2015-16 Ivy League Men's Basketball January 11, 2016
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Week 10 2015-16 Ivy League Men’s Basketball January 11, 2016 #OneIvy #IvyAt60 STANDINGS TOP STORYLINES • With six non-conference games remaining, the Ivy Ivy League Overall League holds a 57-54 record (.514) through games Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak of Jan. 10. The League is looking to finish with Princeton 1-0 1.000 0-0 1-0 10-4 .714 5-0 5-3 0-1 W 3 a .500 or better non-conference record in three- Harvard 1-0 1.000 1-0 0-0 7-8 .467 4-2 1-5 2-1 W 1 straight seasons for the first time in its history. Penn 0-1 .000 0-1 0-0 6-8 .429 5-3 1-5 0-0 L 1 • Of the League’s 54 non-conference losses so far, Dartmouth 0-1 .000 0-0 0-1 4-9 .308 3-2 1-7 0-0 L 3 16 have been decided by five points or less and 12 Columbia 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 11-6 .647 9-2 2-4 0-0 W 2 of those have been by three points or less. Of the Yale 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 9-5 .643 5-0 3-5 1-0 W 4 12 losses by three points or less, four were decided Cornell 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 7-7 .500 4-2 3-5 0-0 W 1 in overtime and a fifth was decided in double Brown 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 5-9 .357 4-2 1-6 0-1 W 1 overtime. CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK • The impact of freshmen is being felt across the Harvard senior guard/forward Agunwa Okolie (Ajax, Ontario, Canada) scored a Ancient Eight this season. Entering the week, seven career-high 29 points as the Crimson opened Ivy League play with a 77-70 win over teams have a freshman among their top eight Dartmouth. Okolie scored 14 of Harvard’s final 18 points, including all 10 points in scorers. Cornell freshman guard Matt Morgan (14.9 the final 2:14 to seal the victory. He shot 9-of-11 from the floor and was a perfect points per game) and Dartmouth freshman forward 10-of-10 at the free throw line. Okolie’s 29 points were the third-most ever points by Evan Boudreaux (14.8 points per game) are a Crimson player under head coach Tommy Amaker. among the League’s top scorers, ranking sixth and seventh respectively. Okolie’s Statistics for the Week MIN FG-A PCT 3FG-A PCT FT-A PCT REB A B S PTS Rank vs. Dartmouth 32 9-11 .818 1-1 1.000 10-10 1.000 6 1 1 1 29 PPG on Team Corey Daughtery, Brown 7.5 8th Princeton sophomore guard Amir Bell (East Brunswick, N.J.) posted a career high Lukas Meisner, Columbia 4.4 7th of his own with 28 points in 33 minutes in the Tigers’ 73-71 overtime victory at Penn. Matt Morgan, Cornell 14.9 2nd Bell equalled his previous career high (17 points) in the first half alone on 6-of-8 Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth 14.8 1st from the field, including a perfect 3-of-3 from three-point range, and a perfect 2-of-2 Corey Johnson, Harvard 9.6 2nd from the foul line. He added two rebounds, an assist, a block and a steal as well in Jackson Donahue, Penn 5.8 5th the win. Earlier in the week, he contributed six points and four assists in 23 minutes Devin Cannady, Princeton 10.6 2nd in Princeton’s nine-point win at Norfolk State. Alex Copeland, Yale 2.9 9th Bell’s Statistics for the Week • The Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN) has live MIN FG-A PCT 3FG-A PCT FT-A PCT REB A B S PTS coverage of five of the six games this week with at Norfolk State 23 2-8 .250 1-5 .200 1-2 .500 0 4 0 0 6 Saturday’s Brown at Yale game also simulcast on at Penn 33 9-13 .692 4-5 .800 6-6 1.000 2 1 1 1 28 ESPN3. TOTALS 28.0 11-21 .524 5-10 .500 7-8 .875 1.0 2.5 0.5 0.5 17.0 UPCOMING SCHEDULE ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Tuesday, January 12 Dartmouth freshman forward Evan Boudreaux (Lake Forest, Ill.) put together Canisius at Dartmouth, 7 pm [ILDN] another stellar week for the Big Green. Boudreaux began the week by scoring Ryerson at Harvard, 7 pm [ILDN] 18 points in a road loss at Fairfield, while tying for team-high honors with seven rebounds, Then he registered his fourth double-double of the season with 21 Saturday, January 16 points and a game-high 10 rebounds in the Ivy League opener at Harvard. His Harvard at Howard, Noon efforts against the Crimson kept Dartmouth in the game until the final seconds of Pine Manor College at Dartmouth, 3 pm [ILDN] the game, twice giving the Big Green the lead, tying the game another time and *Brown at Yale, 5 pm [ILDN/ESPN3] closing the gap to one on three other occasions. Boudreaux’s three-pointer with 43 *Cornell at Columbia, 7 pm [ILDN] seconds left brought Dartmouth within one possession at 73-70 as well. For the week, the freshman shot 52.0 percent from the floor, 50 percent behind the three-point arc and 91.7 percent at the foul line. *Ivy League Contests Boudreaux’s Statistics for the Week MIN FG-A PCT 3FG-A PCT FT-A PCT REB A B S PTS at Fairfield 28 6-10 .600 0-1 .000 6-6 1.000 7 1 0 0 18 at Harvard 35 7-15 .467 2-3 .667 5-6 .833 10 0 0 0 21 TOTALS 31.5 13-25 .520 2-4 .500 11-12 .917 8.