YALE BASKETBALL Sports Publicity Offi ce Basketball Contact: Tim Bennett Box 208216 (203) 432-1457, phone New Haven, CT 06520-8216 (203) 432-1454, fax 2017-18 SCHEDULE at WISCONSIN Nov. 10 at Creighton L, 76-92 2017 Hall Of Fame Classic 12 at Wisconsin ................... 6 p.m. Sun., Nov. 12, 2017 - 6 p.m. EST 14 SOUTH CAROLINA ST. ..7 p.m. Kohl Center (17,287) 17 at Albany .........................7 p.m. Madison, Wisconsin TV: Big10 Network Internet: BTN Plus 19 CURRY ...........................2 p.m. Audio: wybc.com 22 at Alcorn State ........... 1:30 p.m. YALE TALE 25 VERMONT ......................2 p.m. A season-opening two-game road trip for the Bulldogs Stats Comparison concludes with a game at Wisconsin on Sunday. Tipoff 27 at Delaware ..................... 7 p.m. at the Kohl Center is slated for 6 p.m. EST. The Big Ten Yale ...........Category ............. Wis. Network has the television coverage, while a stream is 0-1 ...............Record ................. 1-0 29 BRYANT .......................... 8 p.m. available at BTN Plus. 76.0.............Points/G ............. 85.0 Yale kicked off the 2017-18 campaign with a 92-76 Dec. 2 at TCU ............................5 p.m. loss at Creighton on Friday. The Bulldogs had four play- 92.0........Pts. Allowed/G ........ 50.0 ers score in double fi gures, led by junior Blake Reynolds 45.5% ............FG% ............. 57.1% 6 at Lehigh .........................7 p.m. who fi nished with 18 points. Trey Phills and fi rst year 29.6% ...........3FG% ............ 43.5% Paul Atkinson each added 12 and Alex Copeland scored 80.0% ............FT% ..............61.1% 9 at St. Bonaventure ..........2 p.m. 10. Yale, though, couldn’t overcome the hot-shooting of 33.0............ Reb Avg. ............. 41.0 the Bluejays, who shot 58.8 percent from the fi eld. -3.0 ..........Reb. Margin ......... +19.0 12 at Iona .............................7 p.m. The Bulldogs are coming off another highly success- 19.0............. Assts/G ............. 18.0 ful season. Yale won 18 games and advanced to the 13.0..........Turnovers/G .......... 13.0 22 MONMOUTH ..................7 p.m. championship game of the fi rst Ivy League Tournament 1.0.............. Blocks/G .............. 3.0 before falling to Princeton. Included among the 18 vic- 6.0...............Steals/G ............... 7.0 30 at Kennesaw State ......... 4 p.m. tories was a season-opening 98-90 win over Markelle Fultz and Washington. Jan. 6 at Georgia Tech .............. 7 p.m. Over the last four years, the Bulldogs have 82 victories, captured two Ivy League titles and won the fi rst NCAA Tournament game in school history – over Baylor in 2016. 12 BROWN .....................5:30 p.m. If the preseason prognosticators are to be believed, the Bulldogs could surpass last year’s success. Many have Yale as the preseason Ivy favorite, and in the offi cial league preseason poll, the Bulldogs 19 at Brown .......................... 8 p.m. received the most fi rst-place votes (8) and were picked to fi nish second. The formula for success remains the same – rebounding, defense and sharing the ball. The Bull- 26 HARVARD ......................7 p.m. dogs led the Ivy League in rebounding margin for the sixth straight year last year, held opponents to 42.9 percent from the fi eld, including 32.9 percent from three-point range, and averaged an Ivy 27 DARTMOUTH .................7 p.m. League best 15.7 assists per game. Three of last year’s top four scorers return, including Copeland and sophomore Miye Oni who Feb. 2 at Princeton ..................... 7 p.m. shared the team lead at 12.9 ppg. Reynolds, one of two players to start all 29 games a year ago, averaged 9.4 points, which was fourth on the team. 3 at Penn ........................... 7 p.m. Yale is without the services of Makai Mason, a preseason Ivy League Player of the Year candidate and sophomore Jordan Bruner, who are both injured. 9 COLUMBIA .....................7 p.m. 10 CORNELL .......................7 p.m. Probable Starters 16 at Dartmouth ...................7 p.m. 17 at Harvard ..................9:30 p.m. 23 at Cornell ........................ 7 p.m. 24 at Columbia ................ 8:30 p.m. Mar. 2 PENN ..............................7 p.m. Blake Reynolds Paul Atkinson Trey Phills Alex Copeland Miye Oni 3 PRINCETON ................... 