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11 1 12 Ivy League Basketball 2011-12 Ivy League Basketball Media Guide THE COUNCIL OF IVY LEAGUE PRESIDENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 228 Alexander Street, 2nd Floor • Princeton, N.J. 08540 • (609) 258-6426 SECTION 1 — INTRODUCTION 1-5 Robin Harris Executive Director ..................... [email protected] Preseason Polls Carolyn Campbell-McGovern Deputy Executive Director [email protected] Composite Schedules Celene McGowan Associate Executive Director [email protected] Men’s Television Schedule Media Teleconferences Scottie Rodgers Associate Executive Director [email protected] Dan Colleran Assistant Executive Director [email protected] Megan McHugo Assistant Executive Director [email protected] SECTION 2 — TEAMS 6-37 Trevor Rutledge-Leverenz Interim Assistant Executive [email protected] Brown Robin Patsey Administrative Assistant [email protected] Columbia Regia Maguire Business Manager [email protected] Cornell Reggie Greenwood Coordinator of Men’s Basketball Officials Dartmouth Dr. Edward C. Meier Coordinator of Women’s Basketball Officials Harvard Penn BASKETBALL CONTACTS Princeton BROWN UNIVERSITY Yale Athletics Department, P.O. Box 1932 press row: (401) 863-3208 Providence, R.I. 02912 brownbears.com men’s contact women’s contact SECTION 3 — 2010-11 MEN’S YEAR IN REVIEW 38-39 Chris Humm (401) 863-1095 Lyndsey Maurer (401) 863-7014 [email protected] [email protected] SECTION 4 — MEN’S HONORS 40-45 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SECTION 5 — MEN’S YEAR-BY-YEAR HISTORY 46-60 Dodge Fitness Center, Mail Code 1900 press row: (212) 854-1165 New York, N.Y. 10027 gocolumbialions.com SECTION 6 — MEN’S RECORDS 61-75 men’s contact women’s contact Pete McHugh (212) 854-7064 Casey Snedecor (212) 851-5643 [email protected] [email protected] SECTION 7 — MEN’S POSTSEASON HISTORY 76-81 CORNELL UNIVERSITY SECTION 8 — 2010-11 WOMEN’S Teagle Hall press row: (607) 255-3532 YEAR IN REVIEW 82-83 Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 cornellbigred.com men’s contact women’s contact SECTION 9 — WOMEN’S HONORS 84-85 Jeremy Hartigan (607) 255-9788 Julie Greco (607) 255-4688 [email protected] [email protected] SECTION 10 — WOMEN’S DARTMOUTH COLLEGE YEAR-BY-YEAR HISTORY 86-93 6083 Alumni Gym press row: (603) 646-1088 or 2311 Hanover, N.H. 03755 dartmouthsports.com SECTION 11 — WOMEN’S RECORDS 94-105 men’s contact women’s contact Rick Bender (603) 646-1030 Jessica Poole (603) 646-2449 SECTION 12 — WOMEN’S [email protected] [email protected] POSTSEASON HISTORY 106-113 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Murr Center, 65 North Harvard Street press row: (617) 495-5894 Cambridge, Mass. 02163 gocrimson.com men’s contact women’s contact Tim Williamson (617) 495-2206 Andrew Chesebro (617) 495-2206 [email protected] [email protected] CREDITS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The 2011-12 Ivy League Basketball Media Guide is published by The Ivy League Office, 235 South 33rd Street press row: (215) 898-4324 Robin Harris, Executive Director. Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 pennathletics.com men’s contact women’s contact Mike Mahoney (215) 898-9232 Eric Dolan (215) 898-6129 Edited by: Scottie Rodgers [email protected] [email protected] Associate Executive Director, Communications PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Trevor Rutledge-Leverenz Interim Assistant Executive Director, Athletics Department, P.O. Box 71 press row: (609) 258-2130 Communications & Championships Princeton, N.J. 08544 goprincetontigers.com men’s contact women’s contact Andrew Borders (609) 258-5744 Jerry Price (609) 258-5569 Additional Editorial [email protected] [email protected] Assistance/Research: Dan Colleran Assistant Executive Director, YALE UNIVERSITY Communications & Championships Athletics Department, P.O. Box 208216 press row: (203) 432-2398 New Haven, Conn. 06520 yalebulldogs.com Sarah Finney men’s contact women’s contact Former Assistant Executive Director, Tim Bennett (203) 432-1457 Jon Erickson, Jr. (203) 432-1448 Communications & Championships [email protected] [email protected] THE IVY LEAGUE 228 Alexander Street Princeton, N.J. 08540 ivyleaguesports.com men’s contact women’s contact Scottie Rodgers (609) 258-2999 Trevor Rutledge-Leverenz (609) 258-2441 [email protected] [email protected] 11 2 12 Ivy League Basketball 2011-12 Preseason Polls MEN WOMEN For the first time in Ivy League men’s basketball history, Harvard has been selected as the pre- The Princeton Tigers have been selected to win their third-consecutive Ivy League title after a season pick to win the 2011-12 League title by panel of 17 media representatives. vote by conference media and women’s basketball sports information directors. The Tigers are 27-1 in Ivy play the past two