Bulldogs to be part of NIT TipOff
NEW HAVEN — The Yale men’s basketball team is part of the 2019 NIT Season TipOff in November, with games at Oklahoma State and Penn State and a trip to Disney for the Orlando Subregional championships.
The Bulldogs, defending Ivy League champs, are at Oklahoma State on Nov. 17. The Cowboys went 1220 last season, but return all five starters and bring in a strong recruiting class. It marks Yale’s first trip to Stillwater since the 200203 season, losing to an Oklahoma State team coached by Eddie Sutton.
On Nov. 23 Yale is at Penn State, where the Bulldogs are undefeated in two previous meetings (2001 and 2002). The Nittany Lions were 1418 last season.
In Orlando, Yale plays Western Michigan on Nov. 25 at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Comples, the first game of a doubleheader. Seattle and Bucknell play the nightcap. The consolation and championship games are Nov. 26. All four games in Orlando will be televised by ESPNU.
BULLDOGS EARN ACADEMIC AWARD
The men’s basketball team was rewarded by earning an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for the sixth straight year.
Created by the NABC Committee on Academics, the award recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a team with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better for the previous season.
In order to earn an NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, institutions in the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA must count the grade point averages of all men’s studentathletes who competed during the 201819 season.