For its part, Princeton kept up with the Harvard on the perimeter early—in the first half the Tigers went 6-of-14 from deep. On the game, however Tigers took 26 shots from deep and connected on only eight.

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TOUGH TURNOVERS

Behind the hot shooting the Crimson jumped out to a 6-12 advantage in the first. Despite the early lead for Harvard, however, turnovers gave Princeton easy baskets late in the half. In total the Crimson coughed up the ball 12 times in the first frame for a total of 13 points off turnovers.

For its part, Harvard only scored a single point off three Tigers turnovers in the same span.

“We started on fire a little bit at the beginning, and I think we wanted to play with great pace, but we weren’t under control a few times and sometimes that happens when you’re trying to play a faster pace game,” Amaker said. “But you can’t do that on the road and be out of control and I think we did that a few times and just turned it over and allowed them to get extra possessions and score points off our turnovers.”

Despite outshooting and outrebounding the Tigers through 20 minutes of play, the turnovers proved to be costly as Princeton entered the half up by nine.

The Crimson would overcome the deficit in the second half, but ultimately Bell’s shot would be the only one that mattered as Princeton took a last second from Harvard for the second time this season.

“You can’t say enough about how hard both teams played,” Amaker said. “All the kids were just tremendous on both squads. It was a possession game and it’s been nailbiting and I’m proud of our kids for the effort that we displayed here tonight and obviously Princeton is very good.”

—Staff writer Troy Boccelli can be reached at troy.boccelli@thecrimson.com.