Big Green Host Harvard in Televised Game Monday Night

DARTMOUTH (4-10, 1-2)
vs. HARVARD (9-5, 1-1)
Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 | 7 PM | NESN/ESPN+
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.

900th Ivy League Game
• Dartmouth will play its 900th regular-season Ivy League contest on Monday night when it hosts Harvard, though it will be "just" the 899th for the Crimson.
• The Big Green came up short in the final minutes at Penn on Saturday, 78-68, but led for over 20 minutes throughout the game.
• Graduate Brendan Barry led Dartmouth with 16 points, leaving him a mere three shy of tallying 1,000 in a Big Green uniform (he has 1,107 in his collegiate career thanks to spending the 2020-21 season playing for Temple).
• Junior Dame Adelekun had his second straight double-digit rebounding performance with a game-high 10 boards against the Quakers.
• Junior Cam Krystkowiak made the most of his 13 minutes on the court at the Palestra, sinking all four of his field goal attempts, including a 3-pointer.
• Dartmouth will need to tighten its defense after allowing Penn to shoot 60 percent from the floor in the second half that led to a 44-30 difference on the scoreboard.
• Overall as a team, Dartmouth ranks among the top teams nationally in 3-pointers made per game (9.6, 29th).

Series vs. Harvard
• Dartmouth has a 97-93 advantage all-time — its best against any Ivy League opponent — though the Crimson have won 19 of the past 22.
• In the most recent season, 2019-20, Harvard won a pair of close games, 67-62 and 70-66, after the Green led 31-30 in each but never held the lead again in either.
• Taurus Samuels has averaged 11.5 points a game in four meetings with Harvard in his career, while Brendan Barry is at 10.7 thanks to hitting 14-of-27 (.519) from the perimeter.
• Head coach David McLaughlin is 1-7 against Harvard; Tommy Amaker is 21-5 versus Dartmouth.
• The Big Green are 13-21 against Harvard here at Leede Area.

Scouting the Crimson
• Harvard secured its first Ivy win of the season on Saturday, outlasting Columbia, 91-82, one of just three wins by a road team in the first 12 Ivy League contests.
• The Crimson had two of its first three conference games postponed due to COVID-19 protocols before taming the Lions.
• Harvard is third in the league in scoring (76.9 ppg) and second in scoring margin (+6.8).
• Guard Noah Kirkwood (17.0 ppg) and forward Chris Ledlum (16.7 ppg) make for a dynamic offensive duo — both in the top four in the league — while the latter has a league-best 9.3 rebounds a night.
• The Crimson drain 9.5 3-pointers per game, led by Luka Sakota with 27 at a 43.5 percent clip.
• Defensively, the Crimson will wreak havoc having forced more than 16 turnovers per game, giving them a turnover margin (+3.7) that is nearly twice that as anyone else in the Ivy League.
• Tommy Amaker (Duke '87) is in his 15th year at Harvard's helm with a 260-144 record in Cambridge and a 436-283 mark in a career that has taken him to Seton Hall for four seasons (68-55) and Michigan for six (108-84). He also has seven Ivy regular-season titles and four trips to the NCAA Tournament with the Crimson.

Barry, Barry Close
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. Now the graduate is about to become the 31st player to score 1,000 points in a Dartmouth uniform. He enters the game against Harvard with 997 points in his Big Green career, just a 3-pointer away from the milestone. The last Dartmouth player to score 1,000? That would be Chris Knight on Valentine's Day in 2020. And apparently, hitting the mark on a holiday is a new trend; Miles Wright '18 reached 1K on Groundhog Day, and Gabas Maldunas '15 also got there on Valentine's Day.

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