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• Housman unleashes a killer crossover, gets into the lane and draws contact. Heads to the line shooting two.
  
• Misses first. Swishes second.
• Well, as if you didn't already know this, Princeton went on to defeat Harvard tonight, 74-68, in double overtime. Only the second multiple-overtime game in Jadwin Gym history.
• Technical difficulties kept Sideline Dispatches from bringing you the entire second overtime period (BlogSpot pretty much crashed on us, preventing us from publishing new posts. Even now, we are only able to update old posts) but there were few difficulties for the Tigers over the final five minutes of the game.
  
• First, at the end of the first overtime, Princeton had the ball with 27 seconds left in the game and a chance to win it, but the possession turned sour and sophomore forward Michael Strittmatter had to force up a bad midrange jumper at the buzzer, which fell short.
• Halfway through the second overtime, a huge three by junior forward Kyle Koncz put Princeton up to stay, and clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch sealed the deal, giving Princeton its first win of the Ivy League season (if we could still add new posts, the title for this one was going to be "Oh and four no more").
• Some impressive individual numbers at the end of the game: freshman guard Lincoln Gunn had a career-high 22 points for Princeton, along with four rebounds and a team-high five assists. Senior center Justin Conway played all 50 minutes and pulled down 10 rebounds. Junior forward Noah Savage had a season-high 16 points in his first start of the season and senior forward Luke Owings pulled down seven boards coming off the bench for the first time all season.
• The statline of the night went to Harvard's Drew Housman, however, who dropped 33 points on Princeton for a losing cause, with a series of pull-up threes, floaters and finesse layups. Housman was 11 of 23 from the field and also led the Crimson with four assists.
• Despite the failure to contain Housman, Princeton was a markedly improved team tonight, coming up with big defensive stops down the stretch and getting offensive contributions from a number of sources. A big first win to get under their belts.
• Tomorrow (Saturday) night at 7:30, the Tigers will go for a second-straight win, against the Big Green of Dartmouth. Sideline Dispatches will be there as well, live-blogging for as long as BlogSpot lets us. So check us out.