Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
Final
Men's Basketball
at Penn
75
88
Friday, March 8
New York, N.Y.
7:00 PM
Dartmouth College
at
Columbia
Photo by: Doug Austin
Big Green Finish Season at Columbia, Cornell
3/7/2019 11:55:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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Out of contention for the Ivy League Tournament, Dartmouth will possibly get to play the role of spoiler
DARTMOUTH (11-17, 2-10)
at COLUMBIA (9-17, 4-8)
and CORNELL (13-15, 5-7)
Friday/Saturday, March 8/9, 2019 | 7 PM | SNY (Friday)/ESPN+ (both nights)
Levien Gymnaisum (2,500)/Newman Arena (4,473) | New York, N.Y./Ithaca, N.Y.
• While Columbia has been eliminated from contention for a berth in the Ivy League Tournament, Dartmouth would like to finish the season on a high note and pick up two road wins, which could possibly spoil Cornell's postseason plans.
• The Big Green have had a hard time finding success at opposing Ivy schools having lost their last 13 conference road games.
• Dartmouth just played its 2,800th game in program history in the 65-51 loss to Penn last Saturday, and is now 1,281-1,518-1 (.458).
• Seven of the Big Green's 10 conference losses this season have been by five points or fewer, and six have been one-possession games, the most recent such game a 77-76 overtime loss to Princeton.
• Dartmouth has lost six straight and 10 of its last 11 with the lone victory in that span being an 82-66 home triumph over Columbia on Feb. 9.
• The Big Green are led by sophomore Chris Knight whose 15.4 ppg and 6.8 rpg both rank fifth in the Ivy League, and he is also second on the team with 69 assists.
• Dartmouth's top assist man, junior Brendan Barry, is not only the second-leading scorer (13.4 ppg), but ninth nationally in 3-point percentage (.462), helping the Green rank 21st (.384) among Division I teams.
• Junior James Foye has been even more accurate from the perimeter, knocking down 47.8 percent while averaging 10.9 points a night.
• Dartmouth will be without the services of junior Ian Sistare (10.3 ppg), who is out with an injured foot for the third straight weekend after playing in the first 78 games of his career.
Series vs. Columbia
• The Lions lead the all-time series, 113-102, though Dartmouth has won three of the last four meetings, including an 82-66 triumph last month.
• The Big Green had five score in double figures in the win, including 21 from Brendan Barry, as Columbia was recovering from a double-overtime loss at Harvard the night before.
• Three different players on the Dartmouth roster have scored 20 or more points in a game against the Lions — Barry last month, Adrease Jackson in his first career start last year (24) and Guilien Smith with 23 during his sophomore campaign.
• Dartmouth has a record of 17-27 in Columbia's Levien Gymnasium since it opened in 1974, and is 43-64 in New York versus the Lions.
Scouting the Lions
• Columbia is riding high after an impressive sweep of Brown and league-leading Yale on the road last week, 80-77 and 83-75, respectively.
• The Lions boast two of the top seven scorers in the league in Quinten Adlesh and Gabe Stefanini (13.8 ppg apiece).
• Patrick Tapé is a force down low, shooting 66.1 percent from the floor for the season and over 70 pct. in league play while averaging about 11 ppg.
• Columbia is missing its floor general and catalyst, Mike Smith, who went down with a season-ending injury after eight games while averaging 15.8 points and 5.0 assists.
• Tapé is the top rebounder on the team at 6.0 rpg, but he gets support from Stefanini (5.3) and Randy Brumant (5.0), giving the Lions a slight edge over the opposition on the glass this year.
• Columbia can shoot from long range (36.0 pct.), but has trouble stopping others from hitting from downtown (37.0 pct.)
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his third year at the helm, sporting a mark of 28-52 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Series vs. Cornell
• While Dartmouth did not trail in the series between 1957 until 2013, Cornell now owns a 111-106 advantage having won the last five meetings.
• The Big Red have won the first game between the two each of the past eight seasons, including an 83-80 squeaker last month in Hanover.
• Chris Knight had career highs of 27 points and four blocks in the loss, while Cornell's Matt Morgan set a Leede Arena record with a career-high 41 points of his own.
• Morgan has averaged 26.1 ppg in seven career games against the Big Green.
