Men’s Basketball 23-24

RichH

upprdeck
considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Nevermind that, can we talk about the assault on the senses every venue seems to want? Even the modest & thin video scoreboard I can see in the photo of Appleton is entirely too many blazingly bright photons to completely ruin the setting.

And don’t get me started on the apparent need to have thumping DJs blasting tweeter-tearing music in (nearly) every arena at every stoppage. If ADs want to trim budgets, start by firing the DJs.

At the Cornell-Penn football game, there was a large home band, a larger visiting band, and a half-broken speaker. Guess which of the three was allowed to play most of the time?

upprdeck
considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

billhoward
I'm not a huge fan of the music during play stoppages and of the Tokyo-by-Night graphics on the video scoreboard. But I'm old. If it brings younger fans and keeps them coming, well, more power to them.

Trotsky
The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock.

billhoward

upprdeck
considering you could run all the video off remote cameras I dont think High angles are really an issue if you use the right equipment,

Remote cameras at center ice could be placed only a couple feet higher before you run into the flags. But a camera high-ish up in the corner, and a second placed diagonally across at the other end, they'd capture better angles, including puck battles in the corners. Broadcasts from Lynah also doesn't provide access to the cameras mounted directly over the goals.

This is from Section M, center ice, two-thirds of the way up; the flags obscure more when you get to the level of the upper press box. Soft attendance? Early in the Minnesota Duluth game.

billhoward

Trotsky
The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock.

I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.

RichH

billhoward

Trotsky
The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock.

I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.

Plenty go completely over the net.

Trotsky

RichH

billhoward

Trotsky
The reduction of people to Homo Derpus Commercia is not for their benefit. It's lab rats being given electroshock.

I just want to see Cornell not hit the post.

Plenty go completely over the net.

This year it's pucks jumping up onto their edge just as we get a stick on them.\

RichH
the basketball fans

Trotsky

RichH
the basketball fans

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Al DeFlorio
82-63 over CSU-Fullerton with 2:27 to go

ugarte
Insane subscription fees for what does not look like an interesting set of offerings behind the paywall and no single-event option. And it's not like the event was making money from ticket sales. The photo attached to the game recap may be the most swagless event photo I've ever seen. The action shot is a free throw.

scoop85

ugarte
Insane subscription fees for what does not look like an interesting set of offerings behind the paywall and no single-event option. And it's not like the event was making money from ticket sales. The photo attached to the game recap may be the most swagless event photo I've ever seen. The action shot is a free throw.

I think they may be playing in a HS gym. Hilarious.

scoop85

Al DeFlorio
82-63 over CSU-Fullerton with 2:27 to go

88-70 final. I didn’t pay to see the stream, but a nice bounce back win against what appears to be a not particularly strong Big West team.

billhoward

scoop85

Al DeFlorio
82-63 over CSU-Fullerton with 2:27 to go

88-70 final. I didn’t pay to see the stream, but a nice bounce back win against what appears to be a not particularly strong Big West team.

Could you share how much the cost was?

ugarte
Cornell up 15-9 midway through the first half. Good, compact, readable livestats.

mountainred
Looks like neither team is shooting worth a **&%.

mountainred
Good guys are going to win, up double digits in the last minute, but the Wolverines(!) have been on a 9-0 run.

ugarte

mountainred
Good guys are going to win, up double digits in the last minute, but the Wolverines(!) have been on a 9-0 run.

74-61 win. Not worried about 9 point runs late in games that never let them close to within single digits. As opposed, say, to the second half at Fordham where it got frighteningly close.

ugarte
huzzah to the champions of the jacksonville classic bay bracket

scoop85

ugarte
huzzah to the champions of the jacksonville classic bay bracket

That looks like the participation trophy that my son got for playing in the 6-year-old rec. soccer league.

ugarte

scoop85

ugarte
huzzah to the champions of the jacksonville classic bay bracket

That looks like the participation trophy that my son got for playing in the 6-year-old rec. soccer league.

that was almost verbatim my alt text joke on bluesky which has a typo in it that i will think about forever

Al DeFlorio
I thought it was a lightbulb.

billhoward
What are the March 2024 Sweet Sixteen arenas? Should we pencil them in?

billhoward
Dunno, I've been feeling off ever since I saw this photo commemorating our Florida tournament success. Especially when you see the great photos coming from Ned Dykes for Cornell hockey fans, in addition to the official Cornell hockey sports information pix.

billhoward
What are the March 2024 Sweet Sixteen arenas? Should we pencil them in?

