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Cornell tennis - 4 days ago
The Ivy League men's tennis POTY 2024 is a Cornellian, junior Radu Papoe. Currently No. 13 in the ITA men's college rankings: ITA 2024 college men's tennis rankings. Second time ever a Cornellian has been the Ivy's player of the year; also Mike Halperin '01 in 2000. Cornell PR 5/1/24: Radu Papoe Named Player of the Year, Unanimous First Team All-Ivy in Singlesby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Wells College 1868-2024 - 5 days ago
There are advantages to the new parent school accepting Wells orphans: The news schools get more students, they've got students who've made it through at least one year academically, they're grateful to be taken in, they understand New York State winter weather. New York State has suffered a net loss (~20%) of students the past decade if I'm reading this NYS chart correctly. Cornell is up, buby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - polls 4/29/24 - 6 days ago
... which Kirsch contributions outside Goals/Assists the voters will recognize. One hopes. Matt Brandau, Yale 45-54--97 3CT 33GB CJ Kirst, Cornell 45-21--66 16CT 32GB Pat Kavanagh, ND 19-34--53 10CT 26GB Quint Kessinich, laxallstars.com 4/29 column For my money, Pat Kavanagh and CJ Kirst sit atop the Tewaaraton race entering May. The pack chasing this duo includes Matt Brandaby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 6 days ago
Swampy Trotsky billhowardAnd the non-stars will support Cornell lax as alumni.I wonder if we have ever had a guy on the lax team, or really any person on any Cornell team, only because they were rich AF and being groomed as a future money hose. Look at recent years to see which guys majored in business and went on to work on Wall Street. Then go back and eliminate the ones who started during theiby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - polls 4/29/24 - 6 days ago
Polls after games of April 27-28, 2024. Cornell remains at 8 in the Media/USILA poll. Syracuse is up to #3. Media / Inside Lacrosse 4/29/24 Week 12 # Team Points Prev 1 Notre Dame (10 - 1) 460(23) 1 2 Johns Hopkins (10-3) 430 3 3 Syracuse (11 - 4) 406 4 4 Denver (11 - 2) 363 6 5 Virginia (10 - 4) 346 5 6 Duke (11 - 4) 343 2 7 Maryland (8 - 4) 312 7 8 Cornby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 days ago
... that is, something the committee feels that doesn't track with RPI or WL or other hard stats. It's good that this is one check on criteria bound into the square box of The Ranking Rules. Except that 50 years ago it was that gut feeling that kept Cornell from winning the final polls-not-playoffs of the late 1960s and then in 1971 when it was a playoff, Cornell won.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 days ago
CU77DIVISION I SELECTION CRITERIA: The committee will utilize the following criteria to select and seed teams: • Strength of schedule index. • Results of the RPI. - Record against ranked teams 1-5; 6-10; 11-15; 16-20; 21+ - Average RPI win (average RPI of all wins) - Average RPI loss (average RPI of all losses) • Head-to-head competition: - Results versus common oppoby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 7 days ago
Heh! That actually makes sense: play the later game, take a little off the advantage of playing at home. Assuming the Ivy League made rational decisions. I was thinking they were thinking more people would turn out for a late game. Or they (ILT wizards) were thinking: More Cornell folk are local when it's in Ithaca, so the late game is no big deal getting home. Whereas the Yale and Princetonby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 7 days ago
Good point, taking kids or grandkids < middle-school age to an 8:30 game. Conversely if your kid plays a youth / HS spring sport, odds are greater it was an afternoon game. Or will be a Saturday game and hopefully not in the morning. Assuming you're in the Syracuse-Ithaca-Rochester area, a reasonable ride home. I do think about parents / grandparents taking kids to Lynah, where the lanby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 7 days ago
Time of day doesn't matter all that much. This is May not March 3. Lacrosse is still playable when temps are in the 40s. Way more important is that it's not in New Haven or Princeton or Philadelphia. At Columbia was okay because so many alumni are in the metro NY area.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024-25 MEN'S SCHEDULE - 7 days ago
The 2024 lacrosse team did well to schedule mostly HQ OOC opponents. We're fortunate that even without playing many (any?) southern schools the Midwest plus Denver lax has become high qualityby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 days ago
BearLoverIf the committee doesn’t consider margin of victory, then there should be no committee at all. RPI does a way better job of determining who is most deserving than the committee ever could. The 2024 NCAA tournament bracket diagram shows one early-round bracket, sort of like the basketball play-in or (for a year before they were hooted down) the "first round" which then made it aby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 8 days ago
upprdeckDo we think there will be a sig attendance jump from NYC for a late night game? if you are making the drive you need to give yourself 4-5 hrs no matter when it starts . I'm making this up as I go along: Looking for all possible reasons why the school or the league chose the 1-seed in the late game not early game. And why it may have gone the other way. Me, I would have chosen early gameby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 24-25 - 8 days ago
This is nice. He sounds like a student. And athlete. One problem about profiles of good HS/prep players as they pick a college is, you have no idea if he'll barely hang on, be a starter, or be a real star. Let's hope Nimani is the real deal.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 8 days ago
