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It was an average finish to an average year for the men’s basketball team. The Elis (15-14, 7-7 Ivy) dropped their last two games to Penn (20-9, 12-2), 57-55, and Princeton (12-15, 10-4), 56-45, to close out their 2005-06 season. The Bulldogs finished fourth in the Ivy League, behind the Killer Ps and Cornell. The »

If the men’s basketball team had the opportunity to draw up its own Ivy League schedule, it could not have come up with a more exciting home stretch. The Bulldogs (15-12, 7-5 Ivy) will host Penn (18-7, 10-1) on Friday and Princeton (10-14, 8-3) on Saturday in their final homestand of the season. Penn and »

Women’s lacrosse recruits seem to be getting better and better. After last year’s freshman class, which brought the Elis both their starting goalkeeper, Ellen Cameron ’08, and All-Ivy midfielder Lauren Taylor ’08, it seemed as though Yale would be hard-pressed to find a more promising set of rookies. But after watching the Class of 2009 »

Although splitting a road trip against middle-of-the-pack Ivy League opponents may not seem too impressive, the men’s basketball team secured a winning overall record and its sixth consecutive league season with a .500 or better record in its penultimate weekend of conference play. Though the Elis (15-12, 7-5 Ivy) fell to Cornell (11-15, 6-6), 68-64, »

If either of this weekend’s men’s basketball games comes down to a half-court shot at the buzzer, Yale is definitely going to win. As they launched bombs from half-court at the end of practice Thursday, the Elis (14-11, 6-4 Ivy) showed all the makings of a relaxed, confident and energetic team going into their final »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After searching for more than a year, the men’s basketball team finally found what it had been looking for — a road win in conference play. The fact that the team to fall at the Elis’ hands was archrival Harvard (12-11, 4-6 Ivy) made the long-awaited victory even sweeter. After falling to »

The last time the men’s basketball team went on the road, it faced the challenge of overcoming the top two teams in the Ivy League. This time around, the issue won’t be taking down opponents so much as kicking them after they’ve already fallen. This weekend, the Elis (13-10, 5-3 Ivy) travel to Dartmouth (3-18, »

Just over halfway through the Ivy League season, the men’s basketball team finds itself pretty much where everyone expected it would be. The Elis are in third place, behind Penn and Princeton, with a mountain of obstacles to overcome if they want to overtake the Killer Ps during the second half of conference play. In »

So far this season, the road has been nothing but trouble for the men’s basketball team. Fortunately for the Elis, their home court has consistently brought them wins, and this weekend was no different. The Bulldogs (13-10, 5-3 Ivy) picked up two victories against Columbia (8-13, 1-7) and Cornell (10-12, 5-3) this weekend. The Elis »

High expectations, attempts that consistently fell short, disappointing losses. Overall, it was a typical weekend on the road for Yale men’s basketball. The Elis (11-10, 3-3 Ivy) are 0-3 on the road against league opponents this year after dropping games to Princeton (5-12, 3-1), 66-49, and Penn (12-6, 4-0), 74-52, this past weekend. The defeats »

No Ivy League men’s basketball team has swept Penn and Princeton on the road in 19 years, not since Yale took home both wins during the 1986-87 season. And this weekend, the Elis (11-8, 3-1 Ivy) are looking to prove that they can do it again. Tonight the Bulldogs face Princeton (3-12, 1-1), a matchup »

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