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55
Harvard HU 6-11,1-3 Ivy League
84
Winner Yale Yale 11-6,4-0 Ivy League
Harvard HU
6-11,1-3 Ivy League
55
Final
84
Yale Yale
11-6,4-0 Ivy League
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Harvard HU 26 29 55
Yale Yale 45 39 84

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Men’s Basketball Falls at Yale, 84-55

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior guard Chandler Piggé scored a team-high 13 points, but Harvard Men's Basketball fell at Yale University, 84-55, on Saturday afternoon at the John J. Lee Amphitheater inside Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
 
Starting a four-game road swing, the Crimson (6-11, 1-3 Ivy) dropped the decision to the league-leading Bulldogs (11-6, 4-0 Ivy), who led 45-26 at halftime and held a 15-point margin through the second half.
 
Piggé tallied 13 points, a team-best five rebounds, and two assists, scoring in double figures for the 14th time this season and leading the Crimson in scoring for the ninth time on the year. Senior guard Louis Lesmond joined him in double figures, scoring 11 points on 4-of-7 field goals and 3-of-6 3-pointers. 

Harvard Highlights

  • Junior guard Chandler Piggé posted a team-high 13 points, team-best five rebounds, and two assists, while hitting 3-of-8 3-pointers. He scored in double figures for the 14th time this season and led the Crimson in scoring for the ninth time this year.
  • Senior guard Louis Lesmond scored 11 points, while connecting on 4-of-7 field goals and 3-of-6 3-pointers. He finished in double figures for the sixth time this season and 28th time in his career.
  • First-year guard Austin Hunt netted eight points on 4-of-7 shooting, senior guard Evan Nelson tallied seven points, three rebounds, and a team-high three assists, first-year guard Tey Barbour added seven points on 3-of-5 shooting, and first-year guard Robert Hinton chipped in six points, three rebounds, and a team-best three assists.
Gallery: (1-25-2025) Men's Basketball at Yale
 

How It Happened

  • After Yale opened the game with a 17-5 lead, a 3-pointer from Piggé and jumper from Lesmond cut the margin to 17-10 at the 12:16 mark of the first half.
  • The Bulldogs moved their lead to 27-10 with 10 straight points and pushed the edge to 37-14 with 7:34 left in the first half over a 20-4 run.
  • A 6-2 spurt from the Crimson brought the visitors within 39-20, and back-to-back 3-pointers from Lesmond trimmed the difference to 43-26 with 1:51 to go in the opening half. Yale took a 45-26 lead into the locker room.
  • Triples from Nelson, Piggé, and Lesmond helped keep the Crimson within 59-41 with 11:45 remaining before back-to-back buckets from Barbour brought Harvard within 60-45 with 11:02 to play.
  • The Bulldogs used an 11-2 run to push their lead back to 71-47 with 7:45 to go and maintained at least a 20-point edge the rest of the way. 

Postgame Quotes

"They are very good, physical, great size. Really the Achilles for us right now is our size. We are thin on the interior. They did a great job of that on the offensive glass. The two post guys in particular were too much for us to handle. It got away from us. We weren't able to make shots that we need to make. It was a tough afternoon for us. Hopefully we can learn and get better." – Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg '71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Basketball 

Next Up

Harvard competes in its first back-to-back weekend of the season when it plays at Columbia on Friday, Jan. 31 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+/SNY) and at Cornell on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 6:00 p.m. (ESPN+).

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