Newark Star Ledger on Cornell-Kentucky hoops

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Kentucky once famously sent a recruit an envelope filled with money through the mail. Cornell knows that stocks, even in a down market, are a better long-term investment.

Kentucky coach John Calipari’s previous two Final Four appearances were vacated by the NCAA. Cornell knows that V-A-C-A-T-E-D, when played on a triple-word score in Scrabble, is worth 89 points.

The Kentucky fight song: “On, On, U of K.” The Cornell fight song: “That’s all right, that’s okay, you’ll be working for us someday.”

Cornell has a judge on the Supreme Court — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a 1954 graduate. Kentucky athletes sometimes appear before judges.

Superman (Christopher Reeve, not BB as shown here [image below FYI]) and the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan) attended Cornell. Kentucky boasts Ashley Judd, who must’ve had a memorable role in something, but we just can’t think of it right now.

Cornell has one of its players, senior Jon Jaques, blogging this season for the New York Times. Kentucky once sparked the following headline in the satirical newspaper the Onion: “Kentucky Violated NCAA Rules While Recruiting Basketball-Playing Dog.”

Cornell recently had former player Graham Dow earn first-team Academic All-America honors after he posted a 3.99 grade-point average with a major in ecology and evolutionary biology. Kentucky’s campus is 85 miles from Petersburg, Ky., home of the Creation Museum, which flatly rejects most of the tenets of evolution.

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

amerks127

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

Vacated = 7 letters.

13 points x triple word score = 39.

39 + 50 points for a Bingo since it is 7 letters = 89.

Viola.

sockralex

amerks127

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

Vacated = 7 letters.

13 points x triple word score = 39.

39 + 50 points for a Bingo since it is 7 letters = 89.

Viola.

well shit... I got thoroughly out-Cornelled.

Thanks.

Lauren '06

sockralex

amerks127

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

Vacated = 7 letters.

13 points x triple word score = 39.

39 + 50 points for a Bingo since it is 7 letters = 89.

Viola.

well shit... I got thoroughly out-Cornelled.

Thanks.

Man, if Scrabble prowess is the mark of a good Cornellian, I need to return my degree.

I do know that it's spelled voilà.

sockralex

amerks127

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

Vacated = 7 letters.

13 points x triple word score = 39.

39 + 50 points for a Bingo since it is 7 letters = 89.

Viola.

well shit... I got thoroughly out-Cornelled.

Thanks.

Lauren '06

sockralex

amerks127

sockralex

French Rage
Cornell knows that you can't get 89 points on a triple word-score since 89 is not a multiple of 3 (unless I'm missing something here).

Great point.

v4
a1
c3
a1
t1
e1
d2
=13

it would depend on where you lay the letters down on a triple word (double or triple letter points) and what tiles were used next to it. One would need to turn that 13 into at most a 29 and then lay it next to a letter that extends that letter into a 2 point word ("at" for example).

Back to basketball discussion...

Vacated = 7 letters.

13 points x triple word score = 39.

39 + 50 points for a Bingo since it is 7 letters = 89.

Viola.

well shit... I got thoroughly out-Cornelled.

Thanks.

Man, if Scrabble prowess is the mark of a good Cornellian, I need to return my degree.

I do know that it's spelled voilà.

amerks127
Voila.