“I thought Siyani was the catalyst for our team,” Amaker said.

HISTORY LESSON

When Harvard matches up with Princeton on Saturday night, it will be with hopes of earning its first victory in Jadwin Gymnasium in over 25 years—since Feb. 3, 1989.

And, if the Crimson pulls off the victory and heads back to Cambridge with two more wins under its belt, it will be the first time that the squad has swept the Killer P road trip since 1985. On Jan. 11, 1985, Harvard took down Princeton, 60-50. On the following night, the Crimson handled its Pennsylvania opponents, 77-75.

In other words, the last time that Harvard went 2-0 on this weekend trip, Ronald Reagan had yet to be sworn in at his second presidential inauguration. Michael Jordan was in his NBA rookie season. LeBron James was one year old.

“This is a huge weekend,” Curry said. “I know the history [of Harvard playing at Jadwin]…. So more than anything, we want that [win] really bad. So I’m glad we were able to get this one [against Penn], because it’s easy to look ahead to that game and slip up. We knew Penn was going to be a tough game tonight, play us hard…. Now we can focus on getting [tomorrow’s victory] because we want that one really bad.”

Last season, the Cambridge squad came close to earning that elusive victory at Jadwin. Down 10 with 10 minutes to play, Harvard mounted a comeback, and had a one-point advantage with 2:30 remaining. However, six made free throws by the Tigers in the final 1:06 enabled the home team to keep its Jad-winning streak alive.

—Staff writer Juliet Spies-Gans can be reached at juliet.spies-gans@thecrimson.com.