Week 4 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball November 28, 2016 STANDINGS LEAGUE NOTES • The Ivy League enters the fourth full week of the 2016-17 season with an 12-26 (.315) record in non- Ivy League Overall conference play. Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak • Columbia paces the League with three wins, while Columbia 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 3-2 .600 1-1 2-1 0-2 W 3 Princeton, Penn and Yale have each tallied two Princeton 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-2 .500 1-0 1-2 0-0 W 2 wins. Penn 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-2 .500 0-0 2-2 0-0 L 2 • Penn’s home opener comes Nov. 29 against the Brown 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 3-4 .429 3-0 0-2 0-2 W 3 defending NCAA champion, Villanova; it will be Yale 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-3 .400 1-0 1-3 0-0 L 3 one of just two true non-conference road games Harvard 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-3 .250 1-1 0-1 0-1 L 2 the Wildcats will play this season. Coincidentally, Cornell 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-5 .167 0-1 1-4 0-0 L 2 the only other time in program history the Quakers hosted the reigning NCAA Champion at the Palestra Dartmouth 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-4 .000 0-2 0-2 0-0 L 4 was January 27, 1986 – also Villanova. • Brown’s Steven Spieth has emerged as the PLAYER OF THE WEEK League’s leading scorer averaging 19.7 points per Columbia’s Nate Hickman (Newark, Del.) guided the Lions to a pair of wins game. and averaged a team-best 22.0 points in three games. Hickman dropped a then • Dartmouth’s Evan Boudreaux ranks first among career-high 23 points in a victory at Quinnipiac Monday night, going 7-of-13 conference leaders, pulling down 10.5 rebounds per from the floor. The junior guard had the hot-hand again against Army West Point game. Wednesday, registering 30 points on 11-of-17 shooting. Hickman capped his • Princeton (79.8) and Columbia (77.6) lead the strong week on a high note against Colgate, scoring 13 points, including a game- League in scoring offense, while Princeton (64.8) winning 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left in overtime. and Penn (64.8) are tied for first for scoring defense. • Yale’s Makai Mason suffered a broken foot in Yale’s season-opening scrimmage and will miss the This is Hickman’s first weekly award and first overall for Columbia this season. 2016-17 campaign. Mason led the team in scoring (16 points per game), assists (3.8 per game), and three-pointers made (55) last season. CO-ROOKIE OF THE WEEK • This week features eight games streamed on the Yale’s Miye Oni (Porter Ranch, Calif.) continued his early season dominance with Ivy League Digital Network, which is now available a pair of strong performances against tough competition. Against Pitt, he posted on Apple TV and Roku. his second career double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds as the Bulldogs nearly pulled off an upset of the Panthers, falling 75-70. Against Vermont Oni went UPCOMING SCHEDULE off for 19 points while grabbing eight rebounds as Yale dropped a 67-65 decision to MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 America East power Vermont. Oni’s three-pointer started a 13-3 Yale run midway Bryant at Brown, 7 pm [ILDN] through the second half that got the Bulldogs right back in the game. Dartmouth at Longwood, 7 pm The last Ivy player to start his career with three straight rookie of the week selections was Cornell’s Shonn TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Miller in 2011-12. Hofstra at Columbia, 7 pm [ILDN] George Washington at Harvard, 7pm [ILDN] This is Oni’s third straight Rookie of the Week award and fourth overall honor for Yale as senior Sam Downey 5-Villanova at Penn, 7 pm [CSN Philly/ILDN] earned Player of the Week Nov. 14. Princeton at VCU, 7 pm WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 St. Francis (N.Y.) at Brown, 7 pm [ILDN] Northeastern at Cornell, 7 pm [ILDN] Dartmouth at Old Dominion, 7 pm Yale at Bryant, 7 pm THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 Columbia at Seton Hall, 7 pm [FS1] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 Brown at CCSU, 1 pm Dartmouth at Boston College, 1 pm 5-Penn at Temple, 4 pm Fordham at Harvard, 2 pm [ILDN] Albany (N.Y.) at Yale, 2 pm [ILDN] Key ILDN-Ivy League Digital Network 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Week 4 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 ............................................................ Nate Hickman, Columbia School Last Occurrence Player December 5 ...................................................................................................... Brown November 21, 2016 Steven Spieth December 12 .................................................................................................... Columbia November 28, 2016 Nate Hickman 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 28, 2016 Miye Oni ROOKIES OF THE WEEK November 14 .............................................................................Miye Oni, Yale *Shared honor ..............................................................................................AJ Brodeur, Penn November 21 .............................................................................Miye Oni, Yale November 28 .............................................................................Miye Oni, Yale December 5 ...................................................................................................... December 12 .................................................................................................... December 19 .................................................................................................... December 26 .................................................................................................... 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February 27 ...................................................................................................... March 6 ............................................................................................................ 2016-17 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Week 4 3 TEAM-BY-TEAM NOTES ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL BROWN November 28, 2016 Brown (2-4), playing its first of three straight home games, most recently topping Bryant 91-90 in dramatic fashion. Seniors Steven Spieth ranks second in the Ivy League in Rank Team (First-Place Votes) ............... Record ...........Points ..............Previous scoring (19.7 ppg), while Tavon Blackmon ranks fourth with 4.0 assists per game. 1. Kentucky (40) ......................................6-0 .................1,590 ...........................1 He is currently sitting in fourth on the all-time career assists list with 388. The Bears 2. Villanova (20) ......................................6-0 .................1,567 ...........................2