Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
Final
Men's Basketball
at Penn
75
88
Friday, February 8
Hanover, N.H.
7:00 PM
Dartmouth College
vs
Cornell
Photo by: Gil Talbot
Men Host Cornell, Columbia This Weekend
2/7/2019 10:52:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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The Big Green are looking to snap a three-game skid with the New York schools in town
DARTMOUTH (10-10, 1-3)
vs. CORNELL (10-10, 2-2)
and COLUMBIA (6-12, 1-3)
Friday-Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 2019 | 7 PM | ESPN+
Leede Arena (2,100) | Hanover, N.H.
• Dartmouth will try to shake off a pair of losses at home last weekend with Cornell and Columbia coming to town on Friday and Saturday.
• The Big Green suffered a 60-58 defeat against Brown last Friday as a last-second 3-point attempt by senior Guilien Smith was off the mark.
• Dartmouth committed a season-high 20 turnovers, mostly due to 15 Brown steals, that led to 24 points for the Bears.
• The next night, Yale led by double digits for most of the night in handing the Green an 89-68 defeat.
• In each game, Dartmouth hit just five 3-pointers and set season lows in accuracy both nights (5-for-20, .250 vs. Brown, 5-for-22, .227 vs. Yale).
• Sophomore Chris Knight was the best offensive weapon for the Big Green, scoring 15 points on Friday and 20 more on Saturday, his fifth 20-point game of the season. He ranks fifth in the Ivy League with 15.6 points per game, not to mention fourth with 7.6 rebounds a night.
• Junior Brendan Barry continues to lead all of Division I in 3-point accuracy having knocked down half (64-of-128) of his attempts from behind the arc. He is also third among active Division I players in caerer 3-point percentage (.469, 142-for-303).
• Sophomore Adrease Jackson, who had averaged less than five points over the previous eight games, broke out with an 18-point performance against Yale.
Series vs. Cornell
• While Dartmouth did not trail in the series between 1957 until 2013, Cornell now owns a 110-106 advantage having won the last four meetings.
• The Big Red have won the first game between the two each of the past seven seasons, including a last-minute victory last year in Ithaca, 86-85.
• In the final game of the season, Cornell shot 63.3 percent to defeat the Big Green in Hanover, 86-75.
• Will Emery scored in double figures in both contests with 10 and 11 points, respectively, while the first game also featured Ian Sistare scoring 15 and Adrease Jackson a dozen more.
• Dartmouth is 16-15 versus Cornell in Leede Arena, but has lost the last four matchups here.
Scouting the Big Red
• Cornell earned a home win over Penn last weekend before suffering an overtime loss to Princeton, plus has losses to UConn, Syracuse, SMU and Wake Forest.
• Matt Morgan leads the Ivy League and ranks 14th nationally with 23.0 points per game while shooting 43.8 percent from the perimeter and 81.7 percent at the foul line to go with 56 assists and 24 steals.
• Aside from Morgan, the rest of the Big Red squad is shooting just 27.6 percent on 3-pointers with Jimmy Boeheim the only one hitting more than one triple per game (23-of-69, .333)
• Boeheim and Josh Warren both average just over 10 points a game with the latter shooting 55.6 percent from the floor (fifth among Ivy players) with a team-high 59 assists.
• Steven Julian is Cornell's top post presence with a team-high 6.6 rebounds a night and 35 blocked shots, most in the Ivy League.
• Overall on the boards, the Big Red rank last in the conference in rebound margin (-4.8).
• Not a single player has fouled out of a game thus far this season.
• The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year, Brian Earl (Princeton '99) is in his third season as the Big Red's head coach after spending nine seasons as an assistant at his alma mater. He enters this game with a record of 30-47.
Series vs. Columbia
• The Lions lead the all-time series, 113-101, after splitting the two games the last two years (following six straight seasons of sweeps either way).
• Both teams defended their home court in 2017-18 — Columbia broke a 72-all tie with 1:06 to play on a Mike Smith 3-pointer en route to a 77-74 win, then the Big Green led by as many as 19 in the second half before staving off a Lions rally, 80-78, right here at Leede Arena.
