HANOVER — All 17 Big Green players who dressed scored as the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team handled Northern Vermont-Lyndon, 114-74, in its Leede Arena home opener on Tuesday night.
Five Dartmouth players hit for double figures, with graduate Brendan Barry posting a game-high 15 points for the Big Green (2-1). All of Barry’s points came on 3-pointers converted in just 13 minutes of court time. Barry currently ranks sixth in the country in 3-point accuracy.
Senior Aaryn Rai produced 13 points and a team-best eight rebounds in 12 minutes for Dartmouth. Cam Krysttkowiak (12 points), Garrison Wade (10) and Izaiah Robinson (10) also had double-digit nights in the scorebook for the Big Green.
Antonio Carlisle had a game-high 31 points on 10-of-15 shooting from the floor for the Division III Hornets, for whom the game counted as an exhibition.
Dartmouth is off until a Nov. 28 trip to Bryant.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Grace Niekelski came off the bench to score a team-best 16 points, but the Big Green (0-3) again struggled to keep up with a superior foe.
Niekelski was 6-of-9 from the floor and ended up the only Dartmouth player in double figures. Carrington Washburn, another reserve, had eight points for the Big Green.
The Crusaders (1-2), in earning their first win of the season, bolted to a 24-15 lead after one quarter and pulled away by limiting the visitors to just 21 points over the middle periods.
Dartmouth continues a four-game road swing at Merrimack on Nov. 27.
HANOVER — Junior Nick Howard picked up Ivy League offensive player of the week honors on Monday for his four-touchdown game in Saturday’s 41-7 rout of Cornell.
Howard, the Big Green’s so-called running quarterback, did that all over the Big Red. The Green Bay, Wis., had scoring runs of 5, 2, 20 and 32 yards, finishing the afternoon with a career-high 172 rushing yards on just 13 attempts. The four TDs were also a career best and one of just fourth occasions in the past 35 years in which a Dartmouth player has run to paydirt four times in a game.
The Big Green can clinch at least a share of its 20th Ivy League championship with a victory at Brown on Saturday in Providence, R.I.