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PRINCETON, N.J. -- The #RoadtoIvyMadness is already shaping up to be an exciting trip, with four teams tied for third-place and a fifth team a half game back.
2018 Ivy League Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments
The Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments return to Philadelphia, March 10-11, 2018. The top four teams will earn berths to the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday. A variety of ticket offerings—including multi-session passes ranging from $30 - $295 and single-session tickets ranging from $20 - $160—are on sale online at
IvyMadness.com/Tickets or by calling the Ivy League Box Office at (215) 703-3231.
LEAGUE NOTES
- Columbia senior guard/forward Camille Zimmerman finished with 22 points against Cornell to become the all-time leading scorer in Lions men’s or women’s basketball history. She is the third Ivy women’s basketball alum to lead their school in scoring across both genders, joining Penn’s Diana Caramanico (2,415) and Harvard’s Allison Feaster-Strong (2,132), and the 21st across all of Division I.
- Princeton is receiving votes in the latest USA Today Coaches Poll, becoming the second team to appear in the national rankings this season, as Brown was receiving votes previously.
- As a League, the Ancient Eight is ranked ninth as a conference out of 32 as it looks to extend its streak of finishing with a top-10 conference RPI to four-straight years.
- Penn defeated Villanova for the first time since 2001, marking the fifth win by an Ivy squad over a top-100 RPI team, as the Wildcats were 13th entering the contest.
- The Ivy League also has four victories over Power Five teams, its highest total in a single season since winning four in 2010-11.
- Penn freshman Eleah Parker, the Ivy League Co-Player and Rookie of the Week, also earned US Basketball Writers Association Freshman of the Week honors for the second time this season.
- Yale senior Tamara Simpson leads the Ivy League and ranks sixth nationally in steals (72) and third in steals per game (5.2). She has 304 steals for her career and needs five to move into sole possession of third-place all-time in Ivy League history.
- This week pits Brown and Yale at Dartmouth and Harvard, as well as Columbia at Cornell. All six of this weekend’s games will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Network (ILN), now available on Apple TV and Roku as well as the ILN app on Android and iOS devices. Brown-Dartmouth will also be carried live on ESPN3 and Brown-Harvard will be broadcast live on NESN.
CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Cornell sophomore guard/forward
Samantha Widmann led her team to the only road-Ivy victory of the weekend, finishing with 22 points and 12 rebounds in a 57-47 win at Columbia. Widmann shot a season-best 71.4 percent from the field (10-of-14), while also recording three steals and one assist.
Widmann is the first Big Red to be named Player of the Week since
Nia Marshall on Feb. 20, 2017. Widmann takes home her third career Ivy League weekly award, as she was a two-time Rookie of the Week last season.
Widmann’s Statistics for the Week
22 points, 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals, 71.4 FG% at Columbia
CO-PLAYER/ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman center
Eleah Parker (Charlotte, N.C.) set a career-high with 25 points in the Quakers’ 79-77 win at Villanova. Parker produced 18 points, four rebounds, two blocks and one steal in just 18 minutes of play in the second half, as Penn held on to defeat the Wildcats for the first time since 2001.
Parker is the first Quaker to be named Player of the Week twice in her rookie season since her predecessor
Sydney Stipanovich, who was a four-time Player of the Week as a freshman in 2013-14.
Parker’s Statistics for the Week
25 points, 9 rebounds, 3 steals, 3 blocks, 62.5 FG%, 83.3 FT% at Villanova
HONOR ROLL
Ellen Andrews, Yale (Fr., F – Dallas)
8 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 100.0 FT% at Brown
Jen Berkowitz, Yale (Sr., F – Wayland, Mass.)
21 points, 10 rebounds, 1 block, 64.3 FG%, 50.0 3FG% at Brown
Jeanne Boehm, Harvard (So., F – Winnetka, Ill.)
16 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks, 80.0 FG% vs. Dartmouth
Justine Gaziano, Brown (So., G – Natick, Mass.)
20 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 42.1 FG%, 100.0 FT% vs. Yale
Dominique Leonidas, Brown (Fr., G – Stone Mountain, Ga.)
12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 66.7 FG% vs. Yale
Janie White, Brown (Sr., F – Clarksville, Tenn.)
17 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 3 blocks, 42.9 FG%, 83.3 FT% vs. Yale
Camille Zimmerman, Columbia (Sr., G/F – Tempe, Ariz.)
22 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 2 blocks, 47.1 FG%, 85.7 FT% vs. Cornell