Cambridge, Mass. - The Harvard Women's Basketball team will host the University of Maine in Lavietes Pavilion on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 3:00 p.m. The game will follow the men's basketball game against Howard and will be streamed on ESPN+ and NESN.
What to Know
• Harvard women's basketball opened the
Carrie Moore era last month with wins over URI, Boston College, Merrimack, UMass Lowell and Colgate. Sunday's game against Maine will be the first game after nearly two weeks off for Harvard's reading period.
• Moore is in Year 1 after the retirement of Kathy Delaney-Smith, who was at the helm of the Crimson program for 40 years. Moore was named The Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women's Basketball on April 6, 2022, and arrived in Cambridge after spending the 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Michigan, helping the Wolverines to a 25-7 record and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Moore also had assistant-coaching stints at North Carolina, Princeton and Creighton.
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Harmoni Turner has enjoyed a career season so far this year, scoring a career-high 31 points in the season opener against URI and a career-high 9 assists against Boston College. At the Cancun Challenge Tournament, she scored 56 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists throughout 3 games against Purdue, Oklahoma State and Florida State, earning a spot on the Cancun Challenge Tournament All-Tournament team. This is Turner's second honor so far this season, as she was named Ivy-League Co-Player of the Week during the first week of action. Turner has reported 20+ points in five games so far this season.
• Two players reported points in the double digits in Harvard's last home game against Colgate. These players were
Harmoni Turner (22) and
Lola Mullaney (10).
McKenzie Forbes,
Elena Rodriguez,
Gabby Anderson, and
Saniyah Glenn-Bello all contributed 6 or more points.
• Three Harvard players are in the top ten in the Ivy League for points per game.
Harmoni Turner sits in second with 17.9 ppg,
McKenzie Forbes is in sixth with 13.2 ppg and
Lola Mullaney is in ninth with 12.4 ppg.
• Harvard posted a season-high 19 assists in the most recent matchup at Northeastern.
• Harvard has had its best two first quarters in its two most recent home games, scoring 24 points against UMass Lowell and 23 against Colgate in the first 10 minutes of play.
• Harvard is meeting Maine for the 18th time in series history, one in which Harvard trails 7-10. The Crimson won the most recent matchup on Dec. 7, 2019 with a score of 69-40. Harvard is looking to start up another streak of wins with another victory this year as the current streak sits at 1 after the previous matchup. The longest streak of wins the Crimson has held over the Black Bears is 4, winning every matchup from 2007-2010.
• Harvard is coming off two home wins against UMass Lowell and Colgate and a loss at Northeastern. They are currently 4-1 at home and only have losses to power five opponents at the Cancun Challenge, UMass Lowell and Northeastern. With a 5-5 record, Harvard is tied for sixth with Yale in the Ivy League conference standings.
• Harvard's 2022-23 schedule features 12 non-conference games before Ivy League play begins Dec. 31 against Princeton. The team will hope to advance to the Ivy League tournament for the second consecutive season. The tournament will be held in Princeton, N.J. from March 11-12, 2023.
Up Next
Harvard will travel to play cross-town rival Boston University on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. to conclude nonconference play. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.
