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 The Ivy League will once again team up with the YES Network to broadcast a package of six games for the 2005-06 Ivy League basketball season. This will be the fourth year for Ivy basketball on YES, and will feature one women’s and five men’s contests.
The YES Network is available to viewers in New York, Connecticut, and large parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and also is available nationally on DIRECTV (channel 622).
It’s ladies first, as the Penn and Princeton women will face off Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. at the famed Palestra in Philadelphia in the first Ivy tilt of the season. The Tigers are fielding one of their strongest teams in years. Eleven of 13 players return — including 2004-05 Ivy League Rookie of the Year Meagan Cowher, the daughter of Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher — from a team that won the most games (13) in head coach Richard Barron’s five-year tenure. The Quakers went 15-12 last season (8-6 Ivy) but must replace five seniors. They hope to gel quickly behind point guard Joey Rhoads, who averaged nine points per game and handed out 47 assists last season.
The men’s portion of the  schedule begins on Jan. 27 with celebrated rivals Harvard and Yale squaring off at 7 p.m. in Yale’s Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn. Both teams went 7-7 in League play last season and both enter 2005-06 with aspirations of dethroning perennial League champs Penn and Princeton. The Crimson’s power resides inside, where Player of the Year candidate Matt Stehle (13.7 ppg, 8.9 rpg), and 7-foot center Brian Cusworth (13.4 ppg, 8.4 rpg) rule the paint. The Bulldogs, meanwhile, counter with 6-10 center Dominick Martin (12.3 ppg, 7.8 rpg) and mobile forwards Casey Hughes (7.8 ppg, 6.2 rpg) and Sam Kaplan (8.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg).
The action moves to Providence, R.I., on Feb. 11, where Brown hosts upstart Columbia at 7 p.m. The Bears (5-9 in Ivy play in 2004-05) must replace 2003-04 Player of the Year and three-time All-Ivy guard Jason Forte, but have their other four starters back. That includes senior guard Luke Ruscoe, who averaged 10.5 points and 5.6 rebounds last season. Columbia head coach Joe Jones must replace his top two scorers in Matt Preston and Jeremiah Boswell, but has a bright future with five sophomores among his top seven returning players.
Princeton looks to get back on track after a disappointing 2004-05 when the Tigers travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to play Cornell on Feb. 17 for a 7 p.m. game. Princeton finished below .500 in League play (6-8) for the first time in the Ivy’s 50-year history last year but return three starters for head coach Joe Scott’s second season at the helm. The Tigers also receive a boost with the return of 6-9 sophomore center Harrison Schaen, who showed flashes of brilliance as a freshman in 2003-04 before taking a leave of absence from Princeton last season. Cornell, the only team other than Penn to post a winning League record (8-6) last season, counters with all-Ivy forward Lenny Collins, who averaged 13.3 points and 4.9 rebounds a season ago.
On Feb 25, head coach Terry Dunn’s rapidly improving Dartmouth squad will travel to defending League champion Penn for a 7 p.m. game at the Palestra. The Big Green jumped from 1-13 in 2003-04 to 7-7 in 2004-05 but features a young squad that pairs seniors Mike Lang (11.8 ppg) and Calvin Arnold (6.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg) with a host of underclassmen. The Quakers return as the clear favorites after dropping just one League contest last season. They must replace 2004-05 Ivy Player of the Year Tim Begley but return four starters, including junior guard Ibrahim Jaaber (11.4 ppg, 3.0 spg) and forwards Steve Danley (9.5 ppg) and Mark Zoller (9.2 ppg).
The March 4 game will be determined at a later date and will feature the most meaningful late-season matchup among the day’s slate of games.
The Network is the most-watched regional sports network in the United States and in New York, featuring the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees and the 2002 and 2003 Eastern Conference Champion New Jersey Nets. , which has earned 60 Emmy Award nominations and 14 Emmy Awards in just four years, also televises other professional and college sports, as well as original biography, interview and magazine programs, and live simulcasts of Sports Radio 66 WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog Show.
TV SCHEDULE
Jan. 7 – Princeton women at Penn, 7 pm
Jan. 27 – Harvard at Yale, 7 pm
Feb. 11 – Columbia at Brown, 7 pm
Feb. 17 – Princeton at Cornell, 7 pm
Feb. 25 – Dartmouth at Penn, 7 pm
March 4 – Best Game Available, 7 pm |
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