pressure on ourselves, and when we do that, we turn the ball over,” Delaney-Smith said. “I think this team has great potential, and I think the one area we have to continue getting better at is to stop putting so much pressure on ourselves.”

And despite having a larger team on the court for much of the game, the Crimson surrendered 16 offensive rebounds and only corralled four more total rebounds than the guard-oriented Quakers.

Still, the team played well enough to secure the victory and stay in the chase for second place in the Ivy League. Both Harvard and Yale went 1-1 on the weekend, meaning the Bulldogs are still a half game ahead in the league standings. If both teams were to win their remaining games, they would finish tied behind Princeton.

—Staff writer Jacob D. H. Feldman can be reached at jacobfeldman@college.harvard.edu.