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The Harvard women completely took Dartmouth out of its comfort zone in the Ivy League opener for both teams, leaving Leede Arena with a comfortable 72-47 victory on Saturday afternoon.
The conference-opening win was the fifth in the last six games for the Crimson and upped the team’s overall mark to 8-6, while the Big Green dropped its third straight game to a Division I opponent and moved to 9-5 on the year.
The Princeton women’s basketball team started the new year and Ivy League season right where they left off in 2025: coming from behind in the fourth quarter to scratch out victories on the road.
The Tigers’ newest victim was an old rival, the Penn Quakers, whom the Tigers outlasted, 74-68, at the Palestra on Saturday afternoon.
Penn suffered its 15th straight setback to Princeton, but if there is any such thing as a silver lining in losing, the Quakers can find one in this game. After outplaying Princeton for nearly three quarters of the game, the Quakers showed they are a legitimate contender in the Ancient Eight this season.
Here are three Tigers takeaways from No. 25 Princeton’s 11th consecutive win on the season:
The Princeton women’s basketball team tips off its Ivy League season against Penn at the Palestra on Saturday afternoon after finishing the nonconference season with a 12-1 record, a No. 25 ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, and a gaudy NET ranking of No. 38, tops in the Ivy League.
Here are three Tigers Takeaways as what could be a season of destiny for Princeton transitions to conference play:
Penn closed out the nonconference portion of its schedule strong, using a 17-0 run early in the second half to power its way past NJIT for an 80-61 win.
The Quakers (7-6) entered Wednesday as 14.5 point favorites, but certainly didn’t look the part in the early stages after a litany of injuries forced coach Fran McCaffery to tap players normally stuck on the bench. It took a buzzer-beating three from sophomore point guard AJ Levine to get Penn into the halftime locker room with a narrow two-point lead.
McCaffery ratcheted down the substitutions in the second half and Levine put together arguably his best half in a Penn uniform. During that aforementioned 17-0 run, Levine put up a personal 8-0 scoring burst and added two steals and two assists, to boot. The Highlanders (5-10) never trailed by single digits again the rest of the afternoon.
What did Penn fans learn from a happy start to their New Year’s Eve celebration?
Ivy Hoops Online correspondent George “Toothless Tiger” Clark recaps a 75-69 win in overtime for Princeton men’s basketball (4-11) over Vermont (8-7) at Jadwin Gym Tuesday afternoon:
Listen to audio of Princeton men’s basketball’s press conference held Tuesday afternoon after a 75-69 win for Princeton (4-11) over Vermont (8-7) in overtime at Jadwin Gym, with coach Mitch Henderson, freshman guard Landon Clark and sophomore guard Jack Stanton:
No Labaron Philon Jr. No problem. No. 14 Alabama beat up on Yale men’s basketball, 102-78, Monday night at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa.
After a frustrating loss to Maine eight days earlier, Harvard lost a 10-point second-half lead and found itself facing a second straight home upset when Delaware went up 57-54 with 5:40 left in regulation Monday.
Sunday brought a 32-point loss at Stanford to Cornell women’s basketball, which hung around for 21 minutes before a 9-0 Cardinal run put the game well out of reach in an 82-50 result.
Along the way, Cornell earned some sporting praise en route to its fifth consecutive loss heading into Ivy League play.
For a second consecutive weekend, an undermanned Penn team — again without leading scorer Ethan Roberts — pushed a double-digit Vegas favorite on the road to the absolute limit before submitting.
This time, they’ll have fewer regrets.
The Quakers (6-6) built six-point leads in the second half twice against George Mason (12-1), a contender to win the Atlantic 10 conference. But a 10-0 Patriots run midway through the second half and bad luck on the defensive glass at the worst possible time sent Penn to an 83-79 defeat.
After TJ Power hit an open corner three to trim the George Mason lead to two points with 41 seconds to play, the Quakers got the critical stop they needed to get the ball back with a chance to win the game after Lucas Lueth rejected a wild attempt by the Patriots’ Jahari Long. However, the rebound popped to George Mason, which converted a layup amid a scramble for the ball.
Penn scrapped and clawed in this one against the Patriots, who were favored by 15.5 points heading into Sunday. Unlike last Saturday’s collapse against Rutgers, Penn didn’t give this one away. George Mason went out and took it.
What did Penn fans learn from an encouraging effort?