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PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League’s signature back-to-backs will be in full effect for the remaining five weeks of the regular season as the teams jockey for berths to #IvyMadness.
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 (complete women's basketball weekly release in pdf format)
- The Ivy League’s signature back-to-back games begin this weekend, with all eight games 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. Princeton (3-0) is the lone undefeated team on the #RoadtoIvyMadness, with Harvard (3-1) and Penn (2-1) close behind. Dartmouth (2-2) and Yale (2-2) are tied for fourth-place; the top four teams earn spots to #IvyMadness.
- Six teams are among the top-150 in the latest RPI, including three teams in the top-100 in Princeton (51), Harvard (67) and Brown (99). Dartmouth (103), Penn (109) and Yale (118) are just outside the top-100. Princeton (No. 4) and Penn (No. 22) are among the top-25 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major poll.
- For the second time overall, and the first since 2014-15, Penn is Big 5 champions. The Quakers finished 3-1 against their city foes, punctuated by a 74-59 win at Temple to claim the title. Penn earned the title thanks to their head-to-head win over Villanova, which also went 3-1 in Big 5 play.
- The Ivy League finished its non-conference slate 64-42, the fourth-straight season the League won 60 or more non-conference games and matching the fifth-most out-of-conference wins in Ivy history. Moreover, the Ancient Eight’s 60.4 non-conference winning percentage is fifth-best in Ivy history.
- The Ancient Eight has four wins over Power Five opponents this season, including two against the ACC (Columbia, Dartmouth), one against the Big 12 (Yale) and one against the Pac 12 (Dartmouth). It marks the most wins against Power Five opponents in a single season since 2010-11, when Brown, Princeton and Yale combined for four victories. The Ivy League also has five wins against teams currently ranked in the top 100 of the RPI.
- The Ivy League is currently ranked ninth as a conference (out of 32) as it looks to extend its trend of finishing in the top 10 of the conference RPI to four-straight years. The Ancient Eight finished the 2014-15 season ranked No. 7, the 2015-16 campaign ranked No. 10 and the 2016-17 season at No. 8.
- Columbia’s Camille Zimmerman is now a top-10 all-time scorer in Ivy League history, as she moved into the 10th spot with 1,791 career points. She is the all-time leading scorer in Lions men’s or women’s basketball history, 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.
- Besides Zimmerman, two other Ivies are among the top-10 all-time in the League’s records book, as Penn senior Michelle Nwokedi is third in blocks (275) and Yale senior Tamara Simpson is fourth in steals (306).
CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Columbia senior guard/forward
Camille Zimmerman (Tempe, Ariz.) moved into the top-10 as one of the Ivy League’s all-time leading scorers and led the Lions to their first Ivy win of 2017-18. Zimmerman finished with 23 points, 13 rebounds, six assists, two steals and a block against Cornell to give her 1,791 points for her career, 10
th-best in Ivy history. Zimmerman shot 57.1 percent from the field (8-of-14), hit both of her three pointers and all five of her free throws.
Zimmerman earns her third Player of the Week honor of the season and 10
th of her career. She is the ninth Ivy to receive at least 10 Player of the Week honors and the second from Columbia, joining
Judie Lomax (10, 2009-11).
Zimmerman’s Statistics for the Week
23 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 57.1 FG%, 100.0 3FG%, 100.0 FT% at Cornell
Harvard senior guard
Taylor Rooks (Warren, N.J.) led her team to a sweep of Yale and Brown over the weekend, averaging 23.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.0 steal while shooting 75.0 percent from the floor and 85.7 percent from downtown. Rooks finished with 22 points and seven rebounds against Yale and then set a career-high with 24 points to help Harvard hold off Brown.
Rooks was a 2014 Parade All-American who started her collegiate career at Stanford before taking her talents to Cambridge. She was ranked the No. 18 player overall in the class of 2014 and volunteered on behalf of local food banks and Melinda's White Light, a foundation that supports childhood cancer research.
Rooks’ Statistics for the Week
22 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 81.8 FG %, 100.0 3FG%, 100.0 FT% vs. Yale
24 points, 7 rebounds, 69.2 FG%, 80.0 3FG%, 100.0 FT% vs. Brown
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman center
Eleah Parker (Charlotte, N.C.) led her team to an undefeated week with 14.0 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.5 blocks, 1.5 steals and 1.0 assist in two games. She posted 16 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and two steals as Penn clinched its first Big 5 title since 2014-15 with a win at Temple, and then followed that with a 12-point, 15-rebound, 4-block, 2-assist, 1-steal performance in just 17 minutes of action against Gwynedd Mercy.
Parker is named Rookie of the Week for the sixth time this season, all in the past seven weeks. She is the third Quaker to receive at least six Rookie of the Week honors over the past five years, joining
Sydney Stipanovich (8, 2013-14) and
Michelle Nwokedi (6, 2014-15).
Parker’s Statistics for the Week
16 points, 8 rebounds, 2 steals, 3 blocks at Temple
12 points, 15 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 4 blocks, 75.0 FG% vs. Gwynedd Mercy
HONOR ROLL
Ellen Andrews, Yale (Fr., F – Dallas)
7 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 1 block at Harvard
13 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 100.0 FT% at Dartmouth
Roxy Barahman, Yale (So., G – Calabasas, Calif.)
14 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, 46.2 FG%, 50.0 3FG% at Harvard
19 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, 52.9 FG%, 100.0 FT% at Dartmouth
Justine Gaziano, Brown (So., G – Natick, Mass.)
18 points, 4 assists, 1 block at Dartmouth
28 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 69.2 FG%, 66.7 3FG%, 100.0 FT% at Harvard
Cy Lippold, Dartmouth (Jr., G – East Stroudsburg, Pa.)
19 points, 3 rebounds, 10 assists, 50.0 FG%, 100.0 FT% vs. Brown
7 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 2 blocks, 50.0 3FG% vs. Yale
Shayna Mehta, Brown (Jr., G – San Francisco)
25 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals, 100.0 FT% at Dartmouth
25 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 57.9 FG%, 75.0 FT% at Harvard
Maya Sampleton, Columbia (Fr., G – Austin, Texas)
14 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, 55.6 FG%, 40.0 3FG% at Cornell
Imani Whittington, Columbia (Fr., G/F – London)
11 points, 2 rebounds, 2 steals, 71.4 FG%, 100.0 3FG% at Cornell
Samantha Widmann, Cornell (So., G/F – Lawrenceville, N.J.)
13 points, 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, 46.2 FG% vs. Columbia