Additionally, Snowden stands among the Ivy League leaders in rebounds with 8.3 boards per game. Rankin is close behind at 6.2.
Those numbers were good enough to snag Snowden the season's first Ivy League Rookie of the Week award and got Rankin a spot on the League's weekly Honor Roll.
"They've really been going strong to the basket and filling up the middle for us," Campbell said. "Anytime you've got those guys inside, it helps the team."
Great Scott
The Crimson has benefited this season from a number of players' improved performances this season. In addition to Rankin and Snowden, Leake, Dan Morris and Terrence Mann have all made strides since last year.
Nobody, however, has matched junior forward Fred Scott's turnaround.
After a ten-point game against Holy Cross--including two of four from three-point range--the Indianapolis native is averaging nine points and four rebounds a game.
While not the stats of a superstar, they mark a huge change from last season, when Scott suffered from various injuries and languished on the bench.
Around the Ivies
As expected, preseason favorite Penn has established itself as the strongest team in the Ancient Eight. With a pair of 15-point road wins over Southern Cal and Lehigh sandwiched around a three-point loss at Ohio State, the Quakers turned enough heads to receive 22 votes in last week's Associated Press poll.
"There are no Michael Jordans out there," captain Barry Pierce said after the Ohio State game, a biting loss that saw Penn squander a 12-point halftime lead. "We feel confident that we can compete with any team in the country. There are no moral victories this year."
A few other teams have turned in surprising performances thus far. Cornell, picked as high as third in some preseason publications, stands at 1-3 under new coach Al Walker after opening its season with 50-point losses to Maryland and Syracuse and a 40-point loss to St. Louis. (St. Louis?)
And Columbia, which was the unanimous choice to finish dead last in the Ancient Eight, has been surprisingly competitive in building a 2-2 record.
Dartmouth, which will visit Briggs Cage next Tuesday to play Harvard, stands at 1-2 after early losses to New Hampshire and Boston College and then a victory over Middlebury on December 1.
Although the Big Green will be heavily favored over the Crimson next week, look for a possible upset. Coach Dave Faucher has struggled to find a consistent scorer on the Dartmouth team (sound familiar?), and his players will likely be rusty after just one game in the last two weeks. And Rankin, Snowden and company could have a field day inside with last season's transfer wonder, ex-Duke Blue Devil Crawford Palmer, gone.