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Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte, you clearly weren't crazy. 34-7 final. Of course, if you had just told me Berreyesa was going to start things off with a pin, I would have been a lot less nervous. And Vito dominated Pat Glory at 125. Huge performance.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte mountainred ugarte Cornell hosts Penn and Princeton on Saturday. Princeton match is basically for the Ivy title. The Penn match will likely be a blowout. Cornell is a heavy favorite over Princeton too but the Tigers have a handful of ranked guys, including top 5 wrestlers at 149 and 197 and the matchup at 125 is between two freshmen ranked just outside of the top 10. Penn was a blowout aby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte Cornell hosts Penn and Princeton on Saturday. Princeton match is basically for the Ivy title. The Penn match will likely be a blowout. Cornell is a heavy favorite over Princeton too but the Tigers have a handful of ranked guys, including top 5 wrestlers at 149 and 197 and the matchup at 125 is between two freshmen ranked just outside of the top 10. Penn was a blowout as expected, 40-3.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Likely to be lost in Morgan's career high is that Warren went 4 for 4 at the line in the closing seconds.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte mountainred Not to dwell on old news, but the Arizona Daily Star did a story on Stone Gettings in which Stone says Cornell's Financial Aid Department tripled his family's contribution before his Junior year (his sister, who was on scholarship, had graduated GW). That stuck with him and when he realized he could graduate early, he did. “It really became a burden when the amount changed andby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
First win over Penn in 11 tries and the talk is about the Sun's coverage. Pretty telling about hoops' place in the Cornell sports hierarchy. Not to dwell on old news, but the Arizona Daily Star did a story on Stone Gettings in which Stone says Cornell's Financial Aid Department tripled his family's contribution before his Junior year (his sister, who was on scholarship, had graduated GW). Thby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2019 - 5 years ago
billhoward My reading is you have: * 20 seconds to get the ball across midfield (as now), then the 20-second part ends, and you have * 60 seconds to get off a shot, and the shot has to be * a goal, or a stop that was on-net, or (I believe) a shot off the pipe * a wide shot retains possession for the attackers but the clock doesn't reset (otherwise you'd encourage wild SOGs around 55 secondby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
I feel like I am stealing ugarte's thunder, but Cornell rested 4 starters and still beat Columbia handily. The snow forced the cancellation of a match at Sacred Heart, which almost certainly would have been a chance for more back-ups to wrestle. Next Saturday should be two more Ivy wins (Brown and Harvard have some good wrestlers, but not much depth) and a chance to worry more if Yianni, Strokeby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
scoop85 CU2007 Who is the main competition for a spot in the ivy tourney? Assuming Columbia is not? Despite two losses to Princeton while shorthanded by injuries, Penn should certainly make it. Princeton would be a solid choice, but their top player was just suspended after being arrested during an altercation at a Wawa. Yale will likely make it, and Harvard should be too. But Dartmouth justby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
scoop85 Al DeFlorio Possibly the worst half of basketballl I've ever seen. Completely clueless in half-court offense. And yet somehow they hold on for a 60-59 win. I take it Al missed the Courtney years.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Thought this would be a good time to look at the numbers with the OOC season over and the team off for the weekend. If you ask the computers, Cornell remains a team just inside the top 250 (or basically the same as last year). Not surprisingly, the offense is down from last year. No one has replaced Gettings' offense, even though Boeheim and Warren have helped. The more surprising issue is theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
After a slow start, it was a big night at Towson as the Hoops team finished the OOC schedule with an 86-74 win. After missing their first 10 or so three point attempts, Matt and the Red went on a 36-7 run to blow the game open. The Tigers owned the last minute to make the margin appear closer than it really was. Morgan had a huge night. He finished with 38 points, in the process setting theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
What could have been. Forbes did an article on Yale stud Miye Oni (who is now listed on NBA draft boards as a possible second round pick. The sad quote from the article: "Oni even attended Elite Camps at Stanford, Cornell and Penn. He really wanted to attend Cornell because his older sister, Oluwatoniloba, went to school there, 'but the coaches never recruited me.'" {heavy sigh}by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Matt Morgan took over in the second half of a 61-50 win over Navy. After scoring just two points in the first half, Matt finished with 27. Steve Julian had a solid day: 9 points, 15 rebounds, 4 blocks. Otherwise, it was pretty ugly. The final is a bit deceiving because Cornell scored the last nine; it was a one possession game with 2 minutes left. Winning is always better than losing, bby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
