YALE at CORNELL

In a turn of events likely not atypical for those who call New Haven their campus, WYBCx, Yale’s student radio station, recently discovered that it did not have licensing agreements for any of the music it had been airing.

The president of the organization, Emma Keyes, went so far as to write in an email, “Seriously, we have been operating illegally since 2008.”

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

While the radio is shutting down operations for the time being, in a positive turn of events for Yale, senior guard Makai Mason is up and running for the Bulldogs—he had in fact not been operating illegally since 2008, but instead had a stress fracture in his foot.

Mason’s return to the hardwood would be drowned in chants of “safety school” here in Cambridge last Saturday as Yale scored a season-low 49 points in a loss, but his return bodes well for the Bulldogs. Sitting at 5-5 in conference with a wide open race for the third and fourth seeds, Yale could really use this win.

And maybe a licensing agreement, too.

Pick: Yale

BROWN at COLUMBIA

It would be difficult to underestimate the impact of the Columbia University Marching Band on this matchup.

The Lions' band might be among the best in the conference coming into Friday night’s contests—not only do they play the most harmonically offensive version of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” but they also do this strange thing where they kind of speak the words to Mr. Brightside really fast as an opposing player takes a free throw.

The numbers speak for themselves—as it stands Harvard and Penn lead the conference with a single loss each. Penn’s loss is to Harvard and the Crimson’s lone loss is to Columbia on the road.

The band was undoubtedly the culprit of that road loss for Harvard.

In anticipation of the matchup, it would be important to take a look at the band’s scouting report on Brown. Notably in Article Eight and Seven-Eighths of its constitution, the Columbia band notes, “Brown is a bunch of letter-writing cowards.”

We’ll take their word for it.