Cornell could make it unbeaten through December 5.

chimpfood
Fine start to the game, just need a little more shooting luck. One thing I am getting pretty frustrated about though is our inability to get the ball to cutters. It seems like Ragland and Hansen cannot stop trying to find these passes but our success rate on them is painfully low, whether it be because of a bad pass or the cutter being unable to reel in the ball.

Trotsky
Awful final two minutes. Blech.

Nice job defending and hanging around; nothing but bricks whenever we needed a shot.

Ken711
Cornell with an easy 95-74 win over Siena College.

rss77
A win is a win. Getting outrebounded 50-36 a bit concerning. Is there a 7 footer in the transfer portal (LOL!)

Ken711

rss77
A win is a win. Getting outrebounded 50-36 a bit concerning. Is there a 7 footer in the transfer portal (LOL!)

Cornell has been searching for that 7 footer since Jeff Foote graduated.

Ken711
Cornell vs Robert Morris U. Friday 2:00 PM

billhoward

Ken711
Cornell vs Robert Morris U. Friday 2:00 PM

Maybe they could play in Barton Hall. Players just get up from the exam tables and walk over to the court.

scoop85
Good to see Nazir get back in the flow of today’s game. I continue to be impressed with Okereke—how was this guy a walk on? And Beccles continues to improve and get more quality PT.

The team has hardly played at home, and finally gets back to Newman next week in what shapes up to be an interesting game against Colgate. The Raiders have been up-and-down, and come off a bad loss yesterday at Iona. If we play up to our capabilities it’s a game we should win.

Trotsky
Is ILT at home sites or always the Palestra?

tycho
RMU was absolutely abysmal from the line, and it cost them badly.

CAS
ILT at Columbia this year.

ugarte
Princeton is running away with the Ivies on Kenpom (48) and are maybe an at-large candidate if they are a one-loss team heading into the ILT and get get upset. Cornell is creeping up on Yale for second (both in the 110s) in the conference with Harvard in 4th (~150). If this keeps up, great news. I like getting to the ILT. Just need a chance.

billhoward
Cornell's entire history in basketball in the era of the formalized Ivy League play with a few exceptions and the notable 2010 sweet sixteen run has been to be happy with what we've got.

billhoward
Also the era when Cornell with Black players beat Kentucky at Kentucky. Legend has it that the Wildcats' coach, Adolph Rupp, realized the future of basketball was not White-only. We won 92-77 (December 1968) and it helped Rupp let the state of Kentucky see the handwriting on the wall. That and Kentucky six months earlier losing the NCAA championship to UTEP (now Texas Western) with all-Black starters.

George64

billhoward
Cornell's entire history in basketball in the era of the formalized Ivy League play with a few exceptions and the notable 2010 sweet sixteen run has been to be happy with what we've got.

One of the exceptions, during the Bill Bradley era, we were the only Ivy team to beat Princeton. Barton Hall was packed and Blaine Aston made a jump shot to win it.

Al DeFlorio
UTEP now, TW then. Fascinating campus in Bhutanese style..

UTEP's campus is known for its striking architecture, inspired by the Himalayan mountain-top fortresses of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Nearly all of the buildings on campus incorporate Bhutanese architectural elements—massive sloping walls, high inset windows, overhanging roofs, and darks bands of brick inset with mosaic-tiled mandalas. The buildings, like fortresses rise out of the mountain landscape. The earthly colors accented with deep red brick and green and dark brown trim seem to blend into the terrain, yet they do not evoke the typical southwestern motif. At first brush, it might seem strange to find Bhutanese architecture sprawling across a university campus in western Texas, but the style has been a part of the campus design since 1917.

