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NEW HAVEN, Conn. : Travis Pinick scored 21 points and Ross Morin added 19 to lead Yale to a 74-62 victory over Dartmouth on Friday night.

The Yale men's basketball team will look to put last weekend's disappointing split behind as it heads into the final weekend of the 2008-'09 regular season.

See a photo slideshow from this weekend's games here . It wasn't hard to guess what Yale's approach was going to be when it came to the Palestra Friday.

Heading into the weekend, the men's basketball team had come off two second-half come-from-behind victories to remain in the Ivy League title conversation.

Ross Morin scored 20 points and Alex Zampier had 16 of his 19 points in the second half as Yale defeated Penn 87-79 on Friday.

Travis Pinick added 15 points for Yale (12-13, 7-4 Ivy League) as the Bulldogs made 32 of 68 shots and used their height advantage to make 14 of 18 second-half field goals from the foul line or closer.

Harrison Gaines scored 24 points and Tyler Bernardini had 15 for the Quakers (8-16, 4-6), who made only 17 of 32 foul shots.

Yale trailed 48-45 five minutes into the second half, but Zampier sparked an 18-5 run capped by a layup by Paul Nelson that gave the Bulldogs a 63-53 lead with 8:48 left.

Brennan Votel helped Penn clinch the Ivy title against Yale in 2007 and will try to help the team sweep the Bulldogs this year.

A week after a frustrating split on the road, the Bulldogs dominated from the tip against then-first place Princeton on Friday night but could not continue the momentum Saturday night against a struggling Penn ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. : Harrison Gaines scored 19 points to lead Penn to a 68-63 victory over Yale on Saturday.

Alex Zampier scored 13 points to lead three players in double figures as Yale defeated Princeton 60-48 Friday night.

Cameron Lewis will face tough assignments in Yale's Travis Pinick and Ross Morin.

The men's basketball team knows how difficult it is to win two consecutive nights on the road.

Coming into Friday night's game with Yale, the frontcourt match-up was a big concern for Harvard.

Sometimes in sports all you need is a confidence booster to get your team back on a winning streak.

What goes up must come down. After winning five games in a row, the mena s basketball team returned to Earth this weekend with a pair of losses that marked their worst scoring performances of the season.

Coach: James Jones, 10th season Record: 7-9, 2-0 Ivy League Radio: WPIE-AM Live in-game updates: www.ithacajournal.com Last time out: Yale played at Columbia on Friday night.

ITHACA -- Approximately four and a half months after reconstructive knee surgery, Adam Gore is putting on a Cornell uniform again.

The rules of the game have changed. Most Bulldog fans have already noticed something different on the basketball court in John J. Lee Amphitheater this season.

The Ivy League men's basketball season has begun, and Cornell, Harvard, and Yale were all victorious in their debuts, despite all also being on the road.

Maybe the men's basketball team should just spot its opponent some points before every game.