• Dartmouth is 9-18 versus Cornell in Newman Arena, but has won two of its last four games there after dropping 11 straight.
Scouting the Big Red
• Cornell looked to be in the driver's seat for a berth in the Ivy League Tournament when it was 5-2, but now needs some help after dropping five straight, the last three by double digits.
• Matt Morgan leads the Ivy League and ranks 17th nationally with 22.3 points per game while shooting 51.3 percent overall, 44.2 percent from the behind the arc and 85.3 percent at the foul line to go with 79 assists and 41 steals.
• Aside from Morgan, the rest of the Big Red squad is shooting just 27.9 percent on 3-pointers with Jimmy Boeheim the only one hitting more than one triple per game (35-of-106, .330)
• Boeheim and Josh Warren both average between 10 and 11 ppg with the latter shooting 53.4 percent from the floor (sixth among Ivy players).
• Steven Julian is Cornell's top post presence with a team-high 6.2 rebounds a night and 44 blocked shots, second-most in the Ivy League.
• Overall on the boards, the Big Red rank last in the conference in rebound margin (-4.9).
• 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 33-52.
3-Point Decisions
• Games decided by one possession (three points) in the Ivy League have been the norm this year it seems, and Dartmouth has had more than its fair share of those. I did a stupid amount of work in pulling these figures, so indulge my bullet points on this topic (all records are for regular season Ivy League games decided by no more than 3 points since the advent of the 3-point line in 1986-87):
• Dartmouth is 0-6 in these games — no other Ivy team has ever lost more than four in one season.
• And four losses has only happened in three other seasons — Columbia in 2012-13, Dartmouth last year and Columbia again this year.
• Columbia is 3-4 this season, the most games (7) in one season for any Ivy team. And six has happened just four times, three by Dartmouth (this year, last year and 2008-09) and one by Harvard (also 2008-09).
• Dartmouth is 2-10 over the last two years, but still has the most wins overall with 47, though Harvard and Penn have 46.
• There have been 16 such games this season, tying the record that was set … last year. The previous record was 14 (2008-09). The average per season is just under 10.
• Most losses overall? Columbia with 46, then Dartmouth and Harvard with 45 and Brown with 44.
• How about best winning percentage? Penn at .548 (46-38). The Quakers are also the only team to win five such games in one season (2011-12).
• Most games played? Dartmouth with 92, Harvard is next with 91.
• Fewest? Sure, why not. Princeton with 69 (37-32), Cornell and Yale next with 73 apiece.
• These totals DO NOT include games decided in overtime but with a margin larger than three. Tip me and I'll throw those in next week.
Senior Send Off
Dartmouth could not give senior Guilien Smith a win in his final home game last Saturday, but he did get a nice standing ovation when he was replaced after draining a 3-pointer on the game's final shot. A dynamic playmaker when healthy, he suffered through injuries the past two years, yet still showed flashes of some of his brilliance. For his career, Smith has scored 558 points in 74 games (7.5 ppg) with 75 3-pointers. He also just had a streak of 27 consecutive free throws made come to an end two weeks ago.
Rai-sing Up
You say that like "rising" as in Aaryn Rai, get it? The sophomore certainly rose up last weekend to put his scoring skills on display, hitting Princeton up for a career-high 21 points before dropping a dozen more on Penn. He also snared a personal-best 12 rebounds against the Tigers for his first career double-double. He is the sixth different player to score 20 or more points in a game this year believed to be a school record.
Barrying Threes
Brendan Barry still ranks ninth nationally in 3-point percentage (.462) and is currently fourth among active players in career percentage (.454, minimum 80 threes). He is the first Big Green player with 80 triples in a season in 20 years and last weekend surpassed his former teammate, Miles Wright, for seventh place on Dartmouth's career 3-point list with 158. And with five more assists in these two games, he will become the seventh Big Green player with 100 in two or more season. Only one player has bested that — Flinder Boyd '02 who accomplished the feat each of his four seasons.
Knightly Update
Chris Knight recorded his eighth 20-point game of the season when he led Dartmouth with 22 in the overtime loss to Princeton. Entering the final weekend, he has hit 180 field goals, the second most of any Big Green player of the last 30 years. Only 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year Alex Barnett hit more in that span (195). Knight is fifth in the league at scoring (15.4 ppg) and rebounding (6.8), plus seventh in blocks per game (1.3).