Bhutan’s remoteness and self-imposed isolation kept it off of the beaten tracks of most tourists and adventurers until the late 20th century. However, those involved with the administration of British India did visit the kingdom on official business. John Claude White, a British political officer in India, took with him on one of his visits a photographic studio complete with large-format cameras and glass photographic plates carried on the backs of pack animals. The tale of his trip along with the photographs made it into the pages of the National Geographic Magazine’s April 1914 issue. Among the many images were those of the countries unique architecture.

One of the 330,000 readers to the National Geographic Magazine in 1914 was the wife of the dean of the School of Mines, Kathleen Worrell. A travel writer herself, Kathleen was devoted reader of the flagship travelogue. Following the devastating Fort Bliss fire that destroyed the School of Mines’ original main building, Kathleen, the legend goes, convinced her husband to adopt the Bhutanese style in the designs for the replacement buildings that were planned for the new Franklin Mountain site. Her husband, Dean Steve Worrell agreed and promptly convinced the faculty of the idea. So enamored were they that Worrell and the faculty harshly rebuffed an attempt by the noted architectural firm of Trost & Trost to adopt their non-Bhutanese inspired design submissions.

In the late 1960s, Dale Walker, a UTEP faculty member wrote a letter that he sent to the remote and isolated Kingdom of Bhutan, seeking comments on UTEP’s Bhutanese-inspired architectural motif. Walker received a response from a member of the Bhutanese royal family who found it “thrilling and deeply moving” that a university in far-off America would erect buildings modeled on her native Bhutan. Thus began an official relationship between UTEP and the Kingdom of Bhutan, fifty years after the Worrells adopted Bhutan.

Trotsky

Al DeFlorio
UTEP now, TW then. Fascinating campus in Bhutanese style..

I'm sorry, what?

Holy fuck:

UTEP's campus is known for its striking architecture, inspired by the Himalayan mountain-top fortresses of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Nearly all of the buildings on campus incorporate Bhutanese architectural elements—massive sloping walls, high inset windows, overhanging roofs, and darks bands of brick inset with mosaic-tiled mandalas. The buildings, like fortresses rise out of the mountain landscape. The earthly colors accented with deep red brick and green and dark brown trim seem to blend into the terrain, yet they do not evoke the typical southwestern motif. At first brush, it might seem strange to find Bhutanese architecture sprawling across a university campus in western Texas, but the style has been a part of the campus design since 1917.

Bhutan’s remoteness and self-imposed isolation kept it off of the beaten tracks of most tourists and adventurers until the late 20th century. However, those involved with the administration of British India did visit the kingdom on official business. John Claude White, a British political officer in India, took with him on one of his visits a photographic studio complete with large-format cameras and glass photographic plates carried on the backs of pack animals. The tale of his trip along with the photographs made it into the pages of the National Geographic Magazine’s April 1914 issue. Among the many images were those of the countries unique architecture.

One of the 330,000 readers to the National Geographic Magazine in 1914 was the wife of the dean of the School of Mines, Kathleen Worrell. A travel writer herself, Kathleen was devoted reader of the flagship travelogue. Following the devastating Fort Bliss fire that destroyed the School of Mines’ original main building, Kathleen, the legend goes, convinced her husband to adopt the Bhutanese style in the designs for the replacement buildings that were planned for the new Franklin Mountain site. Her husband, Dean Steve Worrell agreed and promptly convinced the faculty of the idea. So enamored were they that Worrell and the faculty harshly rebuffed an attempt by the noted architectural firm of Trost & Trost to adopt their non-Bhutanese inspired design submissions.

In the late 1960s, Dale Walker, a UTEP faculty member wrote a letter that he sent to the remote and isolated Kingdom of Bhutan, seeking comments on UTEP’s Bhutanese-inspired architectural motif. Walker received a response from a member of the Bhutanese royal family who found it “thrilling and deeply moving” that a university in far-off America would erect buildings modeled on her native Bhutan. Thus began an official relationship between UTEP and the Kingdom of Bhutan, fifty years after the Worrells adopted Bhutan.

I did not expect that in Derpistan. Huh.

Trotsky
Or the residents. They're the common clay of the new West.