seasons, including a 13-1 mark in 2010-11. The 2011-12 Ivy League men’s basketball season sets up to be an exciting one as the Player of the Year and four of the five players on each of the first and second teams earning All-Ivy honors Princeton is looking to become the first team to win three consecutive Ivy titles since Harvard return for their respective teams for the upcoming season. accomplished the feat from 1995-98. The Tigers received 14 first-place votes and 133 points. Four starters return from last year’s 24-5 squad, including first-team All-Ivy selections Devona Harvard (23-7, 12-2 Ivy League in 2010-11) received 16 of the 17 first-place votes totalling 135 points. The Crimson earned the top spot leading into this season after finishing last year as co- Allgood and Lauren Edwards and reigning Defensive Player of the Year Lauren Polansky. Allgood champions with Princeton (25-7, 12-2 Ivy) and participating in the Postseason National Invitation averaged 11.9 points and a League-high 7.2 rebounds per game while Edwards contributed 11.4 Tournament for the first time in program history. Harvard had been voted second in the pre- points, 2.0 assists and 1.3 steals per contest. season poll three times previously (1988-89, 2005-06 and 2010-11). The Tigers will also benefit from the return of 2009-10 Rookie of the Year Niveen Rasheed, who The Crimson returns 12 players from last year’s team, including senior co-captain and reigning missed last season’s conference slate due to injury. In 12 games, the junior averaged 16.4 points Player of the Year Keith Wright, who has been honored on every preseason all-conference team. and 7.3 rebounds per contest. Wright, who led Harvard with 14.8 points and 8.3 rebounds per game last season, has also been named to the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 50. Harvard (18-10, 10-4 Ivy League) was chosen to finish second in the conference with 117 points and three first-place votes. Senior guard Brogan Berry, the second-leading scorer in the Ancient Princeton and Yale (15-13, 8-6) tied for second in this year’s poll with 103 points each with the Eight a year ago with 13.9 points per game, returns for the Crimson, along with Victoria Lippert Bulldogs receiving the other first-place vote. (13.5 points; 4.1 rebounds) and Christine Clark (12.1 points; 4.7 rebounds). Harvard handed Yale will be led by senior forward Greg Mangano, who became just the third Yale player and Princeton its only Ivy loss last season and finished in a tie for second with Yale. sixth Ivy League player to earn a spot on a USA Basketball roster when he played in the 2011 World University Games this summer. Mangano averaged 3.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in six The Bulldogs (14-14, 10-4 Ivy) were voted to place third with 103 points. Yale swept Harvard tournament games for a USA team that finished fifth. Last season, he was the first player in Yale to earn the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the WNIT, where it fell to Boston College, 85-61. The history to average a double-double for the season since Chris Dudley (17.6 ppg, 13.3 rpg) in Bulldogs return four starters, including junior guard Megan Vasquez, who averaged 13.6 points, 1986-87 and the first Ivy player since Harvard’s Kyle Snowden (15.1 ppg, 11.1 rpg in all games, 3.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists last season. Sophomore Janna Graf is also back for Yale; she scored 14.1 ppg, 10.8 rpg in Ivy games) in 1995-96. a team-high 15 points in the Bulldogs’ WNIT loss to BC. Coming off its League-leading 26th Ivy title and 24th NCAA Tournament appearance, Princeton Penn and Brown finished within two points of each other at 68 and 66 points, respectively. The returns four starters that include junior center Brendan Connolly, senior guard Douglas Davis, Quakers welcome back senior forward and defensive stalwart Jess Knapp, who finished fourth junior forward Ian Hummer and senior forward Patrick Saunders. Patroling the Tigers’ sidelines in the Ivy League with 38 blocks and sixth in rebounding (6.6 per game), along with sophomore this year will be first-year head coach Mitch Henderson, a 1998 Princeton alumnus whose cel- guard Alyssa Baron, who led the League in scoring with 16.6 points per contest. ebratory leap following the 1996 NCAA Tournament win over UCLA has been part of Princeton and NCAA lore ever since. Brown closed out the 2010-11 campaign with three-straight victories and hopes to build on Penn (13-15, 7-7 Ivy) finished in the top four in the preseason poll for the 19th-consecutive year that winning streak this season. Junior guard Sheila Dixon (11.0 points, 6.3 rebounds per game) with a fourth-place selection with 90 points. The Quakers return three starters and 10 letterwin- returns for the Bears, who return all five of their starters.