2013-14 Ivy League Men's Basketball INDIVIDUAL BASKETBALL STATISTICS Through Games of Mar 26, 2014 (All Games)
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2013-14 Ivy League Postseason 4 Men’s Basketball March 31, 2014 STANDINGS POSTSEASON SCHEDULE Monday, March 17 CIT First Round Ivy League Overall Holy Cross 68, Brown 65 Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Harvard 13-1 .929 6-1 7-0 27-5 .844 11-1 11-3 5-1 L 1 Tuesday, March 18 Yale 9-5 .643 5-2 4-3 18-13 .581 9-4 8-9 1-0 W 3 CIT First Round Princeton 8-6 .571 5-2 3-4 21-9 .700 11-2 9-6 1-1 L 1 Columbia 58, Valparaiso 56 Columbia 8-6 .571 5-2 3-4 21-13 .618 14-4 5-8 2-1 L 1 Brown 7-7 .500 4-3 3-4 15-14 .517 8-6 7-8 0-0 L 4 Wednesday, March 19 Dartmouth 5-9 .357 3-4 2-5 12-16 .429 8-7 4-9 0-0 W 3 CIT First Round Yale 69, Quinnipiac 68 Penn 5-9 .357 4-3 1-6 8-20 .286 6-8 2-12 0-0 L 1 Cornell 1-13 .071 1-6 0-7 2-26 .071 2-11 0-15 0-0 L 7 CBI First Round Princeton 56, Tulane 55 YALE REMAINS AS LONE IVY LEAGUE TEAM LEFT Thursday, March 20 IN POSTSEASON PLAY NCAA East Region Second Round The record-setting run of five Ivy League men’s basketball teams in the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Wash. postseason has come down to one as Yale sits one step away from (12) Harvard 61, (5) Cincinnati 57 [TNT] playing for the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) title. Saturday, March 22 Rebounding from two losses to close the regular season, Yale has put together a three-game winning streak CIT Second Round to reach the CIT semifinals and a matchup with VMI on Tuesday, April 1. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. on the CBS Columbia 69, Eastern Michigan 56 Sports Network. The Bulldogs’ postseason run has included three close wins over Quinnipiac in the first round, Yale 71, Holy Cross 66 Holy Cross in the second round and Columbia in the quarterfinals. Yale and Columbia joined Brown to make up an all-time high of three Ivy League teams in the CIT. Yale is in the postseason for the sixth time (3 NCAA, NCAA East Region Third Round 1 NIT, 2 CIT), while Brown made its fifth appearance (2 NCAA, 1 NIT, 1 CBI, 1 CIT) and Columbia enjoyed its Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Wash. fourth appearance (3 NCAA, 1 CIT) playing beyond the regular season. (4) Michigan State 80, (12) Harvard 73 [TNT] In the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, No. 12 seed Harvard Monday, March 24 answered the predictions of various pundits with a near wire-to-wire win over CBI Quarterfinal No. 5 seed Cincinnati in a second-round game in Spokane, Wash. The victory Fresno State 72, Princeton 56 made the Crimson the first Ivy League team to win an NCAA Tournament game in consecutive seasons since Princeton did so in 1983 and 1984 and the first Wednesday, March 26 time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Harvard gave No. 4 seed CIT Quarterfinal Michigan State all it could handle in the third round, rallying from a 16-point deficit Yale 72, Columbia 69 to take a 62-60 lead with 7:12 to play, but the Spartans proved to have the answer down the stretch and escaped with an 80-73 victory to advance to the Sweet 16 at Madison Square Garden. Tuesday, April 1 CIT Semifinals Over in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), Princeton advanced to the Yale at VMI, 7 pm [CBSSN] quarterfinals for the third time in five years. The Tigers opened with a 56-55 Pacific at Murray State, 9 pm [CBSSN] first-round win at Tulane before dropping a 72-56 decision at Fresno State in the quarterfinals to cap their 21-win season. In the win over the Green Wave, Princeton Thursday, April 3 fought off a 7-0 run in the final 90 seconds to hold on to the one-point victory. In the CIT Championship [CBSSN] loss to the Bulldogs, the Tigers began the second half with an inspired rally to climb out of an eight-point deficit but could not sustain that momentum to pull out the victory. League teams now KEY: stand with a 5-5 (.500) record in the CBI in five appearances. CBSSN – CBS Sports Network (DirecTV 613, DISH 158, Verizon FiOS 94, Comcast 854, AT&T U-verse Ivy League men’s basketball is in the midst of its greatest postseason run in its 58-year history with seven 643 [SD]/1643 [HD]) total wins so far, thanks to an impressive 4-1 start in its first five games. The Ivy League boasts a record five teams in the postseason and multiple teams in the postseason for the fourth time in five years. The League has three or more teams advancing to postseason play for the fourth time in conference history (2001-02, 2009-10, 2011-12 and 2013-14). The League’s previous high was four postseason teams -- Harvard (NCAA), Penn and Princeton (CBI) and Yale (CIT) -- just two seasons ago. Web: IvyLeagueSports.com | #IvyDigital: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com Facebook: TheIvyLeague | Instagram: IvyLeagueSports | Twitter: @Ivy_Athletics, #IvyBasketball