GAME NOTES: The Dartmouth Big Green continue with their four-game road trip tonight as they visit the Brown Bears for an Ivy League matchup at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence. The first two games of the trip ended in defeat for the Big Green last week, first with a 57-53 setback to Princeton on Friday and then a narrow 68-66 loss to Penn in Philadelphia a day later. As for the Bears, they evened their league mark at 2-2 last weekend with a 68-63 home win versus Columbia. The victory was the second in the last three outings for Brown, currently 5-3 at home in 2007-08 and 10-8 overall. Brown easily won the most recent meeting with Dartmouth a season ago by a score of 53-33, but the Big Green retains a 74-61 advantage in the all-time series dating back to 1901-02.

Dartmouth trailed by 12 points at the break versus the Quakers on Saturday, but the visitors made a game of it as they battled back and actually took a 64-63 advantage before bowing in the two-point decision. Alex Barnett led the way for the Big Green with 18 points, six rebounds, three steals and a pair of assists, while Michael Giovacchini chipped in 12 points off the bench on 3-of-4 shooting behind the three-point line as well. Barnett, the leading scorer in six straight games and eight of the last nine, not only paces the unit in the scoring department this season with his 16.9 ppg, he's also tops on the glass with 7.1 rpg as well. When it comes to league play, Barnett has seen his rebounding efforts dip to six and a half per game, but his scoring jump to 19.3 ppg. Not much of a three-point shooting team, Dartmouth ranked last in the Ivy and 315th in the nation coming into this week with a mere four and a half three-point baskets per game.

Brown made just nine field goals in the first half, one of the reasons why Columbia was able to take a slim lead in the opening frame, but in the second half the meeting belonged to the Bears. Utilizing just three players off the bench, the Bears were paced by Mark McAndrew who tallied 21 points and cleared five rebounds as he shot 3-of-6 behind the three-point line. Peter Sullivan matched him beyond the arc and on the glass, resulting in 19 points, while Adrian Williams weathered 3-of-10 shooting from the floor to come up with his 12 points in the win. McAndrew, a 43.6 percent shooter from three-point range, is responsible for a team-best 16.2 ppg, followed by another three-point specialist, Damon Huffman, who has converted his 41.2 percent out on the perimeter into 15.0 ppg. Brown has taken great care of the ball this season, ranking first in the Ivy with just 13.4 turnovers per outing, and it knows how and when to play physical with less than 16 fouls per game to rank first in the league and 28th nationally coming into the week.

The combination of McAndrew and Huffman gives the Bears one of the best three- point shooting tandems in the conference, and it doesn't hurt that the latter is probably feeling a need to bounce back after last Saturday's effort.