Harvard women’s basketball coasts to win over Stony Brook

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With a Harvard women’s basketball victory never in doubt for the better part of 35 minutes, there was still last-minute drama amongst the 1,147 tween-heavy Education Day fans at Lavietes Pavilion to see if the Crimson would hit the magic number of 67.

As the seconds ticked down, senior guard Saniyah Glenn-Bello cut across the lane, hit a contested underhand layup and sent the crowd, as well as the Harvard bench, into a frenzy to seal a dominant 67-33 victory over Stony Brook on Friday afternoon.

With her late bucket, the senior guard from Staten Island capped a stat-stuffing afternoon of 14 points, nine assists, seven rebounds and five blocks.

The Crimson (6-5) claimed their first three-game winning streak of the season and entered into the two-week Final Exam break over .500 for the first time in the season. The rebuilding Seawolves (3-7), meanwhile, lost their third straight contest against Harvard and sixth straight against Division I competition.

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Dartmouth men’s basketball’s squeaker win over New Hampshire underscores room for improvement

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New Hampshire and Dartmouth tip off Dec. 3, 2025 at Leede Arena for what became a 69-68 Big Green win. (Ray Curren | Ivy Hoops Online)

HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men’s basketball team miraculously escaped an upset from in-state rival New Hampshire Wednesday night by scoring the game’s final nine points, with Kareem Thomas’ runner with 5.5 seconds left holding up for a 69-68 win.

The Big Green (3-3) looked disjointed for most of the evening, particularly on the offensive end, and there will likely need to be several areas of improvement if Dartmouth is to follow up on last season’s inaugural Ivy League Tournament bid.

But that’s not a surprise to them. With Ryan Cornish now graduated, others like senior Brandon Mitchell-Day and sophomore Connor Amundsen (who was also injured to start the campaign) have seen the brunt of opposing defenses’ attention, especially Amundsen, who at 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds is a clear target for teams like New Hampshire that have good size at the guard position.

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Dominant third quarter propels Harvard women’s basketball past Holy Cross

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Down two at the half, the Harvard women used a 17-0 third quarter to put away Holy Cross 61-46 on Wednesday evening at Lavietes Pavilion.

The Crimson’s victory was even more impressive given the fact that the team was missing two starters and three of its top six rotation players due to injuries, as well as having its travel scheduled delayed by 10 to 12 hours due to connecting flight problems after the win at Arkansas on Sunday.

The win brought Carrie Moore’s squad back to the .500 level at 5-5 on the year, while the Crusaders fell to 3-5.

A few thoughts as Harvard starts December with its first two-game winning streak of the season:

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Another fourth-quarter rally lifts Princeton women’s basketball past Seton Hall

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Old habits die hard.

On Tuesday night at Jadwin Gymnasium, the Princeton women’s basketball team used yet another fourth-quarter comeback, its sixth of the season, to hold off the Seton Hall Pirates, 80-76, for its sixth win a row.

This time, the Tigers (8-1) rallied twice to overcome deficits, including a 14-point second-quarter hole and a five-point gap in the final stanza to hand the Pirates (4-1) their first setback of the season.

The win capped a three-game sweep by Princeton of BIG EAST teams for the second straight year.

The 24th meeting between Princeton and Seton Hall was an instant classic.

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Columbia women’s basketball goes 1–2 against tough Cancun Challenge competition

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At the Cancun Challenge, Columbia women’s basketball played much improved basketball against quality opponents, as junior guard and reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Riley Weiss rounded into midseason shape.

Prior to the tournament, Weiss averaged 16.2 points per game. In these three games, she averaged over 27, notably shooting 48.3% overall and 42.3% from three, both numbers higher than any previous single game.

In three days of play, the Lions (4-4) lost a close shootout to Kansas State (5–3), 95–92; powered past perennial mid-major power South Dakota State (6–2), 80–67; and lost 80–63 against Courtney Banghart-led No. 12 North Carolina (8–1).

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Harvard women’s basketball wins at Arkansas for first-ever SEC victory

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Harvard women’s basketball, continuing to use a depleted roster, bounced back from two defeats at the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship before Thanksgiving to take down Arkansas 69-51 on Nolan Richardson Court in Fayetteville Sunday.

With the victory, the Crimson improved to 4-5 on the season, while the Razorbacks dropped its first home game in six attempts and dropped to 7-2. 

Sunday afternoon’s contest was put on the schedule as a homecoming for Gabby Anderson, who was born in the Natural State and whose mother played for Arkansas in the late 1990s. But the celebration of the program’s first-ever win over an SEC opponent was tempered by the loss of the senior guard due to a left knee injury early in the second quarter. 

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Quakeaways from Penn men’s basketball’s Cathedral Classic loss to Hofstra

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Playing its third game in a three-day span, Penn men’s basketball simply ran out of gas against one of the better teams it will face this season.

Penn shot a grisly 32% from the field in a 77-60 home loss to Hofstra that rounded out the fourth edition of the Cathedral Classic.

Penn (5-3) managed to hold a two-point halftime lead against the Pride (5-3) that disappeared within the first minute of the second frame. Hofstra drained some shots and generated a modicum of offensive flow, while the Red and Blue struggled to play with pace and generate open looks.

Any chance the Quakers had at a comeback died shortly after the under-eight media timeout. Sophomore forward Lucas Lueth missed a free throw that would have pulled Penn within nine of Hofstra. Though senior wing Ethan Roberts corralled the offensive rebound, the Quakers couldn’t get a shot off and committed a shot clock violation.

At the other end of the floor, Penn got an initial stop, but Hofstra’s German Plotnikov drained a killer three after an offensive rebound. What could have been a four-point possession wound up as a three-point swing in the opposite direction.

The Quakers will surely be watching Monday night’s contest between Temple and Villanova to find out their opponent in the Big 5 title game next Saturday. Until then, they’ll be thinking about how …

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Princeton women’s basketball and Taylor Charles swat away DePaul for fifth straight win

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On a Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Taylor Charles served up a record-tying seven helpings of stuffing as the Princeton women’s basketball team rolled over the DePaul Blue Demons, 71-41, in a Sunday matinee at Jadwin Gymnasium.

Getting her first start of the season, Charles made the most of her opportunity.

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