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UPDATED: March 14, 2015, at 8:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA—“I was wide open.”

“It went in.”

That’s how co-captain Steve Moundou-Missi described one of the biggest shots in Harvard men’s basketball history. It was an eighteen-footer from just right of the top of the key. It left Moundou-Missi’s hands with eight seconds left and his team tied at 51 against Yale in Saturday’s Ivy Playoff game.

It went in.

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“This is what you dream about.”

That’s what senior wing Wesley Saunders said about the win—about the run he’s had. The 53-51 victory sends the Crimson to its fourth straight NCAA Tournament. Saunders has had the same spring break plans every year of his college career.

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“What an afternoon.” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said in an understatement as usual. “What an afternoon for Ivy League basketball.”

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Before Moundou-Missi’s shot, there was the pass.

Saunders had scored 18 of the Crimson’s 28 second-half points coming into the possession (he finished with 22 points in the game), so Amaker put the ball in his playmaker’s hands once more.