Harvard senior Steve Moundou-Missi drilled a shot from just inside the top of the key with 7 seconds remaining in an Ivy League playoff with Yale on Saturday and it proved to be the winning basket.
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Harvard is back in the NCAA tournament for the fourth consecutive year after beating its rival 53-51. Yale guard Javier Duren had a chance to tie it but his runner hit high off the backboard and bounced off the rim as time expired. 
Duren made all six of his free throw attempts in the final four minutes and finished 8-for-8 at the foul line, which helped give a Yale a chance at the end. But Duren also went 2-for-10 from the field, part of a team-wide rough shooting day. The Bulldogs made only 40 percent of their attempts.
Yale was trying to earn its first NCAA berth since 1962. It had its heart broken instead - again. The Bulldogs had a chance to win the NCAA berth outright without a playoff but lost in their final regular season game on a buzzer-beater by Dartmouth.
While Moundou-Missi made the winner and also eclipsed the 1,000-point mark in his career, senior guard Wesley Saunders was the key ingredient for the Crimson. He scored a game-best 22 points.
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