While the Tigers might only be a game ahead in the loss column, Princeton has carved out a huge lead in the adjusted efficiency margin at +12.3 points per 100 possessions as compared to Harvard's +6.6. The Tigers still have the tougher remaining schedule with six more road games to the Crimson's four, but given how easily Princeton dispatched Columbia at Levien last night, the home/road split might not matter to the Tigers.
The odds are dead even at this point, with both teams winning the league 61 percent of the time (49 percent on a tie-allocated basis).
AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE
- The Penn/Cornell game last night was a wild one with the Big Red taking a 16-point first half lead, only to watch the Quakers march off a 39-14 run to go up nine with under nine to play. Cornell used a 12-3 run to bring it back even with 5:39 to go. Penn would push its advantage back to five before the Big Red pulled even again. Penn's Conor Turley had a 1-and-1 with one second remaining to give the Quakers the game, but missed the front end. Cornell took over with a 13-2 run to open the extra session and never looked back en route to an 82-71 win.
- Brown pushed its lead to double-digits on a few occasions against Dartmouth, but the Big Green made things interesting by narrowing the lead to four with under three minutes to go. Freshman guard Sean McGonagill went 6-for-6 from the line down the stretch to seal the victory for the Bears.
- The Quakers and Lions are facing off tonight to gain the inside track to the final upper division spot. If Penn wins, it would open up a two-game lead in the loss column over the fifth-place Lions. If Columbia wins, it will sneak ahead of the Quakers by a half-game for fourth.
Princeton 6-0
Harvard 6-1
Yale 4-3
Penn 3-3
Columbia 3-4
Brown 2-5
Cornell 2-5
Dartmouth 1-6
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