Sunday, January 29, 2023

Add One

To the list of incoming Dartmouth commits add Jorden Barnes, a 6-foot, 185-pound all-region defensive back/wide receiver from Nashville's  Brentwood Academy. His commitment Tweet:

Barnes lists offers from Yale, Colgate and Georgetown. He helped a powerhouse Brentwood team with no fewer than eight all-region players go 9-3 in the fall.

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This will, or at least should, make your Sunday morning:

Green Alert Take: Hamlin's full Instagram message linked in the Tweet is well worth watching.

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Since moving out of Hanover/Etna we no longer go to every Dartmouth basketball game but with the men's team having a strong Ivy League season, we took in yesterday's matinee against Columbia and were lucky enough to see Dame Adelekun put on an historic performance.

The 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward tied the Leede Arena scoring record by bulling his way to 41 points in an 83-73 win over Columbia in a game that was back-and-forth until the final minutes. Columbia simply had no answer for Adelekun, who muscled and spun his away to the rim time after time, against defender after defender, in what was a breakout performance by the senior from Gastonia, N.C.

Adelekun has been solid all year but prior to yesterday his career high was 21 points in this year's opener, meaning he skipped entirely over the 30-point plateau. He made 14-of-18 field goal attempts and 13-of-19 from the stripe against the Lions.

Adelekun tied the Leede scoring record set by Cornell's Matt Morgan in 2019 while becoming the first Dartmouth player to register a 40-point game since three-point sharpshooter Jim Barton tallied 48 in an overtime loss at Brown as a sophomore in 1987.

Per the Dartmouth writeup of the game, Adelekun is just the fourth NCAA Division I player this year to have a 40-point double-double. Dartmouth is now 4-3 in the Ivy League and 8-13 overall.

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EXTRA POINT
This has a Twilight Zone feel to it.

Yesterday's PAT referenced Robo the robotic vacuum cleaner's beep turning me into Pavlov's Dog.

Last night out of the blue Mrs. BGA and I watched the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, which I had not seen before. At the heart of the movie is a psychologist from the "Pavlov Institute" brainwashing soldiers in the Korean War. But no, he doesn't brainwash his subjects to respond to the beep of a robotic vacuum. 

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