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.

Tony Lane of the Valley News reported Tuesday that Dartmouth wings Leon Pattman and Johnathan Ball both will be game-time decisions on Friday night at Cornell due to injuries. Pattman hurt his ankle this weekend and played just nine minutes on Saturday. Ball suffered a fractured nose in the loss at Yale on Saturday and was fitted for a protective face mask.

In an interview with The Ithaca Journal, Dean Gant, the father of injured Cornell player Khaliq Gant, stated that his son “has exhibited no physical movements yet, but that doctors were encouraged by signs of sensations in his extremities.” The younger Gant underwent surgery on Friday to fuse together two dislocated vertebrae in his neck and the procedure reportedly went well.

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.

The Los Angeles Daily News reports small forward Rhett Anderson of La Canada, California, has committed to Yale. According to the various recruiting news services, the 6-6, 190-pound Anderson had also been involved with Brown, Cornell, Penn, and Princeton.