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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Cornell’s Matt Morgan earned Player of the Week, while Columbia’s Gabe Stefanini was named Rookie of the Week.
 
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LEAGUE NOTES:

• Five Ivies – Harvard (4-0), Penn (3-0), Princeton (2-1), Brown (2-2) and Yale (2-2) enter the week with above .500 records. 
• Harvard is 4-0 for the first time since 2013-14, included a 3-0 mark on the road where the Crimson either trailed or led by just five or fewer points heading into the final minute of regulation. 
• Cornell’s Matt Morgan (29) and Stone Gettings (25) combined for 54 of Cornell’s 82 points as the Big Red edged Columbia, 82-81 to earn its first Ivy League win of the season.
• Penn’s dual big lineup has allowed them to dominate on the boards. The Quakers are currently fourth among the nation’s best in defensive rebounds per game. Penn is pulling down 29.84 defensive rebounds per game. Sophomore AJ Brodeur and junior Max Rotherschild pace the Ancient Eight on the glass, pulling down 6.7 and 6.6 rebounds per game, respectively. Penn has outrebounded 12 opponents this season, including a season-high 43 defensive boards versus Saint Joseph’s.
• Cornell junior Matt Morgan, the Ivy League’s leading scorer for the third consecutive year, is averaging 23.6 points per game, which is good for sixth in the country. Against Columbia, Morgan reached double figures in scoring for the 40th straight contest and moved into fifth on the school’s career list with 1,418 points.
• Princeton junior Devin Cannady ranks third among League leaders averaging 18.2 points per game. Cannady is climbing the Princeton’s all-time career scoring list, now in 25th place with 1,067 points.
• 53.5 percent of the league’s top 15 scorers are underclassmen with a pair of sophomores – Brown’s Brandon Anderson (18.6 PPG) and Columbia’s Mike Smith (17.3) currently ranked in the top five.
• Brown rookie Desmond Cambridge is the fifth-best scorer in the League, averaging 15.9 points per game. Cambridge is the sole freshman in the League’s top 15 scorers and is joined by Dartmouth’s Chris Knight in the top 20 as Knight ranks 17th with 10.7 points per game. 
• The Crimson continue to lead the league defensively, allowing just 66.1 points per game. Harvard has held nine of its last 10 opponents to fewer than 65 points.
• Brown scored 1.04 points per possession against Harvard, the best performance against the Crimson since Kentucky scored 1.08 nearly two months ago.
• Harvard’s Bryce Aiken returned to the lineup after missing six games where the Crimson posted a 2-4 mark. Aiken averaged 10.5 points in Harvard’s two wins, including 11-of-12 from the free throw line at Brown. The Crimson’s 86 points versus the Bears was a season-high.
• Yale is dishing out 17.3 assists per game, which ranks 20th in the nation.
• Brown is 18th in the country in free throw percentage, sinking 77.0 percent of its shots from the charity stripe. Brandon Anderson is 18th in the country in free throws made with 123 on the season. Anderson, the second leading score in the League, is shooting 88.5 percent from the line. 
• This week features the first full weekend of back-to-backs with all eight games being broadcast on The Ivy League Network, now available on Apple TV, Roku and the ILN app for Apple and Android devices. The Network can be found at IvyLeague.TV  and IvyLeagueNetwork.com.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2

*Yale at Princeton	6 p.m.	NBC Sports Philly + / ILN
*Brown at Penn	7 p.m.	ILN
*Harvard at Columbia	7 p.m.	SNY / ILN
*Dartmouth at Cornell	7 p.m.	ESPN3 / ILN

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3

*Brown at Princeton	6 p.m.	ESPN3 / ILN
*Yale at Penn	7 p.m.	NBC Sports Philly / ILN
*Harvard at Cornell	7 p.m.	Eleven Sports / ILN
*Dartmouth at Columbia	7 p.m.	SNY/ ILN

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

*Penn at Princeton

6 p.m.

ESPNU

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

*Cornell at Brown	7 p.m.	ESPN3 / ILN
*Columbia at Yale	7 p.m.	ILN
*Penn at Dartmouth	7 p.m.	ESPN3 / ILN
*Princeton at Harvard	7 p.m.	ESPNU

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10

*Penn at Harvard	4 p.m.	NESN / ILN
*Columbia at Brown	6 p.m.	myRITV / ILN
*Cornell at Yale	7 p.m.	ILN
*Princeton at Dartmouth	7 p.m.	Eleven Sports / ILN

 




PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior guard Matt Morgan scored 29 points and added five assists, two rebounds and a steal in an 82-81 victory over Columbia to help pick up Cornell's first Ivy win of the year.

Morgan was an efficient 8-of-11 from the floor, connected on all four 3-point attempts and hit 9-of-10 free throws, including 4-of-4 in the final eight seconds allowing the Big Red to hold on. Morgan's 4-of-4 effort from beyond the arc ranks as the third-most made 3-pointers in a game without a miss in Cornell history. Morgan had 14 points, three assists and just one turnover in the second half as the Big Red rallied from an 11-point deficit to claim the victory. He scored 11 of his point in the final 5:45 to keep Cornell in the lead.



