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Ivy Season Begins at Harvard
1/7/2016 4:17:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DARTMOUTH (4-8, 0-0) at
HARVARD (6-8, 0-0)
LAVIETES PAVILION, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 2016 • 2 P.M.
Television: NESN — Andy Towne (play-by-play), John Avino (analyst), Chris Boscherini (sideline)
Video (blacked out in New England): Ivy League Digital Network
Live Stats: DartmouthSports.com
All-Time Series: Big Green lead 95-85
Last Meeting: Jan. 24, 2015 — Dartmouth 70, Harvard 61
Ivy Season at Hand
• Having lost five of its last six games, Dartmouth enters Ivy League play looking to right the ship against five-time defending conference champion Harvard on the road.
• Dartmouth has not won its first Ivy contest in a season since the 2006-07 campaign when the Big Green knocked off the Crimson in overtime, 80-73.
• Last time out, Fairfield pulled away from the Big Green in the first game of the new year, 97-85. The 97 points were the most by an opponent in nearly five years.
• Freshman Evan Boudreaux leads Dartmouth into Lavietes Pavilion with team-high averages in scoring (14.3 ppg, 7th in Ivy) and rebounding (8.4 rpg, 4th), and has been named the league's Rookie of the Week four times.
• At Fairfield, Connor Boehm produced the most offense, matching a career high with 24 points on 9-of-15 shooting. The senior is 48 points shy of 1,000 for his career.
• Boudreaux was also in double figures against the Stags with 18 points, as were sophomore Miles Wright (12) and freshman Guilien Smith (11), the latter hitting double digits for the fourth time in the last five games.
• Both Wright (13.4 ppg) and Boehm (11.4) average over 10 points a game and combine to haul in 10 caroms a night as well.
Series vs. Harvard
• Dartmouth has a 95-85 advantage all-time after ending a personal 11-game skid against the Crimson with a 70-61 road victory in the last meeting.
• In that game, the Big Green rallied from a 14-point deficit with 13 minutes to play thanks to a 26-2 run over nearly 10 minutes.
• At Lavietes Pavilion, the Big Green have a 12-20 mark, and their last two wins in the series came at this venue, the other being a 75-66 overtime thriller on Jan. 24, 2009.
• While Dartmouth dominated the first 60 years of the series with a 56-14 record through 1960, the Big Green have mustered just a 39-71 mark since then, including a 6-26 record the last 16 seasons.
• Paul Cormier is 13-14 all-time against Harvard, 11-13 while at Dartmouth.
Scouting the Crimson
• A sluggish start (six losses in its first eight games)gave way to a strong December as Harvard defeated BYU and Auburn to reach the championship game of the Diamond Head Classic before falling to Oklahoma by 12.
• Other ranked opponents the Crimson have faced on the road are Kansas (loss by six points) and Providence (loss by 12).
• Defense continues to be a staple of Harvard's, holding the opposition to less than 40 percent shooting and under 30 percent behind the arc.
• Zena Edosomwan has emerged as a big-time player, averaging a double-double at 14.0 ppg and 10.6 rpg while shooting 51.3 percent from the floor (but just 49.4 percent at the foul line).
• The Crimson are deadly from three-point range, shooting 40.6 percent as a team thanks to Corbin Miller (34-of-75, .453), Corey Johnson (39-of-95, .411) and Patrick Steeves (12-of-25, .480).
• A couple of weakenesses for Harvard? Free throw shooting (.602) and turnovers (14.7 per game).
• Tommy Amaker (Duke '87) is in his ninth season at Harvard's helm with a 167-86 record in Cambridge and 343-225 in his career that has taken him to Seton Hall for four seasons (68-55) and Michigan for six (108-84).
Big Green Players to Watch
Evan Boudreaux and Miles Wright may be Dartmouth's two leading scorers, but when it comes to Harvard, fans should keep an eye on Connor Boehm and Malik Gill. Boehm has averaged 11.5 points in six games against the Crimson. Meanwhile, Gill has produced 8.3 points in the six games with two of the top-three single-game scoring outputs of his career, not to mention serving as the catalyst in last year's rally from 14 points down in the second half. Also, something about Harvard brings out the thief in captain Tommy Carpenter. The senior had seven steals in two games against the Crimson last year and seven in the other 27 contests.
Plethora of Scoring
Dartmouth may have lost to Fairfield on Jan. 4, 97-85, but those 85 points are its most since beating Cornell, 87-78, back on March 1, 2014. That total is also tied for the third most since Paul Cormier returned as head coach prior to the 2010-11 season. Scoring 85 points is usually a good indicator of success as the Big Green are 96-23 (.807) all-time when scoring at least 85 points. The last time Dartmouth had lost a game when scoring 80 or more points was on Nov. 18, 2008, in a 100-82 setback at Providence.
Boehm Binges
The Big Green's leading scorer against Fairfield was senior Connor Boehm, who matched a career high with 24 points on 9-of-15 shooting with a three-pointer and 5-of-6 at the foul line. He actually missed his last free throw, which would have set a new personal best. The forward also led the team in rebounding (7, tied with Evan Boudreaux and Tommy Carpenter, the latter in just nine minutes), assists (4) and steals (2), plus had Dartmouth's lone block of the evening. That's filling a stat sheet.
Smith Joins Boudreaux as Freshman to Watch
Evan Boudreaux has company from a classmate on the floor of late as freshman Guilien Smith has settled into the collegiate game. After scoring no points in the first six games, he scored his first points at Stanford with a three-pointer. That shot seems to have broken the dam as the youngster has averaged 10.8 points in the five games since, tallying 11 or more on four occasions. Smith also has at least one long ball in the last six contests; no other Big Green teammate has accomplished that feat for longer than three games.
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