To seal the victory, Harvard withstood a scoring surge from the Tigers that saw Rasheed claim the first lead of the game for her team, 49-47, with two clutch free throws at the 3:27 mark in the closing frame.
Not even a month after breaking the program scoring record with 99 points at Yale, the Tigers saw their chance at a league title fall into jeopardy and Harvard found revenge after four straight losses to their conference rival.
“Princeton has done a great job believing they can’t lose,” Delaney-Smith said. “I can’t tell you how many teams...have come really close to being able to beat them but Princeton has established this belief in themselves that they can’t lose…. I think part of getting ourselves ready to play them was believing that we could win.”
—Staff writer Cordelia F. Mendez can be reached at cordeliamendez@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter @CrimsonCordelia.