Foye Named Academic All-District
Two weeks ago, James Foye was recognized by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) by being selected for the Google Cloud Academic All-District I Team. The junior economics major has a stellar 3.96 GPA to complement his scoring average of 10.9 points per game while shooting 50 percent from the floor.
2,800 Games
The Big Green played the 2,800th game in program history against Penn last Saturday and enter this final weekend of the season with an all-time record of 1,281-1,518-1 (yes, one tie against Minnesota in 1905 that I just don't have time to explain).
30 Games
With the two games this weekend, Dartmouth will have played 30 contests this season for just the fourth time in program history. The last time came in 2011-12, and before that in 1951-52. But the school record of 31 games came in the 1904-05 season (which includes that stupid tie game that I won't talk about).
Verge of Team 3-Point Record
Dartmouth needs just one more long ball to set a new school record for most 3-pointers in a season. The Big Green enter the game at Columbia with 263 trifectas this season, tied with the 2001-02 squad for the most in a season at Dartmouth. Who do you think will hit the record-breaking trey?
Lighting It Up
• Dartmouth has hit at least five 3-pointers in all but one game this year (at Yale on Feb. 22) and is 21st in 3-point percentage (.384)
• Twelve of the 14 players on the active roster have recorded at least one 3-pointer, and the two that haven't made one have attempted a total of three from the perimeter.
• In 13 of the first 28 games, the Big Green have hit at least 10 treys. That is second only to the 2001-02 squad that hit double digits 16 times.
• James Foye has hit 47.7 percent of his 3-point attempts, but has only made 53 in 28 games; the NCAA minimum for qualifying for the national rankings is 2.5 made per game.
• 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.
Hard Luck
With Dartmouth's 77-76 overtime loss to Princeton on March 1, not only did that give the Green two one-point losses to the Tigers this year, it also dropped the team's record in games decided by five points or fewer this season to 1-10 with nine of those losses coming since the lone victory at Loyola Maryland, 82-80, on Nov. 11. According to the analytical KenPom.com website, only 11 other Division I teams have had worse "luck" than the Big Green, none of which are in the Ivy League with Columbia's recent surge. On the flip side, Princeton has been the third-luckiest team by that metric and Cornell is 20th.
at COLUMBIA (9-17, 4-8)
and CORNELL (13-15, 5-7)
Friday/Saturday, March 8/9, 2019 | 7 PM | SNY (Friday)/ESPN+ (both nights)
Levien Gymnaisum (2,500)/Newman Arena (4,473) | New York, N.Y./Ithaca, N.Y.
• While Columbia has been eliminated from contention for a berth in the Ivy League Tournament, Dartmouth would like to finish the season on a high note and pick up two road wins, which could possibly spoil Cornell's postseason plans.
• The Big Green have had a hard time finding success at opposing Ivy schools having lost their last 13 conference road games.
• Dartmouth just played its 2,800th game in program history in the 65-51 loss to Penn last Saturday, and is now 1,281-1,518-1 (.458).
• Seven of the Big Green's 10 conference losses this season have been by five points or fewer, and six have been one-possession games, the most recent such game a 77-76 overtime loss to Princeton.
• Dartmouth has lost six straight and 10 of its last 11 with the lone victory in that span being an 82-66 home triumph over Columbia on Feb. 9.
• The Big Green are led by sophomore Chris Knight whose 15.4 ppg and 6.8 rpg both rank fifth in the Ivy League, and he is also second on the team with 69 assists.
• Dartmouth's top assist man, junior Brendan Barry, is not only the second-leading scorer (13.4 ppg), but ninth nationally in 3-point percentage (.462), helping the Green rank 21st (.384) among Division I teams.
• Junior James Foye has been even more accurate from the perimeter, knocking down 47.8 percent while averaging 10.9 points a night.
• Dartmouth will be without the services of junior Ian Sistare (10.3 ppg), who is out with an injured foot for the third straight weekend after playing in the first 78 games of his career.
Series vs. Columbia
• The Lions lead the all-time series, 113-102, though Dartmouth has won three of the last four meetings, including an 82-66 triumph last month.