• Adrease Jackson had a double-double against the Lions — 24 points, 14 rebounds — in his first career collegiate start in New York last winter, and Guilien Smith had a 23-point performance in an overtime win two years ago.
• Dartmouth is 19-12 against Columbia in Leede Arena and 58-48 in Hanover overall.
Scouting the Lions
• Columbia, which dropped both games last weekend at home to Princeton and Penn, enters the weekend with the only overall record under .500 in the Ivy League at 6-12 with one road win at Binghamton last month, 65-63.
• Two regulars average over 13 points a game in Quinten Adlesh (13.5) and Gabe Stefanini (13.4).
• That duo, along with Jake Killingsworth, all shoot better than 40 percent from long range as well with Adlesh the most prolific (48-of-116, .414) and Stefanini the most accurate (26-of-63, .460).
• The leading scorer and catalyst, Mike Smith, went down with a season-ending injury after eight games after averaging 15.8 points and 5.0 assists.
• Columbia has battled opponents pretty evenly on the boards with a slight edge thanks to Randy Brumant (5.9 rpg) and Patrick Tape (5.2 rpg).
• The Lions are the second-most accurate Ivy team at the foul line, hitting 72.4 percent, though they convert a league-low 8.9 free throws per game.
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his third year at the helm, sporting a mark of 25-47 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Second Annual Flannel Night
Last year, Dartmouth hosted Flannel Night during a resounding 72-56 win over Princeton. Just 364 days later, the wildly successful promotion is back when the Big Green host Columbia on Feb. 9. Fans are encouraged to wear their best flannel (quantity overal quality is fine as well) while cheering on Dartmouth against the Lions on Saturday night.
Swept at Home
Dartmouth suffered a pair of losses last weekend against Brown and Yale, its first time being swept at home since the 2017 season when those same two teams vicitimized the Big Green. Conversely, the last weekend sweep for Dartmouth at Leede Arena also came against those two teams back in 2014-15 to end the regular season and cap a five-game winning streak to earn the Green a spot in the postseason CIT.
20 Points of Knight
Chris Knight recorded his fifth 20-point game of the season when he dropped exactly 20 during the loss to Yale on Feb. 2. As a matter of fact, four of his five 20-point efforts have hit 20 right on the nose with the other a career-high 23-point performance in a loss to Quinnipiac in early December.And I absolutely will have a note entitled "1,000 Points of Knight" should he reach that milestone in the future.
3-Point Threshold
In each of Dartmouth's 20 games this year, the Big Green have hit at least five 3-pointers. That streak extends into the final three games from last season as well, ever since Dartmouth failed to hit one in 17 attempts at The Palestra on Feb. 23, 2018. But the Green hit that minimum in both contests last weekend, setting a season-low in accuracy at 22.7 (5-of-22) against Yale. Dartmouth had entered the weekend seventh nationally in 3-point percentage, but dropped to 16th (.392).
Barry Burying Threes
Brendan Barry commands a lot of attention from defenses as the junior leads all of Division I in 3-point percentage (.500) while ranking second in the Ivy League with 3.2 triples per game. His 64 long balls are tied for 10th in the single-season Big Green annals, and he needs just five more to move into the top five. At his current pace, he would fall two shy of the school record (98) set 30 years ago by Jim Barton '89.
Action Jackson
Adrease Jackson must have watched the classic 1988 film starring Carl Weathers before playing Yale as he broke out of a scoring slump. Since opening the season with four straight double-digit scoring efforts, including a career-high 25 in a win at Loyola Maryland, he had scored 10 or more points just three times in the next 15 contests while shooting 33.9 percent from the floor. That changed against the Bulldogs as the sophomore came off the bench for only the third time this year to score 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting. He also hit 6-of-7 at the foul line, boosting his season accuracy back above 80 percent (.805, 33-of-41).
