National Basketball Association
Harvard 65, Yale 35
When: 7:00 PM ET, Friday, January 27, 2012
Where: Payne Whitney Gym, New Haven, Connecticut
Officials:
# Bill McCarthy, # Tim Kelly, # Jeff Plunkett
Attendance:
2522
By SportsDirect Inc.
Laurent Rivard scored a game-high 18 points as No. 23 Harvard took sole possession of the Ivy League lead with a 65-35 victory over host Yale on Friday.
Steve Moundou-Missi finished with 10 points and five rebounds for Harvard (17-2, 3-0 Ivy), which used a 15-6 run in the final eight minutes of the first half - capped off by Corbin Miller’s 3-pointer - to build a 30-19 advantage at halftime.
The Crimson, who have won four of the last five in the series, extended the lead to 48-27 midway through the second half and led by as many as 31.
Yale (12-5, 2-1) struggled from the start and went scoreless for more than three minutes on three separate occasions, including a stretch of four minutes early in the second half that allowed the Crimson to pull away.
The Bulldogs were held to their lowest point total since scoring 36 in a loss to Cornell on Jan. 29, 2009.
Greg Mangano, Yale’s leading scorer, finished with a team-high 17 points for the Bulldogs, who lost for the first time at home and for the first time in five games overall.
Top Game Performances
| Harvard |
|
Yale |
|
Laurent Rivard 18 |
Scoring |
Greg Mangano 17 |
|
Brandyn Curry 6 |
Assists |
Reggie Willhite 4 |
|
Steve Moundou-Missi 5 |
Rebounds |
Brandon Sherrod 8 |
|
Laurent Rivard 6 |
Free Throws Made |
Reggie Willhite 3 |
|
Steve Moundou-Missi 3 |
Steals |
Armani Cotton 1 |
|
Kyle Casey 1 |
Blocks |
Greg Mangano 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Harvard
|
65 |
45.3 |
5-13 |
12-14 |
11 |
28 |
3 |
10 |
|
| Yale
|
35 |
31.7 |
2-7 |
7-13 |
10 |
28 |
2 |
2 |
|
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