Get schooled.
Key sequence: Dartmouth ended the half on a 15-6 run to forge a 41-31 lead at the half. The Big Green went 6-for-7 from the field over that final 4:51 to stretch a one-point lead to double figures at intermission. Although Columbia would make a charge in the second half, the Lions could never take the lead.
Penn and Princeton meet in the regular season finale on Tuesday, but will the game mean anything beyond pride and seeding in the NCAA Tournament? Princeton needs pick up at least one game on Penn this weekend to stay alive. With the Vegas Degenerates and Pomeroy appearing to have fairly similar opinions of this weekend’s games odds-wise, this week we’ll do another breakdown of the possible outcomes.
The numbers: 11-15 overall, 6-6 Ivy, 235th RPI, 251st Sagarin, 278th Pomeroy
The recent results: won 68-64 vs. Yale (2/24), lost 69-64 vs. Brown (2/25)
The upcoming schedule: at Harvard (3/3), at Dartmouth (3/4)
Today’s Daily Pennsylvanian reports Penn forward Friedrich Ebede is listed as “questionable” with a groin injury for the Quakers’ upcoming Yale-Brown weekend roadtrip. The senior is averaging 5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in 18.6 minutes per game off the bench for Fran Dunphy, and has been Penn’s top frontcourt reserve. Ebede injured his left groin on a hard foul by Harvard’s Matt Stehle in the first half of Friday’s Harvard-Penn game.
With all the close games in the league this season, it’s interesting to wonder what things would look like if the breaks that decided those games had gone the other way. Here’s how those games turned out in that bizarro world: