PRINCETON, N.J. – There are four Ivy League men’s basketball games slated for Saturday, Jan. 20 beginning with three contests at 2 p.m. and closing with the Harvard-Penn tilt at 6 p.m., which will be broadcast in front of a national television audience on ESPNU.
The Crimson-Quakers matchup features two of the top scoring freshmen in the nation. Harvard guard
Malik Mack ranks second amongst first-year players in scoring averaging 18.9 points, while Penn guard
Tyler Perkins ranks 13th with 14.3 points per game.
Cornell, Princeton and Yale sit atop the league standings at 2-0. Each of the three teams’ league wins have been by double digits.
- The Ivy League ranks 12th overall in both conference NET according to WarrenNolan.com and in the KenPom conference rankings. The league has enjoyed wins over the following conferences: American, A-10, Big East, Big Ten and WCC.
- Four Ivies from three different schools were named to Lou Henson Award Midseason Watch List last week: Princeton sophomore guard Xaivian Lee, Harvard freshman guard Malik Mack, Princeton sophomore forward Caden Pierce and Yale sophomore forward Danny Wolf. The award is presented annually to the top mid-major player in division I college men’s basketball. The league’s four honorees was the second most of any conference. Princeton and James Madison were the only schools with two players named to the list.
- Princeton (12-1), Cornell (10-3), Columbia (9-4), Harvard (9-4), Yale (9-6) and Penn (8-7) are 57-25 (.695) in non-conference play, with each team owning a winning percentage of .533 or better. Additionally, each of the six teams has a win over a team from last season’s NCAA Tournament field.
- Princeton holds an NCAA NET Ranking of 31. At 14-1 (.933), the Tigers own the second best winning percentage in Division I men’s basketball. Cornell, No. 87 in the NET, posted a non-conference record of 10-3, with two of its setbacks being Quadrant 1 losses. Since the start of the 2021-22 season, the Big Red is 28-9 against non-league opponents.
- Several Ivies rank in the top 20 of KenPom stats categories:
| TOP 20 IN KENPOM |
| Brown G Kino Lilly Jr. |
Percentage of Minutes Played (6th, 93.4) |
| Columbia F Blair Thompson |
Three-Point Percentage (18th, 50.0) |
| Cornell F Keller Boothby |
Turnover Percentage (12th, 5.5) |
| Cornell G Isaiah Gray |
True Shooting Percentage (12th, 68.5)
Effective Field Goal Percentage (19th, 66.9)
|
| Cornell G Chris Manon |
Steal Percentage (4th, 6.21) |
| Cornell F AK Okereke |
Two-Point Percentage (18th, 71.8) |
| Dartmouth G Dusan Neskovic |
Percentage of Shots Taken (10th, 35.7) |
| Penn F Andrew Laczkowski |
Two-point percentage (9th, 73.8) |
| Princeton G Matt Allocco |
Percentage of Minutes Played (16th, 90.6)
True Shooting Percentage (19th, 68.0)
Three-Point Percentage (20th, 49.1) |
| Princeton G Xaivian Lee |
Offensive Rating (2nd, 126.8) |
| Princeton F Zach Martini |
True Shooting Percentage (9th, 69.8)
Effective Field Goal Percentage (10th, 68.8) |
| Princeton F Caden Pierce |
Defensive Rebounding Percentage (12th, 28.1) |