Dartmouth Falls on the Road at Yale, 73-64

Friday, February 10

New Haven, Conn.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

4-16, 1-6Ivy

Yale

14-6, 6-1Ivy

Dartmouth

Yale

2/10/2017 8:49:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: Dartmouth

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale shot 57.4 percent and had seven players score at least eight points to help overcome 19 turnovers and defeat visiting Dartmouth at Lee Amphitheater on Friday evening, 73-64. Alex Copeland came off the bench to lead the Bulldogs (14-6, 6-1 Ivy) with 14 points on 7-of-12 shooting, while sophomore Evan Boudreaux scored a game-high 15 for the Big Green (4-16, 1-6 Ivy).

Boudreaux finished the game 6-of-12 from the floor and 3-of-4 at the line, but the Ivy League's leading rebounder was limited to a career-low three rebounds, which still tied him for the team lead with three others. No other Dartmouth player scored in double figures with junior Miles Wright and sophomore Guilien Smith each recording nine.

Although Yale coughed the ball up 19 times, it also forced 18 Big Green miscues, plus blocked eight shots, half of which came courtesy of freshman Jordan Bruner, who also led the Bulldogs with eight rebounds. Trey Phills added 10 points while Blake Reynolds, Miye Oni and Bruner each tallied nine.

“I thought we did a good job on the offensive end,” Dartmouth head coach David McLaughlin said after the game. “Shooting just about 50 percent while getting eight shots blocked is not easy to do. But we had a difficult time keeping them out of the paint. They are a very efficient offensive team, and we didn't do enough to disrupt them at that end of the floor.”

Dartmouth kept pace with the Bulldogs for most of the first half, matching them bucket for bucket for the first 16 minutes. A Wright three-pointer six and a half minutes into the game capped a nine-point Big Green run to put the visitors on top, 13-8. When Yale closed within one on a pair of dunks by Bruner, Wright responded with another triple.

Smith kept Dartmouth in the lead with a pair of jumpers, but Reynolds answered with a tip-in and a three-pointer to give the Bulldogs a 22-20 advantage with 9:35 showing on the clock. Back and forth it went, and Dartmouth was still within one, 29-28, after freshman Ian Sistare drove to the basket for a layup with just over four minutes until the break.

Yale asserted itself in those final four minutes with an 11-2 run, sparked by three Copeland buckets and finished off with a long ball courtesy of Eric Monroe to give the Bulldogs a 40-30 at the half, thanks to a sizzling 60.7 field goal percentage.

In the second half, the Big Green quickly cut the deficit in half as Wright stole the ball, senior Wesley Dickinson got three points the hard way on a putback and Boudreaux turned another Yale turnover into a layup at the other end. But another Bulldog run, this time a 12-2 spurt that featured six different players scoring in less than three minutes, suddenly put Dartmouth behind by 15, 52-37, by the time the first media timeout arrived.

When Copeland drove through the defense for a layup with 10:49 to play, the Bulldogs enjoyed their largest lead of the night at 19 points, 61-42. But the Green scored the next seven points starting with a three-pointer and ending with a breakaway layup, both from senior Mike Fleming to keep Dartmouth's dwindling hopes of an upset alive.

Phills dashed those hopes, however, with a pair of steals and two baskets, the second a dunk with 7:46 to go. Twice Yale stretched its advantage to 18 points again, before the Big Green scored the final nine points of the game to put the difference in single digits.

Yale's length showed up not just in the blocked shots, but also on the glass as it outrebounded Dartmouth, 34-26.

The Big Green return to action tomorrow night when they play at Brown (11-12, 2-5 Ivy), which lost to Harvard tonight, 87-74. The game tips off at 6 p.m. and will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network. Yale hosts the Crimson (13-7, 5-2) on Saturday at 7 p.m. with second place in the league standings on the line.

Notes: Every player in the game that had two or more field goals — for both teams — shot at least 50 percent for the game ... Boudreaux surpassed 800 points for his career with his first bucket of the second half ... Yale has won 22 straight home games at Lee Amphitheater.