BricksIt Weekly
Welcome to the Ivy
Penn rates highest, Columbia looks best, and Yale is 1-3
Only Penn rates above the Division I average in our model. No Ivy team is in our top 150 yet.
By the Hardwood Bricks desk
Hardwood Bricks now covers the Ivy League, eight schools from Hanover and Ithaca to New York, Princeton and Philadelphia. Every game gets a preview, a recap, a line history and a spot in our ratings.
Penn is the only Ivy team our model rates above the Division I average, at 154th, despite a 1-3 start. The Quakers lost by 42 at Illinois and by five at Navy and Saint Joseph's, and beat Howard by 13.
Columbia (168th) is 3-1 and won 77-59 at Bucknell on Friday as a 5.5-point favorite. Its only loss was 84-71 at home to Elon on opening night.
Yale is 1-3 after losses at UCF, at Baylor and at Northeastern, where the Bulldogs were 1.5-point favorites.
Princeton is 3-1 and beat two CAA teams at home, Hofstra 60-58 and Stony Brook 69-59. Brown is 1-4 and rates last in the league at 286th.
Dartmouth on the road
The Big Green won at Marist as 7.5-point underdogs and at UAlbany, around an overtime home loss to Central Connecticut.
Cornell's opener
Cornell beat Pepperdine 86-85 on opening night, then lost at Lehigh and at St. Bonaventure.
Harvard's week
The Crimson lost in overtime at Northeastern and by 28 at George Washington.
Ivy Madness
Only the top four make the league tournament in March, so every league game counts.
By the numbers
The pecking order
Our model's rating for every Ivy team: points better or worse than an average Division I team over 100 possessions. Record alongside.