Role Reversal
Although Dartmouth remains the most accurate 3-point shooting team in the conference at 39.2 percent, Yale turned the tables on the Big Green in its 89-68 win on Feb. 2. The Bulldogs hit 11-of-23 (.478) from the perimeter, the highest percentage against the Dartmouth defense all year and just the third time anyone had hit even 40 percent. The Big Green, meanwhile, had their worst night of the season connecting on only 5-of-22 (.227) from deep.
Guilien Returns
Senior Guilien Smith missed 10 full games and most of another before briefly returning to the court at Harvard on Jan. 26. He saw much more time (19 minutes) of action against Brown and nearly had a fairy-tale ending to his night when he launched a 3-pointer in the final seconds with the Big Green trailing by two. But it was not to be, cherie, as his shot was off the mark, leaving Dartmouth on the wrong end of a 60-58 score.
Disqualified x 2
Both Brendan Barry and James Foye fouled out in the 60-58 loss against Brown, the first time in nearly three years since Dartmouth had more than one player be disqualified in a game. Back on Feb. 27, 2016, the Big Green had two players foul out in the overtime period in a 76-71 loss at Yale. The last time it happened in a regulation game was on Nov. 17, 2015 when three players hit the showers early in a 73-63 defeat at Marist.
Board Games
Chris Knight has been a terror on the glass over the last 11 games, averaging 8.5 rebounds in that span to boost his season average to 7.6 per game, fourth in the Ivy League. In three of those 11 games he has grabbed an even dozen, most recently at Vermont on Jan. 2.
Lighting It Up
• In 11 of the first 20 games, the Big Green have hit at least 10 treys, including 11 in each of the matchups with Harvard. That is the second-most such games in a Dartmouth season; the school record is 16 set in 2001-02.
• The Big Green are well on pace to shatter the program record of 263 3-pointers made — set in that same 2001-02 season — with 204 treys after 20 games. At that rate, Dartmouth would finish the regular season with 306.
• Dartmouth started the year with four straight games with at least 10 3-pointers, its longest such streak since a six-game stretch in 2002.
• The Big Green hit 22 trifectas in the season opener, breaking the team record of 18 set in a win over Albany on Jan. 20, 2001.
• Dartmouth has had 15 or more 3-pointers in a game three times this season after reaching that total just four times previously since the 3-point line was instituted in 1986-87.
vs. CORNELL (10-10, 2-2)
and COLUMBIA (6-12, 1-3)
Friday-Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 2019 | 7 PM | ESPN+
Leede Arena (2,100) | Hanover, N.H.
• Dartmouth will try to shake off a pair of losses at home last weekend with Cornell and Columbia coming to town on Friday and Saturday.
• The Big Green suffered a 60-58 defeat against Brown last Friday as a last-second 3-point attempt by senior Guilien Smith was off the mark.
• Dartmouth committed a season-high 20 turnovers, mostly due to 15 Brown steals, that led to 24 points for the Bears.
• The next night, Yale led by double digits for most of the night in handing the Green an 89-68 defeat.
• In each game, Dartmouth hit just five 3-pointers and set season lows in accuracy both nights (5-for-20, .250 vs. Brown, 5-for-22, .227 vs. Yale).
• Sophomore Chris Knight was the best offensive weapon for the Big Green, scoring 15 points on Friday and 20 more on Saturday, his fifth 20-point game of the season. He ranks fifth in the Ivy League with 15.6 points per game, not to mention fourth with 7.6 rebounds a night.
• Junior Brendan Barry continues to lead all of Division I in 3-point accuracy having knocked down half (64-of-128) of his attempts from behind the arc. He is also third among active Division I players in caerer 3-point percentage (.469, 142-for-303).
• Sophomore Adrease Jackson, who had averaged less than five points over the previous eight games, broke out with an 18-point performance against Yale.
Series vs. Cornell
• While Dartmouth did not trail in the series between 1957 until 2013, Cornell now owns a 110-106 advantage having won the last four meetings.
• The Big Red have won the first game between the two each of the past seven seasons, including a last-minute victory last year in Ithaca, 86-85.
• In the final game of the season, Cornell shot 63.3 percent to defeat the Big Green in Hanover, 86-75.
