Posts Tagged ‘Ivy League’
Cornell Rides Great Senior Group to Another Ivy League Title
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Mar 2010Steve Donahue never quite expected what he’s had the last three years. He readily admits he might never get something like it again, so he’s taking a moment to enjoy Cornell’s third straight Ivy League title, which the Big Red wrapped up with a 95-76 win at Brown on Friday night.
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Jeremy Lin Goes Out a Winner, Like He Wanted
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
4 Mar 2010All Jeremy Lin ever wanted was to win. He wanted his team to be a winner and get the attention it deserved. On Saturday night, the senior guard certainly got that as he walked off the court at Lavietes Pavilion for the last time, as he helped lead his team to their 20th win of the season, a record for the program.
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Harvard Still Has Much to Play For
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Conference Notes
25 Feb 2010Contrary to popular belief, Harvard’s season didn’t end with Friday night’s loss to Cornell. To be sure, the Crimson need help – a lot of it, in fact – if they are to win the Ivy League now. But Tommy Amaker knows his team still has plenty to play for, and made sure his players knew it.
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Cornell Wins With Seasoned Veterans
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
20 Feb 2010Cornell played like the team of seasoned veterans that they are to take home a convincing 79-70 win over Harvard in a much-hyped game. On this night, the difference in experience couldn’t be missed in how this game went.
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- Tags: Cornell, Harvard, Ivy League, Louis Dale, Ryan Wittman
Quick Hitters – February 15, 2010
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
15 Feb 2010We have some quick hitters from the weekend, with several on the Ivy League as well as Belmont’s road adventure and UMass riding the play of a hot senior guard to another win.
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- Tags: Belmont, Brown, Harvard, Ivy League, Northeastern, UMass
Time to Talk About the Princeton Defense
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
6 Feb 2010The Princeton offense is well-known. It’s been talked about a great deal in recent years – one might even say it’s been discussed ad nauseum – and misconceptions about it abound. Less talked about is the defense, but right now that’s the big reason why Princeton is on it is on a roll, improving to 3-0 in the Ivy League with a 56-53 win at Harvard.
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Princeton Quietly Moving Back to Contender Status
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
30 Jan 2010Quietly and without fanfare, Sydney Johnson has Princeton on the way back to contention. The Tigers aren’t getting much pub in Ivy League circles, but that could change before long.
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Yale Could Use Some Help For Zampier
By: Phil Kasiecki in: Columns
23 Jan 2010Yale relies on Alex Zampier for a lot. And on Friday night, as they tried to salvage a split with Brown over an eight-day stretch, they called on him late and he delivered. Going forward, some consistent help for him would go a long way toward winning more games.
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- Tags: Alex Zampier, Ivy League, Yale
18
Jan
2009
For a lot of non-league play, Yale didn’t look anything like an Ivy League contender. That’s what many thought prior to the season, given that the Bulldogs lost four full-time starters from last season’s team. They also spent a lot of time on the road, which contributed to it.
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- Tags: Brown, Ivy League, Yale
13
Jan
2009
A year after running through the Ivy League without a loss, Cornell might enter league play in better shape than they were at the same time last year. That might sound hard to believe, especially considering most figure another undefeated run through the league isn’t likely. But it’s not hard to believe this might be the case, and if they ran through the league unscathed again, it wouldn’t be the most shocking thing to happen.
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8
Jan
2009
When a team like Harvard knocks off a team like Boston College, an inevitable question is, “How did that happen?” The first instinct for many is to look at the favorites and find something that went wrong, but that won’t work here. For the answer to that question in regards to Harvard’s first-ever win over a ranked team, there’s one person that needs to be talked about: Jeremy Lin.
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Every season, a number of players go from being a bit player the year before to a key player or even a star. There are usually a multitude of reasons for it, but it happens often enough that one example of it might not seem to be much of a story. But sometimes it looks like something that was far from being destined to happen, and that makes it a story. Enter Harvard forward Doug Miller.
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They say practice makes perfect. For Brown, that has proven to be true recently in an unexpected way. The Bears, who improved to 5-6 on Monday with a convincing 89-73 win over Quinnipiac, had a stretch earlier in the month where they struggled just to practice. After their win over Hartford on December 9, the Bears practiced just twice in 12 days. Final exams were part of that, but so were injuries.
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- Tags: Brown, Ivy League, Jesse Agel
With a lot of attention focused on the freshmen, it can be easy to lose sight of Harvard’s best player thus far. Jeremy Lin is, after all, a holdover from last season, and even from the prior coaching staff. He’s a little different from the highly-touted newcomers on the roster.
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23
Dec
2008
A day after handily defeating Marist in the semifinal, St.John’s met their match. Virginia Tech defeated the Red Storm 81-67 before slightly over 2000 at Madison Square Garden . The win gave Virginia Tech a second straight Aeropostale Holiday Festival title. Tech defeated St.John’s is last year’s championship.
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- Tags: ACC, Big East, Columbia, Ivy League, Marist, Metro Atlantic, St. John's, Virginia Tech
Last Stop On Rollercoaster Collegiate Career For Brown’s Skrelja
By: Zach Smart in: Columns
14
Dec
2008
For Brown University senior Chris Skrelja, the road to success has been about as smooth as a Providence-bound trip up I-95 in snow-blanketing conditions.
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11
Dec
2008
Army may not have the won-lost record to show it, but the Black Knights look like they can be a tough out in an improved Patriot League. The biggest reason is that they have a number of scoring threats to go along with being athletic. After Monday night’s win at Bryant, ten different players have scored in double figures at least once this season.
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- Tags: ACC, Army, Big Ten, Boston College, Brown, Iowa, Ivy League, Patriot League
8
Dec
2008
The weaknesses of the Boston University Terriers are as clear as day: They don’t rebound, don’t have a reliable low post scorer, and rely almost entirely on the three-pointer to generate offense. But I can’t help it. I like this Terriers team.
New Brown head coach Jesse Agel knows who’s not walking through the locker room door. “Our problem was we kept looking for (Damon) Huffman and (Mark) McAndrew,” Agel quipped after Brown beat Army on Wednesday.
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- Tags: Army, Brown, Ivy League
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