Brown, meanwhile, staved off what would have been an embarrassing last-place tie with the Big Green with a Saturday win over Columbia. After scoring 100 in the season’s penultimate Saturday last season, Brown strangely went off again in the third-to-last game of this year, dropping 94 on the Lions.

Brown shot a ridiculous 14-of-22 from three, motivated by the advice that’s been given to every runner towards the end of the pack, every student before a test he or she didn’t study for, and every American World Cup team for the past half-century: “No matter how bad this turns out, whatever you do, just don’t let yourself be as bad as Dartmouth.”

Pick: Penn 74, Brown 57

YALE (19-7, 9-3) AT PRINCETON (16-11, 7-4)

The Ivy League may be as deep as it’s ever been, with four squads in the Top 100 of the RPI, including these two.

Both have something to play for in this one and can keep their tournament dreams alive—provided Harvard loses this weekend—by winning out.

If there’s one team with the size to stop Greg Mangano and the Bulldogs, it’s Princeton, which has won five of its last six and—after topping the Crimson in Jadwin—played Harvard to the wire in Episode II: Attack of the Clones Friday night.

Behind its home crowd, I think the Tigers take this in a tight one.

Pick: Princeton 61, Yale 60

DARTMOUTH (5-23, 1-11) AT CORNELL (11-15, 6-6)

Last weekend, the Big Green had the chance to stun Penn at home, nearly tying the game with 12 seconds to go on a Jvonte Brooks and-one layup. But Brooks missed the ensuing free throw, Rosen hit two from the charity stripe (they call it that for a reason, Jvonte!), and that was that. Classic Dartmouth.

The only thing remotely interesting about this game is that if the Big Green’s Gabas Maldunas (9.0 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 1.3 BPG) goes off, he could possibly overtake Cornell’s Shonn Miller (9.3 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 1.8 BPG) for the league’s Rookie of the Year.

If basketball doesn’t work out for those two, I suggest they team up and star in a buddy cop movie called “Gabotage.” They’d be the best Lithuanian-Ohioan BFF combo since Big Z and LeBron.

Pick: Cornell 68, Dartmouth 57

HARVARD AT CORNELL