Pick: Yale

DARTMOUTH AT PENN

Watching Penn throw up an oh-fer on the Brown-Yale road trip last weekend, I couldn’t help but think about when the Quakers were good at sports. Like the time The New York World-Telegram reported an Ivy League conspiracy to stop playing Penn in football because the Quakers had scheduled Notre Dame. The reason? By playing Notre Dame, Penn would be “condoning” the decadent academic policies of the South Bend institution.

Oh Howard, I do wonder how they might descend from that high horse.

Pick: Dartmouth

CORNELL AT BROWN

By beating Penn, Brown no longer carries the distinction of the league’s only team without a victory. With power forward Cedric Kuakamensah carrying a 9.4 percent block percentage and Steven Spieth distributing and scoring well at the point, the Bears have some interesting pieces. They haven’t yet come together, but on a campus where the football team’s “timeless rivalry” is with URI, I think you’re granted a bit of a longer time horizon to figure things out.

Pick: Cornell

HARVARD AT PRINCETON

From here on out, it appears that every game will be a must-win for the 1-3 Crimson. No team has won the league with a record of 11-3 since Harvard did it three years ago, and even that team shot out of the gates before needing a Princeton collapse on the final weekend. The Crimson has won twice straight at Jadwin after a quarter-century of futility that culminated in an HSAC piece proving the home advantage the Tigers get from Jadwin’s strange lighting backdrop.

Were Charles Eliot, the Harvard president who labeled the curveball as deceptive and thus “not an ability we should want to foster at Harvard," still alive, I daresay he might shoot out that darned backdrop.

Pick: Princeton

CORNELL AT YALE

Matt Morgan could score 50, and I don’t think it’ll matter.

Pick: Yale