Barry Leads Big Green to 82-66 Victory Over Columbia

Saturday, February 9

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

11-11, 2-4Ivy

Columbia

6-14, 1-5Ivy

Columbia

Dartmouth

Photo by: Gil Talbot

Barry Leads Big Green to 82-66 Victory Over Columbia

2/9/2019 8:50:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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The junior point guard dropped 21 points and had seven rebounds

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Junior Brendan Barry led five Dartmouth players in double figures with 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Big Green to an 82-66 victory over a weary Columbia squad on Flannel Night at Leede Arena. Dartmouth (11-11, 2-4 Ivy) hit 10 3-pointers and led by as many as 31 points to help end a four-game skid.

The Lions (6-14, 1-5 Ivy), coming off a gut-wrenching, 98-96 triple-overtime defeat at Harvard last night, fell behind by 10 points 12 minutes into the game and never closed the gap to single digits again.

Barry, the nation's second-most accurate 3-pointer shooter, finished his night 6-of-11 from the floor and 3-of-6 from long range while converting all six of his free throws for his first 20-point game since dropping a career-high 31 against Boston University nearly two months ago. Junior James Foye produced 14 points and a game-high four assists, while forwards Chris Knight and Ian Carter both tallied 11 and junior Ian Sistare added 10 as Dartmouth had five players in double digits for the second straight night.

Patrick Tapé led Columbia with 14 points on 7-of-8 from the floor plus hauled in a team-high seven rebounds, but the rest of the Lion squad shot just 36 percent from the floor.

The Lions jumped out to an early 6-2 lead, but Dartmouth rattled off the next 13 points, capped by a long hook shot by Carter for a 15-6 Big Green lead.

Maka Ellis, who finished the night with 13 points, fueled a 9-2 Columbia spurt with the lone Lion triple of the first half as the Lions got back within two at 17-15. But Barry quickly caught fire, scoring 11 points in a four-minute span on three 3-pointers — each one longer than the previous one — and a layup as Dartmouth opened up a 31-17 advantage.

The lead was down to 11 as time was winding down on the half when Foye launched a 3-pointer at the buzzer and found nothing but net to make it a 39-25 Big Green lead at the intermission.

When Sistare came out of the locker room and hit back-to-back triples — both with one on the shot clock — on the first two Dartmouth possessions, the Lions were demoralized, facing a 20-point deficit.

Frustration bubbled over a bit with 8:20 left when Columbia's leading scorer this season, Gabe Stefanini, was called for a foul before receiving a technical, sending Barry to the line. All four free throws fell through, boosting the Dartmouth lead to its largest of the night at 70-39.

Some pressure defense helped Columbia whittle the deficit under 20 points with 2:50 left, but the Big Green finished off their third straight home win against the Lions.

Dartmouth shot 48.1 percent (26-of-54) from the floor and 40 percent (10-of-25) from long range, matching its season average for 3-pointers in a game. The Big Green also took care of business at the foul line, draining 20-of-23 (87.0 percent), and bested Columbia on the glass, 34-31, led by sophomore Aaryn Rai with eight.

The Lions, meanwhile, were held to 24-of-55 (.436) shooting and just 5-of-17 (.294) behind the arc while converting only 13-of-23 (.565) at the charity stripe.

Dartmouth will begin a four-game road trip with the annual trip to Penn and Princeton this Friday and Saturday, respectively. Both games will be streamed live on ESPN+ at 7 p.m.