Men's Basketball Weekly Release - Week 3

November 19, 2012

Complete Ivy League Men's Basketball Weekly Release in pdf format

Photos courtesy of Brown Athletic Communications and Penn Athletic Communications

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League men’s basketball looks to rebound from a tough week that saw teams combine for only four wins in 19 games with an active slate of 16 games throughout the Thanksgiving week. 

Penn closes out play in the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off, as does Cornell in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational. Columbia heads west for the San Francisco Hilltop Classic after taking on Villanova to start the week. Brown, Dartmouth and Yale play their first home games of the season this week while Harvard and Princeton go on the road for big early-season tests.

This week, the League has four games slated for national broadcast, highlighted by the Ivies' second of 13 games on the NBC Sports Network with Harvard at Saint Joseph's on Tuesday, Nov. 20.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Penn junior forward Fran Dougherty (New Britain, Pa.) put up a career week in all three of the Quakers’ games, averaging 24.3 points and 8.7 rebounds. Dougherty’s 31-point effort against Fairfield was the most scored by a Penn player since Ibrahim Jaaber had 32 against Seton Hall early in the 2006-07 season. He posted his first two collegiate double-doubles with 10 rebounds to go along with his 31 points vs. Fairfield and 21 points and 10 boards vs. Drexel. Dougherty went 27-of-43 from the field for the week, hit the first four three-pointers of his career, and after going 1-of-5 at the foul line in the first half vs. Delaware, connected on 14-of-16 the rest of the week.

Dougherty's Statistics for the Week

	MIN	FG-A	PCT	3FG-A	PCT	FT-A	PCT	REB	A	B	S	PTS
at Delaware	29	6-8	.750	2-5	.500	7-11	.636	6	0	2	2	21
vs. Fairfield	36	13-21	.619	1-5	.200	4-5	.800	10	1	2	0	31
vs. Drexel	34	8-14	.571	1-5	.200	4-5	.800	10	0	1	2	21
TOTALS	33.0	27-43	.628	4-15	.286	15-21	.714	8.7	0.3	1.7	1.3	24.3

 

 

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Brown sophomore center Rafael Maia (Sao Paulo, Brazil) burst onto the scene with a dominant week, topping his career scoring high in consecutive games with 14 points at Central Connecticut State then 21 points at Maine. For the week, Maia shot 68.2 percent (15-of-22) from the field and was also solid on the backboards with eight rebounds against Maine and five vs. Central Connecticut State to go along with his season-high three steals vs. Maine.

Maia's Statistics for the Week

	MIN	FG-A	PCT	3FG-A	PCT	FT-A	PCT	REB	A	B	S	PTS
at Central Connecticut	24	6-8	.750	0-0	.000	2-3	.000	5	2	0	0	14
at Maine	32	9-14	.643	0-1	.000	3-7	.429	8	1	1	3	21
TOTALS	28.0	15-23	.682	0-1	.000	5-10	.500	6.5	1.5	0.5	1.5	17.5

 

 

HONOR ROLL
Jvonte Brooks, Dartmouth (So., F - Santee, Calif.)    
10 points, 11 rebounds, 3 steals vs. New Hampshire

Siyani Chambers, Harvard (Fr., G - Golden Valley, Minn.)    
14 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals at Massachusetts
14 points, 2 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, 50.0 FG% vs. Manhattan

Devin Cherry, Cornell (So., G - Meridan, Miss.)    
14 points, 2 rebounds vs. St. Bonaventure
14 points, 7 rebounds vs. Saint Peter’s
13 points, 2 rebounds at Wisconsin

Ian Hummer, Princeton (Sr., F - Vienna, Va.)    
25 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 66.7 FG% vs. Northeastern
10 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 50.0 FG% vs. Rutgers

Wesley Saunders, Harvard (So., G - Los Angeles)    
18 points, 1 rebound, 5 assists at Massachusetts
10 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists vs. Manhattan

Matthew Sullivan, Brown (Sr., G - Wilmette, Ill.)    
18 points, 5 rebounds, at Central Connecticut State
12 points, 3 rebounds at Maine

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Monday, November 19
1-Penn vs. Fordham, 6 pm

Tuesday, November 20
Columbia at Villanova, 7 pm [ESPN3]
Harvard at Saint Joseph’s, 7:30 pm [NBCSN]
1-Penn at Lehigh, 8:30 pm
2-Cornell at Arizona State, 9 pm [PAC-12]

Wednesday, November 21
Bryant at Brown, 7 pm
Princeton at Syracuse, 7 pm [TIME WARNER]
Yale at Vermont, 7 pm

Friday, November 23
2-Cornell vs. Presbyterian, 4:30 pm
3-Columbia vs. Wayland Baptist, 9 pm

Saturday, November 24
Saint Francis (N.Y.) at Brown, 2 pm
IPFW at Dartmouth, 2 pm
Princeton at Lafayette, 2 pm
Army at Yale, 2 pm
2-Cornell vs. Longwood/Florida A&M, 3/5:30 pm
3-Columbia at San Francisco, 10 pm

KEY:
1-Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (Consolation-Bethlehem, Pa.)
2-Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational (Las Vegas, Nev.)
3-6-San Francisco Hilltop Classic (San Francisco, Calif.)