Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Yale Grieves For Fallen Athletes At approximately 5 a.m. on January 17, four Yale students were killed and five seriously injured while driving back to their campus from New York in their SUV, when they slammed into a flatbed trailer that had veered into […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Harvard Continues To Get By With Very Little Depth The Crimson have won three straight, including back-to-back wins over Dartmouth, to open up league play (10-5, 2-0). Led by Ivy League Player of the Week, guard Patrick Harvey, the Crimson defeated the Big Green, […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Harvard Hanging in There After opening the season at 7-2, their best start since the 1984-85 season, the Crimson seem to be fading quickly after dropping games to Boston College, Richmond, and VMI. The Crimson now 7-5, begin Ivy League play January 4th against […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Penn Coming off two consecutive losses to teams from the Colonial Athletic Association, Penn Quaker coach Fran Dunphy claimed he wasn’t too worried about the early-season defeats. He thought that it would only be a matter of time before he would begin to see […]

Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Cryin’ Lions For Colombia it has been more than just an inauspicious start. They dropped their season opener 60-36 to Rutgers, committing 27 turnovers, and no Lion was able to notch double-digits in scoring. “We took a whipping,” said Lion coach Armond Hill,”but it’s […]

Ivy League Preview by Phil Kasiecki Even in this day of rising mid-major programs in college basketball, the Ivy League in 2001-02 has to stand out. It went from being rated 28th in the conference RPI ratings the previous season to 13th last season. Three teams saw postseason play after […]

Ivy League Notebook Oy Vey! League This is why you have postseason tournaments in the first place. With Penn’s 64-48 win over Princeton at the Palestra on March 5, three teams in the Ivy League finished the regular season with 11-3 records: Penn, Princeton and Yale. Now the league must […]

Ivy League Notebook Donald Rumsfeld should have a clandestine meeting with Yale coach James Jones. Not that Jones should be leading a black ops team into Kandahar, but his Elis have somehow, someway, climbed into first place in the Ivy League, vitrually unnoticed. Impossible, you say? Go ‘head, check out […]

Ivy League Notebook Your Big 5 Champion is . . .Penn? With all the basketball powerhouses in Philly, it’s hard to believe that the Penn Quakers are the Big 5 Champ. You can look it up, but Fran Dunphy’s team bested LaSalle, Villanova, Temple, Drexel (unofficial member of the Fivesome) […]