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| Harvard (12-13, 4-8 Ivy) |
19 |
29 |
48 |
| Princeton (10-14, 8-3 Ivy) |
37 |
38 |
75 |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
After Jim Goffredo made it a 14-11 game with jumpers on consecutive possessions, Kyle Koncz answered with his second straight three-pointer and Justin Conway connected from the top of the key the next trip down. Matt Stehle drove inside for a layup to bring Harvard back to within seven, but Conway got a layup of his own to restore the margin to nine. Harvard got two looks from beyond the arc on its next possession, but couldn’t knock down either. Scott Greenman showed them how it was done with a three that put Princeton up 25-13. After Goffredo missed from outside again, Greenman found Mike Strittmatter for a layup. At the other end Conway came up with a steal and fed Koncz for a layup in transition to finish off a 15-2 run that made it 29-13 in Princeton’s favor. |
| Key sign it was over |
Harvard showed signs of life after halftime, scoring on its first five possessions. But Princeton scored on four of its first five and the Tigers’ advantage was still 18 early in the second half. Brian Cusworth couldn’t get a shot from point blank range to fall that would have cut the Crimson deficit to 16. At the other end, Conway fed Koncz for yet another three-pointer and Princeton had its largest lead to that point at 21. Harvard would get no closer than 19 the rest of the way. |
| Key performance |
Koncz’s 5-for-6 shooting from the arc. After torching Harvard in the teams’ previous meeting in Boston, Koncz had struggled in the five games in between, scoring a total of just 12 points on 3-of-15 shooting from three-point range. But the sophomore sniper snapped out of his funk against the Crimson to tally 23 points. Koncz even went 4-for-5 from inside the arc, after entering the game with just 17 two-point attempts on the season. He also added six rebounds, three assists, and two steals — without committing a single turnover. |
| Key statistic |
Princeton’s 13-of-19 three-point shooting. The Tigers shot 9 of 13 (69.2 percent) in the first half, which was the reason they led by 18 at halftime. In addition to Koncz’s hot hand from the outside, Greenman was 3 of 4 from the arc and Conway hit 2 of 4. Conversely, Harvard shot just 1 of 9 from three-point range. |
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| Notes |
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With the win, Princeton stayed two games behind Ivy leader Penn with three games left for each team. The loss was Harvard’s seventh straight defeat, dropping the preseason runner-up pick into a sixth-place tie with Columbia at 4-8 in the league. |
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Harvard shot 1 of 16 from three in the two games against Princeton. The Crimson’s only three-pointer in the season series came from Goffredo with 8:15 left in the second game. |
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Princeton registered 21 assists on its 25 field goals, while Harvard had just five assists for the game. |
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Princeton dominated the much taller Crimson on the boards, rebounding at 37.5 percent at the offensive end and a stellar 80.8 percent defensively. |
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Goffredo was the only Harvard player in double figures with 14 points. Stehle was held to eight points on just six field goal attempts. |
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