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About Last Night: March 16, 2017
Mount St. Mary’s played an incredible half against Villanova and there was lots of other action around the country on a big day for the college basketball postseason. NCAA Tournament: Notre Dame 60,...
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34 Teams in 34 Days: Princeton
Princeton Outlook: Despite graduating key pieces from last year’s champions, the Tigers have enough remaining talent and potential to be legitimate title contenders. Last Year’s Record: 23-7 (14-0 Ivy...
View ArticleNIT Bracketology: Preseason Edition
Projecting the NIT in the preseason is an absolute fools errand, but I’m going to do it anyways. I used a combination of Ken Pomeroy and Bart Torvik’s preseason projections to build my NCAA Tournament...
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Ivy League Preseason Rankings, Awards Forecasts
This is the tightest race at the top that I can remember entering a season. For me, it comes down to a toss-up between three body parts tugging in three different directions: Preseason Rankings:...
View ArticleIvy League Weekly Roundup: A Nightmare Start
This is a pretty depressing week to have an Ivy League Weekly Roundup column. We entered the preseason with hopes of a multi-team title race, star power throughout the conference, and realistic chances...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Series Streaks and Scoring Stars
Half the league picked up their first wins, but 10 days into the season, no team is above .500 in D-I play. Inside this week: Two weird losing streaks continue, scorers keep scoring, and Penn fans...
View ArticleIvy League Weekly Recap: Marathons and MTEs
Inside this week: Highlight-reel dunks, the new-look old-look Bears, and the four-overtime game that broke ESPN. Three Thoughts: 1. Penn and Monmouth are probably still playing now. The Quakers and...
View ArticleNYC Buckets Coverage Area Poll: Dec. 1
The NYC Buckets coverage area poll is back! Now that we’re into December we’re running out newest edition. Seton Hall and St. John’s are still the favorite, but there has been some shakeup undearneath....
View ArticleIvy League Weekly Roundup: Winless Weekend; Lions Stir
Inside this week: The Ivy League went 0-7 on Saturday, including losses to nationally ranked Kentucky, Miami and TCU. Harvard’s up-and-down season continued, while Columbia took two strong opponents to...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Bears Scare, Dunks Galore
Inside this week: A cross-town rivalry heats up; two senior scorers reappear off the bench; and although three-pointers are getting old, #omgivydunx never will. 1. Brown almost got Providence again....
View ArticleIvy League Weekly Roundup: Rankings Galore
Inside this week: With few games taking place, we’re looking at the big picture: Putting this year’s non-conference slate in historical context; peeking ahead to Ivy League play; and ranking the...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Previewing the Openers
Last time, I wrote that this Ivy League season was the most boring one of this decade so far. The very next day, Dartmouth gave Notre Dame a close game and Princeton won at USC. So now I’m going to...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Rivalries Turn at The Palestra
Inside this week: Recapping the first week of Ivy action, including two rivalry games at The Palestra that set the tone for this season’s race, and looking ahead to more debuts this weekend. 1. Max...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Home-Court Advantage Holds
Inside this week: The results were rather boring, as home favorites rolled throughout the league. But here are three thoughts on how it transpired: Three Thoughts 1. Princeton is back to crushing...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Intrigue Builds
See the weekly analysis below as usual, but don’t miss our takes from Saturday’s games: Ray on how Harvard-Dartmouth got weird once again, John on Columbia’s dismantling of Cornell, and me with three...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Contenders Separate
Inside this week: Harvard stays perfect, though not without trouble. The other Ivy contenders struggle to get separation, with Yale, Brown and Columbia each taking losses. And the women’s race heats...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: Cambridge Time
Inside this week: The five-week sprint of full back-to-backs gets off to a rocking start; Desmond Cambridge becomes the Ivy League’s next must-see player; and the injury outlook gets worse for two star...
View ArticlePrinceton’s Defense Continues To Be Missing
Princeton did lose Spencer Weisz and Steven Cook to graduation last season, both huge pieces in a squad that was supposed to usher in a new era of Ivy League dominance for the Tigers, which had...
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Ivy League Weekly Roundup: The Weirdest Season
This is the weirdest Ivy League season I can remember. The Ancient Eight has been rather predictable for much of its history. But not this year, when teams rise and fall in the blink of an eye....
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Columbia Prolongs Princeton’s Nightmare Behind Hot Shooting
Just three weeks ago, Princeton looked like a legitimate contender for the Ivy League title. The Tigers had blown out two of their first three conference opponents, they had won seven of nine D-I games...
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