Penn’s First Round Loss Completes Ivy Season by Jay Pearlman With a No. 14 seed, one slot ahead of last year, and a ten-game winning streak coming into the NCAA Tournament, the Penn faithful harbored some hope coming into Thursday’s first round match-up against Texas A&M. With an opponent not […]
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Ivy League Notebook
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. […]
Ivy League Notebook
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 […]
Ivy League Notebook
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 […]
Brian Cusworth’s College Career
Cusworth’s Late Blooming Ends in Cambridge Only by Phil Kasiecki Harvard center Brian Cusworth’s career ended on Saturday night against Brown. It was a career that had potential, some flashes of it, then a nice last semester that unfortunately ended early. It was also one that was hardly guaranteed to […]
Princeton Coach Joe Scott
With Coach Scott, Even at 0-2 Princeton Could Push Penn by Jay Pearlman After catching a game his first year at Princeton (’04-’05), and three last year, I thought I was getting an idea about Coach Joe Scott. Undersized and tough as a point guard and senior captain for Pete […]
Dartmouth’s Leon Pattman
If Pattman Stays Healthy, Dartmouth will be Better by Jay Pearlman Seeing them play three times last year (a win at Army and two losses to Harvard), I realized what Coach Terry Dunn surely knew about his Dartmouth squad: that as goes guard Leon Pattman, so go the Big Green. […]
Columbia’s Missing Link
Lions Ready to Roar after Adding One Piece by Jay Pearlman Something was amiss, and I couldn’t quite get my arms around what it was. I saw a good shooting team, reasonably athletic from an Ivy League perspective, well-coached. Yet coach Joe Jones’ Columbia Lions lost all three times I […]
Ivy League Preview
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 […]
Battle of the Joneses Has More Ahead
Big Brother Wins Again, but More Might be at Stake Later by Phil Kasiecki NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This one looked like it could get ugly early on. It wasn’t, and both coaches were happy with that. You wouldn’t think the winning coach would be exceedingly happy that a game […]
