Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
Final
Men's Basketball
at Penn
75
88
Tuesday, November 16
Hanover, N.H.
7:00 PM
Dartmouth College
vs
NVU-Lyndon
Taurus Samuels tallied a career-high 23 points at Georgetown.
Photo by: Mitchell Layton
Home Opener on Tap Tuesday Night
11/15/2021 6:40:00 PM | Men's Basketball
The men's basketball team returns to Leede Arena after knocking off Georgetown on Saturday
DARTMOUTH (1-1)
vs. NVU-LYNDON (1-3)
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 | 7 PM | ESPN+
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
Home Opener
• Coming off one of the team's most notable victories in decades, Dartmouth plays host to Division III NVU-Lyndon on Tuesday night for the Big Green's home opener.
• Dartmouth defeated Georgetown of the Big East on the Hoyas's home court, 69-60, by draining 16 3-pointers, the fourth-most ever by a Big Green team.
• Taurus Samuels posted career highs with 23 points and six triples, while resident sharpshooter Brendan Barry provided six more long balls while tallying 19 points.
• Rookie Ryan Cornish provided 15 valuable minutes on the court, tallying his first 14 college points with a trio of trifectas.
• The Big Green led by as many as 22 in the first half, then had the lead slip away in the middle of the second half before embarking on an 18-3 run to put Georgetown away.
• Since Leede Arena opened in the 1987-88 season, Dartmouth has a 19-14 record in home openers and has won its last three.
• Head coach David McLaughlin is 3-1 in home openers as the Big Green head coach.
• Since World War II ended, Dartmouth is 48-27 in home openers.
Food Drive for Upper Valley Haven
The men's basketball team will be hosting a food drive at Tuesday's game. All proceeds will be donated to the Upper Valley Haven. The team asks that you bring non-perishable foods such as cereals, oatmeal, canned tuna, canned chicken, pasta and soup, but please, no glass jars. For every donation, each person will receive a ticket voucher for the Dec. 8 game against Quinnipiac.
Series vs. NVU-Lyndon
• This is just the third game between the two schools on the hardwood.
• The Big Green took the first meeting, 83-54, back on Dec. 13, 2009, and the second that opened the 2013-14 season, 106-61, back when the visitors were known as Lyndon State.
• Current assistant coach Jabari Trotter led four Dartmouth players in double figures with 16 points on 7-of-12 shooting in the first game.
• Others topping 10 points in that contest were David Rufful (13), R.J. Griffin (12) and Robby Pride (10). Both Rufful and Pride also dished out five assists apiece.
• Every one of the dozen Dartmouth players to play in the second matchup scored with five reaching double digits, led by Malik Gill (14).
• The others with 10 or more were Connor Boehm (13), Kevin Crescenzi (13), Tyler Melville (11) and John Golden (10).
Scouting the Hornets
• NVU-Lyndon is off to a 1-3 start with the lone victory over Vermont Tech, 81-77, in the second game of Lyndon's Tip-Off Classic.
• This past weekend, the Hornets dropped a 110-76 decision to Westfield State followed by a 91-78 defeat against Castleton.
• Guard Zach Falkenburg is the leading scorer at 18.8 points per game while shooting just over 50 percent from the floor.
• The other player scoring in double figures is 5-10 guard Luke Fredsell at 12.8 ppg as the team's most prolific marksman (12-of-34 from distance).
• As a team, NVU-Lyndon like to shoot from the perimeter, averaging nearly 38 3-point attempts a game. But it is converting less than 27 percent of those shots (40-of-151, .265).
• Dartmouth will have a definitive size advantage as only two Hornets are over 6-4 (both 6-6), and one of those two has not played yet this year.
• NVU-Lyndon is coached by David Pasiak (Clarkson '84), who is in his fifth year at the helm with a record of 19-69. He has coached and worked in administration for 35 years at levels ranging from high school to Division I at Colgate.
Going Downtown on Georgetown
Coming from a rural locale as Hanover, you might not expect Dartmouth to be terribly comfortable with the big city. But downtown is where the Big Green did most of its damage against Georgetown, dropping 16 3-pointers on the Hoyas to leave Washington, D.C., with a 69-60 victory. Taurus Samuels and Brendan Barry had six triples apiece, while Ryan Cornish popped three and Cam Krystkowiak the other. In only three other games has Dartmouth hit more long balls with the school record of 22 coming against Newbury three years ago. The most against a Division I opponent is 18 versus Albany back in 2001.
Biggest Win in 32 Years?
There are many ways to judge how big a win is, but you would be hard-pressed to find a bigger name in the last five decades from the college basketball realm that lost to Dartmouth than Georgetown on Nov. 13, 69-60. The only teams in the last 40 years that the Big Green have beat from a major conference have been Boston College (when it was in the Big East), 80-74, on Nov. 29, 1988 in Leede Arena, and Texas A&M from the old Southwest Conference, 64-51, on Dec. 17, 1989 while playing at Maine in the Lobster Shootout. The last major conference team to lose to the Big Green on its home court? An 83-82 final at Vanderbilt on Dec. 19, 1969, more than 50 years ago.
Samuels Finds His Stroke
Entering the 2021-22 season, Taurus Samuels had shot just 28.6 percent from behind the arc. But at Georgetown, he showed off his improved accuracy, raining down 6-of-10 3-pointers against the Hoyas to contribute to a career-high 23 points. He has led the Big Green in scoring in each of the first two games, which is half the total number of times he did that in his first two seasons.
