[OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by jtwcornell91
[OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.no.no.cox.net)
Date: November 29, 2003 10:24PM
So I caught the tail end of this while flipping thru the RSNs; UVM lost by a point with the coach screaming for a foul at the buzzer. I hadn't realized the Cats weren't still D2 in sports besides hockey.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: Jordan 04 (---.twcny.rr.com)
Date: November 29, 2003 10:44PM
Didn't they make the tourney last year?
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: cquinn (---.sbtnvt.adelphia.net)
Date: November 30, 2003 03:27PM
Yup, they made the Big Dance for the first time and had the honor of getting stomped on by Arizona, 80-51. It was huge news here in Burlington. Nobody had any delusions about the outcome but the locals were pretty psyched anyway. It was a true case of "just happy to be here."
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.ligo-la.caltech.edu)
Date: November 30, 2003 03:51PM
IIRC that's better than we did against Arizona in our last NC$$ squeakball tourney appearance.
Christine Quinn '94 wrote:
stomped on by Arizona, 80-51.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: ugarte (---.ny5030.east.verizon.net)
Date: November 30, 2003 03:56PM
IIRC, it was 90-50 in 1988.
John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
IIRC that's better than we did against Arizona in our last NC$$ squeakball tourney appearance.
Christine Quinn '94 wrote:
stomped on by Arizona, 80-51.
Post Edited (11-30-03 15:56)
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: canucksfan (---.twcny.rr.com)
Date: November 30, 2003 04:17PM
Grounds for optimism, though...although they lost by a pretty wide margin, Cornell stayed with Georgia Tech for a pretty long time, and Georgia Tech went on to beat #1 UConn. People around the team seemed pretty excited about their prospects this year.
I also saw the Vermont-UCLA end-of-game incident on SportsCenter...if it hadn't been UCLA, I think the Vermont guy gets a trip to the foul line.
I also saw the Vermont-UCLA end-of-game incident on SportsCenter...if it hadn't been UCLA, I think the Vermont guy gets a trip to the foul line.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.ligo-la.caltech.edu)
Date: November 30, 2003 04:42PM
Did they say why UVM didn't call timeout? The FSW guys seemed to think they had a TO left, and they boxed out under their own net with about 4 seconds left.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: Jordan 04 (---.ipt.aol.com)
Date: November 30, 2003 05:05PM
Tech also took out Bobby Knight's #25 Texas Tech team to win the pre-season NIT.
Also, it looks like we head to Vermont next Friday to take on the Catamounts ourselves.
Also, it looks like we head to Vermont next Friday to take on the Catamounts ourselves.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: jeh25 (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: November 30, 2003 05:40PM
canucksfan wrote:
Grounds for optimism, though...although they lost by a pretty wide margin, Cornell stayed with Georgia Tech for a pretty long time, and Georgia Tech went on to beat #1 UConn. People around the team seemed pretty excited about their prospects this year.
Well, for comparison, Yale was *leading* UConn by 3 at the half before losing 70-60, so I wouldn't get too excited just yet...
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: cquinn (---.sbtnvt.adelphia.net)
Date: November 30, 2003 09:45PM
[Q]Also, it looks like we head to Vermont next Friday to take on the Catamounts ourselves.[/Q]
Heh. They can stay at my house. I'll be in Ithaca for the Hahvahd/Brown games.
Heh. They can stay at my house. I'll be in Ithaca for the Hahvahd/Brown games.
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: November 30, 2003 10:08PM
Wasn't the AZ loss our only appearance in the NCAA tourny? (I don't know about the NIT).
Re: [OT] Vermont-UCLA basketball
Posted by: ugarte (65.217.153.---)
Date: December 02, 2003 11:30AM
Cornell also made the NCAA tournament in 1954. We got a first round bye, lost to Navy in the second round and then lost to NC State in the regional consy. (Both Navy and NC State lost to eventual champion La Salle.
Greg Berge '85 wrote:
Wasn't the AZ loss our only appearance in the NCAA tourny? (I don't know about the NIT).
I think the NIT was still the big game in town back then, though. And Cornell never went to the NIT. This site has good tourney data on all the Ivy teams: [www.historyofcollegebasketball.com]
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Posted by: Chuck Henderson (---.twcny.rr.com)
Date: December 03, 2003 04:33AM
big red apple writes
The 1954 team was probably the best Cornell team of the modern era,
featuring the great Lee Morton and a young Chuck Rolles.
Making it to the tournament involved one of the highlight games in all of
Cornell athletics. Cornell and Princeton had tied for the regular season
title, and there was a playoff at the Penn Palestra. Late in a tense game
with the score tied, Cornell held the ball for several minutes, playing for
the last shot (there are some things to be said for the absence of a shot
clock). On a broken play, Henry Buncom sank a long hook shot in the final
seconds to win the game 46-44. I was glued to the radio for that game,
and it's one I'll always remember.
Buncom was one of two Ithaca players on that Cornell team (from the
excellent IHS teams of a few years earlier) but probably wouldn't have
been in the game at that point if Jack Sheehy, one of the top players,
hadn't been on academic probation the second term.
The first round bye for the Ivy champion back then shows how much things
have changed. It's also worth noting that we lost to Navy by only 2 points
and then played NC State tough in the consolations.
Cornell also made the NCAA tournament in 1954. We got a first round bye, lost to Navy in the second round and then lost to NC State in the regional consy. (Both Navy and NC State lost to eventual champion La Salle.
Greg Berge '85 wrote:
Wasn't the AZ loss our only appearance in the NCAA tourny? (I don't know about the NIT).
The 1954 team was probably the best Cornell team of the modern era,
featuring the great Lee Morton and a young Chuck Rolles.
Making it to the tournament involved one of the highlight games in all of
Cornell athletics. Cornell and Princeton had tied for the regular season
title, and there was a playoff at the Penn Palestra. Late in a tense game
with the score tied, Cornell held the ball for several minutes, playing for
the last shot (there are some things to be said for the absence of a shot
clock). On a broken play, Henry Buncom sank a long hook shot in the final
seconds to win the game 46-44. I was glued to the radio for that game,
and it's one I'll always remember.
Buncom was one of two Ithaca players on that Cornell team (from the
excellent IHS teams of a few years earlier) but probably wouldn't have
been in the game at that point if Jack Sheehy, one of the top players,
hadn't been on academic probation the second term.
The first round bye for the Ivy champion back then shows how much things
have changed. It's also worth noting that we lost to Navy by only 2 points
and then played NC State tough in the consolations.
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