This was just coincidence ... your last sentence included Money, Trump and Fairness ? I'd like to believe any college lacrosse player whether just turned 18 or maybe 22 or 23, no one is so young or so old a game at 6pm vs. 8:30pm is going to affect his abilities. I get the advantage of the ECAC 1-seed at Lake Placid wanting the 4 pm semifinal game for an extra 3 hours of rest for a game 2by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 8 days ago
Al DeFlorio upprdeck Getting out of a lAX game at 1030-1100 isnt fun. Good news is the crowd wont be that big that time of night. Not so great for the winner of the late game, either. Not like NCAA hockey when one final-four semifinal was Thursday, one Friday, and the Friday winner has a huge disadvantage.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 8 days ago
Right! The Omar Kanjis of the lacrosse world work just as hard as the starters and the stars. If their parents and siblings and girlfriend see them in a game for 5 minutes, it is worth a lot. I think it ripples back to the recruiting candidates about which are the teams you want to play for. And the non-stars will support Cornell lax as alumni.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - game times - 8 days ago
This year, Friday games are 6 and 8:30. When the day's temp will reach the high 70s in the afternoon. Won't be as nice Sunday, rain not (yet) forecast. 2023 it was: Neutral site, Columbia Games 6 pm (1-4 matchup) and 8:30 Friday, 12 noon Sunday Cornell was the 1-seed, lost 22-15 to Yale 2022, at 1-seed, Brown Games 6 pm and 8:30 (1-4 matchup), 12 noon Sunday Cornell was the 2-sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 8 days ago
mike1960 You gotta ask: How difficult is it to broadcast the shot clock? a) there was at least one other game where the shot clock wasn't in the clock/scores onscreen graphic. b) at some schools, either the clock doesn't output a signal for time shot clock time remaining, or their software doesn't accept the clock output but if ESPN is supplyng the production equipment (which may be as simple aby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 8 days ago
Most people think it's tempting fate. But also this: God is on the side of the army with the bigger battalions. Cornell has won the last 11 meetings against Dartmouth. Hasn't lost at Dartmouth since 1997.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 4/27 C@D, Pr@Y, B@H - 8 days ago
Cornell opens an early 2-0 lead over Dartmouth.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 8 days ago
This is the Ivy standings 4/27 after Princeton beat Penn, before Harvard-Brown, Cornell-Dartmouth. Ivy Standings the Final Week TEAM W L 4/27 Game Ivy Wins over (top 4 in bold) Cornell 4 1 @Dartmouth Princeton, Yale, Brown, Harvard Princeton 4 2 @Yale Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Yale Yale 4 2 Princeton Harvard, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth Pennby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 4/27 C@D, Pr@Y, B@H - 8 days ago
Cornell cruising up in New Hampshire. 10-5 at the half, 4-1–5 for CJ Kirst. Dartmouth shut out in the third, Cornell eases off the throttle, puts Tully in goal. Finally Cornell 15-10. . I can't tell if the game is moving more methodically (slowly) than our games against Yale-Princeton-Penn or if it's just finishing off the RS and getting ready for the ILT. Kirst 4-3--7, Danny Cadigan 3G. Back toby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 4/27 C@D, Pr@Y, B@H - 8 days ago
Final weekend of the regular season. Ivy League nicely stacked the 3 games (Penn DNP today) so we can watch 2 1/2 of them without a lot of overlap. The current standings: Cornell 4-1 Yale 4-1 Penn 4-2 Princeton 3-2 Brown 2-3 Harvard 1-4 Dartmouth 0-5 Princeton @ Yale, 12 noon. Princeton needs the win to guarantee it makes the ILT. A loss and maybe the Tigers would beby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - polls 4/22 - 11 days ago
mike1960 arugula Bracketology on IL has us as number 8-playing Penn State (no!), if we win playing Notre Dame. Oh boy… Bring 'em on. Bring 'em ALL on! a) Thank you to everyone who avoided saying, "If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best." b) We lucked out en route to the 2022 final because we did not have to play #1 Maryland until the title game and en route we faced uby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 11 days ago
Maybe the near-binary choice made by this near-sentient researcher described it as superstars or nobodies who drift back to the juniors. There is a reasonable number of college drafted college players who may have ~5-year NHL careers punctuated by one or two trips back to the minors. You make money that the majority of your college classmates 1-5 years out do not.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - days/times <you had one job> - 12 days ago
I think, ah, the Ivy League was in a deadline crush, say, and somebody didn't proofread the sketch that became the graphic. Everybody, everywhere, doing online stuff feels rushed. But they also know, if they make a mistake, they can correct later that day, or tomorrow. In print, you're kind stuck, except you run a correction in a future issue. I'm sure it's two semifinal games Friday, title gameby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 12 days ago
Our son got paid by BU to work the penalty box and I don't think there was a huge amount of competition for the job. You can't yell or cheer but you have one hell of a view. I think at Lynah you could have charity bidding war for the right to work it. (He went there for the hotel school. Got recruited by an ex-Cornell hotel prof who'd been a Hobart lacrosse guy early 1970s. In the era when thby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 12 days ago
One in four NHLers have been to college. Per AI: Google AI answer to "nhl percentage college playrs" Roughly 25% of NHL players have played college hockey, but the majority come from Major Juniors. In 2021–2022, 48 NCAA Division I schools had an alum playing in the NHL, which is a 65% increase from 2002–2003, when 21.1% of NHL players were NCAA alumni. The NHL generally draws playby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the pros 23-24 - 12 days ago
There'd be a big story on this if Caitlin Clark got drafted.by billhoward - Hockey