Cornish Flourish
Freshman Ryan Cornish made a statement by scoring the first 14 points of his career in just 15 minutes in the 69-60 win at Georgetown. His first points came on a beautiful hesitation move on the break, going up and under for a three-point play. He also had three triples — two on consecutive possessions — and added a pull-up jumper above the left elbow.
vs. NVU-LYNDON (1-3)
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021 | 7 PM | ESPN+
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
Home Opener
• Coming off one of the team's most notable victories in decades, Dartmouth plays host to Division III NVU-Lyndon on Tuesday night for the Big Green's home opener.
• Dartmouth defeated Georgetown of the Big East on the Hoyas's home court, 69-60, by draining 16 3-pointers, the fourth-most ever by a Big Green team.
• Taurus Samuels posted career highs with 23 points and six triples, while resident sharpshooter Brendan Barry provided six more long balls while tallying 19 points.
• Rookie Ryan Cornish provided 15 valuable minutes on the court, tallying his first 14 college points with a trio of trifectas.
• The Big Green led by as many as 22 in the first half, then had the lead slip away in the middle of the second half before embarking on an 18-3 run to put Georgetown away.
• Since Leede Arena opened in the 1987-88 season, Dartmouth has a 19-14 record in home openers and has won its last three.
• Head coach David McLaughlin is 3-1 in home openers as the Big Green head coach.
• Since World War II ended, Dartmouth is 48-27 in home openers.
Food Drive for Upper Valley Haven
The men's basketball team will be hosting a food drive at Tuesday's game. All proceeds will be donated to the Upper Valley Haven. The team asks that you bring non-perishable foods such as cereals, oatmeal, canned tuna, canned chicken, pasta and soup, but please, no glass jars. For every donation, each person will receive a ticket voucher for the Dec. 8 game against Quinnipiac.
Series vs. NVU-Lyndon
• This is just the third game between the two schools on the hardwood.
• The Big Green took the first meeting, 83-54, back on Dec. 13, 2009, and the second that opened the 2013-14 season, 106-61, back when the visitors were known as Lyndon State.
• Current assistant coach Jabari Trotter led four Dartmouth players in double figures with 16 points on 7-of-12 shooting in the first game.
• Others topping 10 points in that contest were David Rufful (13), R.J. Griffin (12) and Robby Pride (10). Both Rufful and Pride also dished out five assists apiece.
• Every one of the dozen Dartmouth players to play in the second matchup scored with five reaching double digits, led by Malik Gill (14).
• The others with 10 or more were Connor Boehm (13), Kevin Crescenzi (13), Tyler Melville (11) and John Golden (10).
Scouting the Hornets
• NVU-Lyndon is off to a 1-3 start with the lone victory over Vermont Tech, 81-77, in the second game of Lyndon's Tip-Off Classic.
• This past weekend, the Hornets dropped a 110-76 decision to Westfield State followed by a 91-78 defeat against Castleton.
• Guard Zach Falkenburg is the leading scorer at 18.8 points per game while shooting just over 50 percent from the floor.
• The other player scoring in double figures is 5-10 guard Luke Fredsell at 12.8 ppg as the team's most prolific marksman (12-of-34 from distance).
• As a team, NVU-Lyndon like to shoot from the perimeter, averaging nearly 38 3-point attempts a game. But it is converting less than 27 percent of those shots (40-of-151, .265).
• Dartmouth will have a definitive size advantage as only two Hornets are over 6-4 (both 6-6), and one of those two has not played yet this year.
• NVU-Lyndon is coached by David Pasiak (Clarkson '84), who is in his fifth year at the helm with a record of 19-69. He has coached and worked in administration for 35 years at levels ranging from high school to Division I at Colgate.
Going Downtown on Georgetown
Coming from a rural locale as Hanover, you might not expect Dartmouth to be terribly comfortable with the big city. But downtown is where the Big Green did most of its damage against Georgetown, dropping 16 3-pointers on the Hoyas to leave Washington, D.C., with a 69-60 victory. Taurus Samuels and Brendan Barry had six triples apiece, while Ryan Cornish popped three and Cam Krystkowiak the other. In only three other games has Dartmouth hit more long balls with the school record of 22 coming against Newbury three years ago. The most against a Division I opponent is 18 versus Albany back in 2001.
Biggest Win in 32 Years?
There are many ways to judge how big a win is, but you would be hard-pressed to find a bigger name in the last five decades from the college basketball realm that lost to Dartmouth than Georgetown on Nov. 13, 69-60. The only teams in the last 40 years that the Big Green have beat from a major conference have been Boston College (when it was in the Big East), 80-74, on Nov. 29, 1988 in Leede Arena, and Texas A&M from the old Southwest Conference, 64-51, on Dec. 17, 1989 while playing at Maine in the Lobster Shootout. The last major conference team to lose to the Big Green on its home court? An 83-82 final at Vanderbilt on Dec. 19, 1969, more than 50 years ago.
Samuels Finds His Stroke
Entering the 2021-22 season, Taurus Samuels had shot just 28.6 percent from behind the arc. But at Georgetown, he showed off his improved accuracy, raining down 6-of-10 3-pointers against the Hoyas to contribute to a career-high 23 points. He has led the Big Green in scoring in each of the first two games, which is half the total number of times he did that in his first two seasons.
Cornish Flourish
Freshman Ryan Cornish made a statement by scoring the first 14 points of his career in just 15 minutes in the 69-60 win at Georgetown. His first points came on a beautiful hesitation move on the break, going up and under for a three-point play. He also had three triples — two on consecutive possessions — and added a pull-up jumper above the left elbow.
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