2016-17 Ivy League Women's Basketball Nov. 10, 2016
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Week 1 2016-17 Ivy League Women’s Basketball Nov. 10, 2016 #OneIvy STANDINGS #IVYMADNESS The inaugural Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will take place Saturday Ivy League Overall and Sunday, March 11-12, 2017, at the Palestra in Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak Philadelphia. The top four teams will earn berths Brown 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 2 in the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday Columbia 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 9 and the championships on Sunday. All six games Cornell 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 3 will be broadcast live on ESPN’s networks. Dartmouth 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 3 Harvard 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 Penn 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 LEAGUE NOTES Princeton 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 L 1 • The 43rd season of Ivy League women’s Yale 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-0 W 3 basketball begins with all eight teams in action this weekend, featuring seven games on The Ivy HISTORIC SEASON BEGINS League Digital Network (ILDN), now available via The 43rd season of Ivy League women’s basketball gets underway this weekend with all eight teams in action. the ILDN app on Apple TV and Roku. • Preseason favorite Penn is receiving votes Excitement level for the season is already high with the inaugural Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball in the latest coaches poll. The Quakers take tournaments, March 11-12, 2017, at The Palestra in Philadelphia. The four-team tournaments will determine on Duke on Sunday; the Blue Devils are also the League’s AQs to the NCAA Tournaments and all six games will be broadcast live on ESPN’s networks. receiving votes in the national rankings. • Harvard kicks off its season at Minnesota Five teams open at home on Friday, meaning all five games will be broadcast live on The Ivy League Digital on Saturday, while Princeton faces a George Network (ILDN), now available on Apple TV and Roku via the ILDN app. Columbia hosts UMBC at 2 p.m. Washington team that is receiving votes in the and Brown welcomes Howard at 6 p.m., followed by three games at 7 p.m. with New Hampshire at Cornell, coaches poll on Sunday. CCSU at Dartmouth and Rider at Princeton. Harvard kicks off its season on Saturday at Minnesota, while Penn’s season opener is on the road at Duke, which is receiving votes in both national polls. Yale welcomes Binghamton on Sunday to begin its campaign. UPCOMING SCHEDULE Defending champion Penn (24-5) was unanimously selected to repeat in the preseason media poll. The Friday, November 11 Quakers return all five starters from last year’s 13-1 team, including the 2015-16 Player and Defensive Player UMBC at Columbia, 2 pm [ILDN] of the Year in senior Sydney Stipanovich. Princeton (23-6), which finished second with a 12-2 Ivy record and Howard at Brown, 6 pm [ILDN] became the first League team to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament since the AQ was implemented, New Hampshire at Cornell, 7 pm [ILDN] will have to replace four starters. Rider at Princeton, 7 pm [ILDN] CCSU at Dartmouth, 7:30 pm [ILDN] In total, seven All-Ivy honorees from a year ago return, including three for Penn. Besides Stipanovich, juniors Michelle Nwokedi and Anna Ross are back; the two earned first team and honorable mention status a year Saturday, November 12 ago, respectively. Harvard at Minnesota, 3 pm [BTNPlus] Cornell senior Nia Marshall, who led the League in scoring with 16.6 points per game, took home second- Sunday, November 13 team All-Ivy accolades in 2015-16, as did Columbia junior Camille Zimmerman. Zimmerman will be guided Princeton at George Washington, 12 pm by Lions first-year head coach Megan Griffith, a former Columbia standout who spent the past six years as Loyola (Md.) at Cornell, 1 pm [ILDN] an assistant at Princeton. Dartmouth will pair junior Kate Letkewicz, who received honorable mention last Columbia at Richmond, 2 pm season, with senior Fanni Szabo, who missed most of 2015-16 with an injury. Dartmouth at Vermont, 2 pm Penn at Duke, 2 pm [ACCNetwork] Brown will be led by last year’s unanimous Rookie of the Year, sophomore Shayna Mehta, who averaged 13.6 Binghamton at Yale, 2 pm [ILDN] points and 1.8 assists on the year. Harvard senior Destiny Nunley averaged 6.6 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game last season as she looks to guide the Crimson to the postseason for the seventh time in Monday, November 14 nine seasons. Brown at Sacred Heart, 7 pm The League has extended its relationship with ESPN to simulcast 43 games (21 men’s and 22 women’s) on KEY ESPN3 throughout the season. ILDN-Broadcast live on The Ivy League Digital Network Web: IvyLeagueSports.com | #ILDN: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com, ILDN.tv Facebook: TheIvyLeague | Instagram: IvyLeagueSports | Twitter: @IvyLeague, @Ivy_Basketball 2016-17 Ivy League Women’s Basketball Week 1 2 HONOR ROLL WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS The 2016-17 Ivy League women’s basketball weekly awards begin on Monday, PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Nov. 14. November 14 .................................................................................................... November 21 .................................................................................................... WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY November 28 .................................................................................................... PLAYER OF THE WEEK December 5 ...................................................................................................... School Last Occurrence Player December 12 .................................................................................................... Brown December 28, 2015* Rebecca Musgrove Columbia December 21, 2015* Camille Zimmerman December 19 .................................................................................................... Cornell February 8, 2016* Nia Marshall December 26 .................................................................................................... Dartmouth February 22, 2016* Kate Letkewicz January 2 .......................................................................................................... Harvard February 15, 2016* AnnMarie Healy Penn March 7, 2016* Michelle Nwokedi January 9 .......................................................................................................... Princeton March 7, 2016* Annie Tarakchian January 16 ........................................................................................................ Yale February 29, 2016* Nyasha Sarju January 23 ........................................................................................................ January 30 ........................................................................................................ ROOKIE OF THE WEEK School Last Occurrence Player February 6 ........................................................................................................ Brown March 7, 2016 Shayna Mehta February 13 ...................................................................................................... Columbia February 1, 2016* Josie Little February 20 ...................................................................................................... Cornell February 1, 2016* Caroline Shelquist February 27 ...................................................................................................... Dartmouth December 29, 2014 Kate Letkewicz Harvard February 29, 2016 Sydney Skinner March 6 ............................................................................................................ Penn March 2, 2015 Michelle Nwokedi Princeton March 8, 2010 Niveen Rasheed ROOKIES OF THE WEEK Yale March 9, 2015 Tamara Simpson November 14 .................................................................................................... *Shared honor November 21 .................................................................................................... November 28 .................................................................................................... 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