Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
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Men's Basketball
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Men Tip Off at Providence Saturday Night
11/12/2010 10:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Game: Dartmouth (0-0) at Providence (0-0)
Location: Dunkin' Donuts Center (12,410), Providence, R.I.
Kickoff: Saturday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 9-6
Radio: WUVR 98.9 FM, 1490 AM — Dave Collins play-by-play
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Complete Game Notes
Season Opener
• Dartmouth opens up its 2010-11 season on the road. This is the sixth straight season the Big Green have played their first game away from Leede Arena, losing each of the first five.
• The last victorious season opener for the Green came the last time they began the season at home — 2004-05 in a 66-61 triumph over Quinnipiac.
• Last year the Big Green began the season at Boston College, which defeated Dartmouth, 89-58.
• In the first 109 seasons of Dartmouth basketball, the program has posted a 84-35 record in season openers. The Big Green's longest winning streak (15) on opening day came from the 1929-30 through the 1943-44 seasons.
• The last true road victory in a season opener came 21 years ago at Vermont in an 86-76 triumph. Dartmouth won a neutral site game against Colgate to start the 1999 season.
Meet Your Big Green
• A total of eight letterwinners return to the squad this year, including four starters. The top two returning scorers for Dartmouth are senior guard and co-captain Ronnie Dixon (9.3 ppg), who is out with an injury to start the year, and junior wing David Rufful (7.8 ppg).
• The leading returning rebounder is the other senior co-captain, Clive Weeden (4.8 rpg), while sophomore center Matt LaBove nearly matched that production as a rookie at 4.6 boards a game.
• Nearly two-thirds of the roster is comprised of underclassmen with six freshmen and three sophomores, but just two seniors and three juniors.
• Of the six freshmen joining the roster this year, each attended a postgraduate school last year, including Gediminas Bertasius who hails from Lithuania.
Series vs. Providence
• This is the 16th meeting between the two schools, but just the fourth in the past 70 years. Dartmouth has a 9-6 advantage in the series overall, but the Friars have won each of the last three meetings by an average of over 20 points.
• The last Big Green victory against PC came on Dec. 12, 1938 in a 41-24 contest in Hanover. Providence has not returned since the loss.
• The first meeting took place in 1926 in Hanover, a 40-16 Dartmouth win. The next 11 contests also took place on the Dartmouth campus.
• There was a 53-year hiatus in the series after that Green victory in 1938.
Scouting the Friars
• Providence is laden with freshmen with seven rookies joining the roster and two red-shirts in their first year. The only three upperclassmen are all seniors, with three sophomores as well.
• Two of the five starters are back from last year's team that went 12-19 overall and 4-14 in the Big East. Marshon Brooks is a 6-5 senior guard who scored 14.2 points a game, while Bilal Dixon will fill up the blocks after averaging 8.2 points and grabbing 6.8 caroms.
• The Friars were picked to finish 14th in the 16-team Big East.
• In its only exhibition game of the preseason, Providence defeated Bentley University on Nov. 6, 83-76. Brooks scored 27 points for the Friars in the victory, adding 15 rebounds for a double-double. Sophomore Vincent Council added 17 points and four assists.
Rufful Returns
The season opener at Providence is a homecoming for David Rufful. The junior wing is a native of nearby Warwick and attended Bishop Hendricken High School before taking a postgrad year at Northfield Mount Hermon.
Preseason Poll
Coming off a 1-13 Ivy League season, the Dartmouth Big Green were pegged for eighth place in the preseason media poll. Princeton, which has won 25 Ivy titles, edged out Harvard, which is still searching for its first, for the top spot in the poll with 12 of the 17 first-place votes. The two-time defending champion and 2010 Sweet 16 participant, Cornell, was chosen to finish third.
Oh Captains my Captains
Dartmouth has just two seniors on its roster, guard Ronnie Dixon and center Clive Weeden, and the two were named co-captains for the 2010-11 season. Dixon was the Big Green's leading scorer last year at 9.3 points a game, and Weeden the top rebounder at 4.8 boards per contest.
Ivy League Legacy
Freshman Tyler Melville brings to Dartmouth a legacy of Ivy League success as his father, Randy, was a two-time All-Ivy first-team performer for the Princeton Tigers from 1978-81. As a senior, the elder Melville co-captained Princeton to an Ivy League title and finished his career with 775 points and 444 rebounds, leading the team in scoring as a junior and rebounding each of his final two seasons.
Cormier Connection
When head coach Paul Cormier served as an assistant on Rollie Massimino's staff, one of the Wildcats on the roster was Mike Mulquin. Now Cormier has the opportunity to coach another member of that family, Big Green freshman Kevin Mulquin, who happens to be the nephew of Mike.
International Intrigue
Joining the Big Green this year is Gediminas Bertasius, a freshman from Vilnius, Lithuania. The forward first set foot on American soil just last year to attend Marianapolis Prep in Connecticut. Sophomore Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, while he spent his formative years in Texas, was born in Cameroon and moved with his family at the age of two to the Chicago area. And the father of rookie Jenieri Cyrus is a native of Grenada, while his mother hails from the Virgin Islands.
New Hampshire Native
There is only one New Hampshire native currently playing for Dartmouth on the hardwood — men or women. Kirk Crecco of Gilford High was the state's Class M Player of the Year in 2007-08, scoring 1,300 points in his high school career. Not only did he help lead his basketball squad to the championship game as a junior, he was a two-time all-state soccer player as well. The soccer squad won the state championship his sophomore year and reached the finals the following season.
Jazzing Up the Roster
When freshman James Herring's parents come up to Hanover from Brooklyn to see their son play, Dartmouth may at the very least ask his father, Vincent, if he might play the national anthem. Vincent Herring is an accomplished alto saxophonist and has 15 jazz CDs to his credit, plus has played with greats Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and numerous others.
New Staff
Dartmouth features an entirely new coaching staff this year, from head coach Paul Cormier all the way down to the newly enhanced director of basketball operations, Jordan Watson. Assistant coach Joey Gallo is not a character in My Cousin Vinny, but rather a 2004 graduate of Merrimack College where he also coached for four years. The other two assistant coaches, Ricky Moore and Patrick Beilein, both played in the Big East for Connecticut and West Virginia, respectively. Moore captained the Huskies to a national title in 1999 and Beilein played for his father, John, with the Mountaineers reaching the Elite Eight in his junior campaign and the Sweet 16 in his final year.
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