Ivy League Roundup: Major conference basketball opponents
While Penn basketball's schedule has yet to be released, many of Penn's Ivy foes have already put games on the calendar against top flight opponents. Here are some of the big names on Ivy schedules this winter...
- Brown is one of four Ivy schools to release its full schedule. On tap for the Bears is a matchup in Providence with Northwestern (arguably the top home game for an Ivy team so far) and a game against another Big 10 squad, Illinois, in Las Vegas.
- Columbia: The Lions put together one of the toughest out of conference schedules among Ivy schools. It's hard for any Ivy school to schedule one Final Four opponent, but Columbia coach Kyle Smith outdid that standard, scheduling both the defending national champion Connecticut and national finalist Kentucky in a two-week stretch. Columbia played UConn three years ago ... and let's just say it didn't go well.
- Cornell: The Big Red play Syracuse every year and this year is no different. Bill Courtney's squad will visit the Orange on New Year's Eve, a little more than a month after playing South Carolina in the Charleston Classic
- Dartmouth: The Big Green didn't schedule up a year after finished tied for sixth in the Ancient Eight, with only one Power Five conference opponent: Penn State on Dec. 22 in College Park, Pa.
- Harvard: Now the Crimson certainly scheduled up this year. Coach Tommy Amaker hasn't released the official schedule but the team currently has three major teams on tap in 2014-15: Virginia, Boston College and Arizona State.
- Princeton has a game against Wake Forest on tap for New Year's Eve as well possible matchups with teams like Xavier and Washington in the Wooden Classic. The Tigers also visit California and former Harvard assistant Yanni Hufnagel in December.
- Yale: Saving the best for last? Not quite, but the Elis certainly put together some strong opponents in their schedule, taking on Connecticut and Florida in a four-day span before another SEC game against Vanderbilt on Jan. 3
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