7 p.m. Forward Forward Guard Guard Guard Jr. • 6-7 • 240 Fy • 6-10 • 220 Jr. • 6-2 • 185 Jr. • 6-3 • 175 So. • 6-6 • 200 10-11 Ivy League Tournament Jackson, Mo. W. Palm Beach, Fla. Charlotte, N.C. Los Angeles, Calif. Porter Ranch, Calif. UNIVERSITY FACTS The Probable Lineup School: Yale University STARTERS Cl. Hometown Min. ppg. rpg. apg. Founded: 1701 F 32 Blake Reynolds Jr. Jackson, Mo. 34.0 18.0 3.0 3.0 Location: New Haven, CT 06520 F 20 Paul Atkinson Fr. West Palm Beach, Fla. 22.0 12.0 3.0 0.0 Enrollment: 5,100 undergrad/5,200 grad G 13 Trey Phills Jr. Charlotte, N.C. 24.0 12.0 5.0 3.0 Nickname: Elis, Bulldogs G 24 Miye Oni So. Porter Ranch, Calif. 35.0 9.0 5.0 5.0 Colors: Yale Blue and White G 3 Alex Copeland Jr. Los Angeles, Calif. 26.0 10.0 8.0 3.0 President: Peter Salovey OFF THE BENCH Director of Athletics: Tom Beckett Conference: Ivy League G 2 Eric Monroe So. San Diego, Calif. 15.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 Home Court: John J. Lee Amphitheater F 4 Noah Yates Sr. Pt. Pleasant Beach, N.J. 21.0 7.0 4.0 3.0 Capacity: 2,532 G 5 Azar Swain Fr. Brockton, Mass. 19.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 F 14 Jameel Alausa Fr. Chicago, Ill. 2.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 BASKETBALL FACTS F 33 Wyatt Yess Fr. Saint Louis, Mo. 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Head Coach: James Jones F 10 Eric Anderson Sr. West Chester, Pa. -- -- -- -- Alma Mater/Year: University at Albany ‘86 G 34 Thomas Ryan Jr. New York, N.Y. -- -- -- -- Overall & Yale Record/Years: 272-251/19th year F 22 Austin Williams So. Jacksonville, Fla. -- -- -- -- Jones’ Ivy Record/Years: 150-102/19th year Basketball Offi ce Phone: (203) 432-1485 Associate Head Coach: Matt Kingsley (Wesleyan ‘98), Assistant Coaches: Justin Simon (Yale '04) 2017 HALL OF FAME CLASSIC Tobe Carberry (Vermont '00) Sunday’s game is the second of four Yale will play in the 2017 Hall of Fame SPORTS PUBLICITY FACTS Classic. The Bulldogs’ home opener on Tuesday vs. South Carolina State also is part of the Classic as is the game at Alcorn State the day before Thanksgiv- Associate AD/Sports Publicity: Steve Conn ing. Men’s Basketball Contact: Tim Bennett Bennett's Home Phone: (203) 484-7358 HISTORY LESSONS Bennett’s Cell Phone: (203) 376-6203 Yale and Wisconsin are playing for the fi rst time since 1983, an 87-77 Badger Sports Publicity Phone: (203) 432-1457 victory at the Merrill Lynch Classic in Dayton, Ohio. Wisconsin leads the all- Sports Publicity Fax: (203) 432-1454 time series 4-1. The fi rst meeting between the teams came back on New Year’s E-Mail Address: [email protected] Day in 1902, a 35-20 Yale victory in Milwaukee. The teams played again on Home Page: yalebulldogs.com Jan. 2, 1902, with the Badgers winning 29-23. Press Row Phone: (203) 432-2398 Hotline Phone: (203) 432-YALE SCOUTING WISCONSIN The Badgers opened their season with an 85-50 victory over South Carolina DID YOU KNOW? State on Friday. Four players scored in double fi gures to lead Wisconsin, led by All-America candidate Ethan Happ, who scored 20 points and also grabbed • Yale University, founded in 1701, is the third oldest 11 rebounds. Happ is the only returning starter from the Badger team that ad- college in the United States and one of the foremost vanced to the NCAA Tournament a year ago. Sophomore guard D'Mitrik Trice research universities in the world. First known as the is the only other player on the roster that has started a game prior to Friday’s Collegiate School, it changed its name in 1718 to honor opener, making two starts in 2016-17. The Badgers will have just one senior benefactor Elihu Yale. in 2017-18, former walk-on Aaron Moesch. Wisconsin posted a 27-10 record last season, reaching at least 20 wins for the 11th straight season. UW also • In 1889, Yale students adopted the fi rst college reached 12 Big Ten wins for the 8th-consecutive season. Both are the longest mascot, Handsome Dan, a ferocious and enthusiastic active marks in the conference. fan at early football games. Handsome Dan inspired Cole Porter to write Yale’s famous fi ght song, “Bulldog, BULLDOGS TO OPEN 2018-19 SEASON IN SHANGHAI Bulldog.” Today, the original Handsome Dan continues Yale traveled more than 1,300 miles for its opener this season at Creighton. his reign from the lobby of Payne Whitney Gymnasium. That will be nothing compared to the trip the Bulldogs will take to kick off the Yale students also adopted the fi rst school colors (1853), 2018-19 season. Yale will head across the globe to Shanghai, China, to meet fi elded the fi rst cheerleaders (1890) and developed the California in the fourth edition of the Pac-12 China Game presented by Alibaba fi rst school fi ght song (1892). Group. The Pac-12 China Game is the fl agship event of Pac-12 Global, de- signed to grow the global popularity of Pac-12 athletic programs and universi- • Five U.S.