Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
Final
Men's Basketball
at Penn
75
88
Friday, February 18
Hanover, N.H.
7:00 PM
Dartmouth College
vs
Cornell
Dame Adelekun is ready to flash his smile at Leede Arena this weekend.
Photo by: Brian Foley
Men Return Home to Host Cornell, Columbia
2/17/2022 4:14:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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The men's basketball team will play in Leede Arena for the first time in 27 days
DARTMOUTH (5-15, 2-5)
vs. CORNELL (13-8, 5-5) / COLUMBIA (4-18, 1-9)
Friday, Feb. 18-19, 2022 | 7 PM | ESPN+ (Cornell) | ESPN+ (Columbia)
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
Finally Back at Home
• Dartmouth starts a four-game home stand this weekend when it hosts Cornell on Friday evening and Columbia on Saturday.
• You'll have to forgive the Big Green players if they seem a little unfamiliar with their surroundings — 14 of the 20 games this season have been played on the road.
• Dartmouth won the first game on its four-game road swing over the last three weeks, beating Columbia, 76-63, before losing two heartbreakers and a game that will be stricken from the record if I can manage that.
• Graduate Brendan Barry hit seven 3-pointers in the loss at Brown before having a 20-game streak with at least one trey end at Princeton. He is 13th nationally in 3-pointers made per game (3.3) and 39th in accuracy from downtown (.402).
• Barry is 10th among active Division I players in 3-point percentage (.434) and needs 18 triples in the final five games to break the program career record held by Jim Barton '89.
• Dame Adelekun has emerged as Dartmouth's best post player in conference play, scoring in double figures in six of the nine games and averaging 9.9 ppg and 8.3 rpg. He ranks third in Ivy games only in rebounding, field goal percentage (.596) and blocked shots (8).
• Dartmouth remains among the top-25 teams in the country in free throw percentage, converting at a 76.8 percent clip overall and 77.7 percent in league play, both of which are tops among Ivy teams.
• Aaryn Rai was the lone Big Green player to score in double figures at Princeton with a dozen points on a night when Dartmouth hit just 12 field goals at 23.1 percent, its worst marks in 12 years.
• Other season lows from that game: points (40), assists (3), 3-pointers (1) and 3-point field goal percentage (.050).
Series vs. Cornell
• Cornell is 113-108 all-time against the Big Green.
• Dartmouth swept the series in 2019-20 for the first time in 17 years, but the Big Red are hoping to return the favor after winning the first meeting in Ithaca to start the new year, 79-71.
• Four Big Green players scored in double figures back on Jan. 2, led by Aaryn Rai's 16 points.
• Dartmouth is 17-16 vs. Cornell in Leede Arena, ending a five-game skid with a 75-53 win in 2020.
Scouting the Big Red
• Picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll, the Big Red are sitting in fourth place in the Ivy League standings.
• Cornell features a high-powered offense that leads the league at 81.2 ppg despite not having a single player among the top 15 scorers.
• The Big Red are also second in the Ivy League in field goal percentage while holding opponents to the second-lowest percentage from the floor.
• Chris Manon (10.7 ppg) and Dean Noll (10.1 ppg) — the latter of whom had 25 points against Dartmouth in the first meeting — are the only players on the roster averaging in double figures.
• Keller Boothby leads the Ancient Eight in 3-point percentage (.495) with 51 triples.
• The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year, Brian Earl (Princeton '99) is in his sixth year as the Big Red's head coach after spending nine seasons as an assistant at his alma mater. He enters this weekend with a record of 55-81.
Series vs. Columbia
• Columbia leads the series, 114-105, but Dartmouth has won five of the last six meetings, including a 76-63 decision in New York three weeks ago.
• Aaryn Rai led the Big Green with 20 points (18 in the second half) in the victory last month.
• Dartmouth swept the season series in 2019-20 for the first time in five years.
• The Big Green are 21-12 vs. the Lions in Leede Arena and 60-48 against them in Hanover overall.
• Head coach David McLaughlin is 6-3 all-time against the Lions.
Scouting the Lions
• The Lions have lost eight straight games entering the weekend, the last seven of which have all been by double figures.
• It hasn't helped that their leading scorer, power forward Ike Nweke has only been able to play in 10 games this season and missed the last two.
• Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa is Columbia's playmaker, averaging 12.4 ppg while leading the squad with 3.4 assists per game, second in the league.
• The Lions have shot well from the perimeter this year at 37.0 percent, second in the Ivy League, but are last in accuracy at the foul line (.621).
• Liam Murphy has been the most active bomber from downtown with 47 triples, while Cameron Shockley-Okeke has hit 43.3 percent of his 3-pointers (26 total).
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his sixth year at the helm, sporting a mark of 39-95 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Rai Academic All-District
Fifth-year senior Aaryn Rai was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District I Team on Thursday, giving Dartmouth someone on the prestigious team in each of the program's last three seasons. Rai is a neuroscience major with a 3.55 GPA and ranks among the top 15 in the league in scoring (11.4 ppg, 13th), rebounding (6.8 rpg, fourth), blocked shots (0.5 per game, sixth) and steals (1.0 per game, 14th). He will now go on the ballot for Academic All-America honors, which will be announced on March 15.
Struggles Continue at Princeton
Dartmouth historically has not played well at Jadwin Gym, home of the Princeton Tigers, winning just three times in 52 games at the venue. That trend continued on Feb. 12 when the Big Green lost to Princeton by a final of 85-40, their worst loss in conference play in 55 years. Dartmouth suffered through its worst shooting performance in 12 years, hitting just 23.1 percent of its field goals and only 1-of-20 from distance after having had at least six 3-pointers in every game prior. Now we are going to forget this game was ever played and never mention it again.
Barry the 3
Pretty sure I've used that note headline more than a few times now, but it fits! Brendan Barry showed off his shooting prowess at Yale and Brown on Feb. 4-5, knocking down 11-of-20 3-point attempts in the two games, including seven triples against the Bears. Not only does that match the most made by an Ivy player in a game this season, it is also Barry's most ever in an Ivy game (previous high "only" four). Those 11 trifectas in the two games matched his total from the previous five contests. The sharpshooter is 10th nationally among all active Division I players in career 3-point accuracy (.434) and 13th in 3-pointers per game this season (3.30). And prior to the Cornell game, Barry will receive a commemorative basketball for surpassing 1,000 points in a Dartmouth uniform.
vs. CORNELL (13-8, 5-5) / COLUMBIA (4-18, 1-9)
Friday, Feb. 18-19, 2022 | 7 PM | ESPN+ (Cornell) | ESPN+ (Columbia)
Leede Arena | Hanover, N.H.
Finally Back at Home
• Dartmouth starts a four-game home stand this weekend when it hosts Cornell on Friday evening and Columbia on Saturday.
• You'll have to forgive the Big Green players if they seem a little unfamiliar with their surroundings — 14 of the 20 games this season have been played on the road.
• Dartmouth won the first game on its four-game road swing over the last three weeks, beating Columbia, 76-63, before losing two heartbreakers and a game that will be stricken from the record if I can manage that.
• Graduate Brendan Barry hit seven 3-pointers in the loss at Brown before having a 20-game streak with at least one trey end at Princeton. He is 13th nationally in 3-pointers made per game (3.3) and 39th in accuracy from downtown (.402).
• Barry is 10th among active Division I players in 3-point percentage (.434) and needs 18 triples in the final five games to break the program career record held by Jim Barton '89.
• Dame Adelekun has emerged as Dartmouth's best post player in conference play, scoring in double figures in six of the nine games and averaging 9.9 ppg and 8.3 rpg. He ranks third in Ivy games only in rebounding, field goal percentage (.596) and blocked shots (8).
• Dartmouth remains among the top-25 teams in the country in free throw percentage, converting at a 76.8 percent clip overall and 77.7 percent in league play, both of which are tops among Ivy teams.
• Aaryn Rai was the lone Big Green player to score in double figures at Princeton with a dozen points on a night when Dartmouth hit just 12 field goals at 23.1 percent, its worst marks in 12 years.
• Other season lows from that game: points (40), assists (3), 3-pointers (1) and 3-point field goal percentage (.050).
Series vs. Cornell
• Cornell is 113-108 all-time against the Big Green.
