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Last week, senior linebacker Scott Britton suffered a season-ending knee injury in a loss against Brown. Britton had ranked 10th nationally with 11.2 tackles per game and was coming off an Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week award when he went down...
...young guns played with tremendous swagger earlier in the year, quickly jumping out to a 4-0 record. Starting with their first nationally ranked opponent (No. 19 Monmouth), the team proceeded to lose five of its next six games—including defeats to Dartmouth and Brown. Although the Tigers are on a two-game winning streak, their midseason slump has all but eliminated them from the Ivy-title race. Rookie forward Matt Sanner is one to watch, though. With three goals and three assists thus far, the newcomer has emerged as one of the top contenders for Ivy League...
Princeton and Penn’s woes have effectively turned the Ivy championship into a three-horse race. Dartmouth, Harvard, and Brown (2-0-0) have all shown they are capable of winning the league, so the title will largely come down to how the teams fare against each other. Dartmouth still has to contend with away fixtures in Providence and Cambridge. Brown has already lost to Harvard and faces a difficult game this weekend against a resurgent Cornell squad...
...Crimson may be in the best position of the triumvirate. It has already topped Brown and hosts three of its last four Ivy games. Given the tight competition, however, Harvard has left itself with little room for error with its draw against the Big Red. The next two weeks against Princeton and Dartmouth may well wrap up the title for the Crimson if they obtain the maximum six points...
Regardless of who wins the Ivy crown it appears likely that all three teams, barring monumental collapse, will make the NCAA tournament. No. 11 Harvard, No. 15 Dartmouth, and No. 18 Brown have all played difficult non-conference schedules and the tournament committee will look favorably upon the teams’ overall records (All three have a winning percentage above...