After scoring the final 16 Penn points at Dartmouth on Friday, the senior point guard, putting on one of the memorable big-shot shows in Big 5 history, scored the final nine at Harvard, including the winning free throws with 23 seconds after one more fearless drive.
Then Tyler Bernardini, playing with a very painful stress fracture, threw his body in front of Kyle Casey with 3.5 seconds left when it looked like the Harvard forward was going to make the winning basket. Charge . . .
Penn 55, Harvard 54
The Ivy race is wide open with one weekend and one first-Tuesday-in-March Penn at Princeton game to go.
Penn (17-11, 9-2 Ivy) is home to Brown and Yale (9-3) this weekend. Harvard (24-4, 10-2) is at Columbia and Cornell.
The Yale-Penn loser is probably out. If Penn and Harvard win out, there will be a one-game playoff for the NCAA berth. Each would be declared Ivy champ.
Everybody conceded this title to Harvard before the season began. Penn obviously is conceding nothing.
WHY THEY PLAYED ON CAMPUS
Now you know why Saint Joseph's decided to play its home games with Temple and Villanova at Hagan Arena. Saturday nights. Wild crowds. Big wins.
The Hawks were at their running, dunking, blocking, three-point shooting best in their 82-72 win over Temple. St. Joe's (19-11, 9-6 Atlantic 10) not only got a share of the City Series title (Owls and Hawks finished 3-1), it ended Temple's 11-game winning streak and 10-game winning streak against SJU.
Temple's veteran backcourt won the first meeting decisively. SJU's younger backcourt won this one, as Langston Galloway (22) and Tay Jones (18) combined for 40 points. Ron Roberts (18 points) was a man off the bench for SJU.