• Will Emery scored in double figures in both contests with 10 and 11 points, respectively, while the first game also featured Ian Sistare scoring 15 and Adrease Jackson a dozen more.
• Dartmouth is 16-15 versus Cornell in Leede Arena, but has lost the last four matchups here.
Scouting the Big Red
• Cornell earned a home win over Penn last weekend before suffering an overtime loss to Princeton, plus has losses to UConn, Syracuse, SMU and Wake Forest.
• Matt Morgan leads the Ivy League and ranks 14th nationally with 23.0 points per game while shooting 43.8 percent from the perimeter and 81.7 percent at the foul line to go with 56 assists and 24 steals.
• Aside from Morgan, the rest of the Big Red squad is shooting just 27.6 percent on 3-pointers with Jimmy Boeheim the only one hitting more than one triple per game (23-of-69, .333)
• Boeheim and Josh Warren both average just over 10 points a game with the latter shooting 55.6 percent from the floor (fifth among Ivy players) with a team-high 59 assists.
• Steven Julian is Cornell's top post presence with a team-high 6.6 rebounds a night and 35 blocked shots, most in the Ivy League.
• Overall on the boards, the Big Red rank last in the conference in rebound margin (-4.8).
• Not a single player has fouled out of a game thus far this season.
• The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year, Brian Earl (Princeton '99) is in his third season as the Big Red's head coach after spending nine seasons as an assistant at his alma mater. He enters this game with a record of 30-47.
Series vs. Columbia
• The Lions lead the all-time series, 113-101, after splitting the two games the last two years (following six straight seasons of sweeps either way).
• Both teams defended their home court in 2017-18 — Columbia broke a 72-all tie with 1:06 to play on a Mike Smith 3-pointer en route to a 77-74 win, then the Big Green led by as many as 19 in the second half before staving off a Lions rally, 80-78, right here at Leede Arena.
• Adrease Jackson had a double-double against the Lions — 24 points, 14 rebounds — in his first career collegiate start in New York last winter, and Guilien Smith had a 23-point performance in an overtime win two years ago.
• Dartmouth is 19-12 against Columbia in Leede Arena and 58-48 in Hanover overall.
Scouting the Lions
• Columbia, which dropped both games last weekend at home to Princeton and Penn, enters the weekend with the only overall record under .500 in the Ivy League at 6-12 with one road win at Binghamton last month, 65-63.
• Two regulars average over 13 points a game in Quinten Adlesh (13.5) and Gabe Stefanini (13.4).
• That duo, along with Jake Killingsworth, all shoot better than 40 percent from long range as well with Adlesh the most prolific (48-of-116, .414) and Stefanini the most accurate (26-of-63, .460).
• The leading scorer and catalyst, Mike Smith, went down with a season-ending injury after eight games after averaging 15.8 points and 5.0 assists.
• Columbia has battled opponents pretty evenly on the boards with a slight edge thanks to Randy Brumant (5.9 rpg) and Patrick Tape (5.2 rpg).
• The Lions are the second-most accurate Ivy team at the foul line, hitting 72.4 percent, though they convert a league-low 8.9 free throws per game.
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his third year at the helm, sporting a mark of 25-47 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Second Annual Flannel Night
Last year, Dartmouth hosted Flannel Night during a resounding 72-56 win over Princeton. Just 364 days later, the wildly successful promotion is back when the Big Green host Columbia on Feb. 9. Fans are encouraged to wear their best flannel (quantity overal quality is fine as well) while cheering on Dartmouth against the Lions on Saturday night.
Swept at Home
Dartmouth suffered a pair of losses last weekend against Brown and Yale, its first time being swept at home since the 2017 season when those same two teams vicitimized the Big Green. Conversely, the last weekend sweep for Dartmouth at Leede Arena also came against those two teams back in 2014-15 to end the regular season and cap a five-game winning streak to earn the Green a spot in the postseason CIT.
