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Game of the Week: Princeton at Harvard – Friday, February 10
The Saturday game at Lavietes Pavilion is the one Ivy fans have had circled on their calendars most of the season, but if the Crimson loses to a recently improved Princeton squad on Friday, the Penn game won’t mean much. For Princeton, this game is going to determine whether this past weekend’s sweep was part of a dramatic turnaround, or an aberrant bright spot in an otherwise dismal season.
Game of the Week: Yale at Penn – Saturday, February 4
With Yale’s resurrection this past weekend, the Saturday showdown in Philly is easily the biggest game of the Ivy League season to date. The Bulldogs come in fresh off a dominating sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth and knowing that they smoked Penn the last time these two teams got together. However, each of the last three seasons Yale has fallen early in league play, then crawled back into borderline contention only to suffer a season-wrecking letdown. And most of these lapses have come on the road.
Game of the Week: Harvard at Yale
While Harvard-Yale lost a lot of its luster after Yale stumbled at Brown last weekend, this is still the premier Ivy League game in the month of January. Yale can repair some of the damage done by the Brown loss with a win over a Harvard team that appears to be the only other team with a shot at Penn in the league.
Game of the Week: Cornell (5-8) at Penn (6-4) – Friday, January 13, 7:00 pm
After some positive buzz in the preseason magazines and a pair of strong showings on ESPNU to open the season, the Big Red looked every bit an Ivy contender. But Cornell has gone just 4-7 since then, with a trio of consecutive losses to poor Hartford, Lafayette, and Quinnipiac teams, and enters the game ranked outside the Top 250 in all three major ratings systems.
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Harvard (7-3) at #14 Boston College (7-2) – Thursday, December 22, 7:00 pm
This is Harvard’s one shot at non-league glory in 2005. The two teams last met three years ago, with very similar records. A senior-laden Harvard team rallied to trail by just two points with under three minutes remaining, but couldn’t complete the comeback, falling 84-77,