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Re: Men's basketball 2019-20 - 4 years ago
Earl has his first recruit for 2020: Sean Hansen, a 6'8" forward out of NJ. As scoop85 said on the Ivy BBall forum, he looks a bit like Jimmy Boeheim (our JB, not the coach). In opponent news, Dartmouth has lost senior guard, and probably their second best player, Brendan Barry for the season.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2019-20 - 4 years ago
The schedule is out and Bart Torvik has an early projection: 7-20 overall, 2-12 in the league. That's a solid 3 games back of Yale who he has projected for 7th. Torvik doesn't expect much from the two freshman I'm most optimistic about (Dolan and Jones), so there is room for growth. Unfortunately, while the rest of the league is picking up recruits for 2020, I can't find anyone committedby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: women's soccer '19-'20 - 4 years ago
4-1 start (after a loss on Sunday). Considering there were just 3 wins over the last two seasons, this looks like progress. The men are 2-1 with a win at then #16 Michigan State.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Football 2019 - 4 years ago
EIU lists him as a graduate transfer. Assuming that's true, he couldn't have played for the Big Red this season unless he decided to postpone graduation. That's an Ivy League issue and not a Cornell FB issue (which is good because the FB program has enough issues). Of course, the EIU website also says Walker played four years with the Bears, so who knows about its accuracy?by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2019-20 - 4 years ago
The official newcomer announcement is out: Link This is an enormously important class for Earl because last year's class had a very disappointing debut and back-to-back poor classes would be a disaster.* The recruiting services don't think much of the Big Red's class, but there are a few reasons for cautious optimism. SG Jordan Jones missed his 8th and 9th grade seasons with an auto-immunby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
This probably should be under Basketball 2019-20, but it seems too early to start that thread. Bart Torvik has already issued his preliminary 2019-20 rankings: Ivy ranks: 36. Harvard 53. Penn 114. Princeton 133. Columbia 163. Dartmouth 170. Brown 183. Yale 286. Cornell Next year looked rough, but the projected gap between Cornell and the rest of the league is brutal.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
scoop85 mountainred Disappointing OT loss. Robert Morris couldn't miss in OT and blew it open 98-89. Boeheim was on fire in the first half, Matt was Matt one last time and a lot of weirdness. Joel Davis never played. Warren started, played 8 minutes and left the game. That resulted in 20 minutes of Riley Voss, who looked okay, and some key second half minutes with both Kobe Dickson and Thuby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Disappointing OT loss. Robert Morris couldn't miss in OT and blew it open 98-89. Boeheim was on fire in the first half, Matt was Matt one last time and a lot of weirdness. Joel Davis never played. Warren started, played 8 minutes and left the game. That resulted in 20 minutes of Riley Voss, who looked okay, and some key second half minutes with both Kobe Dickson and Thurston McCarty on theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Jim Hyla djk26 Swampy To do better next year, the team needs to cement the chemistry that developed over the last month and to get more tournament experience. That's true, too. I was thinking about the senior who gets to play basketball for a few more games with his team, but it's also helpful for a young team to gain more experience. Just like all the bowl games help the next years team.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound - 5 years ago
ugarte Good for the women for making the ILT but Princeton ripped them apart again, this time 68-47. In fairness, the game at Princeton was close. But, yeah, the Tigers overwhelmed Cornell. Still, a great run and next year could be interesting, though the gap to the two P's is pretty large.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte scoop85 Cornell hoops to get some postseason action toowell all right! Winnable game too, though these non-NCAA tournaments often come down to who actually wants to be there.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Another recruit, Earl's third from the prep school ranks: PG Greg Dolan was second team all-league for the big schools where he set up PoY, and Harvard recruit, Chris Ledlum. Jordan Jones was the Class A (which looks about the middle) Player of the Year. Dolan won't help replace Julian, but he had a lot of interest from mid-majors and this team is shallow at PG.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Matt is, not surprisingly, a unanimous pick for first-team all-Ivy. The only Cornellian to make the all-Ivy announcement. He's the second Cornell player to be a unanimous all-Ivy pick more than once (Witt did three times). He's also only the 6th guy in Big Red history to be named first-team more than once.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound - 5 years ago
billhoward Is YUAG a real thing? Yepby mountainred - Other Sports
Women's basketball - ILT bound - 5 years ago
ugarte Props to Cornell women's hoops for getting into the Ivy Tournament. Thanks for bringing this up ugarte. The women really deserve some attention. They finished the season winning 5 of their last 8, even though it involved three Ivy road weekends. They were overwhelmed at Harvard on Friday but then owned the fourth quarter of their play-in game at Dartmouth. The Yale Undergraduateby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