• The Big Green had five score in double figures in the win, including 21 from Brendan Barry, as Columbia was recovering from a double-overtime loss at Harvard the night before.
• Three different players on the Dartmouth roster have scored 20 or more points in a game against the Lions — Barry last month, Adrease Jackson in his first career start last year (24) and Guilien Smith with 23 during his sophomore campaign.
• Dartmouth has a record of 17-27 in Columbia's Levien Gymnasium since it opened in 1974, and is 43-64 in New York versus the Lions.
Scouting the Lions
• Columbia is riding high after an impressive sweep of Brown and league-leading Yale on the road last week, 80-77 and 83-75, respectively.
• The Lions boast two of the top seven scorers in the league in Quinten Adlesh and Gabe Stefanini (13.8 ppg apiece).
• Patrick Tapé is a force down low, shooting 66.1 percent from the floor for the season and over 70 pct. in league play while averaging about 11 ppg.
• Columbia is missing its floor general and catalyst, Mike Smith, who went down with a season-ending injury after eight games while averaging 15.8 points and 5.0 assists.
• Tapé is the top rebounder on the team at 6.0 rpg, but he gets support from Stefanini (5.3) and Randy Brumant (5.0), giving the Lions a slight edge over the opposition on the glass this year.
• Columbia can shoot from long range (36.0 pct.), but has trouble stopping others from hitting from downtown (37.0 pct.)
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his third year at the helm, sporting a mark of 28-52 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Series vs. Cornell
• While Dartmouth did not trail in the series between 1957 until 2013, Cornell now owns a 111-106 advantage having won the last five meetings.
• The Big Red have won the first game between the two each of the past eight seasons, including an 83-80 squeaker last month in Hanover.
• Chris Knight had career highs of 27 points and four blocks in the loss, while Cornell's Matt Morgan set a Leede Arena record with a career-high 41 points of his own.
• Morgan has averaged 26.1 ppg in seven career games against the Big Green.
• Dartmouth is 9-18 versus Cornell in Newman Arena, but has won two of its last four games there after dropping 11 straight.
Scouting the Big Red
• Cornell looked to be in the driver's seat for a berth in the Ivy League Tournament when it was 5-2, but now needs some help after dropping five straight, the last three by double digits.
• Matt Morgan leads the Ivy League and ranks 17th nationally with 22.3 points per game while shooting 51.3 percent overall, 44.2 percent from the behind the arc and 85.3 percent at the foul line to go with 79 assists and 41 steals.
• Aside from Morgan, the rest of the Big Red squad is shooting just 27.9 percent on 3-pointers with Jimmy Boeheim the only one hitting more than one triple per game (35-of-106, .330)
• Boeheim and Josh Warren both average between 10 and 11 ppg with the latter shooting 53.4 percent from the floor (sixth among Ivy players).
• Steven Julian is Cornell's top post presence with a team-high 6.2 rebounds a night and 44 blocked shots, second-most in the Ivy League.
• Overall on the boards, the Big Red rank last in the conference in rebound margin (-4.9).
• 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 33-52.
3-Point Decisions
• Games decided by one possession (three points) in the Ivy League have been the norm this year it seems, and Dartmouth has had more than its fair share of those. I did a stupid amount of work in pulling these figures, so indulge my bullet points on this topic (all records are for regular season Ivy League games decided by no more than 3 points since the advent of the 3-point line in 1986-87):
• Dartmouth is 0-6 in these games — no other Ivy team has ever lost more than four in one season.
• And four losses has only happened in three other seasons — Columbia in 2012-13, Dartmouth last year and Columbia again this year.
• Columbia is 3-4 this season, the most games (7) in one season for any Ivy team. And six has happened just four times, three by Dartmouth (this year, last year and 2008-09) and one by Harvard (also 2008-09).
• Dartmouth is 2-10 over the last two years, but still has the most wins overall with 47, though Harvard and Penn have 46.
• There have been 16 such games this season, tying the record that was set … last year. The previous record was 14 (2008-09). The average per season is just under 10.
• Most losses overall? Columbia with 46, then Dartmouth and Harvard with 45 and Brown with 44.
• How about best winning percentage? Penn at .548 (46-38). The Quakers are also the only team to win five such games in one season (2011-12).
