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Men's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 13
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Photos courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications and Penn Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The second full weekend of Ivy League men’s basketball is packed with pivotal matchups as the schedule moves into the frenzy of February as the prelude to the madness of March.
Since the preseason predictions, this weekend has been circled as Harvard and Princeton meet for the first time. The Friday night showdown at Jadwin Gym will be televised live on ESPNU and is the Ivy League Game of the Week on SIRIUS Satellite Radio Channel 130. The game against the Ivy unbeatens will feature teams that both have four players with scoring averages in doubles figures.
The next night, Harvard will face a streaking Penn team that enters the weekend on a three-game winning streak and is off its first 2-0 Ivy record since the 2007-08 season.
Columbia will look to remain a factor in the League title hunt on the road for the second-straight weekend at Brown Friday night and at Yale Saturday night. The Lions were the only road team to win a game during the first full weekend and hope to continue their recent success having won four of their last five games.
CO-PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Harvard junior forward Kyle Casey (Medway, Mass.) had a big weekend for the Crimson on both sides of the ball, helping Harvard to a 4-0 start in league play for the first time since 1990-91. Casey scored 17 points and came down with 13 rebounds, including 11 on the defensive end, as Harvard topped Columbia. On the next night vs. Cornell, he was one rebound short of a second-straight double-double with 16 points and nine boards adding two blocks and one assist on one field goal.
Casey’s Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A |
B |
S |
PTS | |
| vs. Columbia |
32 |
7-13 |
0.538 |
0-1 |
0.000 |
3-3 |
1.000 |
13 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
17 |
| vs. Cornell | 30 | 6-13 | 0.462 | 0-3 | 0.000 | 4-4 | 1.000 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| TOTALS | 31.0 | 13-26 | 0.500 | 0-4 | 0.000 | 7-7 | 1.000 | 11.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 16.5 |
Penn senior forward Jack Eggleston (Noblesville, Ind.) tied a career high with 25 points in the Quakers’ overtime win vs. Brown. Eggleston scored 12 points in the final 9:15 of the second half, helping Penn overcome an eight-point deficit during that time, then scored the first five points in OT to give the Quakers a lead they would not relinquish. He led Penn with eight rebounds, all on the defensive glass, and added 13 points on 6-of-11 shooting in the win over Yale.
Eggleston’s Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A |
B |
S |
PTS | |
| vs. Yale |
37 |
6-11 |
0.545 |
1-2 |
0.500 |
0-0 |
0.000 |
8 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
13 |
| vs. Brown | 39 | 11-15 | 0.733 | 3-5 | 0.600 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| TOTALS | 38.0 | 17-26 | 0.654 | 4-7 | 0.571 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 10.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 19.0 |
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Penn freshman guard Miles Cartwright (Van Nuys, Calif.) led the Quakers in scoring in his first Ivy League game with 18 points in a win over Yale. Cartwright came back the next night and set a career high with eight assists in the Quakers’ overtime win against Brown playing a team-high 42 minutes. He finished the weekend with an 11/3 assist/turnover ratio.
Cartwright’s Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A |
B |
S |
PTS | |
| vs. Yale |
34 |
4-9 |
0.444 |
2-2 |
1.000 |
8-9 |
0.889 |
2 | 3 |
0 |
2 |
18 |
| vs. Brown | 42 | 2-12 | 0.167 | 1-7 | 0.143 | 0-0 | 0.000 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| TOTALS | 38.0 | 6-21 | 0.286 | 3-9 | 0.333 | 8-9 | 0.889 | 2.0 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 11.5 |
HONOR ROLL
Noruwa Agho, Columbia, Junior, Guard (New City, N.Y.)
21.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.5 apg
27 pts., 3 rebs. at Harvard
Kareem Maddox, Princeton, Senior, Forward (Oak Park, Calif.)
16.0 ppg, 10.5 rpg, 2.0 bpg
15 pts., 14 rebs. vs. Brown
Greg Mangano, Yale, Junior, Center (Orange, Conn.)
15.5 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 2.5 bpg
20 pts., 8 rebs. at Penn
Errick Peck, Cornell, Sophomore, Forward (Indianapolis)
17.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 2.0 spg
20 pts., 6 rebs. at Dartmouth
Jabari Trotter, Dartmouth, Junior, Guard (Northridge, Calif.)
10.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg
12 pts., 3 rebs. vs. Columbia
Adrian Williams, Brown, Senior, Guard (Atlanta)
12.0 ppg, 1.5 rpg
22 pts. at Penn
Keith Wright, Harvard, Junior, Forward (Suffolk, Va.)
17.5 ppg, 9.0 rpg
21 pts., 11 rebs. vs. Cornell
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Friday, February 4
*Dartmouth at Penn, 7 pm
*Harvard at Princeton, 7 pm [ESPNU] [SIRIUS]
*Columbia at Brown, 7 pm
*Cornell at Yale, 7 pm
Saturday, February 5
*Dartmouth at Princeton, 6 pm
*Cornell at Brown, 6 pm [SIRIUS]
*Columbia at Yale, 6 pm
*Harvard at Penn, 7 pm
*Ivy Leage Contest
KEY:
ESPNU - ESPNU (DirecTV 208, DISH 141), SIRIUS - SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Channel 130)
