Men's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 17

Princeton's Kareem Maddox and Yale's Jeremiah Kreisberg

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Photos courtesy of Princeton Athletic Communications and Yale Sports Publicity

PRINCETON, N.J. -- It all comes down to the final weekend, plus next Tuesday possibly, to determine which team will hoist the Ivy League men's basketball trophy as the 2010-11 champion.

All eyes will be on Lavietes Pavilion on Saturday night as Harvard hosts Princeton in one of the most highly-anticipated matchups in recent Ancient Eight history. Both teams will have to get past their Friday night opponents -- Princeton takes on Dartmouth in Hanover and Harvard welcomes Penn to Cambridge -- to set up a game that will have Ivy title implications. Saturday's Princeton-Harvard game will be broadcasted live on ESPN3.com and heard live on SIRIUS Satellite Radio Channel 130.

A Princeton weekend sweep would give the Tigers their 26th Ivy title and the League's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Two wins by Harvard could potentially force a one-game playoff to determine which teams receives the NCAA bid, provided Princeton gets a win in its season-ending clash with archrival Penn next Tuesday, March 8 at The Palestra.

Fresh off its upset-win over Harvard, Yale looks to end its season on a strong note in its road games at Columbia and Cornell. All 12 of the Bulldogs' Ivy games have been decided by 10 points or less with the last four decided by six points or less.

Penn goes into its final three games in the role as spoiler with its games against Harvard and Princeton. The Quakers have had five of their League games decided by three points or less and are 2-3 in those contests.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Princeton senior forward Kareem Maddox (Oak Park, Calif.) led the Tigers in two critical home wins over Cornell and Columbia. Coming off the bench, Maddox was nearly perfect from the floor (6-of-7) totaling 13 points with eight rebounds and five asists against Cornell. He came back the following night against Columbia and put up his sixth 20-point game and sixth straight double-digit scoring game, tying the longest stretch of his senior season.

Maddox’s Statistics for the Week

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Yale freshman forward Jeremiah Kreisberg (Berkeley, Calif.) was the spark in the Bulldogs’ exciting back-to-back wins over Dartmouth and Harvard. Kreisberg scored the game-winning basket with 41 seconds left in the victory over Harvard. He finished the game with 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting. The night earlier in the overtime victory over Dartmouth, Kreisberg posted a career-high 14 points, hitting five of his seven shots from the field. He made two free throws with 58 seconds remaining in the game that snapped a 63-63 tie.

Kreisberg’s Statistics for the Week

HONOR ROLL
Noruwa Agho, Columbia, Junior, Guard (New City, N.Y.)
20.5 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 3.5 apg
21 pts., 3 rebs., 4 asts. vs. Princeton

Mark Coury, Cornell, Senior, Center (West Bloomfield, Mich.)
13.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.0 bpg
13 pts., 3 rebs., 2 blks. at Penn

Tucker Halpern, Brown, Sophomore, Forward (Brookline, Mass.)
20.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.5 apg
29 pts., 3 rebs., 5 asts. vs. Harvard

Greg Mangano, Yale, Junior, Center (Orange, Conn.)
13.5 ppg, 11.5 rpg
11 pts., 13 rebs. vs. Harvard

Tyler Melville, Dartmouth, Freshman, Guard (Plano, Texas)
12.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 4.5 apg
12 pts., 5 rebs., 5 asts. at Yale

Zack Rosen, Penn, Junior, Guard (Colonia, N.J.)
19.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 5.5 apg
17 pts., 3 rebs., 9 asts. vs. Columbia

Christian Webster, Harvard, Sophomore, Guard (Washington, D.C.)
15.5 ppg, 3.0 rpg
22 pts., 5 rebs. at Yale


UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Friday, March 4
*Penn at Harvard, 7 pm
*Princeton at Dartmouth, 7 pm [SIRIUS]
*Brown at Cornell, 7 pm
*Yale at Columbia, 7 pm

Saturday, March 5
*Penn at Dartmouth, 7 pm
*Princeton at Harvard, 7 pm [ESPN3] [SIRIUS]
*Yale at Cornell, 7 pm
*Brown at Columbia, 7 pm

Tuesday, March 8
*Princeton at Penn, 7 pm  [SIRIUS]

*Ivy League Contest

KEY:
ESPN3 - ESPN3.com; SIRIUS - SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Channel 130)