Boudreaux Collects Sixth Ivy League Rookie of the Week Award

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its weekly award winner in men's basketball this afternoon, and Dartmouth forward Evan Boudreaux was on the receiving end of the Rookie of the Week honor for helping the Big Green defeat Harvard on Saturday, 63-50. The freshman from Lake Forest, Illinois, has made a habit of collecting this award, claiming it for the sixth time this season, tying Leon Pattman '07 for the most such honors in one season by a Dartmouth player.

The league office wasn't the only group to recognize Boudreaux for his performance on his birthday as College Sports Madness chose the 6-8, 220-pounder as its Ivy League Player of the Week for the second straight week.

As in the first meeting with Harvard this year, Boudreaux registered a double-double in this encounter at Leede Arena, scoring 18 points while matching a season-high with 13 rebounds. It was his fifth double-double of the season, which is tied for the third-most among the Ivy League players. He nearly had his double-double by the intermission with 10 points and seven boards in the first half as Dartmouth held a slim 27-26 lead.

After the Crimson scored the first 12 points of the second stanza, Boudreaux ended the run with a pair of free throws before contributing six points, including a three-pointer, during a stunning 25-4 Big Green outburst that sent Dartmouth on the way to its first home win over Harvard in eight years.

While Boudreaux tied the program record with six weekly rookie awards, he is still two shy of the league record of eight, held by Penn's Michael Jordan in 1996-97 and Cornell's Adam Gore in 2005-06. Should Boudreaux maintain his pattern of winning the award every other week as he has done the entire season, he would garner the honor three more times to reach nine total.

Earning a spot on the league honor roll this week was senior point guard Malik Gill, who scored a season-high 11 points — all during the last 11:30 of the game — while grabbing two rebounds, dishing out two assists and swiping the ball four times as the catalyst for the comeback.

Dartmouth plays host to Columbia (13-6, 2-0 Ivy) and Cornell (7-9, 0-2 Ivy) on Friday and Saturday to conclude a five-game homestand. If the Big Green can sweep the two games, they would enjoy their first perfect homestand of at least five games since 1959, which happens to be the last time Dartmouth won the Ivy League crown. Fans that can't make it to Hanover to see the team in action in person can subscribe to the Ivy League Digital Network and watch the game online. Both games will tip off at 7 p.m. on their respective evenings.

Schedules