Senior guard Courtney Banghart has recently returned to top form on both ends of the floor. She is currently ranked third in the league in both scoring (16.1 ppg) and three-point shooting percentage (.359). In addition, she has given opposing offenses major headaches, garnering a league-best 87 steals.

Dartmouth also features the leading candidate for Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Katherine Hanks. The freshman forward is the team's best rebounder (7.0 rpg) and second leading scorer behind Banghart (14.7 ppg).

This weekend, the Big Green faces Cornell (11-13, 3-9) and Columbia (6-18, 5-7), who occupy fifth and last place in the league, respectively. The two teams combined for just one win in four games this weekend, as the Lions downed Yale 65-53.

One team that surely will be rooting for a Dartmouth loss is Penn.

Before dealing the Crimson a 79-66 defeat this past Saturday, the Quakers squandered an opportunity to move into a tie for first by falling 75-71 to the Big Green on Friday night.

Despite 29 points from center Diana Caramanico and 22 from guard Mandy West, Penn failed to stop Dartmouth's offense which boasted four players in double figures.

Against Harvard, Penn's prolific scoring capabilities yielded a far better result. Caramanico, the Ivy League Player of the Week, once again ruled the day, contributing a game-high 31 points and adding ten rebounds as the Quakers walloped the Crimson, 79-66 at the Palestra.

With Caramanico and West ranked one and two among scorers in the Ivy League, Penn's offense is the most formidable in the conference. The Quakers, whose win total this season has already broken a school record, average 75.6 ppg.