Morgan, the Ivy League’s leading scorer for the third consecutive year, moved from eighth to fifth on the school’s career scoring list with 1,418 points. This marks the third weekly award for the Concord, N.C., native in 2017-18.

Morgan’s Weekly Statistics
29 pts., 8-11 FG-FGA, 72.0 FG%, 4-4 3FG-FGA, 1.000 3FG%, 9-10 FT-FTA, 1.000 FT%, 2 Rebounds, 5 A, 1 S vs. Columbia (W)

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Gabe Stefanini nearly willed Columbia to a comeback win Saturday at Cornell, posting 13 of his career-high 19 points in the final 5:05, but it wasn’t enough as the Lions fell to the Big Red, 82-81.

Stefanini made several clutch plays to keep the Lions in the game. With Columbia trailing by two, Stefanini picked up his man full-court and applied pressure, forcing a key turnover with 3:52 on the clock to give the Lions a shot to tie the score. Later with the game seemingly out of hand (80-75), his leaning 3-pointer with six seconds remaining forced the Big Red to knock down two critical free throws.



This marks the first weekly award for Stefanini and the first for Columbia since Mike Smith took home the honor Jan. 16, 2017.

Stefanini’s Weekly Statistics,
19 pts., 7-12 FG-FGA, 58.0 FG%, 3-4 3FG-FGA, 75.0 3FG%, 66.6 FT%, 4 Rebounds, 1 S at Cornell (L)
 
HONOR ROLL
AJ Brodeur, Penn (So., F – Northborough, Mass.)
13 pts., 6-12 FG-FGA, 50.0 FG%, 1-5 3FG-FGA, 20.0 3FG%, 11 Rebounds, 3 A, 2 B vs. Saint Joseph’s 

Desmond Cambridge, Brown (Fr., F – Nashville, Tenn.)
10 pts., 5-13 FG-FGA, 38.5 FG%, 0-4 3FG-FGA, 0.00 3FG%, 2 Rebounds, 1 A, 2 B vs. Dartmouth
22 pts., 7-18 FG-FGA, 38.9 FG%, 4-13 3FG-FGA, 30.8 3FG%, 4-4 FT-FTA, 100 FT%, 4 Rebounds, 2 A, 2 S vs. Harvard

Alex Copeland, Yale (Jr., G – Los Angeles, California)
11 pts., 3-5 FG-FGA, 60.0 FG%, 1-1 3FG-FGA, 1.000 3FG%, 4-4 FT-FTA, 1.000 FT%, 1 Rebound, 2 S vs. Harvard 
25 pts., 9-15 FG-FGA, 60.0 FG%, 1-2 3FG-FGA, 50.0 3FG%, 6-7 FT-FTA, 85.0 FT%, 5 Rebounds, 2 A, 2 S vs. Dartmouth 
 
Jerome Desrosiers, Princeton (Fr., F – Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.)
14 pts., 5-8 FG-FGA, 62.0 FG%, 2-5 3FG-FGA, 40.0 3FG%, 2-3 FT-FTA, 66.6 FT%, 4 Rebounds, 1 S vs. Rowan

Zach Hunsaker, Brown (So., G – Orem, Utah)
12 pts., 4-10 FG-FGA, 40.0 FG%, 2-4 3FG-FGA, 50.0 3FG%, 2-2 FT-FTA, 1.000 FT%, 5 Rebounds, 3 A, 1 S vs. Dartmouth 
10 pts., 2-5 FG-FGA, 40.0 FG%, 2-5 3FG-FGA, 40.0 3FG%, 4-4 FT-FTA, 1.000 FT%, 4 Rebounds, 1 A, 1 B vs. Harvard 

Chris Knight, Dartmouth (Fr., F - Madison, Wis.)
12 pts., 6-7 FG-FGA, 85.0 FG%, 0-1 FT-FTA, 0.00 FT%, 1 Rebound, 2 A, 2 B, 1 S at Brown
12 pts., 6-11 FG-FGA, 54.0 FG%, 0-3 FT-FTA, 0.00 FT%, 4 Rebounds, 1 A, 1 B, 1 S at Yale

Seth Towns, Harvard (So., F – Columbus, Ohio)
11 pts., 4-13 FG-FGA, 30.0 FG%, 1-6 3FG-FGA, 16.0 3FG%, 2-4 FT-FTA, 50.0 FT%, 8 Rebounds, 5 A, 1 B, 2 S at Yale
30 pts., 11-19 FG-FGA, 57.0 FG%, 4-4 3FG-FGA, 1.000 3FG%, 4-5 FT-FTA, 80.0 FT%, 2 Rebounds, 2 A, 3 S at Brown