Five Nears Ivy Lead After Quakers' Defeat

For about 24 hours this weekend, Harvard's basketball team was tied for first place in the Ivy League.

In a pair of stunning upsets this weekend. Cornell nipped Penn 78 to 76 Friday and then toppled Princeton 73 to 67 the next night. Friday's game left Penn, Yale, and Harvard tied for first place with 3-1 records; on Saturday Penn regained the top spot with an 86-66 rout of Columbia.

The Crimson returns to action Feb. 1 in a contest with Brown that should elevate the quintet into another first place tie. The bubble will probably burst the following night, however, when the Crimson's diet of pushovers ends and they take on defending Ivy champion Yale here.