• Dartmouth swept the series in 2019-20 for the first time in 17 years, but the Big Red are hoping to return the favor after winning the first meeting in Ithaca to start the new year, 79-71.
• Four Big Green players scored in double figures back on Jan. 2, led by Aaryn Rai's 16 points.
• Dartmouth is 17-16 vs. Cornell in Leede Arena, ending a five-game skid with a 75-53 win in 2020.
Scouting the Big Red
• Picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll, the Big Red are sitting in fourth place in the Ivy League standings.
• Cornell features a high-powered offense that leads the league at 81.2 ppg despite not having a single player among the top 15 scorers.
• The Big Red are also second in the Ivy League in field goal percentage while holding opponents to the second-lowest percentage from the floor.
• Chris Manon (10.7 ppg) and Dean Noll (10.1 ppg) — the latter of whom had 25 points against Dartmouth in the first meeting — are the only players on the roster averaging in double figures.
• Keller Boothby leads the Ancient Eight in 3-point percentage (.495) with 51 triples.
• The 1999 Ivy League Player of the Year, Brian Earl (Princeton '99) is in his sixth year as the Big Red's head coach after spending nine seasons as an assistant at his alma mater. He enters this weekend with a record of 55-81.
Series vs. Columbia
• Columbia leads the series, 114-105, but Dartmouth has won five of the last six meetings, including a 76-63 decision in New York three weeks ago.
• Aaryn Rai led the Big Green with 20 points (18 in the second half) in the victory last month.
• Dartmouth swept the season series in 2019-20 for the first time in five years.
• The Big Green are 21-12 vs. the Lions in Leede Arena and 60-48 against them in Hanover overall.
• Head coach David McLaughlin is 6-3 all-time against the Lions.
Scouting the Lions
• The Lions have lost eight straight games entering the weekend, the last seven of which have all been by double figures.
• It hasn't helped that their leading scorer, power forward Ike Nweke has only been able to play in 10 games this season and missed the last two.
• Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa is Columbia's playmaker, averaging 12.4 ppg while leading the squad with 3.4 assists per game, second in the league.
• The Lions have shot well from the perimeter this year at 37.0 percent, second in the Ivy League, but are last in accuracy at the foul line (.621).
• Liam Murphy has been the most active bomber from downtown with 47 triples, while Cameron Shockley-Okeke has hit 43.3 percent of his 3-pointers (26 total).
• Jim Engles (Dickinson '90), an assistant at Columbia from 2003-08, is in his sixth year at the helm, sporting a mark of 39-95 with the Lions after going 110-109 in seven seasons at NJIT.
Rai Academic All-District
Fifth-year senior Aaryn Rai was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District I Team on Thursday, giving Dartmouth someone on the prestigious team in each of the program's last three seasons. Rai is a neuroscience major with a 3.55 GPA and ranks among the top 15 in the league in scoring (11.4 ppg, 13th), rebounding (6.8 rpg, fourth), blocked shots (0.5 per game, sixth) and steals (1.0 per game, 14th). He will now go on the ballot for Academic All-America honors, which will be announced on March 15.
Struggles Continue at Princeton
Dartmouth historically has not played well at Jadwin Gym, home of the Princeton Tigers, winning just three times in 52 games at the venue. That trend continued on Feb. 12 when the Big Green lost to Princeton by a final of 85-40, their worst loss in conference play in 55 years. Dartmouth suffered through its worst shooting performance in 12 years, hitting just 23.1 percent of its field goals and only 1-of-20 from distance after having had at least six 3-pointers in every game prior. Now we are going to forget this game was ever played and never mention it again.
Barry the 3
Pretty sure I've used that note headline more than a few times now, but it fits! Brendan Barry showed off his shooting prowess at Yale and Brown on Feb. 4-5, knocking down 11-of-20 3-point attempts in the two games, including seven triples against the Bears. Not only does that match the most made by an Ivy player in a game this season, it is also Barry's most ever in an Ivy game (previous high "only" four). Those 11 trifectas in the two games matched his total from the previous five contests. The sharpshooter is 10th nationally among all active Division I players in career 3-point accuracy (.434) and 13th in 3-pointers per game this season (3.30). And prior to the Cornell game, Barry will receive a commemorative basketball for surpassing 1,000 points in a Dartmouth uniform.
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