20 Points of Knight
Chris Knight recorded his fifth 20-point game of the season when he dropped exactly 20 during the loss to Yale on Feb. 2. As a matter of fact, four of his five 20-point efforts have hit 20 right on the nose with the other a career-high 23-point performance in a loss to Quinnipiac in early December.And I absolutely will have a note entitled "1,000 Points of Knight" should he reach that milestone in the future.
3-Point Threshold
In each of Dartmouth's 20 games this year, the Big Green have hit at least five 3-pointers. That streak extends into the final three games from last season as well, ever since Dartmouth failed to hit one in 17 attempts at The Palestra on Feb. 23, 2018. But the Green hit that minimum in both contests last weekend, setting a season-low in accuracy at 22.7 (5-of-22) against Yale. Dartmouth had entered the weekend seventh nationally in 3-point percentage, but dropped to 16th (.392).
Barry Burying Threes
Brendan Barry commands a lot of attention from defenses as the junior leads all of Division I in 3-point percentage (.500) while ranking second in the Ivy League with 3.2 triples per game. His 64 long balls are tied for 10th in the single-season Big Green annals, and he needs just five more to move into the top five. At his current pace, he would fall two shy of the school record (98) set 30 years ago by Jim Barton '89.
Action Jackson
Adrease Jackson must have watched the classic 1988 film starring Carl Weathers before playing Yale as he broke out of a scoring slump. Since opening the season with four straight double-digit scoring efforts, including a career-high 25 in a win at Loyola Maryland, he had scored 10 or more points just three times in the next 15 contests while shooting 33.9 percent from the floor. That changed against the Bulldogs as the sophomore came off the bench for only the third time this year to score 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting. He also hit 6-of-7 at the foul line, boosting his season accuracy back above 80 percent (.805, 33-of-41).
Role Reversal
Although Dartmouth remains the most accurate 3-point shooting team in the conference at 39.2 percent, Yale turned the tables on the Big Green in its 89-68 win on Feb. 2. The Bulldogs hit 11-of-23 (.478) from the perimeter, the highest percentage against the Dartmouth defense all year and just the third time anyone had hit even 40 percent. The Big Green, meanwhile, had their worst night of the season connecting on only 5-of-22 (.227) from deep.
Guilien Returns
Senior Guilien Smith missed 10 full games and most of another before briefly returning to the court at Harvard on Jan. 26. He saw much more time (19 minutes) of action against Brown and nearly had a fairy-tale ending to his night when he launched a 3-pointer in the final seconds with the Big Green trailing by two. But it was not to be, cherie, as his shot was off the mark, leaving Dartmouth on the wrong end of a 60-58 score.
Disqualified x 2
Both Brendan Barry and James Foye fouled out in the 60-58 loss against Brown, the first time in nearly three years since Dartmouth had more than one player be disqualified in a game. Back on Feb. 27, 2016, the Big Green had two players foul out in the overtime period in a 76-71 loss at Yale. The last time it happened in a regulation game was on Nov. 17, 2015 when three players hit the showers early in a 73-63 defeat at Marist.
Board Games
Chris Knight has been a terror on the glass over the last 11 games, averaging 8.5 rebounds in that span to boost his season average to 7.6 per game, fourth in the Ivy League. In three of those 11 games he has grabbed an even dozen, most recently at Vermont on Jan. 2.
Lighting It Up
• In 11 of the first 20 games, the Big Green have hit at least 10 treys, including 11 in each of the matchups with Harvard. That is the second-most such games in a Dartmouth season; the school record is 16 set in 2001-02.
• The Big Green are well on pace to shatter the program record of 263 3-pointers made — set in that same 2001-02 season — with 204 treys after 20 games. At that rate, Dartmouth would finish the regular season with 306.
• Dartmouth started the year with four straight games with at least 10 3-pointers, its longest such streak since a six-game stretch in 2002.
• The Big Green hit 22 trifectas in the season opener, breaking the team record of 18 set in a win over Albany on Jan. 20, 2001.
• Dartmouth has had 15 or more 3-pointers in a game three times this season after reaching that total just four times previously since the 3-point line was instituted in 1986-87.
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