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...give you like 100 guesses: Who was the second-leading scorer in Ivy League play last season? Give up so soon? It was Keenan Jeppesen, posting 16.1 per game as a sophomore, a figure that would have been even higher if he had any free-throw shooting aptitude (58.5 percent from the stripe...
...second half of the Ivy season. And beginning with a dominant opening performance against Dartmouth, Rollins emerged as one of the league’s finest post players in just her freshman season.Rollins finished the season as the Crimson’s leading scorer, averaging 10.8 points per game despite missing the first 10 games of the season with an arm injury. The team’s sparkplug off the bench, Tay led Harvard in steals with 39 and ranked second in assists, dishing out 76 over the course of the year. She was also the team?...
...position that in the Ivy League often becomes a swingman or third guard. He could drive the lane and kick it out to the perimeter or take it to the hole when he had to. He could bang bodies underneath the rim, as evidenced by his 6.3 rebounds per game last year, good for third most on the team. He could play shut-down defense, and was routinely assigned to stifle the opposing teams’ top scoring threats.This year, there is no sure thing at the three spot for Sullivan—just a lot of options.One of those...
...Steve Nash do: make himself and those around him better.What is most impressive about Housman is that he has already begun to tackle this next challenge. While emerging as one of the top-two Ivy freshman along with Gore, Housman was second in the Ivies with 3.04 assists per game, showing that he has already vaulted into that upper echelon of Ivy point guards.“[Housman] last year made a tremendous transition to college basketball—[point guard] is the hardest position to come into college and play as a freshman,” Sullivan says...
...leading scorers from last year’s team, which finished 2-14 under first-year coach Chris Gobrecht. The Bulldogs should be better this year, but the squad must improve their defense. Yale’s opponents shot 43.2 percent from the field and scored 13 more points per game than the Bulldogs. An experienced frontcourt is a plus, but Yale is still a few years away.Player to Watch: Jamie Van HornThe trigger-happy Van Horne is one of the best outside shooters in the Ivies. Teams know about her, but she’s still dangerous.PRESEASON PICKS:Aidan...