Get schooled.
The weekend is set up strangely. There are two games between upper-division teams, and both take place on Saturday night. With four “interdivisional” games on tap, tonight’s fight card definitely reads like a warm-up for Saturday’s big games. The four upper-division teams are all favored tonight — even Harvard and Yale on the road — so the bottom half has its work cut out for it.
After trying out Internet video broadcasts for several different sports last season, Cornell is offering fans the opportunity to watch all seven home Ivy League men’s basketball games this year. The broadcasts are exceptional quality and even feature Barry Leonard’s radio call on WNYY as the audio. And past games are archived, so you can go back and watch the thrilling finish of the first Columbia-Cornell game from January 21.
The Tigers lost their seventh straight non-league game last night at Davidson, but compared to some of the other losses this season, this one wasn’t so bad. Then again, this is Princeton we’re talking about. Davidson is no slouch — especially at home — but we’re not supposed to be saying “That wasn’t so bad…” after Tiger losses to non-major conference opponents.
On a day when Cornell, Harvard, and Yale all enjoyed stellar offensive games, Penn failed to go along with the trend, turning in its second-worst offensive performance of the season in a disheartening loss to Saint Joseph’s. Tonight Princeton looks to avoid breaking another ignominious record in its — and the Ivy League’s — final non-league game of the regular season.
Harvard’s chances of winning that elusive first Ivy title took a dent last night when the Crimson went down to Yale in New Haven. A little bit east on I-95, Brown and Dartmouth played for 50 minutes before the Bears escaped with the win. Now Saturday sees seven Ivy teams in action, including an elimination game in Providence and the final non-league game of the regular season.