2014-15 Ivy League Week 4 Men’s Basketball December 1, 2014 STANDINGS THIS WEEK Coming off its best week of the young season, Ivy League men’s basketball opens December Ivy League Overall with another action-packed week that includes 15 Record Pct. Home Away Record Pct. Home Away Neutral Streak games on the schedule. All but two of the League’s Harvard 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 4-1 .800 4-0 0-0 0-1 W 3 games are on Wednesday and Saturday this week. Columbia 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 4-1 .800 3-0 1-1 0-0 W 4 Columbia starts off the week looking to continue its Yale 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 6-2 .750 3-0 1-2 2-0 W 1 winning ways in playing host to Loyola (Md.). The Cornell 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 4-4 .500 2-0 2-1 0-3 W 2 Lions have won four straight and all three so far on Brown 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 3-5 .375 2-1 0-3 1-1 W 2 their home court at Levien Gymnasium. Yale, winner Princeton 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 2-5 .286 1-1 0-2 1-2 W 1 of five of its last six games, has the marquee game of the week and its sights on pulling off an upset Dartmouth 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 1-3 .250 1-1 0-2 0-0 L 1 against defending national champion Connecticut Penn 0-0 .000 0-0 0-0 0-5 .000 0-3 0-2 0-0 L 6 on the Huskies’ home floor at Gampel Pavillion. The Bulldogs are one of six Ancient Eight squads having PLAYER OF THE WEEK won their last contest entering the season’s second Harvard senior guard/forward Wesley Saunders (Los Angeles) continued month. The Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN) his high offensive production in leading the Crimson to wins over Houston and is set for active week as well with eight games, Massachusetts. Saunders started his week with his third double-double of the year including five on Saturday when seven of eight -- 24 points and 10 rebounds -- in the victory over Houston. He shot 8-of-17 from teams are on the hardwoods across the Ivy footprint. the floor against the Cougars, 8-of-8 from the line and added four assists, two steals and one block. Saunders matched his career-high with 27 points against UPCOMING SCHEDULE Massachusetts, shooting 10-of-16 from the floor and 2-of-3 from long range and Tuesday, December 2 added three assists and one steal vs. the Minutemen. He has led Harvard in scoring Loyola (Md.) at Columbia, 7 pm [ILDN] in all five games this season, becoming the first member of the Crimson to lead the team in scoring in five straight games since Jeremy Lin did so during the 2009-10 season. Wednesday, December 3 American at Brown, 7 pm [ILDN] Saunders’ Statistics for the Week Dartmouth at Longwood, 7 pm MIN FG-A PCT 3FG-A PCT FT-A PCT REB A B S PTS Northeastern at Harvard, 7 pm [NESN/ILDN] vs. Houston 36 8-17 .471 0-2 .000 8-8 1.000 10 4 1 1 24 Penn at Navy, 7 pm vs. Massachusetts 38 10-16 .625 2-3 .667 5-8 .625 3 3 0 1 27 Yale at Bryant, 7 pm TOTALS 37.0 18-33 .545 2-5 .400 13-16 .812 6.5 3.5 0.5 1.0 25.5 Princeton at Fairleigh Dickinson, 9:30 pm ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Friday, December 5 Princeton freshman guard Amir Bell (East Brunswick, N.J.) was the Tigers’ second- Yale at Connecticut, 7 pm [SNY/ESPN3] leading scorer in their three games in the DIRECTV Wooden Legacy. A starter in all three games, Bell scored in double figures twice and posted a career-high 17 Saturday, December 6 points vs. San Diego on 7-of-12 shooting. He grabbed 10 rebounds and dished out Penn at Binghamton, 2 pm five assists against only one turnover in 92 minutes of action. Bell has started in all Maine at Dartmouth, 3 pm [ILDN] seven games so far this season and reached double figures in scoring in three of Massachusetts-Lowell at Cornell, 4 pm [ILDN] his last four games. Stony Brook at Princeton, 4:30 pm [ILDN] Bucknell at Columbia, 7 pm [ESPN3/ILDN] Bell’s Statistics for the Week Harvard at Vermont, 7 pm MIN FG-A PCT 3FG-A PCT FT-A PCT REB A B S PTS Bryant at Brown, 7:30 pm [ILDN] vs. UTEP 28 2-6 .333 0-1 .000 6-9 .667 4 1 0 1 10 vs. San Diego 32 7-12 .583 2-3 .667 1-1 1.000 4 2 1 0 17 ESPN3 – ESPN3.com; ILDN – Streamed live on vs. San Jose State 32 3-5 .600 0-1 .000 1-2 .500 2 2 0 0 7 The Ivy League Digital Network; NESN – New TOTALS 30.7 12-23 .522 2-5 .400 8-12 .667 3.3 1.7 0.3 0.3 11.3 England Sports Network (DirecTV 628, DISH 434, Comcast 51[SD]/581 [HD]; SNY – SportsNet New York (DirecTV 639, Verizon FiOS 77 [SD]/577 [HD], AT&T U-verse 704 [SD]/1704 [HD], Cablevision 60 [SD]/718 [HD], Comcast 73 [SD]/843 [HD], Time Warner Cable 26/11) Web: IvyLeagueSports.com | #ILDN: IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com Facebook: TheIvyLeague | Instagram: IvyLeagueSports | Twitter: @Ivy_Athletics, #IvyBasketball Week 2 4 2014-15 Ivy League Men’s Basketball HONOR ROLL WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS Connor Boehm, Dartmouth (Jr., F - Winnetka, Ill.) PLAYERS OF THE WEEK 16 points, 14 rebounds vs. IPFW 10 points, 6 rebounds vs. New Hampshire November 17 ...................................................... Shonn Miller, Cornell (Sr., F) November 24 ........................................................... Justin Sears, Yale (Jr., F) Galal Cancer, Cornell (Sr., G - Albany, N.Y.) December 1 ...........................................Wesley Saunders, Harvard (Sr., G/F) 18 points, 8 rebounds, 4 steals vs. Canisius 6 points, 1 rebound, 8 assists vs. Binghamton December 8 ...................................................................................................... December 15 .................................................................................................... Javier Duren, Yale (Sr., G - St. Louis) December 22 .................................................................................................... 15 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals vs. Lafayette 21 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists at Providence December 29 .................................................................................................... 11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists vs. Hartford January 5 .......................................................................................................... January 12 ........................................................................................................ Matt Howard, Penn (So., G - Columbia, S.C.) January 19 ........................................................................................................ 15 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals at Temple 9 points, 2 rebounds at Wagner January 26 ........................................................................................................ February 2 ........................................................................................................ Leland King, Brown (So., F - Inglewood, Calif.) February 9 ........................................................................................................ 7 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks at Illinois 20 points, 7 rebounds vs. Austin Peay February 16 ...................................................................................................... 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists vs. Prairie View A&M February 23 ...................................................................................................... 16 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists vs. Johnson & Wales March 2 ............................................................................................................ March 9 ............................................................................................................ Maodo Lo, Columbia (Jr., G - Berlin) 12 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals vs. Fairleigh Dickinson 20 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals vs. American ROOKIES OF THE WEEK November 17 .....................................................Antonio Woods, Penn (Fr., G) Justin Sears, Yale (Jr., F - Plainfield, N.J.) November 24 ........................................................... Mike Auger, Penn (Fr., F) 17 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 blocks vs. Lafayette 7 points, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks at Providence December 1 ..........................................................Amir Bell, Princeton (Fr., G) 14 points, 11 rebounds, 5 blocks vs. Hartford December 8 ...................................................................................................... December 15 .................................................................................................... WEEKLY AWARDS HISTORY December 22 .................................................................................................... PLAYER OF THE WEEK December 29 .................................................................................................... School Last Occurrence Player January 5 .......................................................................................................... Brown January 27, 2014 Sean McGonagill January 12 ........................................................................................................ Columbia February 24, 2014* Alex Rosenberg January 19 ........................................................................................................ Cornell November 17, 2014 Shonn Miller Dartmouth March 10, 2014* Alex Mitola January 26 ........................................................................................................ Harvard December 1, 2014 Wesley Saunders February 2 ........................................................................................................ Penn February 10, 2014* Fran Dougherty February 9 ........................................................................................................ Princeton March 3, 2014 T.J. Bray Yale November 24, 2014 Justin Sears February 16 .....................................................................................................