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Big Green Headed to Postseason for First Time in 56 Years
3/10/2015 9:15:00 AM | Men's Basketball
HANOVER, N.H. — For the first time in 56 years, the Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball team is headed to the postseason. Head coach Paul Cormier announced the team received and accepted a bid from the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) to end the longest postseason drought among the Ivy League schools.
The CIT field will be announced on Sunday night following the selection show for the NCAA Tournament, at which time Dartmouth will learn its opponent and on which day the game will take place (March 17, 18 or 19). The game will be played at the home arena of the Big Green's opponent as Dartmouth passed on hosting the contest with students finishing final exams and heading out for spring break.
“I think we could be pretty dangerous because we're pretty confident,” Cormier told Tris Wykes of The Valley News on Monday. “The kids are juiced, especially our upperclassmen. They've been through a lot and they've worked very hard. We just weren't very good in past years, but they've made us a much better team.”
In order to qualify for a possible postseason berth, Dartmouth had to finish the regular season with a .500 record, something it had not done in 16 years. And with an 8-13 record and just seven games remaining after an overtime loss at home to Cornell, the Big Green's chances seemed slim.
But Dartmouth went on to win six of its last seven contests, including the last five in a row with two memorable victories over the final weekend. First, the Big Green rallied from a 24-point deficit with 14 minutes to play to defeat the Brown Bears, 75-69. The next night, Dartmouth not only denied Yale an outright Ivy title when senior Gabas Maldunas dropped in a layup with 0.5 seconds on the clock for a 59-58 triumph, but also denied the Bulldogs their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 53 years.
Although the Big Green have not played in the postseason since the 1958-59 squad qualified for the NCAA Tournament by defeating Princeton in a one-game playoff for the Ivy crown, Dartmouth owns the best postseason winning percentage (.588) among the Ancient Eight schools with a 10-7 record. Twice the Big Green advanced to the NCAA Championship, only to come up short of the title against Stanford in 1942 and Utah in overtime by two points in 1944.
The CIT field will be announced on Sunday night following the selection show for the NCAA Tournament, at which time Dartmouth will learn its opponent and on which day the game will take place (March 17, 18 or 19). The game will be played at the home arena of the Big Green's opponent as Dartmouth passed on hosting the contest with students finishing final exams and heading out for spring break.
“I think we could be pretty dangerous because we're pretty confident,” Cormier told Tris Wykes of The Valley News on Monday. “The kids are juiced, especially our upperclassmen. They've been through a lot and they've worked very hard. We just weren't very good in past years, but they've made us a much better team.”
In order to qualify for a possible postseason berth, Dartmouth had to finish the regular season with a .500 record, something it had not done in 16 years. And with an 8-13 record and just seven games remaining after an overtime loss at home to Cornell, the Big Green's chances seemed slim.
But Dartmouth went on to win six of its last seven contests, including the last five in a row with two memorable victories over the final weekend. First, the Big Green rallied from a 24-point deficit with 14 minutes to play to defeat the Brown Bears, 75-69. The next night, Dartmouth not only denied Yale an outright Ivy title when senior Gabas Maldunas dropped in a layup with 0.5 seconds on the clock for a 59-58 triumph, but also denied the Bulldogs their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 53 years.
Although the Big Green have not played in the postseason since the 1958-59 squad qualified for the NCAA Tournament by defeating Princeton in a one-game playoff for the Ivy crown, Dartmouth owns the best postseason winning percentage (.588) among the Ancient Eight schools with a 10-7 record. Twice the Big Green advanced to the NCAA Championship, only to come up short of the title against Stanford in 1942 and Utah in overtime by two points in 1944.
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