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Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 30 days ago
This may be more of a next year topic, but Harvard Fr. Malin Mack has entered the transfer portal. He was the ROY, so this is big loss to them. Penn Fr. Tyler Perkins is in the portal as well, as is Brown Jr. Nana Owusu-Anane For the good guys, Chris Mannon is in the portal for a grad year and is getting a lot of attention Didn't mean to post the entire tweet, sorry.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 4 weeks ago
ugarte Ken711 upprdeck maybe his style its an easier path to the tourney for him? Or having to face Yale and their 7 foot center for 2 more years.Or he'd rather live in Virginia than Ithaca? Yale fans are convinced Wolf is taking NIL money and bailing, but they could be seeing ghosts. Williamsburg is an odd place. Summers are brutal because it is nearly swamp land (worse than an Ithaca wiby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 4 weeks ago
Mr. Niss rss77 As pointed out in one of the Virginia papers he has access to scholarships and graduate transfers. So does every other non-Ivy school though. I wish Earl the best, but I don't get this move. The CAA is a step down conference-wise and W&M makes Cornell look like a basketball school. I wonder if Kevin App's name resurfaces. He's had success at Willliams.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 weeks ago
ugarte mountainred ugarte, believe it or not, you already saw the day. Penn and Princeton both made the women's tourney in 2016. Penn won the league while Princeton was an at-large. Princeton was matched up with WVU that year too. I seriously doubt we ever see it on the men's side. the year Princeton went in as an 8, they still get in if there had been an ILT. I don't know if we never see it.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 weeks ago
ugarte, believe it or not, you already saw the day. Penn and Princeton both made the women's tourney in 2016. Penn won the league while Princeton was an at-large. Princeton was matched up with WVU that year too. I seriously doubt we ever see it on the men's side.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 weeks ago
For folks who don't follow college hoops, Ohio State was floundering in conference play. In Mid-February they fired their coach after a 2-9 stretch and have gone 6-2 since then. So, the bucknuts probably aren't pouting about not making the NCAA Tournament -- since they played their way out of that conversation by Valentine's Day. And they look more like a team that is starting to enjoy playingby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 weeks ago
ugarte arugula NIT?nah, but the CIT is back and that's a maybe. This site has Cornell as literally the last team in the NIT. I think they will be too busy squeezing in power conference teams that don't want to be there. Cornell will certainly get invited to the CIT or CBI unless they make it clear they won't pay to play.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2024 Postseason - 6 weeks ago
ugarte On to NCAAs in two weeks. Not sure when they release the at-large bids or the seeds. LGR. Per the NCAA: The 2024 NCAA wrestling Division I championship brackets will be revealed during a selection show streamed live on NCAA.com at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 13. I'm guessing at large bids will be announced before, but the only drama there for a Cornell fan is whether Cornella isby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Womens Basketball - 2 months ago
scoop85 dbilmes The saddest thing about the women's basketball program is that due to years of mediocrity, there is no fan base and no excitement about the program. The official attendance for their home loss to Yale on Saturday was 183. It can't help recruiting efforts if potential players watch a game either in person or on TV and see it being played before such a small crowd. Cornell is 1-7 inby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
Cornell's ILT Scenarios Win out -- #1 seed, obviously 4-1 with loss v. Yale -- #2 seed, unless Yale drops two of their last four (not likely). That also means trying to beat Princeton for a third time this season in the 2/3 game. 4-1 with loss at Princeton -- Likely the 2/3 game, unless Yale and Princeton both lose. That's because the tie-breaker would be computer rankings, which do not faby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
chimpfood Great win. We’ve done a good job of shutting down other teams’ main weapons (aside from one half of Danny wolf). I've ragged on this team's D, but they have really stepped it up in league play. It was the D that won last night's game and they completely took Mack out his game, which very few teams have done.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
The tie-breaker is the NCAA's NET ranking a combination of computer metrics (NET, KenPom, one more at least). That is a huge advantage for Yale right now and even better for Princeton if we all hold serve. Going into last night. 1. Yale 7-0 (NET 82, KenPom 86, Torvik 77) 2. Cornell 6-1 (NET 83, KenPom 101, Torvik 101) 3. Princeton 5-2 (NET 52, KenPom 66, Torvik 79) *Thanks nyc94, I reallby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
ugarte CU2007 If I’m not mistaken, a school has to actually PAY to play in the CBI. My guess is Cornell would pass and blame having to study etc we played in the CIT in 2019 Ahh, the late, unlamented CIT. Though, yes, I watched the sad loss to Robert Morris.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
