The road to the Crimson’s victory was quite different this time around. On Friday, it was Harvard that came out firing. In the first quarter, the Crimson went on an uncontested 14-point run to jump out to a lead of that margin.

After shooting 53 percent from the field and 57 percent from beyond the arc through the first frame, Harvard slowed down in the second and third quarters.

“Once again, and this is problematic of all young teams, we didn’t execute on the offensive end as well as we should have,” Delaney-Smith said. “I thought some of our shot selection was absolutely crazy and not good, and they were boxing us out really well.”

With the Crimson’s offense stalling, Yale made a comeback of it’s own. A three followed by a two from junior guard Lena Munzer put the Bulldogs up by four with four minutes to go in the fourth.

Despite the late offense from Yale, freshman guard Sydney Skinner had other plans. She would score eight of Harvard’s last ten points before Healy capped off the Crimson’s run with the game-winner. Healy finished the night with 21 points, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists.

“We’ve been in this position so many times this year,” junior Destiny Nunley said. “I think that’s kind of how we’re able to figure it out. We’ve been here before, we know what we have to do. We just had to rebound the ball, play extra hard defense, rotate, help the helper. All those little things become so much more important in those last ten minutes.”

—Staff writer Troy Boccelli can be reached at tboccelli@college.harvard.edu.