A Look Up: When The National ranked Princeton in its preseason top-50, basketball fans across the country may have scoffed. Mentioning Princeton in the same breath as national basketball powerhouses such as Duke and Indiana may have seemed laughable at the time, but the wire services have caught on to the Tigers mystique. The Associated Press poll lists Princeton at number 23 this week, ahead of Big East powerhouses Seton Hall and Georgetown.

When it comes time for March Madness to erupt, look for the Tigers to enjoy an ever higher seeding than the 14th position it captured in last year's NCAA tournament, when they just missed knocking off Arkansas.

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A Look Down: Penn has settled into the Ivy League cellar, losing to the Elis, 69-64, at Yale Friday and falling to the Bruins, 66-60, at Brown Saturday.

The lone bright spot in a season of disappointments has been the play of freshman Will McAllister, five-time winner of the Ivy League Rookie of the Week Honor. Until last week, McAllister was the only player to have captured the award.

A 31-point, seven-rebound weekend earned Dartmouth's Gregg Frame the honor last week.