Postseason 2 4 2013-14 Ivy League Men’s Basketball NATIONAL POSTSEASON HONORS ATHLETES FOR A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION NETSCOUTS BASKETBALL Wooden Citizenship Cup All-International Teams Finalist Honorable Mention Dau Jok, Penn Maodo Lo, Columbia CAPITAL ONE®/CoSIDA UNITED STATES BASKETBALL WRITERS ASSOCIATION (USBWA) Academic All-America Most Courageous Award Third Team Dau Jok, Penn Matt Townsend, Yale All-District I Team Academic All-District Wesley Saunders, Harvard First Team Rafael Maia, Brown Connor Boehm, Dartmouth Matt Townsend, Yale COLLEGEINSIDER.COM Ben Jobe Award Finalists Tommy Amaker, Harvard James Jones, Yale Lou Henson All-America Team Wesley Saunders, Harvard Justin Sears, Yale COLLEGE SPORTS MADNESS Mid-Major All-America Teams Second Team Wesley Saunders, Harvard Fourth Team Justin Sears, Yale Ivy League Awards Coach of the Year James Jones, Yale Player of the Year Wesley Saunders, Harvard Freshman of the Year Spencer Weisz, Princeton NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Finalist Siyani Chambers, Harvard NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES (NABC) Allstate Good Works Team Dau Jok, Penn All-District 13 Teams First Team Wesley Saunders, Harvard T.J. Bray, Princeton Justin Sears, Yale Second Team Sean McGonagill, Brown Siyani Chambers, Harvard Postseason 3 4 2013-14 Ivy League Men’s Basketball IVY POSTSEASON HONORS PLAYER OF THE YEAR NOTES Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F - Los Angeles) • Wesley Saunders was just the third Harvard player to earn the Ivy League Player of the Year honors joining Joe Carrabino in 1983-84 and Keith Wright in ROOKIE OF THE YEAR 2010-11. In addition, Saunders is a unanimous selection as first-team All-Ivy for Spencer Weisz, Princeton (Fr., F - Florham Park, N.J.) the second-straight season. DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR • Spencer Weisz was the sixth Princeton player to be tabbed Ivy League Rookie Cedric Kuakumensah, Brown (So., F - Worcester, Mass.) of the Year, joining Brian Taylor (1970-71), Bob Roma (1976-77), Rick Hielscher (1991-92), Chris Young (1998-99), Konrad Wysocki (2000-01). FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY Sean McGonagill, Brown (Sr., G - Brookfield, Ill.) • Cedric Kuakumensah joined Cornell’s Jeff Foote (2008-09 and 2009-10) as Alex Rosenberg, Columbia (Jr., F - Short Hills, N.J.) the only players to be named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in back- *Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F - Los Angeles) to-back seasons. *T.J. Bray, Princeton (Sr., G - New Berlin, Wis.) Justin Sears, Yale (So., F - Plainfield, N.J.) • Including the honor mention selections, Harvard led the way with six All-Ivy honorees, followed by Brown, Columbia and Yale with two each. The Crimson’s SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY six All-Ivy players matches the most in League history with Penn’s six (two on the Maodo Lo, Columbia (So., G - Berlin) first team, three on the second team and one honorable mention) in 1994-95. Siyani Chambers, Harvard (So., G - Golden Valley, Minn.) Steve Moundou-Missi, Harvard (Jr., F - Yaounde, Cameroon) Laurent Rivard, Harvard (Sr., G - Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Canada) Fran Dougherty, Penn (Sr., F - New Britain, Pa.) HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY Cedric Kuakumensah, Brown (So., F - Worcester, Mass.) Nolan Cressler, Cornell (So., G - Pittsburgh) Brandyn Curry, Harvard (Sr., G - Huntersville, N.C.) Kyle Casey, Harvard (Sr., F - Medway, Mass.) Javier Duren, Yale (Jr., G - St. Louis) *Unanimous Selection Postseason 4 4 2013-14 Ivy League Men’s Basketball WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS PLAYER OF THE WEEK PLAYERS OF THE WEEK School Last Occurrence Player November 11 .......................................................... Tony Hicks, Penn (So., G) Brown January 27, 2014 Sean McGonagill Columbia February 24, 2014* Alex Rosenberg Justin Sears, Yale (So., F) Cornell November 26, 2012 Shonn Miller November 18 ................................................Sean McGonagill, Brown (Sr., G) Dartmouth March 10, 2014* Alex Mitola Javier Duren, Yale (Jr., G) Harvard March 10, 2014* Steve Moundou-Missi November 25 ..................................................... Maodo Lo, Columbia (So., G) Penn February 10, 2014* Fran Dougherty December 2 ............................................Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F) Princeton March 3, 2014 T.J. Bray Yale February 17, 2014* Justin Sears T.J. Bray, Princeton (Sr., G) December 9 ............................................Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Jr., G/F) ROOKIE OF THE WEEK December 16 ........................................................T.J. Bray, Princeton (Sr., G) School Last Occurrence Player December 23 ...........................................