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Game of the Week: Penn at Yale – Friday, March 3
The entire season basically comes down to this game, fittingly between the only two teams with winning records and Top 200 RPIs. The first meeting in Philadelphia was downright bizarre, with Yale running out to a 16-1 lead and Penn outscoring the Bulldogs 51-13 over a 21-minute stretch. But as we’ve been reminding you for some time, Yale is a very different team at home, where the Bulldogs are undefeated in Ivy play this season. Meanwhile, Penn comes into the matchup banged up, shorthanded, and possibly playing its worst basketball of the season.

February 26 Power Rankings

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After Penn and Princeton swept this weekend, the top two and bottom two spots are pretty obvious. But with everyone going 1-1 in the Empire State, the competition for the middle spots was incredibly fierce. Here are the penultimate Power Rankings, with the disclaimer that Brown, Columbia, and Cornell could have been in pretty much any order.

Gamecenter: Yale 71, Columbia 65

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Key sequence: Ben Nwachukwu tied the game at 54 with just over eight minutes left, but Yale’s Dominick Martin untied it with a free throw just 12 seconds later. Martin then blocked Nwachukwu’s jumper and hit one of his own at the other end. The Lions’ next five possessions produced a turnover, three missed three-pointers, and a pair of missed jumpers. Meanwhile, Ross Morin and Sam Kaplan added jumpshots to push Yale’s margin to seven.

Gamecenter: Harvard 48, Princeton 75

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Key sequence: After Jim Goffredo made it a 14-11 game with jumpers on consecutive possessions, Kyle Koncz answered with his second straight three-pointer and Justin Conway connected from the top of the key the next trip down. Matt Stehle drove inside for a layup to bring Harvard back to within seven, but Conway got a layup of his own to restore the margin to nine. Harvard got two looks from beyond the arc on its next possession, but couldn’t knock down either. Scott Greenman showed them how it was done with a three that put Princeton up 25-13. After Goffredo missed from outside again, Greenman found Mike Strittmatter for a layup. At the other end Conway came up with a steal and fed Koncz for a layup in transition to finish off a 15-2 run that made it 29-13 in Princeton’s favor.

Gamecenter: Brown 69, Cornell 64

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Key sequence: Adam Gore hit a jumper with 7:42 left to put Cornell on top 57-56, but Scott Friske answered with a conventional three-point play to but Brown back in the lead. Damon Huffman came up with a steal, then after a timeout he drilled a three-pointer to put Brown up five. Mark MacDonald then blocked a putback attempt off a missed three-pointer and collected the rebound. At the other end, Lenny Collins blocked Friske’s layup, but the Bears kept possession. Keenan Jeppesen eventually found Friske for a layup finish off an 8-0 run that make it 64-57 with 5:29 left.