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 19.5 2015-16 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Week 10 2 HONOR ROLL WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS Jeff Coby, Columbia (Jr., F - Pembroke Pines, Fla.) PLAYERS OF THE WEEK 11 pts., 6 rebs., 2 stls. vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore 20 pts., 13 rebs. vs. Central Penn November 16 ...........................................................Sam Jones, Penn (So., F) November 23 ................................................ Luke Petrasek, Columbia (Jr., F) Robert Hatter, Cornell (Jr., G - Houston) Justin Sears, Yale (Sr., F) 27 pts., 1 reb., 4 assts. at Howard November 30 ................................................Miles Wright, Dartmouth (So., G) Makai Mason, Yale (So., G - Greenfield, Mass.) December 7 .......................................................Robert Hatter, Cornell (Jr., G) 24 pts., 2 rebs., 4 assts. vs. NJIT December 14 ................................................ Luke Petrasek, Columbia (Jr., F) 4 pts., 3 rebs., 5 assts. vs. Daniel Webster December 21 ......................................................Maodo Lo, Columbia (Sr., G) Obi Okolie, Brown (Fr., G - Ajax, Ontario, Canada) December 28 .........................................Zena Edosomwan, Harvard (Jr., F/C) 11 pts., 8 rebs., 4 stls. vs. Daniel Webster January 4 .................................................................Justin Sears, Yale (Sr., F) January 11 .................................................Agunwa Okolie, Harvard (Sr., G/F) Jake Slipe, Penn (Fr., G - Cherry Hill, N.J.) 11 pts., 7 rebs., 7 assts. vs. Princeton Amir Bell, Princeton (So., G) January 18 ........................................................................................................ Miles Wright, Dartmouth (So., G - Boston) January 25 ........................................................................................................ 12 pts., 6 rebs. at Fairfield 23 pts., 2 rebs., 3 blks., 4 stls. at Harvard February 1 ........................................................................................................ February 8 ........................................................................................................ February 15 ...................................................................................................... WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY February 22 ...................................................................................................... PLAYER OF THE WEEK February 29 ...................................................................................................... School Last Occurrence Player Brown December 15, 2014 Cedric Kuakumensah March 7 ............................................................................................................ Columbia December 21, 2015 Maodo Lo Cornell December 7, 2015 Robert Hatter ROOKIES OF THE WEEK Dartmouth November 30, 2015 Miles Wright November 16 ...........................................Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F) Harvard January 11, 2016* Agunwa Okolie November 23 ......................................................Matt Morgan, Cornell (Fr., G) Penn November 16, 2015 Sam Jones Princeton January 11, 2016* Amir Bell November 30 ...........................................Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F) Yale January 4, 2016 Justin Sears December 7 ....................................................Weisner Perez, Harvard (Fr., F) December 14 ...........................................Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F) ROOKIE OF THE WEEK School Last Occurrence Player December 21 ............................................... Guilien Smith, Dartmouth (Fr., G) Brown March 10, 2014 Leland King December 28 ...........................................Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F) Columbia February 2, 2015 Kyle Castlin Devin Cannady, Princeton (Fr., G) Cornell January 4, 2016* Matt Morgan January 4 ............................................................Matt Morgan, Cornell (Fr., G) Dartmouth January 11, 2016 Evan Boudreaux Harvard December 7, 2015 Weisner Perez Jackson Donahue, Penn (Fr., G) Penn January 4, 2016* Jackson Donahue January 11 ...............................................Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F) Princeton December 28, 2015* Devin Cannady January 18 ........................................................................................................ Yale January 12, 2015 Makai Mason January 25 ........................................................................................................ *Shared honor February 1 ........................................................................................................ February 8 ........................................................................................................ February 15 ...................................................................................................... February 22 .....................................................................................................