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Gaines to transfer and Random Ivy Notes 3/11

Zach Klitzman

1) Yes I'm linking to my own article, but Harrison Gaines has decided to transfer from Penn.

2) In the de facto Ivy League Championship game, the Dartmouth women's basketball team beat Harvard to clinch the auto-bid to the NCAAs.  The win gave the Big Green its 17th championship overall, second consecutive and fourth in the last five seasons.

3) The Ivy League announced its men's All-Ivy teams, and Penn did not do very well.  Tyler Bernardini managed an honorable mention (his second-straight such honor).  And ... that was it.

Zack Rosen, who many predicted would be Rookie of the Year in the preseason, did not win that award. Instead it went to Cornell guard Chris Wroblewski who played in 30 games (seven starts) and averaged 6.7 points, 2.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 25.3 minutes per game. Meanwhile, Rosen started 27 of Penn's 28 games and averaged 8.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 5.0 assists (which led the league) and 31.1 minutes per game.  Then again, Cornell won the league with a 11-3 record, while Penn limped to a 6-8 finish.

But I definitely did agree with the Player of the Year choice, as Dartmouth's Alex Barnett more than deserved that honor. He led the league with 19.4 points per game, and ranked eighth in rebounds with 5.6, as he led the Big Green to a 7-7 Ancient Eight record. That was the team's best finish in four years.\

4) Here's a nice reminiscing of old times at the Palestra and Franklin Field.