The Bulldogs enter the game a ideal 8-0 at home this season and on an eight-game winning streak, while the Lions are on a hot streak themseleves having won their last six in a row.
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Monmouth (NJ) 91, Fairfield 67: Austin Tilghman scored a career-high 16 on 6-of-7 shooting to lead seven Monmouth players in double figures as the Hawks cruised to a win over Fairfield. They hit double digits in three-pointers for the third straight game (12-23, now 37-60 in those games), and (after posting 1.53 ppp in the first half) finished at 1.32 ppp.
Sherrod can now sing his way into the record books, and no one can take that away from him. Alex Rosenberg led the lions with 14 points with Maodo Lo adding eleven points and five yanks. At 13-5, Yale is nipping at the heels of Columbia (15-6) and will look to pocket a win over its conference foe once Friday night’s contest wraps up.
The Tigers were held to 43% from the floor with four more free throws to stay competitive with the almost 53% shooting Bulldogs.
The Columbia Lions (15-6) visit Yale to play the Bulldogs (13-5) in a matchup that pits the Ivy League’s top-ranked offense against the top-ranked defense. ILDN also has live coverage of both games from the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, R.I.as Brown (6-12, 1-3 Ivy) hosts Cornell (9-9, 2-2 Ivy) on Friday and Columbia on Saturday.
Sherrod’s run began on January 16, when he made his final shot of Yale’s game against Brown. Jones is now the 18th longest tenured Division I coach (15th if you only include coaches whose schools have been in Division I the entire time), and is the longest tenured coach never to appear in an NCAA Tournament by a pretty wide margin (next on the list are two CAA coaches: Drexel’s Bruiser Flint, who at least got to coach in the NCAAs at UMass, and William & Mary’s Tony Shaver).
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The Columbia Lions were penciled in as one of the top teams in the Ivy League and haven’t disappointed. Columbia is 2-4 in close games this season. “We look forward to going out and being at our best next weekend”.
