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Nine minutes into the game, the Crimson had already reaped rewards from its defensive dominance. Harvard motored to early leads of 17-2 and 20-5, and Princeton scorers Becky Brown and Meagan Cowher found little room to operate.
Reka Cserny, who at 20.6 points per game has become the most dominant offensive player in the Ivy League—and who poured 23 points on the overmatched Tigers—gave credit to the steely defensive effort.
Gone is Hana Peljto ’04, the face of coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s championship squads of the early decade. In her lofty place is Cserny, the captain who, at this point, has cut an impressive figure in nearly every conference-wide offensive and defensive statistical...
But the Harvard players refused to pay attention. They knew about the past, but they didn’t care. They shouldn’t have been able to inbound the ball so easily. They shouldn’t have made 7-of-8 free throws in the final minute...
The Penn guards contributed on the defensive end as well, hounding their Harvard counterparts on the perimeter all night long, and holding Harvard to 34 percent shooting from the field. Senior guard Kevin Rogus was unable to fire a single shot in the first half, and he hit only once...