Penn’s First Round Loss Completes Ivy Season by Jay Pearlman With a No. 14 seed, one slot ahead of last year, and a ten-game winning streak coming into the NCAA Tournament, the Penn faithful harbored some hope coming into Thursday’s first round match-up against Texas A&M. With an opponent not […]
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Harvard’s Coaching Change
Harvard to Make Coaching Change after Sixteen Years by Jay Pearlman In a conference and at an institution where little changes over time, on Monday of this week Harvard Athletic Director Bob Scalise announced his decision not to renew the contract of Head Basketball Coach Frank Sullivan. In addition to […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jay Pearlman It’s All in the Family, as Joe Jones’ Lions Deal James Jones’ Elis Crippling Defeat Coming into this penultimate weekend in the Ivy League, the focus was in fact on old Payne Whitney Gym in New Haven, home of James Jones’ second-place Yale Elis. […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jay Pearlman Yale Survives Must-Win Weekend without Hughes The entire season lay before them, fifteen minutes to go. They were down 9 at home to Leon Pattman and Dartmouth. Sam Kaplan is long gone. Casey Hughes left in the first half with a foot injury. They’d […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jay Pearlman Through Two Friday/Saturday Weekends, Ivy League More Interesting than Ever Coaches say the lower the level, the tougher the road. And even NBA teams have trouble the second straight night away from home in a different city, all the more so after winning the […]
Princeton Coach Joe Scott
With Coach Scott, Even at 0-2 Princeton Could Push Penn by Jay Pearlman After catching a game his first year at Princeton (’04-’05), and three last year, I thought I was getting an idea about Coach Joe Scott. Undersized and tough as a point guard and senior captain for Pete […]
Dartmouth’s Leon Pattman
If Pattman Stays Healthy, Dartmouth will be Better by Jay Pearlman Seeing them play three times last year (a win at Army and two losses to Harvard), I realized what Coach Terry Dunn surely knew about his Dartmouth squad: that as goes guard Leon Pattman, so go the Big Green. […]
Great Day Of Hoops In New York
Penn Poised to Take Ivy League Again by Jay Pearlman It was a great day of college basketball in New York City, my kinda day, any fan’s kind of day, I think. The two most talented Ivy teams visited two Big East also-rans: Penn (now 6-5) at Seton Hall (now […]
Brian Cusworth
On the Charles, Cusworth Shows What Might Have Been by Jay Pearlman He’s in his fifth year, and there are few of those in the Ivy League, fewer still at Harvard. There is no redshirting in this old conference, not even for medical reasons. You play your first 8 semesters […]
Columbia’s Missing Link
Lions Ready to Roar after Adding One Piece by Jay Pearlman Something was amiss, and I couldn’t quite get my arms around what it was. I saw a good shooting team, reasonably athletic from an Ivy League perspective, well-coached. Yet coach Joe Jones’ Columbia Lions lost all three times I […]
