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1988-89 Ivy Men's Basketball

Ivy League
Overall

W

L

Pct

W

L

Pct

Coach

1

Princeton

11

3

.786

19

8

.704

Pete Carril

2

Dartmouth

10

4

.714

17

9

.654

Paul Cormier

3

Pennsylvania

9

5

.643

13

13

.500

Tom Schneider

4

Harvard

7

7

.500

11

15

.423

Peter Roby

4

Cornell

7

7

.500

10

16

.385

Mike Dement

6

Yale

6

8

.429

11

17

.393

Dick Kuchen

7

Columbia

4

10

.286

8

18

.308

Wally Halas

8

Brown

2

12

.143

7

19

.269

Mike Cingiser


Ivy Honors
Player of the Year
Bob Scrabis (Princeton)

Rookie of the Year
Ed Petersen (Yale)

First-Team All Ivy
Jim Barton (Dartmouth)
Walt Frazier (Pennsylvania)
Mike Gielen (Harvard)
Kit Mueller (Princeton)
Bob Scrabis (Princeton)

Second-Team All Ivy
James Blackwell (Dartmouth)
Bernard Jackson (Cornell)
Ralph James (Harvard)
Walter Palmer (Dartmouth)
Matt Shannon (Columbia)
Marcus Thompson (Brown)

Honorable Mention All Ivy
Dean Campbell (Yale), Ed Petersen (Yale), Neil Phillips (Harvard), Jerry Simon (Pennsylvania)

Academic All-America
Mike Ryan (Yale) Second Team
John Mackay (Dartmouth) Third Team

Ivy Top Scorers
21.7, Jim Barton (Dartmouth)
18.8, Walt Frazier Jr. (Pennsylvania)
17.9, Marcus Thompson (Brown)
17.1, Kit Mueller (Princeton)
15.7, Ralph James (Harvard)

NCAA Tournament
3/17/89 in Providence, R.I.: (1) Georgetown 50, (16) Princeton 49

The Princeton-Georgetown game stands as one of the most captivating games in NCAA history. In fact, it remains the highest-rated college basketball game in ESPN history and the closest any #16 seed has come to knocking out a #1. The Tigers maintained a lead all through the second half and had a chance at increasing a lead to four with three minutes left, but Alonzo Mourning blocked a shot. With 23 seconds left, Mourning hit one of two free throws to give the Hoyas the 50-49 lead and then he blocked another shot on the ensuing possession. It was the third straight season an Ivy League team had drawn a #16 seed. That has never happened again since. On the women’s side, there has been just one #16 to knock out a #1. That happened in 1998, when the Harvard Crimson bested Stanford.

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