Ivy League Basketball: Ranking of 25 best players from last decade (2013-23)

8. Matt Morgan

A 6’2 combo guard originally from Concord, North Carolina, Morgan made his way to Cornell in 2015. He’d spend four seasons starring for the Big Red, starting nearly every game in the backcourt and becoming one of the very best scorers the Ivy League has seen in recent years.

Morgan averaged 18.9 points a game as a freshman and maintained a major role in the offense after a coaching change. He put up more than 22 points a game in each of his upperclassmen seasons, with impressive shooting numbers as well. As a senior, he shot 43% from outside the arc, 86% from the charity stripe, and had a 41-point game at Dartmouth late in the year.

Cornell never had a winning season while he was on campus, but Morgan was a major winner for the Big Red. He earned All-Ivy honors in all four seasons in the conference, including the First Team nod in those final two years. No one in the last four decades has come close to his 2333 career points among Ivy League players, and he truly emerged as a top-level scorer in this league. His 3-point shooting ranked 15th in the nation as a senior, it’s just a shame that Cornell couldn’t string together much on-court success.