Game of the Week
Princeton (7-12, 5-1 Ivy) at Penn (14-6, 6-0 Ivy) – Tuesday, February 14, 8:00 pm
On paper this looks like a big mismatch, as Penn simply has played much better basketball this season — even lately. But the Quakers haven’t faced many matchup zone defenses like what they’ll be seeing out of the Tigers on Tuesday, and it’s impossible to say how they’ll respond. Princeton has been shooting the three-pointer very well the last two weeks, and the only chink in Penn’s defensive armor is their opponents’ 36.5-percent shooting from outside the arc. Penn has been disrupting opposing offenses with its defensive pressure and forcing turnovers, but Princeton has cut down dramatically on its turnovers in Ivy League play. If the Tigers can get open and knock down their outside shots, the league race could get very interesting.

Line of the Week

2.10.2006 at Dartmouth TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT TP A TO BLK S MIN Jaaber, Ibrahim……… G 9-11 2-2 1-1 1 4 5 21 4 2 1 5 35
Impressing – Ibby Jaaber back on track. Jaaber enjoyed a ridiculously efficient weekend, scoring 44 points in the two games on 18-of-23 shooting and adding seven assists and 11 steals. It’s rare enough to find a player who puts up the numbers Jaaber does, but even rarer to find one who looks so effortless doing it. – Princeton’s long-range sniping. The Tigers have found their touch from the outside as a team, shooting 38.0 percent from three-point range in Ivy games. Kyle Koncz (39.5 percent), Luke Owings (38.1 percent), and Scott Greenman (48.1 percent) are all shooting over 35.0 percent in the league. – Yale sweeps. The Bulldogs kept their razor-thin Ivy title chances alive by improving to 5-0 at home in Ivy play this season. After nearly blowing an 18-point lead against Columbia on Friday, Yale rallied from a halftime deficit and beat Cornell at the free throw line down the stretch. – Matt Stehle. Harvard’s sweep at the hands of Princeton and Penn this weekend certainly wasn’t Stehle’s fault, as he tallied 41 points, 15 rebounds, six assists, five blocks, and eight steals in the two losses. The Harvard senior is averaging a double-double (17.6 points and 10.5 rebounds) in Ivy play. – Keenan Jeppesen. The Brown sophomore averaged just 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game outside the league this season, but he has emerged as Brown’s top scoring and rebounding threat in Ivy play. Jeppesen is averaging team highs of 15.8 points, 6.5 boards, and 2.1 steals in eight Ivy contests.		Distressing – Harvard’s hopes dashed. After entering the Ivy season with legitimate hopes of contending for its first ever league title, Harvard is out of the title hunt already with four losses. Two of the defeats came in the final seconds against Cornell and Princeton, leaving the Crimson wondering what might have been. – Columbia’s slide continues. The Lions dropped a pair of road games on the weekend to Yale and Brown, extending their losing streak to five games. Columbia couldn’t stop fouling, sending its opponents to the line for 61 free throws in the two games, while attempting just 32 free throws itself. – Lenny Collins slumping again. After putting his early-season shooting woes behind him at the start of Ivy play, Collins had a rough weekend. The returning All-Ivy performer had his lowest scoring output of the season on Friday with two points at Brown, then shot 3 of 11 from the field in the loss at Yale. – Dartmouth defense. Poor defensive efforts spoiled the Big Green’s homecoming, as Penn and Princeton shot a combined 50.6 percent — including 51.9 percent from three-point range. In league play Dartmouth is dead last in opponent field goal percentage at 47.7 percent and opponent three-point percentage at 42.5 percent. – Goffredo shut down. The Harvard guard came into the Princeton-Penn weekend averaging a league-best 21.0 points per game. However, Goffredo shot just 5 of 21 (23.8 percent) in the two games — including 3 of 12 (25.0 percent) from three-point range — and finished with a total of 17 points in the two games.