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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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Three Patriot-Ivy matchups give the Patriot League a chance to clinch no worse than a tie in the series if they can sweep tonight. With six more interleague matchups on the schedule following tonight, the Patriots would be up by 6 games in the series with a sweep.

A week or two ago, you'd look at tonight's matchups and say a Patriot sweep was impossible. But Cornell already has lost to Lafayette and looked absolutely pitiful against Bucknell. For Army to beat the Big Red in Ithaca would be an upset, but certainly not a shocker.

ARMY at Cornell 4 p.m.: Army looking to be at .500 at the holidays for the first time under Jim Crews. If Cornell spends the night shooting jumpers with no inside game the way they played at Bucknell, the Cadets could do it. After all, last year Cornell only beat Army by 7, Granted, that was at West Point. But Army is much improved this season.
Army notes (pdf) | Cornell notes | Ithaca Journaal preview | USA Today matchup | Gametracker

COLGATE at Harvard 7 p.m.: An interesting matchup between two of the better teams in the two leagues. The Crimson are 7-3 with a two-game win streak that includes a victory over a good Albany team Saturday in a game they played without seven-footer Brian Cusworth and junior Jim Goffredo (14.3 ppg, 4th in the Ivy). Harvard opened the season with five straight wins, beating Vermont and Holy Cross in that stretch. That was followed by a three-game skid that was capped by a loss at Lehigh.

Goffredo, whose string of 63 consecutive games played ended Saturday when an staph infection kept him out of the lineup, is expected to be back in the starting lineup, according to the Harvard Crimson. Cusworth is not expected back until January.

Colgate is 5-5, and has yet to win on the road. The Raiders early season injury woes appear to be abating. Kendall Chones and Marc Daniels are both listed as expected starters. Their presence inside should be a plus for Colgate.
Colgate notes (pdf) | Hobart Web site | USA Today matchup | Live Stats | 'Gate radio

NAVY at Yale 7 p.m.: Navy made a switch at the point during finals, moving freshman Kaleo Kina from the two, replacing fellow plebe Clif Colbert, who had been filling in since Corey Johnson was injured. Colbert, who had done a decent job, is now on the wing.

Yale is 4-4, coming off a win over Hampton on Saturday. The Elis got a boost from the addition of 6-10 senior center Dominick Martin, a transfer from Princeton who scored 14 off the bench in his first game back after sitting out the fall semester.
Navy notes (pdf) | Yale notes | USA Today matchup | Gametracker | Navy radio

HOLY CROSS vs. Clemson, 12 noon: The unbeaten (9-0) Clemson Tigers will pose a challange for the Crusaders, who would love to have another 38-point show by Kevin Hamilton but will settle for holding the Tigers below 40 percent from the field like they did against Tennessee-Chattanooga.
HC notes | Clemson notes | San Juan Shootout bracket | USA Today matchup | No free radio

Dickinson at LAFAYETTE, 7 p.m.: Dickinson is a 3-5 Division 3 team that plays a 4-guard lineup most of the time.
Lafayette notes | Dickinson Web site | USA Today matchup | Gametracker
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