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200th Games Against Both Penn and Princeton
2/3/2011 11:57:00 AM | Men's Basketball
The Games: Dartmouth (5-13, 1-3) at Penn (8-8, 2-0) and Princeton (14-4, 2-0)
Location: The Palestra (8,722), Philadelphia, Pa.; Jadwin Gym (6,854), Princeton, N.J.
Tipoff: Friday February 4 at 7 p.m.; Saturday February 5 at 6 p.m.
Series Record vs. Penn: Quakers lead 143-56
Series Record vs. Princeton: Tigers lead 138-61
Live Audio - Dave Collins (play-by-play)
Live Stats
Live Video - Penn Sports Network; GoPrincetonTigers.tv
Complete Game Notes
Going to Sites of Last Win Streak
• Dartmouth gets a difficult test this week with road games at two of the three undefeated teams in the league — Penn and Princeton.
• It has been nearly two years since the Big Green won back-to-back games, but those wins just happened to come at these very sites. It is the only time Dartmouth had defeated both Penn and Princeton on the road since formal Ivy play began in 1954-55.
• The Green earned their first conference victory last weekend, topping Cornell, 64-57. The win ended a five-game losing streak and a personal 10-game slide against the Big Red.
• Dartmouth enjoyed a 28-point lead at one point against the Big Red, its largest lead against a Division I team since owning a 30-point advantage against Princeton during a 19-point win over the Tigers on Feb. 23, 2008.
• Sophomore R.J. Griffin has scored in double figures in each of the last four contests, the longest stretch for any Dartmouth player this year.
• Although the Big Green have been outrebounded this year by more than six boards on average, the squad has done a better job pounding the glass in league play with two more rebounds total.
Series vs. Penn (8-8, 2-0)
• This is the 200th time these two schools have met on the hardwood with the Quakers holding a sizable 143-56 advantage.
• Last year Penn swept the two games, 53-51 in Hanover and 78-68 to end the season at The Palestra, to avenge the first season sweep by the Big Green in 50 years the year before.
• The two Dartmouth victories in 2009 ended a 23-game losing streak against the Quakers.
• The longest winning streaks in the series for the Big Green is seven from 1939-42, while Penn strung together 30 straight from 1968-83.
Scouting the Quakers
• Penn is currently enjoying its longest winning streak of the season at three games with victories over Big 5 foe St. Joseph's, Yale and Brown, the last one coming in overtime.
• Four of the five starters average at least 11 points a game, led by guard Zack Rosen at 15.3 with a team-high 33 three-pointers and 42.3 percent accuracy beyond the arc.
• The Quakers also feature one of the top post players in the league in Jack Eggleston, who was named one of the Ivy's Co-Players of the Week on Monday. The senior puts up 13.5 points and 8.4 rebounds a night, the latter ranking third among conference players.
• Other than Eggleston, however, Penn does not have much of a presence on the boards with Rosen second on the team at 3.5 rebounds per game. As a group, the Quakers snare just 28.8 caroms, the fewest in the league.
• The other two players averaging double figures, Tyler Bernardini and Miles Cartwright, are the best free throw shooters on the team as well. Cartwright has also been named the league's Rookie of the Week four times, including last week.
Series vs. Princeton (14-4, 2-0)
• Like the Penn series, this is the 200th game in the series, with the Tigers holding a 138-61 lead.
• Princeton swept the season series a year ago, holding Dartmouth to 38 points in a 54-38 game in Hanover, then trouncing the Green, 71-43, on its home court.
• Jadwin Gym opened in the 1968-69 season, and in the 42 games Dartmouth has played here, they have won just three times.
• One of those triumphs at Jadwin came two years ago as the Big Green rallied for a 66-63.
• The two teams have split the previous eight encounters, which includes a Dartmouth season sweep in 2006-07.
Scouting the Tigers
• Since losing three of its first five games, Princeton has won 12 of 13 with the lone defeat coming on the road against 19th-ranked UCF by six points.
• This past weekend Princeton began Ivy League play with home victories over Brown, 78-60, and Yale, 67-63.
• The Tigers are a perfect 7-0 in Jadwin Gym this season, but were pushed to overtime twice.
• Princeton, like Penn, has four players averaging in double figures, but all four are between 13 and 14 points — forwards Ian Hummer (13.7) and Kareem Maddox (13.6), and guards Douglas Davis (13.4) and Dan Mavraides (13.3).
• Maddox and Hummer are two of the three most accurate shooters in the league at 58.8 percent (1st) and 56.9 percent (3rd), respectively, plus grab six to seven rebounds a night apiece.
• The bread and butter for the two guards is the three-point shot, with both knocking down more than 40 percent.
• As a team, the Tigers lead the league in field goal percentage (.475) and 3-point percentage (.371), plus are second in scoring defense (65.4 ppg), scoring margin (+5.7), field goal percentage defense (.424), three-point percentage defense (.340) and rebound margin (+3.2)
It Figures Doubly
Over the past four games, sophomore R.J. Griffin has scored in double figures in each contest, starting with 13 points at Colgate, a career-high 20 at Harvard, 11 more in the win over Cornell and 10 versus Columbia. The last Big Green player to accomplish the feat was Jabari Trotter during the fifth through eighth games last season.
Steal of the Century
Junior David Rufful had a pair of steals against Columbia on Jan. 29, the first of which was the 100th of his career. Since the statistic was first kept track of in 1981-82, only 14 other Big Green players have pilfered the ball 100 times, led by Sea Lonergan '97 with 187.
Hot to Trotter
After starting the year with a dead-eye shot, junior Jabari Trotter went through a bit of a slump. But he seems to have emerged from that having connected on 11-of-21 three-pointers (.524) over the last five games, including 4-of-5 during the Cornell-Columbia weekend in Hanover. Overall, the guard is 19-of-42 (.452) from the floor in that span as well.
First Ivy Win of the Season
Dartmouth picked up its first league victory of the year by defeating Cornell in Leede Arena on Jan. 28, 64-57. The win matches the conference total the Green had all of last year and gives Coach Cormier his first since returning to Hanover, but 48th during his two tenures.
Big Lead Holds Up
In toppling the Big Red, Dartmouth built up a 28-point advantage midway through the second half, 48-20. It was the largest lead for the Big Green since holding a 30-point margin on Feb. 23, 2008 in a home victory over Princeton. Granted, Dartmouth won that game by 19 rather than just seven, but a win is a win.
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