Brown stuns top-seeded Princeton to reach Ivy League championship game
Look at what Brown can do.
The Ivy League Tournament was thrown upside down after Brown, which entered Saturday with a 12-17 record, upset the tourney's No. 1 overall seed, Princeton, 90-81.
With the loss, Princeton (24-4, 12-2 Ivy League) will no longer qualify for the Big Dance. It was previously a projected No. 12 12 seed in the NCAA Tournament, according to ESPN's Joe Lunardi.
Meanwhile, Brown, which was 6-17 through its first 23 games, has won seven in a row — the program's longest streak in 21 years, per CBS Sports.
The Bears are now just one win away from their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1986.
Brown (13-17, 8-6 in Ivy League) shot 55.6 percent from the field, well above its season average of 42.6 percent, which ranked 286th in the country.
College basketball analytics expert Evan Miyakawa noted that the result fits with the team's recent play and its performances against tougher opponents. Per EvanMiya.com, Brown "plays much better" against more difficult competition.
That bodes well for the program in the Ivy League championship game, where it will face either Cornell (22-6, 11-3 in Ivy League) or Yale (20-9, 11-3 in Ivy League).
After Saturday's surprising result continued the team's hot streak, it's clear that Brown can do to either of them what it just did to Princeton. The Bears will just need to stay hot.
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