SPORTS BRIEF: Despite Amaker's arrival, M. Hoops picked to finish sixth

The Ivy League men’s basketball media poll was released earlier this week, and according to the media, this will not be the season Harvard snares its first league title.

The Crimson was picked to finish sixth in the league—the same as its final standing last season—by the 16-voter poll despite the arrival of new coach Tommy Amaker.

Cornell was picked to win the league after finishing third in the Ivies last season.

No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown.

Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall.

Yale, last year’s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes.

Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came in third through fifth, and each received one first-place vote.

Harvard, after posting a 5-9 league record last season, finished with just 43 points, three ahead of former perennial power Princeton.

The Tigers ended last season in the cellar with a 2-12 Ivy record.

Dartmouth brought up the rear, finishing with just 23 points.

Harvard’s season begins on Nov. 9 at Stanford and its Ivy season opens on Jan. 5 with a home date against the Big Green.

—CRIMSON SPORTS STAFF