Barry Selected as Ivy League Men’s Basketball Player of the Week

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its weekly awards for men's basketball this afternoon with Dartmouth junior Brendan Barry getting the nod as the Player of the Week after the Big Green won all three of their games last week.

Barry, a 6-2 guard from Fair Haven, New Jersey, averaged 21.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.7 assists in helping Dartmouth extend its winning streak to four games, the longest for the Green since the end of the 2014-15 regular season. Much of his scoring came from behind the arc where he hit 16-of-29 3-pointers as he took over the nation's lead in 3-point percentage (55.8).

The week began Monday afternoon with an 82-73 victory over Sacred Heart at Leede Arena in which Barry produced 17 points with four triples, his last coming after the Pioneers had whittled a 16-point Big Green lead down to five with four minutes to play, securing the outcome. He also contributed four rebounds and three assists without a turnover.

Three days later, Barry exploded for a career-high 31 points with eight 3-pointers to carry the Big Green to a 78-68 home win over Boston University. His first long ball did not come until there was little more than a minute left in the first half, and he added six after halftime as he shot 10-of-18 overall and 8-of-13 from the perimeter. The Ivy League leader in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.1) also handed out six helpers with just one turnover.

Dartmouth struggled shooting the ball at Albany on Saturday, but Barry still had the touch, knocking down 4-of-7 trifectas and 6-of-11 field goals to tie for the team lead with 16 points in the 61-52 comeback victory. The Big Green fell behind by as many as 16 in the first half, yet rallied for its largest deficit overcome since the end of the 2014-15 campaign. Barry also hauled in seven rebounds and dished out five assists while playing every second of the game.

A Dartmouth player also won the honor last week in sophomore forward Chris Knight, marking the first time the Big Green had back-to-back winners of the award in over 23 years. Sea Lonergan took home the hardware on Feb. 27, 1995, and Jamie Halligan followed that up with his own honor on March 6.

Speaking of Knight, he was included on the Ivy League honor roll this week as well for averaging a double-double (14.3 points, 10.0 rebounds) in the three wins while adding 14 assists and six blocks.

Dartmouth (8-5) has just one game this week, playing at Bryant (2-7) on Friday morning at 11 a.m. The game will be streamed live online via NEC Front Row.

Notes: Barry's grandfather, James Barry, was an All-America honorable mention at Georgetown in the 1960s and a cousin of NBA great Rick Barry … the junior ranks second among active NCAA Division I players with a 3-point percentage of 48.3 (126-for-261) … he is also second in the Ivy League with 4.1 assists per game and ninth with 14.7 points per game.

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