Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Holy Cross on December 16, 2025 , Win , 89, to, 64
Final
Men's Basketball
at Holy Cross
89
64
Men Finishing Season on the Road
3/4/2010 10:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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Opponents: Princeton; Penn
Dates: Friday, March 5; Saturday, March 6
Arena: Jadwin Gym/The Palestra
Location: Princeton, N.J./Philadelphia, Pa.
Tip-off: 7 p.m.
Radio: Dartmouth Sports Network (WTSL FM 94.3 and AM 1400)
Closing Out the Season
• At least one win this weekend would help the Big Green avoid becoming just the sixth Dartmouth team to end an Ivy season with one or fewer wins.
• A victory would also keep the Green from being shut out on the road for the first time since the 1976-77 season.
• Ideally, Dartmouth will pull off a repeat performance of last year's trip to Princeton and Penn that ended in a Big Green sweep. It was the first road weekend sweep of the two schools for Dartmouth in Ivy play (started in 1954-55).
• Dartmouth had been falling into a pattern of shooting well one half but not the other, but against Yale last Friday could not find the range in either period. The Big Green shot a season-worst 25.0 percent with just 14 field goals in a 55-45 loss.
• Against Brown the next night, Dartmouth found its stroke to start at 50 percent in the opening stanza, then made just 32.3 percent in the second half of a 76-57 loss.
• The lone Big Green senior, Robby Pride, scored 13 points against Yale and 11 more versus Brown in the final home games of his career.
• Junior Ronnie Dixon still has an outside shot of averaging double figures in scoring this year, but he needs to average 20.5 points in the two games this weekend. His career-high, achieved two weeks ago against Cornell, is 20.
Series vs. Princeton (17-8, 8-3)
• This is the 199th game in the series, with Princeton holding a 137-61 lead, which includes the 54-38 victory at Leede Arena four weeks ago.
• Jadwin Gym opened in the 1968-69 season, and in the 41 games the Big Green have played here, they have won just three times.
• One of those triumphs at Jadwin came last year as Dartmouth rallied for a 66-63 win with Alex Barnett converting 6-of-6 at the line to close out the game.
• Dartmouth has won four of the last seven meetings, including a season sweep in 2006-07.
Scouting the Tigers
• Princeton was knocking on the door of first place until losing consecutive games to Brown and league-leading Cornell in the last two weeks.
• Yet the Tigers still have a slim hope of tying for the league title, needing to win their last three games and hope for the Big Red to lose at Yale and Brown.
• If Princeton does win those three contests, the Ivy League would have three 20-win teams for the first time in league history (Cornell and Harvard).
• Last time out, the Tigers beat Columbia handily by a 67-52 count.
• Guard Dan Mavraides, averaging 12.5 points a game, has been scoring in bunches lately, topping 20 points in three of the last five games. He is one of many outside threats, hitting 50 three-pointers.
• The leading scorer is guard Douglas Davis at 12.5 ppg (1 total point more than Mavraides) with 57 three-pointers at a 42.2 percent clip.
• Mavraides is also the team's top rebounder at 4.5 a game, but five others grab at least three a night.
• In the first meeting, Princeton got a balanced scoring attack with five players tallying at least eight points, led by reserve Ian Hummer with 11.
• Directing the offense is point guard Marcus Schroeder, who leads the team in minutes (32.3)and assists (76).
Series vs. Penn (5-20, 4-7)
• Like Princeton, this is the 199th game in the series with Penn, which holds a 142-56 advantage.
• The Quakers defeated Dartmouth in Leede Arena four weeks ago, 53-51, surviving four Big Green misses in the final 10 seconds.
• The Big Green swept the season series from Penn last year for the first time in 50 years. The second win was a 69-59 triumph at The Palestra, just their third win in the past 50 games at the venue.
• Dartmouth ended a 23-game losing streak against Penn last year with its victory at Leede Arena.
Scouting the Quakers
• Since consecutive victories on the road at Brown and Dartmouth a month ago, Penn has lost six of eight, but one of those two wins was a shocking 79-64 victory over Cornell.
• Last weekend the Big Red got their revenge, beating the Quakers by 20 points. The night before, Columbia nipped Penn on a last-second bucket in a 56-55 Quaker loss.
• While Penn is just 5-20 on the season, it is one of the most accurate free throw shooting teams in the country at 74.7 percent (17th).
• Point guard Zack Rosen rarely takes a break, playing 37 minutes a game. His 17.8 points a game easily leads the team, thanks in part to his deadly outside stroke (63-for-153, .412).
• Mike Howlett and Jack Eggleston provide the bulk of the rebounds at over six per game apiece. Eggleston also scores over 12 points a game.
• The last time these two teams met, Penn played just seven players for the entire game, although 18 different players have appeared in a game this year.
• Rosen had 16 points in the game, while forward Conor Turley added 11.
Dixon Blossoming Offensive Star
Since the Ivy season began, junior Ronnie Dixon has become the team's most reliable scorer, reaching double figures in eight of the 12 games. He delivered a career-high 20 points against Cornell, and his 11.8 scoring average in Ivy games ranks 11th in the league.
Taking Pride in Your Work
Guard Robby Pride is the lone senior on the squad, and was honored before the final home game against Brown. The two-time captain enters his final weekend with 427 points, 200 rebounds, 110 assists and 72 steals in his career, to go along with a 41.6 field goal percentage and 72.2 percentage from the foul line. Over the last three seasons, he has played in all but two games and has started the last 20 in a row.
Turnover Turnaround
One night after coughing up the ball 20 times against Yale — just the third game of 20 or more turnovers for Dartmouth — the Big Green committed a season-low six turnovers against Brown. On six occasions, Dartmouth has given the ball away fewer than 10 times this season, but is just 1-5 in those games.
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