If you watched the Duke-North Carolina men's basketball game on ESPN last night you saw extended coverage of the final frenzy at Leede Arena where Dartmouth's Gabas Maldunas took a lob from John Golden and with half a second left and banked in a bunny that gave the Big Green a stunning 59-58 win over Yale. The final play also made No. 2 on the ESPN Top 10 highlights.
Dartmouth led just twice in the game, at 29-28 in the final minute of the first half, and by a point in the final second of the game. The Big Green trailed by five points with 35 seconds left and by four with 24 seconds to go.
Yale, which defeated Harvard Friday night to win at least a share of the Ivy League title, had only to beat Dartmouth to earn its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1962. The Bulldogs will now share the crown with Harvard and have to play the Crimson Saturday at the Palestra in a playoff for the NCAA invitation. The teams split their head-to-head matchups this season with Harvard winning in New Haven, 52-50, and Yale winning in Cambridge Friday night, 62-52.
Green Alert Take: In the spirit of the bogus "14-Game Tournament" and the Ivy League's refusal to join the real world and hold a league tournament, I think it only right that Saturday's Harvard-Yale game be called off and Yale be awarded the NCAA bid for having outscored Harvard by eight points over the two games combined. I'm kidding but you get the idea.
Green Alert Take II: Dartmouth won its final five games of the year and six of the last seven to improve to 14-14 overall and 7-7 in the Ivy League. The Big Green was as hot as any team in the league over the final four weekends of the season and will make a legitimate run at the NCAA bid in the Ivy League tournament. Oops . . .
Green Alert Take II: Dartmouth won its final five games of the year and six of the last seven to improve to 14-14 overall and 7-7 in the Ivy League. The Big Green was as hot as any team in the league over the final four weekends of the season and will make a legitimate run at the NCAA bid in the Ivy League tournament. Oops . . .
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Dartmouth men's hockey completed a two-game sweep of Princeton with a 2-0 victory Saturday night and will now play a best-of-three starting Friday at Colgate. The winner of that series will advance to the ECAC semifinals on March 20 with a berth in the ECAC finals the next day.
Green Alert Take: Wait a minute. Does the Ivy League believe in a postseason tournament or doesn't it?
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New York's Garden City News has a story about the annual Reeves Scholarship Award winners, honoring the late Dartmouth offensive tackle Bob Reeves '03. From the story:The scholarship was created in memory of Bobby Reeves, a member of Garden City High School's Class of 1999. Bobby was a rare and colorful person; he was a gifted athlete, a strong performer in the classroom and was selected funniest person by his class. Upon graduation, Bobby went on to Dartmouth College, where he played football all four years. After college Bobby played Arena League Football before beginning a career on Wall Street.
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Penn and Columbia have "released" or "announced" their football schedules for next fall. Find the Penn release here and the Columbia release here. Yawn.
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With the "Legacy Bowl" game in Osaka, Japan set for March 21, Princeton kicked off spring football practice last week, five weeks earlier than usual.
Dartmouth is slated to hit the field one month from yesterday, April 7.
Dartmouth is slated to hit the field one month from yesterday, April 7.