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Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 5 days ago
arugula ugarte nothing dumber than a post tournament poll yes, but I'm grasping Dumb would also be not doing the poll. Gives the voters a chance to seed differently from how the brackets turn out, to upvote somebody who was really good and ran into a buzzsaw early in the tournament. In another bracket, they might have gone further. Where would Denver have been seeded if one of those UMass pipe shby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 5 days ago
My eyes glaze over when drilling down into what goes into RPI numbers. Is there a more complex RPI – that is, more accurate, that is better favors Cornell and Ivy teams – such as: Disparity in games already played before first weekend of March, relative rank of teams when the game was played vs. current or end-of-season rank, trend over the season, projected rank of the team in the post-season (oby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 5 days ago
scoop85 rss77 Did anyone think that Psyllos was a little worn down those last few minutes at fogo? How could he not be? Both teams used two faceoff players. All I felt was we were about 50% and that was good for the past half-doze years. Stats do show it was 6-3 Notre Dame in the fourth quarter, which supports your point. FACE OFFS Cornell 5 6 5 3 19 Notre Dame 5 4 4 6 19 Anotheby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/15 week 10 - 5 days ago
Cornell loses by 1 goal to the #1 team and drops a position in the polls to 9th. 10th in RPI. Media poll is in, Quint Kessenich's personal poll is in (Cornell 10), USILA coaches poll strolls in late Monday / Tuesday. All have Yale rated above Cornell by 1-2 positions, FWIW. Update: USILA poll, in Tuesday, is the most favorable to Cornell's status: ranked 8th, ahead of 9 Yale, 13 Penn, 17 Princetoby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 6 days ago
adamwJust like when Kraws went there , there are few opportunities for 5th year goalies on the skids. Just as Bogey and Bergman always had Paris, Bwen Kraws will always have Lake Placid and that 3-0 shutout of Quinnipiac. It improved his standing as he headed to the pros. At the Cornell-at-St. Lawrence game, I sat in the top row of a section that included SLU partisans. Kraws pere was standingby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - into last 2 weeks - 6 days ago
Princeton getting upset 13-12 by Brown Saturday (4/13) reduces the number of ways Cornell gets the 1-seed in the ILT. The one-loss teams are now Yale, Penn (which gave Cornell its loss) and Cornell, but not Princeton now at 2 losses nor Harvard at 3 losses (but 7-4 overall, suggesting they're tough for Cornell to beat). We can't count on help from Princeton in a multi-way one-loss tie at the top.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 6 days ago
If we can stay with Notre Dame for 58 minutes, Harvard (senior day at Cornell) and Dartmouth should be no problem, um, right? And we'll deserve home ice in the NCAA first round, right? Those who attended the game did not hear, for better or worse, the pitter-patter of the announcers, such as, "Not only is this a barn-burner, but three rows of the corn came down" and something aboutby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4/13-14 games - 7 days ago
Penn 15, Harvard 12. Harvard ran up a 9-6 lead before the half, Penn ran off 6 straight, game tied at 12, Harvard missed a couple chances, Penn got up 14-12, Harvard messed up a clear, got a miracle empty-net save by a defender, failed to capitalize when the Penn goalie dropped the ball on a clear, Penn added a final goal on a long-stick shot from its own 25 yard line. The save that almosby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4/13-14 games - 7 days ago
Not much this weekend to affect the outcome of the Ivy race with three weekends of play left. Yale, Cornell, Penn, all 3-1 Ivy, Princeton 2-1. One game with the outcome not clear: * 16 Harvard at 14 Penn, 1 pm Two games with the visiting teams likely to win: * 7 Yale at 59 Dartmouth 3:30 pm * 12 Princeton at 40 Brown, 3:30 pm Non-league game Sunday * 10 Cornell - 1 Notre Dame at LIU'sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Awards - 8 days ago
Trotsky Greg Brown wins the Spencer Penrose. Last BC coach to win it was Len Ceglarski in his first year at BC in 1973. Since Ceglarski and 1973 (actually since 1949), BC had a long title drought until 2001, 2008, 2010 and 2012. And Greg Brown is only BC's fifth head coach in just under a century, mostly because Snooks Kelley was HC 1933-1972, then Ceglarski for two decades, then Jerry York forby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - All-America Shane 2nd team - 8 days ago
1) You sound like a cranky old man. Do you yell, "Hey, you kids get off my lawn"? But ... 2) Yeah, you're right. 3) His bio notes Richter played 666 games in the NHL so it could have been the Mark of the Best Award. He won second place in the Vezina Trophy in his second year. He only played two years at Wisconsin, 33-25-1. Let's see, Ken Dryden went 76-4-1 at Cornell. He embodies thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: ECAC Early and Grad Departures 2024 - 8 days ago
Trotsky Per the Q USCHO thread they have only 5 guys left from the title team, despite the 5-year plan. IINM they have lost their top 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13 scorers from 2024, and their big goalie. Any plan called a Five Year Plan fails. It doesn't have to involve agriculture or steel mills. How'd you like your player bio to say Comrade Yaniv?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - Hobey - 8 days ago
Macklin Celebrini, BU freshman, 32G, 32A, 64 points. Wins over Boston College’s Cutter Gauthier and North Dakota’s Jackson Blake. Third BU winner in 15 years (Matt Gilroy, Jack Eichel).by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - Richter - 8 days ago
