With Ivy play beginning for Penn Friday night, this is our last chance to romp through the Ancient Eight without implications, without being shot down by those roaring Lions of Columbia. So here we go:
It must have been Paula Abdul. Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Duke, Harvard. What do these schools have in common? All of them received votes in the AP Top-25 rankings. And while the Buckeyes, Panthers and Blue Devils are the top three in the nation, Harvard received just one vote in this week’s poll, leaving the world wondering, who voted for #$*&ing; Harvard?!
Especially a Crimson team that barely beat Dartmouth, 59-50, Saturday, after they rallied back from a 12-point deficit in the second half.
It’s understandable when Kentucky gets Top 25 votes after rallying back from the same deficit to Penn. But when Harvard does the same with the Big Green? An AP vote just ain’t what it used to be.
How many ways can we say Cornell is no longer good? Call it beating a dead horse, but the horse we call the Big Red is most definitely dead. Saturday’s 70-66 loss to Columbia marked a series sweep by the Lions, making Cornell the worst team since — well, since Penn last year.
Columbia has had a knack for winning the close ones this season, going 9-2 in games decided by five points or less — a skill which coach Kyle Smith referred to as “Cojones,” according to the Columbia Spectator.
Assuming Columbia’s luck doesn’t run out, the Upper-Westsiders will be eagerly awaiting Wiz Khalifa’s newest single, “Light Blue and White.”
Eh — doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Pack ‘em in. Immune to the attendance woes Penn has faced lately, Yale and Brown squared off Saturday before a boisterous crowd of 1,826 in New Haven, Conn., because, well, what else is there to do on Saturday night in New Haven? (Dorm party, anyone?)
The Bulldogs also finished off a series sweep of their traveling partners, 59-51, leaving Brown’s young Josh Biber — who played zero minutes — yet to feel the pure elation of an Ivy win. Playing before the nearly 2,000 Yale fans was good preparation for both teams, as they come to the Palestra this weekend.
Stat padding like nobody’s business.
Way back in 1986 before your esteemed author was even a thought in his parents’ mind, Princeton started a practice that can only be described as wussy-ish.
Coming out of their January break, the Tigers play a Division II or III team to “shake off the finals rust,” according to Princeton Athletics. Since they started that back in the Reagan era, the Tigers haven’t lost any of the 24 games.
Sunday was no different as they went to town on TCNJ, which stands for The College of New Jersey. Princeton can’t wait until February 8, when they play rival TUOP — you know, Penn.
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