Ivy League Notebook
by Phil Kasiecki

As another weekend of Ivy League basketball has completed, there hasn’t been much change at the top. With two more road wins, Cornell has run their record to 8-0 and remains two games in front of Brown.
The Big Red could move even closer to clinching the Ivy League’s automatic [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Phil Kasiecki

Ivy League play has begun in earnest, and with two full weekends in the books a few things have already become clear.
Most notable is that Cornell is the team to beat. The Big Red have run out to a 6-0 start and have a two-game lead on everyone else. [...]

Ivy League 2007-08 Preview
by Phil Kasiecki

As the 2007-08 season approaches, there is a sense that this season could be different in the Ivy League. Prognosticators and even coaches are all saying that this just might be the year that someone other than Penn or Princeton breaks through at the top. It could [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Jay Pearlman

It’s All in the Family, as Joe Jones’ Lions Deal James Jones’ Elis Crippling Defeat
Coming into this penultimate weekend in the Ivy League, the focus was in fact on old Payne Whitney Gym in New Haven, home of James Jones’ second-place Yale Elis. One game behind Penn in the [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Jay Pearlman

Yale Survives Must-Win Weekend without Hughes
The entire season lay before them, fifteen minutes to go. They were down 9 at home to Leon Pattman and Dartmouth. Sam Kaplan is long gone. Casey Hughes left in the first half with a foot injury. They’d dealt Penn (now 8-1) their only [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Jay Pearlman

Through Two Friday/Saturday Weekends, Ivy League More Interesting than Ever
Coaches say the lower the level, the tougher the road. And even NBA teams have trouble the second straight night away from home in a different city, all the more so after winning the first. Throw in some late-arriving [...]

Ivy League 2006-07 Preview
by Phil Kasiecki

In some ways, the 2005-06 season was a typical one in the Ivy League: Penn and Princeton came out on top of everyone else. But the end result doesn’t tell the whole story.
No prognosticator figured the Tigers would be in the hunt for the title prior to Ivy [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Phil Kasiecki

As we head into the all-important month of February in the Ivy League, there are three teams ahead of the pack, and it might well stay that way. Prohibitive favorite Penn is 2-0 after easily handling Cornell and Columbia in the middle of the month, while Harvard and Yale [...]

Ivy League 2005-05 Preview
by Steve Sheridan

Let’s just make it easy: Penn might well win the Ivy League title this season. After 23 overall titles and five of the last seven championships, this bold prediction will not make any huge waves throughout the Ivy League community. Nonetheless, the Quakers are in excellent position to repeat [...]

Ivy League 2003-04 Recap
by Owen Bochner

What began as a season with expectations for parity and fierce competition in the Ivy League ended as one characterized by routine and predictability. Sure, things [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

Things are coming down to the wire in the Ivy League with Princeton firmly in the drivers’ seat. The Tigers extended their winning streak to four with [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

The second weekend of Ivy-exclusive games proved once again that anything can happen. Cornell, for example, looked downright bipolar in the weekend’s action. Friday night, the Big Red demolished Brown, 96-81, leading by as many as 24 points. Twenty-four hours later, the Red looked flat, and Yale demolished Cornell, 67-48. [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

Every year, one team emerges as the surprise contender in the Ivy League. Two years ago, that team was Yale. Last year, it was Brown. This year’s contender is Cornell. After one weekend of exclusive Ivy play, the Big Red is sitting at the top of the league standings at [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

Going into this season, no one expected that Yale would struggle like it did last season. With a mature, healthy roster and the collective memory of both winning the league and falling back to mediocrity, the Elis, it seemed, were primed for a repeat of 2001-02, not last season. The [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

It was a week of ups and downs for the Ivy League, as the conference prepares to dive into conference play beginning this weekend. The ups belonged to Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Penn, while the week was a downer for Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. Columbia experienced a little of both. [...]

Ivy League Notebook
by Owen Bochner

As if only to quiet any doubters, Penn resumed its familiar post as the Ivy League frontrunner with a stellar non-conference performance in the 2003 portion of its season. Following their Holiday Festival tournament championship, the Quakers stand at a non-so-impressive, but conference-leading 5-4 record, prepared to lead the rest [...]