I'd take a split...

With a 2-0 start, the Penn basketball team has been playing better, but two wins on the road this weekend is a very slim possibility.

Columbia is a winnable game, but the Lions are solid this year. They are a mere 7-11, but due to playing only seven of those at home, and only facing five teams in the bottom 200 of the RPI, have a rank of their own at 213 (compared to Penn's 309)

Columbia also hasn't lost to a team worse than it. The Lions' worst defeat was the opener to Fordham (RPI=180) at home, and that's really not even a bad loss.

Stat-wise, Ben Nwachukwu has been a bit of a disappointment, grabbing 6.7 points and a mere 4.5 rebounds per game, but another senior - John Baumann - has picked up the slack. He's averaging 15.2 and 6.9 inside, as well as shooting 51 percent from the floor and 79 percent from the line.

As a team, Columbia shoots a fairly sad 40.6 percent, and an equally un-impressive 33.6 percent from beyond the arc. K.J. Matsui, however, has hit over half of his 71 threes this year. On defense, however, they do lock down on perimeter attempts - their opponents hit a paltry 31.5 percent from three. If you're a Penn fan, hope that this recent trend of not settling for threes continues....

As a result, Penn is an underdog for this game, and I can assume it will be a large margin against Cornell. Here are the Ivy League lines for Friday night:

Penn at Columbia (-7.5) Princeton at Cornell (-12) Harvard at Yale (-7.5) Dartmouth at Brown (-11)