DARTMOUTH at PRINCETON

A week into the new year, The Dartmouth reported that 64 students have been implicated in a cheating scandal for a class titled “Sports, Ethics, & Religion.” The class was targeted to student-athletes, who made up just under 70 percent of the total enrollment. I’m going to avoid the temptation to make jokes about cheating in an ethics class. Especially because, with Dartmouth professors suggesting we celebrate the kids who didn’t cheat instead of focusing on the ones who did—roughly analogous to spending Hall of Fame conversations talking about Jeff Francoeur and not Barry Bonds—the jokes here all write themselves.

Pick: Princeton

HARVARD at PENN

This contest looms as a classic trap game for the Crimson. Although Harvard waxed the Quakers by a combined 50 points in its two meetings last year, this year’s Crimson has not proved it deserves the plaudits of last year’s edition. Harvard has already dropped winnable contests to Holy Cross, Boston College, and Dartmouth after fading late, holding on by the skin of its teeth against Bryant and Vermont.

Penn has the horses to give Harvard trouble, however. The Quakers boast a strong frontcourt headed by junior Darien Nelson-Henry—a punishing body down low and the unofficial captain of last year’s All-Ivy Facial Hair Squad. Two years ago, a similar Crimson squad lost here to put its Ivy League title hopes on the brink. If Harvard loses Friday, it may find itself in a similarly desperate situation.

Pick: Harvard

—Staff writer David Freed can be reached at davidfreed@college.harvard.edu.

 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: January 30, 2015

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Yale won the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament in 2014. In fact, Yale reached the finals of the tournament.