BROWN at YALE
Sat., Mar. 9 – Noon
John J. Lee Amphitheater
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's basketball team wraps up the regular season on Saturday vs. Brown at Lee Amphitheater. Tipoff is slated for noon. Yale's three seniors – Yussif Basa-Ama, Matt Knowling and August Mahoney – will be honored prior to the start.
 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
 
• The four teams to qualify for next weekend's Ivy League Tournament are set – Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Brown - but seeding and the regular season champion are still to be determined. Yale (11-2), Princeton (11-2) and Cornell (10-3) all are still in contention for the Ivy title. Brown (7-6) is locked in as the No. 4 seed. The Bulldogs can assure themselves of at least a share of the championship with a victory over Brown. A Yale win coupled by a Princeton loss to Penn would give the Bulldogs the outright title and the No. 1 seed in the tournament.
 
• Yale is seeking its 10th Ivy League championship and seventh under James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of the Bulldogs. Yale has won three titles in the last four seasons and five since 2014-15.
 
• Yale has qualified for Ivy Madness in every season since the start of the tournament in 2016-17.
 
• Yale's three seniors have played important roles in the recent success. Mahoney was a first year on the 2019-20 team that won an outright Ivy title and was the No. 1 seed in the league tournament before it was cancelled because of the pandemic. Knowling was named to the Ivy Madness all-tournament team when the Bulldogs won the tournament in 2022. Mahoney, Knowling and Basa-Ama were all part of the tournament champion team in 2022 that advanced to the NCAA Tournament and the regular season champion team in 2023 that played in the NIT.
 
• Knowling's .607 career field goal percentage is currently the third best in school history, trailing only Paul Atkinson (.661, 2017-2020) and David Tompkins (.619, 1995-1999). Knowling currently leads the Ivy League and is 31st nationally in field goal percentage at .580. In Ivy games, he is shooting 64.8 percent.
 
• Mahoney's 155 career three-pointers place him seventh all-time at Yale and his current .440 career three-point percentage is the fourth best in school history. He also is one of the school's most accurate free throw shooters, making 88.4 percent of his foul shots, which is the fourth best in Yale history.
 
• The Bulldogs (20-8 overall) have now won 20 or more games in four of the last five seasons and seven times in James Jones' tenure as head coach. Prior to Jones' arrival, Yale had won 20 or more games in only four of the previous 107 seasons.
 
• The Bulldogs are 9-1 at home this season, including 6-0 in Ivy play. Over the last 5+ seasons, Yale is 35-6 (.854) in the friendly confines of Lee Amphitheater in league games.
 
• The Bulldogs continue to lead the league in rebound margin (+5.1) and field goal percentage defense (.416).
 
• In last weekend's sweep of Dartmouth and Harvard, Yale had assists on 48 of its 65 field goals.
 
• The Bulldogs are 10th in the nation in fewest turnovers (9.5 per game).
 
HISTORY LESSONS
 
The Bulldogs have won nine straight games over Brown, including an 80-70 victory back in January in Providence in the Ivy opener for both teams. Yale scored the first 12 points of the game and never relinquished the lead. Danny Wolf had 16 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three blocks to lead the way. The Bulldogs have won the last 12 meetings at Lee Amphitheater. Yale leads the all-time series 117-53. The first meeting between the teams came in 1905.
 
SCOUTING BROWN
 
The Bears (11-17, 7-6 Ivy) have won five straight games, including sweeping Harvard and Dartmouth at home last weekend to punch their ticket to the Ivy League Tournament for the first time in school history. Kimo Ferrari scored 39 points in the victory over Dartmouth to earn Ivy Player of the Week honors. He was 14-of-16 from the field, including 10-of-12 from three-point range. Ferrari averages 7.3 ppg. on the season. Kino Lilly Jr. (18.1 ppg.) is the league's leading scorer. He averages 37:50 minutes per game, which is fourth in the nation, and has made a league best 81 three-pointers. Brown averages 11.96 offensive rebounds per game, which leads the league.