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While the search for three assistant football coaches is over, the search is just beginning for a new men's basketball coach. One year after leading Dartmouth to its first appearance in the Ivy League tournament, Dave McLaughlin has been let go by AD Mike Harrity. (LINK)
McLaughlin finished with a 41-85 record in conference play and an 87-161 overall mark over nine seasons. The Big Green was 5-9 in the Ivy this year, and 11-16 overall.
Green Alert Take: While men's ice hockey is enjoying a banner season, men's and women's basketball continue to struggle mightily at Dartmouth. The Big Green's best season under McLaughlin was 8-6 in the Ivy League and 14-14 overall in 2024-25. The team hasn't finished with a winning overall record this century. (The last winning record was 14-12 in 1998-99.) The women's team was 1-13 in the Ivy League this winter and is just 6-64 in conference since 2019-20. The women's team went 10-17 overall this year and has finished with a winning record just once over the past 16 seasons. It's been a precipitous fall for Dartmouth, which has won a record 17 Ivy League championships in women's basketball.
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The temperature here at our Vermont hillside home hit 65 degrees yesterday while up in Burlington it reached 73, the warmest temperature ever recorded in the state's biggest city before March 15 per record keeping dating back to the 1800s.
You've got to give it to robins. Although more and more are reported to winter in these parts, I hadn't seen a single one since last fall, but like clockwork they showed up in droves yesterday. Dozens of them were in our field pecking away looking for worms and other tasty delights. ;-)
