iogyhufi
Masters Student
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Reg: 10-10-17
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02-12-24 05:56 PM - Post#363156
The second circuit of the Ivy League starts this Friday at the Palestra.
Clark Slajchert will play. This is big not only because Slajchert is, you know, good, but also because it means Bez probably won't guard Tyler Perkins - the newest entry in Steve Donohue's Once Every Four Years Superstar Recruit (see also Dingle, Jordan; Brodeur, AJ). Yale has to figure out who's going to guard him and how.
On the other end, the first game made plain that whatever the answer may be to the Danny Wolf question, Nick Spinoso one-on-one is not it. Penn has played an funnel-in style of defense for a while now, but that's really hard to do against a team whose center shoots threes well. (It's why I think Penn has struggled so mightily with Princeton recently.) Not sure what Penn will do, but it'll have to be something different.
Yale hasn't beaten Penn at the Palestra since 2017-18 - the ZombieQuakers year. It's important for that to change if Yale wants to keep pace in the race for the 1 seed.
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