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1970-71 Ivy Men's Basketball

Ivy League
Overall

W

L

Pct

W

L

Pct

Coach

1

Pennsylvania

14

0

1.000

28

1

.966

Dick Harter

2

Harvard

11

3

.786

16

10

.615

Bob Harrison

3

Columbia

9

5

.643

16

8

.667

Jack Rohan

3

Princeton

9

5

.643

15

11

.577

Pete Carril

5

Brown

5

9

.357

10

15

.400

Gerry Alaimo

6

Dartmouth

5

9

.357

10

16

.385

George Blaney

7

Yale

2

12

.143

4

20

.167

Joe Vancisin

8

Cornell

1

13

.071

5

21

.192

Jerry Lace

Penn ended the season ranked 3rd in the AP poll (its highest ranking of the year)


Ivy Honors
Rookie of the Year
Brian Taylor (Princeton)

First-Team All Ivy
Corky Calhoun (Pennsylvania)
Paul Erland (Dartmouth)
Floyd Lewis (Harvard)
Brian Taylor (Princeton)
Dave Wohl (Pennsylvania)

Second-Team All Ivy
Arnie Berman (Brown)
Steve Bilsky (Pennsylvania)
James Brown (Harvard)
Bob Morse (Pennsylvania)
Russ Tyler (Brown)

Honorable Mention All Ivy
James Brown (Dartmouth), Dale Dover (Harvard), Larry Gordon (Columbia), Phil Hankinson (Pennsylvania), Scott Michel (Yale), Jim Morgan (Yale), Bill Sickler (Princeton), Ken Wiens (Cornell), lliot Wolfe (Columbia)

NCAA Postgraduate Scholar
Bob Morse (Pennsylvania)

Ivy Top Scorers
26.0, Paul Erland (Dartmouth)
24.4, Brian Taylor (Princeton)
21.6, Arnie Berman (Brown)
19.5, Larry Gordon (Columbia)
19.3, Russ Tyler (Brown)

Pro Draft Picks
Pennsylvania's Dave Wohl by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 3rd Round (46th)
Harvard's Dale Dover by the Boston Celtics in the 10th Round (161st)

NCAA Tournament
3/13/71 in Morgantown, W.Va.: Pennsylvania 70, Duquesne 65
3/18/71 in Raleigh, N.C.: Pennsylvania 79, South Carolina 64
3/20/71 in Raleigh, N.C.: Villanova 90, Pennsylvania 47

The Quakers were 28-0 entering the NCAA East Regional Final before losing to Villanova (a team they had beaten by eight in the regular season). Later, Villanova had to forfeit the game because of an ineligible player. Since then, only nine teams have managed to go through the regular season unbeaten. Penn became the third-winningest team of the 1970s (behind Marquette and UCLA), winning 79.9 percent of its games, eight Ivy titles and seven Big Five championships.

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