West Coast Swing Begins at Stanford on Thursday

DARTMOUTH (3-5)
at STANFORD (5-3)
Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 | 7 PM (PST) | Pac-12 Network
Maples Pavilion | Palo Alto, Calif.

West Coast Trip Begins with Battle of #TheWoods vs. The Tree
• After a pair of three-point losses at home, Dartmouth gets the tough assignment of playing two Pac-12 teams in four days, starting with Stanford on Thursday night.
• In each of the home losses, the Big Green had a chance to tie the score with a 3-pointer in the final seconds, but neither shot would fall.
• Dartmouth has been in that situation four times in the last five games and hit the big shot in the first two instances to send the games into overtime with Brendan Barry supplying the equalizer in both contests.
• Aaryn Rai has been on a scoring spree of late, averaging nearly 20 points a game (19.8) in his last four outings while shooting 56.1 percent from the floor.
• Barry leads the team in scoring on the season at 14.4 ppg with 31 of his 37 field goals coming from behind the arc. He is seventh nationally in triples per game (3.9).
• Senior Garrison Wade is coming into his own as he got his first career start against BU and hauled in a career-best eight rebounds.
• Taurus Samuels gives Dartmouth three players averaging in double figures at 10.1 ppg.
• Dartmouth has won three games ever in the state of California — Stanford (1938), USC (1955) and Loyola Marymount (1999).
• The Big Green knocked down six 3-pointers against the Terriers, snapping a streak of six games with at least 10 treys, which ties the program record set in February of 2002.

Series vs. Stanford
• The Cardinal has won six of the seven meetings that date back to the initial meeting 83 years ago, which happened to be the lone Dartmouth victory, 48-47.
• This game is a rematch of the 1942 NCAA Championship game, the first of two appearances in the title game for the Big Green. Stanford handled Dartmouth, 53-38, to win the crown.
• In the last showdown between these two six years ago, the Cardinal handed the Green a 64-50 defeat. Connor Boehm led Dartmouth with 11 points and six rebounds while Rosco Allen had 17 for the hosts.
• Dartmouth is 3-21 against current Pac-12 schools with the victories coming against Oregon in 1971 (92-82), USC in 1955 (61-57) and Stanford.

Scouting the Cardinal
• So far this season, where Stanford plays has determined whether it wins or loses, going 5-0 here at Maples Pavilion and 0-3 on the road.
• The Cardinal began Pac-12 play by falling by four at Colorado before beating Oregon by three at home, the only two games they have played that were decided by fewer than 12 points.
• Stanford features a balanced offensive attack led by 6-7 freshman forward Harrison Ingram at 12.5 ppg while 6-9 forward Jaiden Delaire adds 11.4 ppg.
• Delaire is the only player on the roster to score 20 points in a game this year, hitting the mark exactly against Oregon the last time out.
• This is an excellent rebounding team, ranking among the top 20 teams in the country in margin (+8.9 per game) led by Ingram's 6.9 rpg.
• But this is not a prolific perimeter shooting squad with no one averaging even 1.5 makes per game, though Noah Taitz has come off the bench to drain 10 in the last five games.
• Stanford is coached by Jerod Haase (Kansas '97), now in his sixth season with a record of 87-77, including a 20-win campaign in 2019-20. He also spent four years heading up UAB, posting 80 wins with the Blazers and leading them to an NCAA Tournament berth in 2014.

Déjà Vu Jà Vu Jà Vu
It's becoming somewhat of a broken record (that's a vinyl album for you youngsters). For the third straight game and fourth time in the past five contests, Dartmouth had the ball in the final seconds with a chance to tie the score with a 3-pointer, this time when trailing Boston University on Dec. 11, 65-62. The shot by Aaryn Rai refused to go through the hoop, however, leaving the Big Green on the wrong end of that score. Same thing against Quinnipiac three days prior, though Dartmouth had two attempts, one by Rai and another by rookie Ryan Cornish; no dice. But Brendan Barry had success against both FGCU on Dec. 4 and Bryant on Nov. 28, sending both games into overtime. Dartmouth eventually beat the Bulldogs to start this string, 63-61, but fell to the Eagles in Florida, 78-68.

Rai-sing Up
After a bit of a slow start offensively to the 2021-22 season, Aaryn Rai has heated up as the weather has gotten colder (or is supposed to). The fifth-year senior averaged just 7.3 points in the four November games, but he is scoring 19.8 ppg since the calendar flipped to December, leading the team in three of those contests. Against Quinnipiac on Dec. 8, he put up a career-high 24 points on 11-of-16 from the floor, his second 20-point game of the month and fourth of his career.

Barry the Three
Graduate Brendan Barry has continued to be one of the most prolific and accurate 3-point shooters in the country, ranking seventh nationally in triples made per game (3.88) and 46th in accuracy (43.7 percent) from long range. Twice he has canned six treys this year, and he has 190 in his Dartmouth career, which ranks sixth all-time in program history, while his 44.4 percent accuracy is third best and fifth best among active Division I players.

Wade-ing into the Deep End
Against Boston University on Dec. 11, Garrison Wade made his first career start and rewarded the coaching staff by hauling in a career-high eight rebounds while chipping in five points. And back on Dec. 1, he tallied 13 points at Vermont, matching a personal best. The senior is currently tied for the team lead in blocks and is second in rebounding.

1,000 Going Once, Going Twice …
Back on Dec. 8, Brendan Barry joined an exclusive club by scoring his 1,000th point as a collegian, fittingly reaching the milestone with a 3-pointer against Quinnipiac. But that total includes his season at Temple last year. Now he has his sights set on 1,000 points in a Dartmouth uniform — a total only 30 players have scored in program history — after surpassing 900 against Boston University on Dec. 11. At his current scoring average this year, Barry has a good chance at making history the next time the Green play at home on Jan. 7-8 against Yale and Brown. Fun fact: The first player to reach that total was Ed Leede '49, who scored his 1,000th point against Temple.

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