Penn and Princeton reasserted their decades-old dominance in men's basketball this past weekend. The twin towers completed sweeps of Brown and previously undefeated Yale to rise to the top of the league standings.
Let's check out the entire weekend's results.
Princeton 66, Brown 62
The Tigers held on at home to continue the nation's longest home winning streak against one team in the nation. The Brown Bears are now 0-51 at Princeton.
An Omari Ware lay-up cut the Princeton lead to two points with 2:48 remaining. Both teams lost the ability to score for the next 2:40 prior to a pair of C.J. Chapman foul shots with :08 to go.
Kyle Wente scored a career-high 16 points, 14 in the second half, and Ivy League Rookie of the Week Andre Logan added 15 in leading the way for Princeton, who improved to 3-0 in league.
Alaiaa Nuualiitia led Brown with 15 points, while leading Ivy scorer Earl Hunt was held to 13 with eight boards. Brown fell to 7-10, 1-3 in the Ivy League.
Penn 61, Yale 51
Both teams came into the contest undefeated, and the Quakers left still undefeated in the Ivy League and with Coach Fran Dunphy's 200th collegiate victory.
The first half saw Penn push ahead by as many as 13, only to have the Elis close the gap to three at the half. The seesaw battle continued as the Quakers again forged ahead to a 13-point advantage, yet this time held on, as the Bulldogs couldn't come closer than five points.
Senior Lamar Plummer led all scorers with 19, while Ungonna Onyekwe added 13 for Penn. Chris Leanza was Yale's only scorer in double digits, with 10 points.
Harvard 65, Cornell 57
Led by Dan Clemente and Elliot Prasse-Freeman, who each scored 17 points, the Crimson overcame the stingy defense of the Big Red to improve to 4-1 in the Ivy League. The win gave Harvard a school record for most wins over a six-year period, with 81.
The game was close throughout until a 12-0 Harvard run with 3:17 to play. Cornell could not cut the gap to any less than four.
Andrew Gellert and Brady Merchant added 10 points apiece for the Crimson. Jake Rohe led the Big Red with 17 points, as Cornell fell to 1-4 in the Ivy League.
Columbia 65, Harvard 55
The Lions broke even in the Ivy League with a weekend sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard. The loss snapped a three-game win streak for the Crimson.
Columbia led by 17 at the half, and by as many as 22 in the second half. A 19-2 Harvard run made a game of it, but Columbia held on for the win.
Craig Austin led the Lions with 25 points, as Columbia improved to 8-11, 3-3 in the league. Patrick Harvey, Andrew Gellert and Dan Clemente all scored in double figures, but the Crimson were held to a 31.7 percent field goal percentage as a team in the loss.
Harvard fell to 11-7, 4-2 in the league, and dropped into sole possession of third place behind Penn and Princeton.
Penn 59, Brown 50
The Quakers extended the nation's longest conference win streak to 25 games by downing the faltering Brown Bears. Brown is 1-5 since downing Dartmouth in early January.
Penn controlled the flow of the game most of the way, not allowing Hunt to explode on them, though he did knock down 15 points. The Quaker defense forced 18 turnovers and held the Bears to 40.4 percent from the floor in the victory.
Plummer led the Quakers for the fourth consecutive game, with 18 while Onyekwe added 15 points and nine boards. Penn improved to 7-11, 4-0 in league, while Brown dropped to 7-11, 1-4 in league.
Princeton 62, Yale 49
The Princeton Tigers showed that they are still the cream of the crop in the Ivy League by dispatching surprising Yale on Saturday. The Tigers are now tied with Penn at 4-0 in the league are the only team other than Harvard above .500 overall, with a mark of 9-7.
Sophomore Kyle Wente had his second straight big game, as he notched a new career-high with 17 points as Princeton turned a mere four-point edge at the half into as big a lead as 16. Nate Walton and Ed Persia each added 10 points for the Tigers.
The Bulldogs were held to 30 percent from the floor in the loss, which dropped them into fourth in the league with a 3-2 conference mark. Paul Vitelli led the Eli's with 13 points off the bench in the defeat, while the Tigers held leading scorer Chris Leanza to only six points.
