Freshman Shonn Miller has provided hope for Cornell’s future and is the clear frontrunner for the league’s Rookie of the Year in 2012, but success is still a long way away for both these teams.

Pick: Cornell 67, Columbia 62

DARTMOUTH AT YALE

I’m on a word count and running out of room, so let’s just sum this up by saying that to think this game will be close would be about as inaccurate as a Tom Williams resume.

Pick: Yale 74, Dartmouth 58

PRINCETON (10-8, 1-1) at PENN (10-9, 2-0)

Following two great seasons, the Tigers have suffered an expected return to the middle of the Ivy pack after the departures of Sydney Johnson, Dan Mavraides, and Kareem Maddox. Penn, meanwhile, once again looks poised to not live up to its talent level, losing multiple winnable games early on.

Ian Hummer has blossomed into an elite big man for Princeton, averaging 17.3 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. In Philly, Zack Rosen is giving Mangano a great race for Player of the Year—hopefully Greg’s not too mean if Rosen wins—averaging 18.3 points and becoming the Quakers all-time assists leader in the process.

Rosen and fellow senior Tyler Bernardini will be leaving everything on the court in a last-chance effort to reach the Big Dance this season, but for now, this game looks like a battle for third place.

Pick: Penn 73, Princeton 66

—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman can be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.