Yale’s sweep at the Ps this weekend dropped the Bulldogs to 0-3 on the season in Ivy road games. As we mentioned in Inside the Ivy, Yale is now 24-7 in Ivy homes games the past five seasons, and 12-19 away from home in that same. Is James Jones using a special traveling squad of JV players? Does the crowd at The Church give the Bulldogs special powers?

Dominant at home
A couple of weeks back we mentioned how Yale had the second-best home record in Ivy play since 2001-02. Only three league opponents have won at Lee Amphitheater in the last five seasons: Brown, Penn, and Princeton. Brown is 4-1 in New Haven, while Penn and Princeton are a combined 3-5 in their last eight visits. The rest of the league is 0-18, and the games for the most part haven’t even been close. Harvard’s 54-53 loss there last season is the only time since 2001-02 that one of the other teams has come any closer than four points of the Bulldogs.

Dominated on the road
The 12-game difference between Yale’s home and away records since 2001-02 is by far the biggest variance in the league — no one else has a road mark any more than five full games worse than its home mark in that period. And the trend is only getting worse. Yale went 5-2 on the road in the league in 2001-02. That was followed by a 4-3 road mark in 2002-03, and by a 2-5 record in 2003-04. Last season Yale went just 1-6 in Ivy road games, and as stated earlier, the Bulldogs are 0-3 already his year.

Wild season series turnarounds
Last month Yale pounded Brown 75-61 at home, then lost 67-62 in Providence one week later. And neither game was as close as the final margins suggest. Last year the Bulldogs were embarrassed by 24 points at Penn in their Ivy opener, then dismantled the Quakers by 18 in the home game. Yale has split a season series with an Ivy opponent by winning at home and losing on the road 11 times since 2001-02, with eight of those splits happening the last two-plus seasons.