YTD: 25-15
Usually I keep it to one play, but I'm giving out three picks for Friday night (listed in order of preference).
Brown -1 and Brown Over 144
Brown is just starting to hit stride with senior guard Martin returning to the line-up after back injury which seems to jell the mix with All Ivy pg Forte and Kilburn, one of the top post players in the league.
Brown was confused by the Princeton O on Friday night but came back Saturday night to beat Penn in OT.
Cornell is 4-0 in the Ivy but they haven't played any of the good teams yet, winning two vs Columbia and at Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend.
Brown has dominated the series of late, winning their L6 vs Cornell.
Both teams like to score and focus more on O than D. Cornell gave up 79 last weekend to Harvard (while scoring 92) and Brown scored 85 and 77 in their two games vs Yale, who plays much better D than Cornell.
Dartmouth +22
Princeton has defeated Dartmouth at Jadwin Gym in their L16 meetings by an average margin of 18 points.
But if you remember back to last year, we won with Dartmouth +21 when the final was 57-52. And the year before that Princeton was favored by 17 but only managed to win 79-68.
This should be a low scoring game as indicated by a total set at 111.5 and because both teams play the Princeton-style game. That also means that Dartmouth won't be fooled by the back-doors because it's the same game they play.
Dartmouth is near the bottom of the RPI list because they've been hurt by injuries...they're still not 100% but their players are all back in the line-up. Last Friday night they got stomped by Columbia at home with point guard Steve Callahan and frosh stud Leon Pattman out of the line-up. But with Callahan and Pattman back on Saturday night, the Big Green held their own vs Cornell, fading at the end to lose 68-62. Pattman, who has won rookie of the week honors five consecutive weeks in the Ivy, scored a double-double with 12 boards and 21 points on 8-15 shooting. G Lang is also recently back after missing 4-5 games.
Callahan, Lang and McLaren were members of the team which played Princeton last year so they know what they're in for...with the addition of Pattman I think Dartmouth can score enough points in what should be a low-scoring game to stay with 22.
The Wysocki departure for Princeton is bound to be a bit of a distraction but won't affect them talent-wise.
Princeton has three games in the next five days including the war with Penn on Tuesday night, so they're not going to get too crazy running up the score vs a bottom-tier team they've beaten 16 straight times.
- Jon
Usually I keep it to one play, but I'm giving out three picks for Friday night (listed in order of preference).
Brown -1 and Brown Over 144
Brown is just starting to hit stride with senior guard Martin returning to the line-up after back injury which seems to jell the mix with All Ivy pg Forte and Kilburn, one of the top post players in the league.
Brown was confused by the Princeton O on Friday night but came back Saturday night to beat Penn in OT.
Cornell is 4-0 in the Ivy but they haven't played any of the good teams yet, winning two vs Columbia and at Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend.
Brown has dominated the series of late, winning their L6 vs Cornell.
Both teams like to score and focus more on O than D. Cornell gave up 79 last weekend to Harvard (while scoring 92) and Brown scored 85 and 77 in their two games vs Yale, who plays much better D than Cornell.
Dartmouth +22
Princeton has defeated Dartmouth at Jadwin Gym in their L16 meetings by an average margin of 18 points.
But if you remember back to last year, we won with Dartmouth +21 when the final was 57-52. And the year before that Princeton was favored by 17 but only managed to win 79-68.
This should be a low scoring game as indicated by a total set at 111.5 and because both teams play the Princeton-style game. That also means that Dartmouth won't be fooled by the back-doors because it's the same game they play.
Dartmouth is near the bottom of the RPI list because they've been hurt by injuries...they're still not 100% but their players are all back in the line-up. Last Friday night they got stomped by Columbia at home with point guard Steve Callahan and frosh stud Leon Pattman out of the line-up. But with Callahan and Pattman back on Saturday night, the Big Green held their own vs Cornell, fading at the end to lose 68-62. Pattman, who has won rookie of the week honors five consecutive weeks in the Ivy, scored a double-double with 12 boards and 21 points on 8-15 shooting. G Lang is also recently back after missing 4-5 games.
Callahan, Lang and McLaren were members of the team which played Princeton last year so they know what they're in for...with the addition of Pattman I think Dartmouth can score enough points in what should be a low-scoring game to stay with 22.
The Wysocki departure for Princeton is bound to be a bit of a distraction but won't affect them talent-wise.
Princeton has three games in the next five days including the war with Penn on Tuesday night, so they're not going to get too crazy running up the score vs a bottom-tier team they've beaten 16 straight times.
- Jon
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