Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Yale on January 30, 2026 , Loss , 68, to, 83
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Men's Basketball
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Final Road Test for Men
2/24/2011 1:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The Games: Dartmouth (5-19, 1-9) at Yale (12-12, 5-5) and Brown (10-14, 3-7)
Location: Lee Amphitheater (2,532), New Haven, Conn.; Pizzitola Sports Center (2,800), Providence, R.I.
Tipoff: Friday February 25 at 7 p.m.; Saturday February 26 at 6 p.m.
Series Record vs. Yale: Bulldogs lead 102-95
Series Record vs. Brown: Dartmouth leads 75-67
Live Audio - Dave Collins (play-by-play)
Live Stats
Live Video - Yale ($); Brown ($)
Complete Game Notes
Last Road Encounters
• Dartmouth, playing its final games outside of Hanover this year, enters the weekend with 12 losses in its last 13 outings, including a seven-game slide.
• There has not been a month this season in which Dartmouth has not won a game. The Green must beat either Yale or Brown for that streak to continue.
• Senior Ronnie Dixon, who missed two months with a broken hand, returned to the court and provided a scoring boost with 25 points in the games at Columbia and Cornell. He also led the Green with six rebounds against the Lions.
• Freshman Tyler Melville became the fourth Dartmouth player to score 20 points in a game this year with exactly 20 at Columbia. The rookie canned 8-of-16 from the floor and all four free throws, plus dished out four assists.
• The team's leading scorer, sophomore R.J. Griffin, scored in double figures in each game, including a team-high 18 points at Cornell.
• Dartmouth shot 54.2 percent (26-of-48) against the Big Red, its second-highest rate of the season. Unfortunately, Cornell hit on 55 percent with 16 three-pointers to beat the Green by 20.
Series vs. Yale (12-12, 5-5)
• This is the 198th game played between Dartmouth and the Bulldogs with Yale holding a slim 102-95 advantage to date.
• The Bulldogs have won the last four meetings and 18 of the previous 21, with all three Big Green wins coming in Hanover.
• Two weeks ago, Yale got 30 points from Greg Mangano and outscored Dartmouth on second-chance points, 25-1, to beat the Green, 69-60.
• Dartmouth is 27-49 all-time against Yale at Lee Amphitheater with their last win coming in 1999. The Big Green also played an Ivy playoff game at this venue in 1959, beating Princeton, 69-68.
Scouting the Bulldogs
• Yale came up with a signature win in the third game of the year, knocking off Boston College on the Eagles' home court, 75-67.
• Other than the Bulldogs' win over Dartmouth, Yale has struggled the last two weekends with losses at Harvard, and at home to Princeton and Penn.
• Each of the Bulldogs' 10 Ivy League contests have been decided by single digits — Dartmouth has only once had a 10-game stretch of games decided by single digits, that coming in 1924.
• Greg Mangano is a huge force in the post, averaging nearly a double-double to date at 16.3 points and 9.9 rebounds, plus a league-leading 71 blocks (15th nationally). He can even pop a three-pointer with 26 triples on the season.
• The Bulldogs also feature a solid backcourt in guards Austin Morgan (12.5 ppg, 44.7 3FG pct.) and Porter Braswell (11.0 ppg, 37.6 3FG pct.).
• Yale features one of the toughest defenses in the league, holding opponents to a league-low 41.9 field goal percentage.
• The team's three-point accuracy has tailed off in league play at just 31.0 percent, compared to 37.5 pct. in non-conference action.
Series vs. Brown (10-14, 3-7)
• While the Bears have won seven of the last eight and 16 of 21 against Dartmouth, the Green still hold the advantage in the all-time series, 75-67.
• The lone Dartmouth victory in the last eight meetings came in overtime in 2009 at Leede Arena, 63-61.
• Two weeks ago, the Bears tripped up Dartmouth in Hanover, 75-66. Tucker Halpern had 25 for Brown while rookie Nick Jackson tallied a season-high 17 for the Big Green.
• At the Pizzitola Sports Center, Dartmouth has a respectable 9-12 record, but has dropped 10 of the last 11, including the past four.
• The first two games between the two schools on the hardwood came in February of 1902 with the Big Green winning both games, 70-14 and 39-20.
Scouting the Bears
• Brown is tied for sixth place in the Ivy League standings with Cornell, but last time out came up with the upset of the conference season by handling previously undefeated Princeton, 75-65.
• The Bears have played well at home this season with a 7-4 mark in the Pizzitola Sports Center.
• Away from Providence, the Bears have won just twice — at Fordham and Maine, but did push Penn to overtime in the Palestra two weeks ago.
• Brown is 2nd in the league in free throw percentage and 3rd in scoring, but last in scoring defense.
• Peter Sullivan, Brown's overall scoring and rebounding leader, did not play the last time these two teams met. He returned last weeked to lead the Bears to the win over Princeton with 26 points going 16-of-16 at the free throw line.
• Making a late run for the league's top freshman has been Sean McGonagill, who has been named the Ivy Rookie of the Week the last three weeks. He had a 39-point game against Columbia and averages a team-best 15.4 ppg in league contests.
• Tucker Halpern (.447) is second in league play with 25 three-pointers, and two other Bears rank among the top 10 in the category — McGonagill (18, t-6th) and Adrian Williams (16, 8th).
Big Shooting Percentages
In the battle of the Bigs — Dartmouth Big Green and Cornell Big Red — on Feb. 19, the two teams lived up to their names when it came to putting up shooting numbers. Dartmouth posted its second-highest field goal percentage (.542, 26-of-48) on the season while connecting on half (7-of-14) of its three-pointers, plus hit on a season-best 89.5 percent (17-of-19) at the charity stripe. Cornell was a bit bigger, however, shooting 55 percent (33-of-60) with a whopping 16 threes at a 55.2 percent clip. In the end, the Big Red totaled 96 points, the most against Dartmouth this year, while the Big Green had 76, their second-best total.
Griffin Grinds It Out
Sophomore R.J. Griffin went through a bit of a shooting lull recently, but broke out on the road at Columbia and Cornell with 28 points, with a team-high 18 coming against the Big Red. Nearly half of those points (13) came at the free throw line as he used aggressiveness to snap out of his funk. He also hit on 7-of-15 field goals to get him back on track.
20-Point Performance
With a Big Green-leading 20 points at Columbia, freshman Tyler Melville became the fourth Dartmouth player to score that many in a game this season. The rookie went 8-of-16 from the floor — the most shots taken by anyone on the roster this year — and converted all four free throws to collect his season-high scoring total. Over the last six games, Melville is averaging 11.3 points and 2.7 assists while shooting 47.3 percent (26-of-55).
Dixon Returns
After missing almost exactly two months of play, senior Ronnie Dixon finally returned to the court with his healed right hand. The guard didn't seem to be the worse for wear, coming off the bench to tally 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting at Columbia with a team-high six rebounds in 26 minutes of action. The next night, he scored in double figures with 11 points at Cornell, sinking all five of his free throw attempts.
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