Complete Men's Basketball Weekly Release in pdf format

PRINCETON, N.J. – Harvard’s Seth Towns earned Ivy League Player of the Week, while Brown freshman Desmond Cambridge was tabbed Rookie of the Week.
 
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:

• With Harvard’s overtime win at Dartmouth, head coach Tommy Amaker became the fifth head coach in Ivy League history to record 200 wins at an Ancient Eight institution. Amaker, who was already Harvard's all-time wins leader, was the second-fastest to record the milestone in Ivy history behind Princeton’s Pete Carril.
• Cornell’s Matt Morgan ranks seventh in the nation with 23.3 points per game. Morgan, the league’s top-scorer for the past two seasons, tied a program record with his 36^th career 20-point game, matching Cornell’s all-time leading scorer and 2018 Legend of Ivy League Basketball honoree Ryan Wittman ’10.
• 60 percent of the league’s top 15 scorers are underclassmen with a trio of sophomores – Brown’s Brandon Anderson (18.7 PPG), Columbia’s Mike Smith (17.8) and Yale’s Miye Oni (16.4 PPG) currently ranked in the top five. Seven teams have at least one underclassman among their top contributors.
• Harvard continues to lead the league defensively, allowing just 66.3 points per game. The Crimson has the 15^th best defense efficiency in the nation and has held eighth-straight opponents to fewer than 65 points.
• Yale ranks 14^th nationally in assists per game, dishing out 17.7 helpers each contest. Guard Miye Oni leads the Bulldogs with 3.3 assists per game.
• Penn is 13^th in the country in defensive rebounds per game, pulling down 29.11 boards per game. Junior Max Rothschild and sophomore AJ Brodeur pace the Ancient Eight on the glass, pulling down 6.6 and 6.5 rebounds per game, respectively. Penn has outrebounded 11 opponents in this season, including a season-high 56 boards versus Monmouth.
• The Lions tied a program record for the second time this season with 16 made 3-pointers and converted at a season-best 57.1 percent from deep. Columbia’s 10.4 3-pointers made per game ranks 20^th among the nation’s best. Junior guard Quinton Adlesh is shooting 46.0 percent from deep, which is good for 19^th nationally.
• Princeton is the only other Ivy League team to sink at least 16 treys this season when the Tigers shot 66.7 percent from beyond the arc (16-of-24) at Cal Poly.
• Yale failed to sweep Brown for the first time since 2014. The Bears, which avenged a road loss to the Bulldogs from a week earlier, pace the Ivy League in scoring offense (77.9 points per game) and had four players reach double figures. Brown is now 6-0 when four or more players eclipse double digits.
• Cornell has now given up 179 points in its last two road losses to Princeton and Columbia, respectively. Princeton’s 37-point victory was its most in regulation since scoring 97 against Brown on Jan. 13, 2017. Columbia’s 26-point win marked the Lions’ largest Ivy League victory since a 93-65 win at Penn on February 27, 2016. 
• This week features six games, all of which will be simulcast on the Ivy League Network  as well as television partners such as Eleven Sports, NESN-Plus and NBC Sports Philadelphia. The Ivy League Network is available on Apple TV and Roku and the ILN app for Androids and Apple Devices.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Harvard’s Seth Town scored a career-high 26 points with six rebounds and two blocks in a 62-57 overtime victory at Dartmouth. With the win, Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker earned his 200^th win with the Crimson.  
 
Towns made nine field goals, including a 5-for-8 mark from 3-point range as Harvard earned a season sweep of Dartmouth for the seventh time in the last nine years. Harvard jumped out to a 17-point lead during the second frame, but a Dartmouth run closed the gap in the final minutes. Towns hit a pair of clutch free throws with 2.8 seconds left to send the game to overtime. The Crimson outscored the Big Green, 14-9, in the extra frame to earn the victory. Harvard notched the first two buckets of the frame, including a deep 3-pointer from Towns to gain control.
 
This marks the first weekly award for Towns in 2017-18 and the third overall weekly award for Harvard this season.


 
Towns’ Weekly Statistics
26 pts., 9-15 FG-FGA, 60.0 FG%, 5-8 3FG-FGA, 62.0 3FG%, 3-4 FT-FTA, 75.0 FT%, 6 Rebounds, 1 A, 2 B at Dartmouth
 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Brown’s Desmond Cambridge earned his fifth Ivy League Rookie of the Week award after registering 16 points, three rebounds, a block and a steal in an exciting 81-80 win over Yale.
 
Cambridge scored 11 of his team high 16 points in the second half to lead to the Bears to its first Ivy League win of the season. In the second half, Cambridge connected 3-of-4 field goals, including 2-of-2 from deep and 3-of-4 from the charity strip.
 
The Nashville, Tenn., native becomes the first Brown student-athlete to win the Rookie of the Week award five times in a season since Sean McGonagill ‘14 did so during the 2010-11 season.


 
Cambridge’s Weekly Statistics
16 pts., 5-12 FG-FGA, 41.0 FG%, 3-6 3FG-FGA, 50.0 3FG%, 3-4 FT-FTA, 75.0 FT%, 3 Rebounds, 1 B, 1 S vs. Yale
 
HONOR ROLL
Ryan Betley, Penn (So., G – Downingtown, Pa.)
12 pts., 5-15 FG-FGA, 33.3 FG%, 2-9 3FG-FGA, 22.0 3FG%, 6 Rebounds, 1 B, 2 S vs. Temple
 
Tamenang Choh, Brown (Fr., F – Lowell, Mass.)
12 pts., 5-8 FG-FGA, 62.0 FG%, 0-1 3FG-FGA, 0.00 3FG%, 2-3 FT-FTA, 66.6 FT%, 5 Rebounds, 2 A, 1 B, 1 S vs. Yale
 
Alex Copeland, Yale (Jr., G – Los Angeles, California)
26 pts., 10-13 FG-FGA, 76.0 FG%, 2-2 3FG-FGA, 1.00 3FG%, 4-5 FT-FTA, 80.0 FT%, 3 Rebounds, 1 A, 1 S at Brown
 
Lukas Meisner, Columbia (Jr., F – Braunschweig, Germany)
19 pts., 7-10 FG-FGA, 70.0 FG%, 4-5 3FG-FGA, 80.0 3FG%, 4 Rebounds, 2 A, 1 S vs. Cornell
 
Matt Morgan, Cornell (Jr., G – Concord, N.C.)
20 pts., 5-9 FG-FGA, 55.0 FG%, 2-5 3FG-FGA, 40.0 3FG%, 8-11 FT-FTA, 72.0 FT%, 3 Rebounds, 4 A, 2 S at Columbia
 
Taylor Johnson, Dartmouth (Sr., G – Fort Worth, Texas)
19 pts., 6-13 FG-FGA, 46.0 FG%, 3-5 3FG-FGA, 50.0 3FG%, 4-5 FT-FTA, 80.0 FT%, 9 Rebounds, 4 A, 2 S vs. Harvard
 
Gabe Stefanini, Columbia (Fr., G – Bologna, Italy)
11 pts., 4-7 FG-FGA, 57.0 FG%, 2-2 3FG-FGA, 1.00 3FG%, 1-1 FT-FTA, 1.00 FT%, 3 Rebounds vs. Cornell