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Columbia (6-23, 1-12) at Pennsylvania (15-11, 7-6) – 6:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Brown (14-12, 7-6) at Dartmouth (12-16, 5-8) – 7:00 PM EST (ESPN+)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day is a doubleheader out of the Ivy League – both the Penn Quakers and the Brown Bears will be vying for the final spot in the Ivy League Tournament along with the Yale Bulldogs, the Princeton Tigers and the Harvard Crimson. Penn and Brown are currently tied for fourth in the standings, but the Quakers hold the tiebreaker right now for the final playoff spot. After going through a stretch of 4 losses in five games that endangered their postseason hopes (including a home loss to Brown), Penn finally got back on track with a road win at Brown last Saturday and a 78-64 victory at home against Cornell last night. AJ Brodeur leads the way with 17.2 points a game and 8.8 rebounds a game for Penn.
But Penn cannot relax even with their fate in their own hands – Brown is nipping at their heels and finish their season with a game at Dartmouth in the fabled Brown-Mouth Cup. Brown was sitting comfortably at 6-3 in the Ivy League a couple of weeks ago, but in addition to losing the Penn-Princeton double at home, a 63-45 loss at Cornell was much more damaging to their chances and now requires some very unlikely help from Columbia to help Brown advance to the Ivy League Tournament. Brandon Anderson leads the Bears with 17.5 points a game.