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It was on my to-do list to head down to campus and take a shot of the actual Ivy League championship trophy, but I certainly can't  do better than this screen grab from a Dartmouth football Twitter account. (Thanks for the help ;-):

This is a photo I did snap of the coach-of-the-year medallion presented to Buddy Teevens ;-)

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Thanks to several of you for sharing a link to a Washington Post story about former Dartmouth basketball point guard Alex Mitola, who graduated with a 3.5 GPA in economics in three years and is now playing for 14-4 George Washington. There has been a lot of speculation about why he left and this excerpt helps explain his thinking:

At Dartmouth, Mitola started every game over three seasons. He averaged almost 12 points per game, set a program record for three-pointers by a freshman and led the league in free throw percentage as a sophomore and junior. In March 2014, he made eight three-pointers and scored 33 points against Cornell. 

Yet he was not satisfied. 

“I did enjoy the school and loved my teammates and the program,” Mitola said, “but I felt like it wasn’t everything I was looking for in college basketball.”

Translation: He was confident he could play at a higher level and wanted to prepare himself for a possible basketball career in Europe.