Still reeling from the loss of junior Dan Clemente to a season-ending eye

injury, the Harvard men's basketball team will collide against Dartmouth

tonight at Lavietes Pavilion in its first Ivy League test of the year and only the second game without its star forward.

In the first game minus Clemente, who underwent surgery Friday to repair a detached retina, Harvard (3-4) was manhandled by Colgate, 76-49. The

Crimson scored just 14 points in the first half and shot a miserable 32.2% from the field.

Harvard cannot afford to start out flat again tonight against Dartmouth (3-3), which was picked by many to contend for an Ivy League title along with Penn and Princeton. The Big Green boasts one of the more explosive offenses in the conference, featuring a host of players who can score in double digits on any given night.

Shaun Gee, a 6'7' senior forward, leads Dartmouth, fresh off a 32-point effort in the Big Green's 85-72 loss to Quinnipiac on Saturday. Gee was a first-team All-Ivy choice last year.

"Gee is the player we're most concerned about," captain Damian Long said. "We're going to try to rotate guys in and out on defense to go to work on him. No matter who we put up on him, though, it'll be a tough match-up."