The Dartmouth men's basketball team ended its season this weekend, downing Yale 65-63 in overtime and crushing Brown 64-54.
The Dartmouth men's basketball team's quest for the Ivy League crown melted away this weekend as the Big Green came up short at Penn and Princeton.
For many, it was the most fantastic athletic event witnessed in Hanover. It had drama. It had suspense.
Men's Basketball comes from behind to defeat Brown, pounds Yale
Saturday the Dartmouth men's basketball team ended its non-conference schedule with an impressive win over Navy 59-48, as the Big Green outscored the Midshipmen 40-21 in the second half to overcome an eight point deficit at the break. Sea Lonergan '97 scored 12 of his 20 points in the second half to lead the comeback. "We played very loosely and effectively in the second half," Dartmouth Coach Dave Faucher said after the game.
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The Dartmouth men's basketball team was a perfect 2-0 in Ivy league match-ups this weekend as they defeated both Columbia and Cornell at home. With the sweep the Big Green improved to 8-5 and more importantly 3-1 in the Ivy League. "These were big wins for us," co-Captain Matt Bush '96 said.
The Dartmouth men's basketball team suffered their first Ivy league loss at the hands of visiting Harvard 40-59 Saturday night at home in a crowded Leede Arena. Although Dartmouth Coach Dave Faucher was quick to credit the Cambridge crew for their tenacious defense, he summed up his squad's performance as a "debacle." "That's the poorest we've looked in a very long time, we couldn't convert even easy opportunities," Faucher said. In fact, Dartmouth shot less than 30 percent from the floor, resulting in their lowest point output (40) of the season since Rice kept the Big Green to 54 on last December. This season Dartmouth averages over 70 points per game Early on, Dartmouth looked fine.
On paper it may look like the Dartmouth men's basketball team cooled off a bit since early December.
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