• Most games played? Dartmouth with 92, Harvard is next with 91.
• Fewest? Sure, why not. Princeton with 69 (37-32), Cornell and Yale next with 73 apiece.
• These totals DO NOT include games decided in overtime but with a margin larger than three. Tip me and I'll throw those in next week.
Senior Send Off
Dartmouth could not give senior Guilien Smith a win in his final home game last Saturday, but he did get a nice standing ovation when he was replaced after draining a 3-pointer on the game's final shot. A dynamic playmaker when healthy, he suffered through injuries the past two years, yet still showed flashes of some of his brilliance. For his career, Smith has scored 558 points in 74 games (7.5 ppg) with 75 3-pointers. He also just had a streak of 27 consecutive free throws made come to an end two weeks ago.
Rai-sing Up
You say that like "rising" as in Aaryn Rai, get it? The sophomore certainly rose up last weekend to put his scoring skills on display, hitting Princeton up for a career-high 21 points before dropping a dozen more on Penn. He also snared a personal-best 12 rebounds against the Tigers for his first career double-double. He is the sixth different player to score 20 or more points in a game this year believed to be a school record.
Barrying Threes
Brendan Barry still ranks ninth nationally in 3-point percentage (.462) and is currently fourth among active players in career percentage (.454, minimum 80 threes). He is the first Big Green player with 80 triples in a season in 20 years and last weekend surpassed his former teammate, Miles Wright, for seventh place on Dartmouth's career 3-point list with 158. And with five more assists in these two games, he will become the seventh Big Green player with 100 in two or more season. Only one player has bested that — Flinder Boyd '02 who accomplished the feat each of his four seasons.
Knightly Update
Chris Knight recorded his eighth 20-point game of the season when he led Dartmouth with 22 in the overtime loss to Princeton. Entering the final weekend, he has hit 180 field goals, the second most of any Big Green player of the last 30 years. Only 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year Alex Barnett hit more in that span (195). Knight is fifth in the league at scoring (15.4 ppg) and rebounding (6.8), plus seventh in blocks per game (1.3).
Foye Named Academic All-District
Two weeks ago, James Foye was recognized by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) by being selected for the Google Cloud Academic All-District I Team. The junior economics major has a stellar 3.96 GPA to complement his scoring average of 10.9 points per game while shooting 50 percent from the floor.
2,800 Games
The Big Green played the 2,800th game in program history against Penn last Saturday and enter this final weekend of the season with an all-time record of 1,281-1,518-1 (yes, one tie against Minnesota in 1905 that I just don't have time to explain).
30 Games
With the two games this weekend, Dartmouth will have played 30 contests this season for just the fourth time in program history. The last time came in 2011-12, and before that in 1951-52. But the school record of 31 games came in the 1904-05 season (which includes that stupid tie game that I won't talk about).
Verge of Team 3-Point Record
Dartmouth needs just one more long ball to set a new school record for most 3-pointers in a season. The Big Green enter the game at Columbia with 263 trifectas this season, tied with the 2001-02 squad for the most in a season at Dartmouth. Who do you think will hit the record-breaking trey?
Lighting It Up
• Dartmouth has hit at least five 3-pointers in all but one game this year (at Yale on Feb. 22) and is 21st in 3-point percentage (.384)
• Twelve of the 14 players on the active roster have recorded at least one 3-pointer, and the two that haven't made one have attempted a total of three from the perimeter.
• In 13 of the first 28 games, the Big Green have hit at least 10 treys. That is second only to the 2001-02 squad that hit double digits 16 times.
• James Foye has hit 47.7 percent of his 3-point attempts, but has only made 53 in 28 games; the NCAA minimum for qualifying for the national rankings is 2.5 made per game.
• 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.
Hard Luck
With Dartmouth's 77-76 overtime loss to Princeton on March 1, not only did that give the Green two one-point losses to the Tigers this year, it also dropped the team's record in games decided by five points or fewer this season to 1-10 with nine of those losses coming since the lone victory at Loyola Maryland, 82-80, on Nov. 11. According to the analytical KenPom.com website, only 11 other Division I teams have had worse "luck" than the Big Green, none of which are in the Ivy League with Columbia's recent surge. On the flip side, Princeton has been the third-luckiest team by that metric and Cornell is 20th.
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