Lewis guides Harvard to overtime win
Chris Lewis scored seven of his career-high 29 points in the second overtime while Cornell went without a field goal and Harvard beat the Big Red, 98-88, last night at Lavietes Pavilion.
Seth Towns and Christian Juzang each scored 20 with Juzang grabbing 11 rebounds and Justin Bassey added 18 for the second-place Crimson (16-12, 11-2 Ivy League), who had already clinched a top-two seed in the league tournament and have one regular-season game remaining.
Towns blocked Matt Morgan’s 3-pointer, made a layup and Harvard led 92-88 on Lewis’ 3-point play with 1:11 to play in the second overtime. Cornell missed five shots from the field and Lewis and Juzang iced it with two free throws apiece.
Davidson 63, Rhode Island 61 — Jon Axel Gudmundsson’s driving layup with 3.1 seconds left lifted the host Wildcats (1811, 13-5 Atlantic 10) to an upset over the No. 17 Rams (23-6, 15-3).
It was the second loss of the week for the Rams, who were coming off a shocking 30-point home defeat on senior night against unranked Saint Joseph’s on Tuesday night.
Peyton Aldridge, who had a career-high 45 points in a 117113 triple-overtime loss to St. Bonaventure on Tuesday night, had 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Wildcats. Gudmundsson finished with 11 points
Hockey
Vermont 4, UMass 3 — Cory Thomas scored the game-winner just 12 seconds into overtime to push Vermont past UMass and even the Hockey East opening round series at the Mullins Center in Amherst.
The eighth-seeded Minutemen (16-18-2) grabbed a 3-2 lead on an Austin Albrecht goal early in the third period.
However, ninth-seeded Vermont’s Rob Darrar evened it up with 11:55 left in regulation to force the extra period.
Merrimack 2, UMass-Lowell 1 — With less than two minutes remaining in overtime, Ludvig Larsson scored to give 10th-seeded Merrimack a victory over the seventh-seeded River Hawks in a Hockey East opening round series at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.
Connor Wilson gave UMassLowell an early lead with an unassisted strike in the first period, but Merrimack’s Jack Hennig knotted it up with less than five minutes remaining in regulation.
Maine 4, New Hampshire 1 — Cedric Lacroix scored twice in the third period, including an emptynetter with 1:10 to play, as the host and sixth-seeded Black Bears beat No. 11 seed New Hampshire in a Hockey East opening round series in Orono, Maine.