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Men's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 7
Complete Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly
Release in pdf format
Photos courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics Communications, Cornell
Athletic Communications and Princeton Athletic
Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Holiday hoops continues for
Ivy League men’s basketball this week with nine games on the
Christmas week schedule.
Six Ivy teams are in action with Dartmouth embarking on a
three-game, five-day road trip through the Empire State. Cornell
has back-to-back games against Big Ten Conference foes, playing at
Illinois Monday night and at Penn State Wednesday night. Brown,
Harvard and Penn each return to the hardwood at home later this
week after taking their respective exam breaks. Princeton looks to
move above .500 for the first time this season in its final
pre-Christmas game at Siena on Thursday.
Harvard jumped back into the world of the ranked, re-entering
the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll at No. 25 in the
Dec. 19 edition of the national polls. The Crimson is back in the
Top 25 since its first-ever appearance in both polls two weeks ago
-- 24th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ and 25th in
the Associated Press polls. Harvard has maintained a presence among
the coaches’ rankings all season, receiving points in the
Nov. 21 (1), Nov. 28 (62) and Dec. 12 (43) polls.
The Crimson landed one spot outside of the Associated Press Top 25
for the second-straight week. This season, Harvard has earned
points in the AP poll six times -- preseason (2), Nov. 14 (3), Nov.
21 (3), Nov. 28 (101), Dec. 12 (73) and Dec. 19 (88). This marks
the fourth-straight season and fifth time in seven years Harvard
has been mentioned in the media poll.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Princeton junior forward Ian Hummer (Vienna, Va.)
stuffed the box score in leading the Tigers to two victories at
Rider and Northeastern. Hummer flirted with a triple-double the
overtime win at Rider with 21 points, 12 rebounds and seven
assists, adding four steals in 42 minutes. He followed that with
another solid performance in the Northeastern win with 20 points,
five rebounds, six assists and five steals. The seven assists
against Rider were a career high, as were the five steals at
Northeastern. Of his 42 assists on the season (12 games), 13 came
in the two games this week, as did nine of this season’s 24
steals.
Hummer's Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A | B | S | PTS | |
| at Rider |
42 | 8-19 | 0.421 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 5-10 | 0.500 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 21 |
| at Northeastern |
38 | 9-17 | 0.529 | 0-1 | 0.000 | 2-4 | 0.500 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 20 |
| TOTALS | 40.0 |
17-36 | 0.472 | 0-2 | 0.000 | 7-14 | 0.500 | 8.5 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 20.5 |
CO-ROOKIES OF THE WEEK
Cornell freshman forward Galal Cancer (Albany,
N.Y.) put together quite a stat line in the Big Red’s 85-82
overtime victory over Albany. The freshman, playing against his
hometown school, posted 11 points, seven assists, five rebounds,
four steals and a blocked shot in 30 minutes off the bench for
Cornell. Cancer closed strong with four points, two rebounds, two
assists and a block in the final four minutes of regulation as
Cornell erased a 10-point, second-half deficit. The seven assists
and four steals were both career highs.
Cancer's Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A | B |
S | PTS | |
| vs. Albany | 30 | 5-10 | 0.500 | 1-4 | 0.250 | 0-3 | 0.000 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
Dartmouth freshman guard John Golden (Freehold,
N.J.) scored in double figures against IPFW and Elon while coming
off the bench, hitting on 8-of-14 (.571) of his shots to do so.
First he put up 11 points while grabbing five rebounds in a tough
loss at IPFW, then he recorded his first career double-double in a
big win over Elon with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Golden also
dished out two assists and had a steal in each of the games. Late
in the Elon game, Golden picked off a pass on the defensive end and
went all the way for a game-sealing layup with just over a minute
left.
Golden's Statistics for the Week
| MIN | FG-A | PCT | 3FG-A | PCT | FT-A | PCT | REB | A | B | S | PTS | |
| at IPFW |
31 | 4-5 | 0.800 | 1-2 | 0.500 | 2-2 | 1.000 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| vs. Elon |
28 | 4-9 | 0.444 | 1-5 | 0.200 | 1-2 | 0.500 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| TOTALS | 29.5 |
8-14 | 0.571 | 2-7 | 0.286 | 3-4 | 0.750 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 10.5 |
HONOR ROLL
Drew Ferry, Cornell, Senior, Guard (Milwaukee,
Wis.)
26 points, 4 rebounds vs. Albany
Austin Morgan, Yale, Junior, Guard (Reno,
Nev.)
19 points, 3 assists at Rhode Island
David Rufful, Dartmouth, Senior, Forward
(Warwick, R.I.)
15 points, 4 rebounds at IPFW
7 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals vs. Elon
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Monday, December 19
Cornell at Illinois, 7 pm [ESPN3]
Dartmouth at Colgate, 7 pm
Wednesday, December 21
Dartmouth at Army, 7 pm
Cornell at Penn State, 7:30 pm [BTN]
Thursday, December 22
Florida Atlantic at Harvard, 7 pm
Princeton at Siena, 7 pm
Friday, December 23
Maine at Brown, 2 pm
Dartmouth at Albany, 2 pm
Marist at Penn, 7 pm
KEY:
BTN – Big Ten Network (DirecTV 610, DISH 439, Verizon FiOS
85 (SD), 585 (HD), BTN.com); ESPN3 – ESPN3.com
