However, with about 43 ticks remaining, Chambers proved that he was able to deal with the pressure. Down 58-55, Chambers drew another double team, and found co-captain Steve Moundou-Missi for the dunk.
But it was too little, too late.
Though Chambers is the point guard and assumes a majority of the responsibility for taking care of the ball, turnovers plagued more than just the junior co-captain on Sunday. Harvard had 24 turnovers on the night, more than double its average from a season ago.
“It’s not like they were going to call the press off or the pressure,” Amaker said. “We were not sharp where we needed to be, which was inbounding it and getting it across the half-court line. It was mind-boggling that we actually turned it over in that fashion.”
Harvard’s turnovers led to 27 points for Holy Cross. Meanwhile, the Crusaders only turned the ball over 11 times, a statistic that proved to be a true difference maker in its upset over No. 25 Harvard.
—Staff writer Andrew Farber can reached at andrewfarber@college.harvard.edu.