Richter Award winner: Kyle McClellan, Wisconsin, 1.97 GAA, first Badger ever Honorable mention Richter, State of New Jersey, 4.8 readingby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 2024 Awards - All-America Shane 2nd team - 8 days ago
Cornell's Ian Shane is second-team All-America, behind BC freshman Jacob Fowler. But okay, it was the West second-team AA Kyle McClellan who won the Richter Award. Couple of AAs from lesser (in terms of post-season prowess) schools: RIT, Holy Cross. Quinnipiac's Colin Graf second team AA, was first team last year. The only Ivy player is Shane, the only ECAC players are Graf and Union D John Prokoby billhoward - Hockey
Re: WBB: Emily Garner - 8 days ago
Us also. Let's see the W-L stats comes spring 2025 in football, basketball, women's basketball, etcetera.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: WBB: Emily Garner - 8 days ago
mike1960 I really like that the AD was willing to find an excellent candidate with success in a lower NCAA division. ... with schools that have similar academic expectations: coach at Trinity plus undergrad at Lafayette. Nicki Moore's title is changing to The Meakem & Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education Recruiting and Speedy Hiring. It wasn't long-winded enough, as in the Jby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Awards - 11 days ago
Al DeFlorio Shane named to All-CHN second team: Looks like the Boston phone directory. Do they still print directories? Nine of the 18 are Boston players (um, BU and BC, not Harvard, not Northeastern). All skaters (except all-rookie) are freshmen or sophomores. Ian Shane is the only junior (or senior). All-CHN First Team F Macklin Celebrini, Fr., Boston University F Cutter Gauthier, So., Bby billhoward - Hockey
Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 12 days ago
Cornell vs. #1 Notre Dame, Sunday 4/14 12:30 on Long Island at Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium (LIU Stadium), Old Westbury. Seats "over 6,000." Tickets via Cornell link, $25 including parking. HS game Manhasset vs Shoreham Wading River boys lax follows. Be worth getting tickets in advance. The Irish have a large NYC contingent, it could sell out. Notre Dame has been #1 all seby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Rowing - 13 days ago
Right. You want to be an informed spectator, you should be willing to pay for it. So, paying for a seat in the stands and a jumbotron, and somebody to explain which boat is which, that has value. Or does the announcer intersperse race news with shoutouts to Merrill Lynch and Boeing Aerospace Systems and other valued sponsors?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 13 days ago
Wish I'd taking more courses on statistics and probabilities. I wish we'd gotten the OT goal against Penn and then it'd be simple. I wish I was drinking buddies with Nate Silver. All roads not taken.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 14 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 One last thought for completeness. If both Cornell and Princeton win out, we win the H2H with Princeton. Princeton winning out means they beat Penn 4/20 and Yale 4/27.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax: Brown at CU 4/6/24 - 14 days ago
RichH... when all cogs are working. Need to get more complete games. Or need more games played second-half-only.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 14 days ago
nshapiro And I believe that winning the last two Ivy league games gets Cornell #1 seed in the tournament In a scenario where Penn and Cornell finish at 1 loss, everyone else has 2 losses, Cornell loses the H2H. Among the one-loss teams, Yale or Princeton will have one more loss on the final weekend (because they play each other). Ditto Penn or Princeton the weekend before, same reason. I believeby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Rowing - 15 days ago
cu155https://usrowing.org/sports/2024/1/25/2024-olympic-trials.aspx The trials are free for spectators to attend. They will also be available to stream on Peacock, NBC.com and NBCSports.com on Saturday and Sunday. Heat sheets and results will be available on HereNow.com. For more information, visit USRowing.com or NathanBendersonPark.org. In part because how do you close a lake, or 2000 meters oby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 16 days ago
Glad you're going to the game. Thank you for making our collective day if in any way you had thoughts Schoellkopf Field might sell out (though you said otherwise). That happens for graduation (tickets are $70,000 times four years) and comes close for the fireworks the night before football Homecoming in September. Yes, BigRedTix.com is the legit link to Cornell tickets. It's $7 for 12 and undby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 16 days ago
Yes, Harvard is the team that could make us a 4-2 Ivy team. And you need a strong arm to land fish on the playing surface.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2023 LTW Rowing - 17 days ago
Geez, that's almost as long as getting academic tenure.by billhoward - Other Sports
Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 17 days ago
Thinking about Cornell's chances for hosting the 2024 Ivy League lacrosse tournament the first weekend in May. It goes to the school with the best record. If there's a tie, it goes to the team with the best combined record against the others tied for first. So that one-goal Cornell loss to Penn is an issue. With Ivy 3 games left for Penn, Yale, Princeton and Cornell, 4 left for Harvard, Dartmouthby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 17 days ago
Four-minute overtimes, whoever gets more goals wins, if not, four more minutes. Seldom does a game go more than two OTs. Much fairer. Our 1976 16-13 national title win over Maryland started with a Maryland goal. The fact we scored four more suggests the better team was Cornell. The NCAA will say it has bigger things to worry about, like the possibility it collapses. But the lax committee ougby billhoward - Other Sports