2016-17 Ivy League Men's Basketball November 21, 2016
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Week 3 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball November 21, 2016 STANDINGS LEAGUE NOTES • The Ivy League enters the third full week of the 2016-17 season with an 8-15 (.348) record in non- Ivy League Overall conference play. Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak • Penn (2-1), Columbia (2-2) and Yale (2-2) are atop Penn 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-1 .667 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 the league standings with two wins apiece. Columbia 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-2 .500 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 • Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg Yale 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-2 .500 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 2 ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Harvard 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-2 .333 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 Basketball is two wins from tying Frank Sullivan as Princeton 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-2 .333 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 the all-time winningest head coach at Harvard. Brown 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-4 .333 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 1 • Columbia’s Junior Nate Hickman has emerged Cornell 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-4 .200 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 as the league’s leading scorer through four games, averaging 20 points. Hickman is coming off a career- Dartmouth 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-2 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 2 high 23 points at Quinnipiac. • Dartmouth’s Evan Boudreaux ranks first among PLAYER OF THE WEEK conference leaders, pulling down 11 rebounds per Steven Spieth (Dallas Texas) posted three straight 20-plus point games as Brown game. completed play in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament. The • Columbia (76.8) and Brown (75.2) lead the League senior forward went a combined 22-of-35 (.629) from the floor while averaging in scoring offense, while Penn (63) and Harvard 22.3 points per game. Against in-state rival No. 21 Rhode Island, Spieth scored 21 (64.7) pace the Ancient Eight in scoring defense points, while pulling down five rebounds and handing out four assists as the Bears • Yale’s Makai Mason suffered a broken foot in fell by seven. Spieth followed up that performance with another 21 points on 8-of-11 Yale’s season-opening scrimmage and will miss the shooting from the field while registering a team-high seven rebounds. In the Bears’ 2016-17 campaign. Mason led the team in scoring final game against Albany, Spieth paced Brown with a game-high 25 points and seven rebounds, finishing (16 points per game), assists (3.8 per game), and 6-of-10 from the field and a perfect 10-of-10 from the free throw line. This is Spieth’s first weekly award for the three-pointers made (55) last season. 2016 season. • This week features six games streamed on the Ivy League Digital Network, which is now available on It’s the first weekly award for Brown since Cedric Kuakumensah brought the award home, December 15, Apple TV and Roku. 2014. UPCOMING SCHEDULE CO-ROOKIE OF THE WEEK MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Columbia at Quinnipiac, 7 pm Miye Oni (Porter Ranch, Calif.) helped Yale beat Patriot League preseason favorite Lehigh, 89-81, in overtime. The rookie posted his first career double-double, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 scoring 13 points and putting down 10 rebounds against the Mountain Hawks. Oni’s Penn at CCSU, 7 pm three-pointer with 51 seconds remaining in overtime gave the Bulldogs the lead and Cornell at Monmouth, 7 pm eventual win. The freshman guard also finished with five blocks. At No. 7 Virginia, Holy Cross at Harvard, 7 pm [ILDN] Oni registered seven rebounds and handed out three assists. Yale at Pittsburgh, 7 pm This is Oni’s second straight Rookie of the Week award after sharing the honor with Penn’s AJ Brodeur for his WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 performance at Washington. Army at Columbia, 4 pm [ILDN] Morgan State at Brown, 4 pm [ILDN] Princeton at Lafayette, 7 pm FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Rowan at Princeton, 5 pm [ILDN] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Colgate at Columbia, 2 pm [ILDN] Cornell at Houston, 5 pm Harvard at UMass, 1 pm Yale at Vermont, 1 pm Penn at Navy, 2 pm Marist at Dartmouth, 3 pm [ILDN] Key ILDN-Ivy League Digital Network 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Week 3 2 WEEKLY AWARDS WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS The 2016-17 Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week awards begin on Monday, PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Nov. 14. November 14 ......................................................................Sam Downey, Yale WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY November 21 ..................................................................Steven Spieth, Brown PLAYER OF THE WEEK November 28 .................................................................................................... School Last Occurrence Player December 5 ...................................................................................................... Brown November 21, 2016 Steven Spieth December 12 .................................................................................................... Columbia February 22, 2016 Maodo Lo Cornell February 1, 2016* Matt Morgan December 19 .................................................................................................... Dartmouth November 30, 2015 Miles Wright December 26 .................................................................................................... Harvard March 7, 2016 Zena Edosomwan January 2 .......................................................................................................... Penn November 16, 2015 Sam Jones Princeton February 29, 2016* Spencer Weisz January 9 .......................................................................................................... Yale November 14, 2016 Sam Downey January 16 ........................................................................................................ January 23 ........................................................................................................ ROOKIE OF THE WEEK January 30 ........................................................................................................ School Last Occurrence Player Brown March 10, 2014 Leland King February 6 ........................................................................................................ Columbia February 2, 2015 Kyle Castlin February 13 ...................................................................................................... Cornell March 7, 2016 Matt Morgan February 20 ...................................................................................................... Dartmouth February 15, 2016 Evan Boudreaux Harvard December 7, 2015 Weisner Perez February 27 ...................................................................................................... Penn January 4, 2016 Jackson Donahue March 6 ............................................................................................................ Princeton February 22, 2016 Devin Cannady Yale November 21, 2016 Miye Oni ROOKIES OF THE WEEK November 14 .............................................................................Miye Oni, Yale *Shared honor ..............................................................................................AJ Brodeur, Penn November 21 .............................................................................Miye Oni, Yale November 28 .................................................................................................... December 5 ...................................................................................................... December 12 .................................................................................................... December 19 .................................................................................................... December 26 .................................................................................................... January 2 .......................................................................................................... January 9 .......................................................................................................... January 16 ........................................................................................................ January 23 ........................................................................................................ January 30 ........................................................................................................ February 6 ........................................................................................................ February 13 ...................................................................................................... February 20 ...................................................................................................... February 27 ...................................................................................................... March 6 ............................................................................................................ 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Week 3 3 TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL BROWN November 21, 2016 Brown will begin a three game home stand, hosting Morgan State. Brown owns a 1-4 record after competing in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Rank Team (First-Place Votes) ............... Record ...........Points ..............Previous 1. Kentucky (58) ......................................4-0 .................1,592 ...........................2 Tournament at Mohegan Sun Arena. Steven Spieth was named the Ivy League 2. Villanova (2) ........................................5-0 .................1,561 ...........................3 Player of the Week after the senior guard registered three consecutive 20-plus 3. Indiana .................................................3-0 .................1,443 ...........................6