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UPDATED: February 26, 2017 at 3:57 p.m.

You couldn’t have written it better for the Harvard men’s basketball team’s four seniors. Playing in their last game at Lavietes Pavilion, the Crimson’s four seniors wrote themselves a storybook ending against Brown on Saturday night, beating the Bears, 77-58.

It started with co-captain Corbin Miller. Off a pump fake the senior drained a long two to put the Crimson on the board. On the ensuing possession co-captain Siyani Chambers found classmate Zena Edosomwan for the emphatic dunk. Just over three minutes later, Chambers found senior Matt Fraschilla—making his second career start—in the corner for the three.

Starting its four seniors for the first time this season, Harvard (18-7, 10-2 Ivy League) jumped out to an 11-2 lead just over four minutes into Saturday’s game.

“That’s the way, if you want to write up a script you want it to flow like that,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I was really excited to see that happen but I thought they did it within the flow. It wasn’t like they were looking to do it, and when it happens like that, that’s why it usually will happen.”

Chambers was the last of the four seniors to get on the scoreboard. The manner in which he did, however, was nothing short of spectacular. It began with a jumper from the elbow with just over six minutes left on the clock in the first half. Before three minutes had elapsed, though, the senior had scored 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting and assisted on the only other bucket scored over that span.

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He would go on to finish the game with a season-high 19 points and five assists.

For the Crimson, the early lead from its upperclassmen would only be the beginning of what became a runaway win against the visiting Brown Bears (12-16, 3-9).

Led by Edosomwan, Chambers, and freshman Seth Towns, Harvard jumped out to a 48-30 lead in the first half—tied for its highest first-half point total of the season. The trio combined for 29 of the Crimson’s 48 first period points. Edosomwan scored all of his eight in the frame and did so on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting from the field while adding seven rebounds.

Edosomwan wasn’t the only one who shot the ball well as Harvard shot 65.5 percent through the first frame—it’s best shooting performance this season before heading to the locker room. Through the period, the Crimson also shot 67 percent from deep while assisting on 14 plays.

“We want to play that way all the time no matter what defense or who we’re playing,” Amaker said. “We had 18 assists last night and we had 14 at the half tonight....We shared it, we found the open guy.”

While the first half was headlined by Harvard’s seniors, the game as a whole was perhaps one of the Crimson’s best all-around efforts of the season. In total, 13 Harvard players saw the floor with 10 finding their way onto the scoreboard. No Crimson player scored more than 20, but six scored six or more.

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