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Columbia and Cornell on Tap for the Men
2/18/2010 2:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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Opponents: Columbia; Cornell
Dates: Friday, Feb. 19; Saturday, Feb. 20
Arena: Leede Arena
Location: Hanover, N.H.
Tip-off: 7 p.m.
Radio: Dartmouth Sports Network (WTSL FM 94.3 and AM 1400)
Columbia, Cornell on Tap
• Having lost seven in a row and all eight Ivy games thus far, Dartmouth is aiming to bring an end to the slide this weekend against either Columbia or league-leading Cornell.
• Not only would a Big Green victory be their first in Ivy play this year, it would also be their 300th Ivy League triumph since the conference began play in 1954-55.
• Dartmouth nearly got that elusive victory last Saturday at Yale, holding an eight-point lead in the second half and a one-point advantage with six minutes to play. The Bulldogs scored 21 points in those final six minutes, however, to defeat the Green, 69-56.
• Both junior Ronnie Dixon and sophomore David Rufful tallied 15 points in the game, while junior Clive Weeden had a career night on the boards with 13 rebounds. No Ivy Leaguer has had more rebounds in a conference game this season.
• As a team, Dartmouth hauled in 40 rebounds at Yale, second only to the 43 the Big Green snared against Lehigh back on Dec. 17.
• While Dartmouth is on the verge of not having a player average at least 10 points a game for a season for the first time in 60 years, Dixon has put up nearly 11 points a game against Ivy teams.
Series vs. Columbia (9-13, 3-5)
• This is the 198th game in the series with the Lions holding a 103-94 advantage all-time.
• Dartmouth has gone 14-8 against Columbia here in Leede Arena since it opened in 1987, handily defeating the Lions last year, 67-53.
• Three weeks ago, Columbia disposed of the Big Green at Levien Gymnasium, 63-51. Noruwa Agho had 25 points for the Lions as he and Niko Scott each knocked down four three-pointers in six attempts. Three players scored in double figures for Dartmouth, led by senior Robby Pride with 13 points.
• The last 28 encounters have been split evenly, dating back to the 1995-96 season.
Scouting the Lions
• When Dartmouth went up against Columbia last time, the Lions had lost five straight. But the Lions have won three of their past five with wins over the Big Green, Brown and Penn.
• The 66-62, victory at Penn came one night after the Quakers had knocked off Cornell. Columbia drilled 9-of-16 from long range, with Niko Scott collecting seven of those three-pointers.
• As a team, the Lions are among the top 20 in three-point field goal accuracy at 39.6 percent, yet have made an average of just 5.1 per game, among the bottom 75 in the nation.
• Noruwa Agho is the deadliest shooter for Columbia, hitting 49-of-99 (.495) of his threes while averaging 17 points a game.
• The Lions have a pair of seven-footers on the roster in Zack Crimmins and Max Craig, but the duo has combined to play just 15 minutes a game.
• Instead, the Columbia post presence is manned by 6-7 Brian Grimes (5.6 rpg) and 6-6 Asenso Ampim (5.1 rpg).
• In Ivy League games, the Lions rank among the bottom three in nearly every statistical category, and are shooting just 31.7 percent on three-pointers against Ivy teams. The only ones in which they are in the top half of the league are rebounds (4th) and steals (4th).
Series vs. Cornell (21-4, 7-1)
• Dartmouth will be playing the Big Red for the 200th time in this game, more than any other opponent. Despite Cornell's success against Dartmouth of late, winning 12 of the last 13, the Big Green still own the all-time advantage at 101-98.
• Cornell has won the last nine games in the series, including a 71-37 defeat in Ithaca at Newman Arena on Jan. 29. Reserve Max Groebe had 15 points with four treys to lead the Big Red, while no Big Green player had more than six points.
• Dartmouth is 13-9 versus the Big Red in Leede Arena, but have lost the last four encounters.
Scouting the Big Red
• Cornell was ranked in the coaches poll for two weeks, reaching as high as 22nd, before losing last Friday at Penn, which entered the game just 3-16.
• The other three Big Red losses came against Seton Hall (by 10 points), #9 Syracuse (15) and #1 Kansas (5).
• Among their victims are Alabama, Massachusetts, St. John's and Davidson.
• While ranking fifth in the nation in three-point field goals and accuracy, Cornell somehow has converted just 65.7 percent from the line in Ivy games, seventh in the league.
• Ryan Wittman is the scoring leader at 17 points a game while connecting on 40.4 percent of his three-point attempts.
• Jeff “Seven” Foote is the league's top center, leading the nation in field goal percentage at 61.1 percent while scoring 12.6 points and grabbing 8.6 boards a game.
• Serving as the catalyst to the offense is point guard Louis Dale with 11 points a game and over 100 assists on the season.
Banging the Boards
Since snatching 10 rebounds against Lyndon State on Dec. 13, junior Clive Weeden had not had more than six rebounds in a game before the weekend of Feb. 12-13. At Brown, Weeden collected nine, falling just short of his third double-double of the season, scoring nine points as well. But the next evening the 6-9 forward muscled his way to a career-high 13 rebounds at Yale.
Halftime Harbinger No More
Through 19 games, the winner of a Dartmouth basketball game could be determined by the score at the half: a Big Green lead meant a Big Green victory; a Dartmouth deficit or deadlock denoted a defeat. That pattern came to an end against Princeton on Feb. 6 as the Green's 21-19 advantage at the break became a 54-38 loss. Then at Yale, Dartmouth's eight-point edge at the break slipped away in a 69-56 loss.
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