Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner While millions dug out of the weekend’s snowstorms in the Northeast, the arenas of the Ancient Eight remained relatively quiet, as most of the Ivy League’s schools took a break for exams. But the league’s players didn’t take time out to watch the snow […]

Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner A couple of Ivy League teams picked up their first wins of the season, while others continued their previous patters of play, as the Ancient Eight entered the month of December with a vengeance this past week. But though none of the conference’s teams […]

Ivy League Notebook by Owen Bochner The theme of this young season for the Ivy League has been a valiant (though usually unsuccessful) attempt to play with the big boys. One look at the early non-conference schedules of several Ancient Eight squads gives the impression that maybe these teams have […]

Ivy League Preview by Owen Bochner The Ivy League must really be feeling like chopped liver right now. All this hype and hoopla for the recent meetings of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, at which the nation’s college basketball programs basically agreed on one thing: let’s be ethical. Ethics […]

Ivy League Offseason News Update by Owen Bochner More Restrictions, Less Restrictions: The annual Ivy Group Council of Presidents meeting in June brought some good news and some bad news to Ancient Eight athletes and teams. The bad news is a tightening of admissions standards for varsity athletes, including placing […]

Ivy League 2002-03 Season Recap by Phil Kasiecki The Ivy League was fresh off a big season last year, and with much of the league’s talent returning, expectations were sky high this season. Three teams saw postseason play in 2001-02 as the conference finished 13th in the RPI ratings, and […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Penn takes their winning ways to the Big Dance If you follow the Ivy League, you can’t ignore the Penn Quakers sheer dominance through the past 15 years. This past weekend the Quakers (22-5, 14-0) disposed of Columbia and Cornell, clinching the Ivy title, […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Ivy Round-Up The Quakers maintained supremacy in the Ivy League and have all but locked up their fourth conference title in five years with wins at Brown 69-65 and Yale 80-75 this past weekend. Coach Fran Dunphy, the all-time winningest coach in Penn history […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam The Penn-Brown Rematch: Win and In? The Quakers (17-5, 9-0) have hit full stride at just the right time. The Quakers followed up their win over Princeton by dispatching Yale and Brown at the Palestra last weekend. Going into the Brown contest, both squads […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Brown’s In the “Hunt” For First Place Brown owns an eight game-winning streak, including six league victories, and are off to their best start in league play since 1981. Senior guard Earl Hunt scored 18 of his 24 points in the second half as […]