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...bench? She only saw it during timeouts...
Princeton returns all but one starter from a team that went 13-1 in the Ivy League a year ago. Penn has some rebuilding to do, but reloading might be a better term for it. Yale has a dangerous starting five, but its bench is a bit suspect. The rest of the Ivies are up in the air as Brown, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard will all battle for the fourth spot. Dartmouth should remain mired in the basement of the Ivy League standings for a second straight season...
...Yale might still have the best starting five in the Ivy League this season. Edwin Draughan, Alex Gamboa and Casey Hughes comprise one of the top backcourts in the league. Sam Kaplan and Dominick Martin provide the Bulldogs with a formidable frontcourt. But the weakness clearly lies in the bench, and that should keep Yale from challenging for the league title. The Bulldogs faded late last season, dropping out of contention midway through the Ivy slate and stumbling to a 7-7 finish. Don’t expect a repeat performance of last season, as Yale is clearly better than...
...last year, agrees. “I’m discovering what’s expected and trying to do what’s asked of me,” she says. Harvard’s first years don’t expect to bide their time on the bench, but to push their elder teammates by improving in practice...
...There was never really a point during the game when Brown was scoring when we could sense panic or dejection on the bench,” Corriero said. “We knew that we were going to get back, we knew we were going to tie this game up, and we knew that we were going to win. We knew we were going to chip away...