The Crimson fell in back-to-back losses on the road in the penultimate weekend of conference play. At Princeton, the two teams were tied with 90 seconds to play, but the Tigers went on a 5-0 run at the free throw line to close out the game. The next day, Harvard was dominated by the Quakers, who held Chambers to five points and stifled a late game rally.

“We give all the credit to Princeton and Penn,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said after the weekend. “They did what they needed to in order to win the basketball game, but we know we can play better and we are confident that, once we get home, we will.”

Going into the last weekend of Ivy League play, Princeton controlled its own destiny. If the Tigers lost one of their three final games on the road, they would likely have squared off with the Crimson in a one-game playoff.

But Princeton fell to both Yale and Brown, and the Crimson won the title outright.

After upsetting UNM, Harvard fell in the third round of the NCAA tournament to Arizona. The Wildcats dominated the Crimson from start to finish, leading by 18 at halftime before extending their lead in the second half. Despite ending its season with what would be a 71-54 blowout, this year’s team goes down as the most successful Crimson squad in history.

“For me, it’s definitely the sweetest one out of the three [Ivy League Championships],” said Webster, the winningest player in Harvard history. “These are my best friends, and for me and Laurent to lead the team to this is unbelievable. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

—Staff writer Hope Schwartz can be reached at hschwartz@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter @HopeSchwartz16.