On a weekend in which Allison Feaster reached an unparalleled personal milestone, the Harvard women's basketball team came frighteningly close to having several streaks snapped at Lavietes Pavilion.

By Saturday night, however, Harvard (15-2, 5-0 Ivy) had added another school record-for three-point field goal attempts-to its resume. When the games ended, the Crimson's Ivy League winning streak stood at 31 games, its home winning streak stood at 20 games and Feaster stood alone in the annals of Ivy League basketball history. HARVARD  86 BROWN  81 HARVARD  74 YALE  54

Feaster scored her 2,000th career point Saturday night in Harvard's 74-54 victory over Yale (7-10, 1-4), making her the only woman in Ivy League history to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career. She joins NBA Hall of Famer and current U.S. Senator Bill Bradley as the only other person in Ivy history to accomplish the feat.

"We didn't play our best game [last night], but tonight was definitely different," Feaster said. "It made it that much better when I hit the 2,000."

Before Feaster joined her elite club, Harvard struggled to keep its string of consecutive Ivy League and home wins alive on Friday against Brown. The Bears (6-11, 2-3 Ivy) took the Crimson into overtime but they were unable to stop Feaster from lead her squad to an 86-81 victory.

Harvard 86, Brown 81 (OT)

Friday night's game started off extremely well for Harvard, but it ended up as the closest in the past two years.

After shooting 53 percent from the floor in the first half and owning a 14-point lead at halftime, Harvard looked as if it were ready to blow the game wide open. Instead, the Crimson shot a dismal 29 percent in the second period and committed 15 turnovers in the face of Brown's relentless full court press, allowing the Bears to chip away at the lead and eventually tie the game.

"That was textbook pressure," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-smith said. "I think [my team] was nervous, and I can't say why. We played scared, and we didn't play good team defense."

Feaster scored only 19 points in regulation--a career-night for most players, but a mediocre performance by her standards--but took over in overtime, scoring nine of Harvard's 12 points in the extra period.

"I played a very tentative game [Friday] night,and I definitely won't play that way the next timeI play them," Feaster said.

She connected on a jumper to pen the overtimescoring, and after Brown's Erin Middendropanswered with a lay-up, Feaster drained athree-pointer to put Harvard up 79-76. She thenswatted away a shot by Brown's Liz Turner whichjunior Suzie Miller scooped up and fed to fellowguard Alison Seanor for a lay-in at the other end.

Following a lay-up by Brown and a free throw byjunior Rose Janowski, Feaster rebounded a miss bySeanor and laid it in for an 84-78 lead. ButBrown's Vita Redding responded by hitting her onlytrey of the night, and it was a one-possessiongame with 58 seconds on the clock.

After several missed shots by both teams,controversy arose. Scrambling for a loose ball,Miller dove on the floor and called a timeout, andthe Brown players and coaches were livid,screaming for a traveling call.

Despite the antics by Redding and Brown CoachJean Marie Burr--which included both individualscrawling on the floor like crabs--the call stood.The possession proved inconsequential as Feastermissed a jumper, and freshman Lisa Kowal crossedin front of Turner after the ensuing defensiverebound, causing the Bears' forward a travel.

Harvard inbounded the ball to Feaster, who wasfouled by Turner and went to the line with sevenseconds showing on the clock and chance to ice thegame. The nation's leading scorer calmly hit bothfree throws to close out the scoring, and thecrowd of 843 breathed a collective sigh of reliefas time ran out.

"It concerns me that we played poorly, butwe've learned so much from this game," saidMiller. "They had a chance to win the game, but wecame back in overtime. We cleaned up what we haddone wrong before, and I think that shows a lot ofpoise and experience. That will help us down theline."