For your consideration yet another Bracketology, but this one including both the NIT and the CBI. The CBI, for those of you with lives, is a 16 team post-season tournament where all the games are played at one location in Florida over the course of a week. This has Princeton in the NIT -- as a #2 seed -- and the good guys as the #6 in the CBI.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2023-24 - 2 months ago
Following up on ugarte's post, Cornell beats Penn 26-8 to win its 43rd wrestling title (and maybe the last one decided by dual record.) The dual was closer than you might think from the score, only one bonus point win for Cornell, but still a nice win. Three duals left before post-season, starting with a showdown at NC State next weekend.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
BearLover I don’t really agree with the posters claiming the better team lost. Cornell shot lights out, especially when it built its big lead—that just isn’t sustainable. I don’t think Cornell is vastly worse than Yale or anything, but given Yale’s size and rebounding advantage and the big shooting percentage disparity, I think Cornell was fortunate to end up with a chance to win down the stretchby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
ugarte upprdeck If they win out and lose the last Game there is a slight chance of an At large bid.very slight. our SOS going forward isn't great since our best opponents (2-3 games v Yale, 1-2 games v Princeton including at least one loss) are fringe at-large candidates as well. Syracuse being ranked on par with Yale and GMU being roughly on par with us are our two best non-Ivy opponents and theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
mike1960 mountainred ugarte Mr. Niss I don't understand Ken Pom, in particular how Yale is ranked so much ahead of us at 15-6 while we're 17-3. They've beaten nobody but Princeton. The have a couple of terrible losses. Their games against top teams aren't any better than ours. might be margin of victory; i think it measures by possession not just ultimate result. It's a lot of factors and, yby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
ugarte Mr. Niss I don't understand Ken Pom, in particular how Yale is ranked so much ahead of us at 15-6 while we're 17-3. They've beaten nobody but Princeton. The have a couple of terrible losses. Their games against top teams aren't any better than ours. might be margin of victory; i think it measures by possession not just ultimate result. It's a lot of factors and, yes, KenPom is based oby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Ivy League basketball 2023-24 - 4 months ago
dbilmes Yale had a long bus ride back to New Haven Saturday night after blowing a five-point lead in the final four seconds, capped off by a game-winning 4-point play. By "blowing" you meant "got robbed," right? That Vermont flop at the end would have offended LeBron. No such persons to blame for losing at home to Fairfield last night though. Meanwhile, Princeton remaiby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
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. First, I wanted to say Wolverines! Second, sure they weren't going to blow a 22by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
Good guys are going to win, up double digits in the last minute, but the Wolverines(!) have been on a 9-0 run.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
Looks like neither team is shooting worth a **&%.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
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. They areby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
I didn't either Scoop, way too pricey IMHO. From the box score, it is nice to see a win where the good guys jumped in front and stayed ahead comfortably. Utah Valley turned the ball over 21 times in their win yesterday, hope that is a good sign for us.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
chimpfood Great win overall, fordham is a good team. Gotta work on free throws and closing out games but I’ll take that result any day. Absolutely. Don't forget, the Rams were favored. Even though the Big Red had a 27 point lead at one point (if you watched the broadcast, you may not have known that, I'm not sure it ever came up.) Also have to work on handling pressure and boxing out. Forby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
chimpfood Defense is doing great today. Maybe we shouldn’t be saying scrap the press after one game? I don't want to jinx anything, but that was about as good a half of basketball as we can hope to see from our guys. 45-24 good guys.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
ugarte mountainred Some random thoughts: * The defense and ball security were troubling. Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem. * The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good. * Max Watson sighting with 6-ish miby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
rss77 Understand that Barry may be out this season Thanks. I hope everything is okay with him.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 5 months ago
chimpfood Looks like Baldwin may have torn his acl. He has the standard acl knee brace and crutches, that definitely hurts. Jeff Goodman tweeted the other day he was out for the season for a knee injury: IVY LEAGUE INJURY REPORT: pic.twitter.com/hQJWRqRPD6— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) November 6, 2023 so an ACL tear would make sense.by mountainred - Other Sports