Northeast results you may have missed from Week 10

This may have been the coldest week of the season (so far) in the northeast. The wind chill was down in the low single digits at times, but the action from conference play has radiated fiery energy throughout the region.

Here’s a look at some of the notable results from last week.

Ivy season is underway

The last conference to start up league play, the Ivy League, got underway this weekend. Each team took the floor on Saturday afternoon, and we now have a few league results to look at.

Princeton got reigning Ivy Player of the Year Caden Pierce back from an ankle injury that held him out against Kean — and for most of the Akron game — in a 68-64 win over Harvard. Pierce played 37 minutes, but recorded just nine points, mostly deferring to Xaivian Lee, who scored a game-high 22.

Thanks to a 73-70 win over Penn, Dartmouth has won three games in a row (in one season) for the first time since November of 2021. It’s also the first time that the Big Green are 1-0 in league play since January 2019. Ryan Cornish is hitting his stride for Dave McLaughlin’s now fast-paced offense, scoring 20 points in three of the last four games. The loss drops Penn to 4-10, tied for the worst start of Steve Donahue’s tenure.

The Quakers’ next opponent, Cornell, made a massive statement. The Big Red made light work of the surprise Columbia Lions in New York City to the tune of a 94-83 win with 14 made threes. It led by as many as 22 in the first half, and the game never got closer than nine in the second.

Finally, Yale backed up its status as the league favorite with its fourth win out of five, a dominant performance against Brown in New Haven. Casey Simmons returned from injury and scored 18 points, and has now been KenPom Game MVP in each of his last three full games.

Vermont’s ups and downs

Thursday night in Lowell was all about grit. Vermont went on the road to the presumed top team in America East, and let them know that they’re still the top dog.

Despite shooting 7-of-31 from three, the Catamounts took down UMass Lowell 67-63, holding the dominant interior team to just 40% inside the arc. Vermont generated extra chance after extra chance with 17 offensive rebounds and had just enough to get over the top and win the game.

A culture win for a Vermont team that is going to have to dig deeper to win games without as much offensive talent and shooting as usual.

All of those faults were on display on Saturday, when the Catamounts got blown out, 73-53, by…