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The NCAA, in conjuction with CSTV and MLB.com, will provide live streaming Internet video broadcasts of all out-of-market NCAA Tournament games absolutely free of charge this year. Users who sign up now are given “VIP” status that will apparently mean shorter wait times to access the streaming video during the tournament.
Penn’s 57-55 victory at Yale combined with Brown’s 61-46 upset of Princeton gave the Quakers the 2005-06 Ivy League title and the accompanying automatic bid. If Yale and Cornell win tonight and Penn wins the regular season finale at Jadwin on Tuesday, there would be three-way tie for second place with Cornell, Princeton, and Yale all at 8-6. The championship is Penn’s second consecutive and the school’s sixth in the last eight seasons. Fran Dunphy now has 10 Ivy titles and nine NCAA Tournament appearances in 17 seasons at the helm of the program.
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.
Penn coach Fran Dunphy disclosed on the WXPN broadcast last night that freshman Tommy McMahon will miss the rest of the season with a herniated disc in his back. McMahon hadn’t played since February 10 at Dartmouth due to the back injury. The freshman appeared in 17 games this year for the Quakers, averaging 2.9 points and 10.1 minutes per contest.
Eric Osmundson practiced on Monday and is expected to play in Tuesday’s showdown with Princeton. The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that the senior point guard was diagnosed with a separated shoulder resulting from an incident on Saturday night, late in the win over Harvard. But Osmundson was cleared by team doctors and was back at practice on Monday, where the Penn captain indicated to the DP’s Zachary Levine that he will be able to play against the Tigers.