Most Valuable

The Dartmouth women's basketball team won its third straight Ivy League championship when it defeated the University of Pennsylvania, 68-64, in the tournament hosted by Harvard in Cambridge. The Big Green's triumph avenged an earlier 64-57 defeat at the hands of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia - Dartmouth's first Ivy League loss in three years.

The Quakers erased the Green's 14point second-half lead to tie the game with a minute remaining to play. But Gail Koziara, Dartmouth's all-America senior center, sank a turn-around jump shot from 15 feet out with 36 seconds left, and then junior guard Ann Deacon iced the game by sinking two free throws. Koziara finished the game with 26 points and 20 rebounds and was named the tournament's most valuable player. Deacon scored 17 points and joined Koziara on the all-tournament team. The game was Koziara's last Ivy game and the last time that the women will play in a post-season Ivy tournament. Starting next season, the Ivy champion will be decided by a league record compiled from double round-robin play.

Koziara was honored before Dartmouth's final home game against the University of New Hampshire in Alumni Gym. Holder of the College records for scoring and rebounding for both men and women, she stood alone at center court and received a 10-minute standing ovation from a crowd of 500 people. The Chicopee, Massachusetts, native finished her Dartmouth career with 1,933 points, or 21.7 points per game, and 1,635 rebounds, or 18.4 rebounds per game. Those statistics eclipse the career point total of 1,606 held by Paul Erland '72 and the 1,239 rebound mark held by Rudy Labusso '59, who went on to play with the Los Angeles Lakers. Koziara downplayed all the attention that she received during her four-year career at Dartmouth. "It's not that it bores me or anything. And it's great that as a team we're getting a lot of publicity out of it. But it's not something that you would run to the nearest newspaper to read about," Koziara said. The Rhodes Scholarship finalist has not concluded her career as a Dartmouth athlete, however. She will captain the women's track team this spring.