So, who had Morgan's string of double figure games ending on senior night? Crazy. Cornell still wins 66-51 to finish .500 and tied for 4th. Now, we wait for the CIT.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Sweany was in on two shots in the last minute of his quarter loss, but couldn't finish either. Then he gave up the late takedown. Sadly, that's kind of been the story of his career. I think you and I both thought Honis would have been the heavy this season if Ben hadn't been needed at 197. Jon just didn't look like himself in the wrestleback loss. Did he take a single shot? Maybe he wasn'tby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
I think they could. The CIT has invited Ivies in the past -- Columbia has won the thing and Yale was a runner-up -- and I think they are struggling to fill their bracket. Last year they only had 20 teams. Since the Sweet 16 season, every Ivy other than Cornell has played in some kind of post-season tournament. Even fricking Dartmouth.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
The Guys bounced back impressively beating Harvard 72-59, Morgan with 31. In the end, it won't matter. Brown and Penn both won, so they meet tomorrow in what is basically a play-in game. Cornell loses the tiebreaker to Penn if all three teams tie at 7-7. I wonder if they could get a CIT berth at 15-15....by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte RichH With all respect to the great wrestling fans on this forum and thread, this is almost as confusing as actually watching a wrestling match. If you want to read something wild, check this out from John Aadland, the SID for the conference about the many meanings of "winning percentage," which corrects me on a mistake I made on that forum about American's 157, believing thaby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte Going 2-0 was perfect for Santoro because he ended up with NA/25/.737 when he needed 29/29/.710 - and by forfeiting to American's Khizan Clarke instead of beating him,* *Clarke* was able to keep his RPI at 26 and apparently push his winning percentage high enough for the pre-allocation. Furnas, though.. he's the reason I was looking at this in the first place. He went 2-0 to get to exby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Here is a great guide to help understand scoring at the EIWA Tournament. This is NOT my work, but the work of a wrestling poster, JDALU75, who is well-connected at the EIWA. All credit to him. His summary: Here's an easy way to keep up with the live scoring -- In the championship bracket a win in the preliminary round is worth 1.0 point. Wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals are eacby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
CU2007 Ken711 Cornell loses to Brown 75-51. Out-scored this weekend 116-163. With a 5 game losing streak this team is trending down at the wrong time. Yea, baring a miracle next weekend, they choked away a nice cushion in the league standings and it ends next Saturday night Choke is too strong -- they were the underdog in all five of their losses -- but they did stink this past weekend whenby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
I'll let ugarte correct my math, but it looks like Furnas and Santoro earned the league automatic berths -- of course that is only part of the test as both have to win at the EIWA (Furnas needs to finish 5th, Santoro needs 6th). Only Berreyesa will have to "steal" a spot by finishing at least 4th next weekend. In other news, another blue-chip recruit is headed to Ithaca: Josh Saundeby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
rss77 To get to playoffs Boeheim and others will have to start putting more points in the basket. They are playing good defense which has kept them in games. The rest of the season teams will do what Penn did which was sagging off other players and double teaming Morgan. Going forward I hope Earl can bring some point producers into the fold. The first video in this link features the recruit wby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
It's a brutal stretch -- 2 games with first place Yale sandwiching the historically difficult Penn/Princeton road trip. Just one of those will be huge because the win over Harvard will help with tie-breakers.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte Al DeFlorio semsox mountainred So, the good guys go into Harvard and win 67-61 on a night where Morgan was off his game. Did not see that coming, even after Harvard went to 3 OTs yesterday. Having saw the halftime score, I didn't believe this post when I first saw it. Watching the replay now, and still not sure how they did it. Similar reaction watching the replay this morning. Two thoby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte With the win, Cornell goes 5-0 in the Ivy League for the 17th straight season, winning our 17th straight Ivy title. It is the longest Ivy title streak in any sport for any school, ever. Over at WrestlingReport the poster klehner said: "Cornell lost only 7 matches, giving up 26 team points in their five matches. You have to go back to the 2010-11 season to find a Cornell teamby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Cornell is now in a three way tie for second in the league, two games clear of Brown, Dartmouth and Penn. Hard to believe this is the same team that lost to Niagara and was pounded by Delaware. Hats off to them. Scoop, you may have been right about the reasonable chance for the ILT.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
So, the good guys go into Harvard and win 67-61 on a night where Morgan was off his game. Did not see that coming, even after Harvard went to 3 OTs yesterday.by mountainred - Other Sports