Beyond The Box Score

1.6-for-33. Princeton's combined 3-point effort in its double overtime loss to Yale (ranked 310th of 310 teams in the RPI) last Friday. Not only did the loss snap the Tigers' 35-game Ivy League win streak, but it all but wiped out the significance of their monstrous 27-point come-from-behind win at Penn a few days earlier. The win at Penn had all but guaranteed the Tigers the Ivy League title and the league's NCAA Tournament bid and left Penn at the mercy of the NCAA committee for an unlikely at-large bid. Now it appears the March 2 rematch at Princeton will decide it all.

2. 13-26, 13-13, 44. Alvin Young's field goals, free throws and point totals in Niagara's 86-82 defeat of Metro Atlantic leader Siena last week. Young, who was cut from his high school team four times and shown little interest coming out of junior college two years ago, now ranks second in the nation in scoring with a 24.7 average and has Niagara tied with Siena atop the MAAC.

3. 10-12, 12-12, 36. The numbers put up by Connecticut's Shea Ralph, arguably the nation's best sixth player--men's or women's--in her first start for the Huskies, a 107-77 romp over No. 25 Boston College last week. Her second start did not go quite as well, as the Huskies fell to ODU and put themselves in serious danger of losing an NCAA No. 1 seed for the second straight year.

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