A tough week for the guys. On Wednesday they went to Toledo and, after taking an early lead, get clobbered on the boards losing 86-70. The Rockets are quite good, so losing by what the computers predicted was disappointing but not the end of the world. Last night was a different story. SMU put together a 42-7 run over the middle of the game in route to an 81-53 win. Other than Morgan, no oby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Back to game action. The guys lose a lead late and lose at Niagara 77-74 despite Josh Warren's best game for the Red. They come back the next night and hold on to a 70-64 win over Longwood thanks to crazy outside shooting (16 of 32 from behind the arc). Earl got some quality minutes from the Sophomores, as McBride, Boeheim, Kuhn, Knapp, and Voss contributed 32 points and 7 rebounds. On theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Al DeFlorio Swampy CAS Donahue is an excellent coach. Look how Cornell has fared after his departure. Bill Courtney went 60-113 during his 6 unsuccessful years. Brian Earl is 24-41 so far. Absolutely. Even with the team he had, you don't get the likes of Dick Vitale saying, "Cornell put on a clinic against Wisconsin" without excellent coaching. His record until the three bluebirdsby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Chuck Henderson mountainred Steve may not be a Ned Harkness of basketball, but he's a good coach. He's, at worst, the second best Cornell coach of all-time after Sam MacNeil (unless you really want to lobby for the work Albert Sharpe did a century ago). MacNeil by the record may look pretty good, but I and everyone I knew thought he was a bad coach in terms of game-time decisions. If one hasby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Al DeFlorio Swampy Al DeFlorio Scersk '97 scoop85 A shame too, because had Gettings stuck around, we’d be more of a factor. Seems as if Donahue had stuck around, we'd be more of a factor… Only if he got lucky and had another confluence of Dale, Foote, and Wittman appearing on campus together. Not necessarily. At Penn he's winning with Brodeur, Woods, and Wang. Penn is currently 9-2, with theby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
scoop85 ugarte Penn 78, Villanova 75. This is going to be a long year for the Big Red. We’re not a bad team by general Ivy standards, but Penn, Yale, and Harvard (when healthy) are quite strong this year. The rest of the teams, including Cornell, will likely jostle for the 4th spot in the Ivy tournament. I’m thinking another 6-8 league record is about where we’ll finish. A shame too, because hby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte mountainred No way to sugarcoat it, that was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tournament. No one beat their seed and only Tucker met it. Even the Friday bright spots of Max Dean and Ben Honis, dimmed on Saturday. I'm trying not to find it too terrible because while it wasn't *good* it also wasn't a nightmare. We need to heal up. Boy, your nightmares must be terrifying.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
No way to sugarcoat it, that was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tournament. No one beat their seed and only Tucker met it. Even the Friday bright spots of Max Dean and Ben Honis, dimmed on Saturday. Koll has some interesting decisions to make in the coming months. He needs Vito's ability to get bonus points, but Tucker is wresting well enough that it is hard to say he's lost the sby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
rss77 Guess I should watch I say-good showing for the Red. Morgan is a special athlete. Must say that Yale looks really good-beatinghe "U" down in Miami. Hey, the last three times the guys stayed within 20 of Syracuse, they won the league. I wasn't in the mood to watch a 20 point drubbing and passed on watching. Looks like I chose poorly. Yale also has a 17 point thrashing of Calby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
Ugly win, but at least a win, over Lafayette 63-58 on the road in overtime. Josh Warren was huge -- 17 points and 7 rebounds. Very scary moment in the second half when Morgan landed wrong and looked to be in a lot of pain, but he came back into the game. The LC announcers kept praising Cornell's defense, which was fine, but really Lafayette is just not very good.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - UConn - 5 years ago
ugarte Beeeej billhoward What are the odds the streak continues? Is this like the Polish cavalry charging German tanks in 1939? In text, Cornell puts the streak in perspective: "Cornell's modest three-game road streak is the longest since 2012-13." Good luck, Cornell. Final 91-74, 2 points shy of losing by an almost-reasonable 25. The line was Cornell + 15 (to make the score even).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte A few of our guys are going to be wrestling in the NYS championships tomorrow, but we often don't send all of our starters. The quality of competition isn't great - a lot of the field is JuCo and Division III - but there are always a handful of Cornell guys there. Emphasis on few. Only a few years ago, most of the NY D1 schools sent their starters. Not anymore. Of interest to Big Reby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
I only caught the second half, but Cornell finds its offense and beats NJIT 86-73. Everyone who played shot at least 50%. Morgan had 35, Boeheim 15 and Gordon 10. Julian grabbed 8 rebounds and hit his shots. Next up is UConn, who beat Syracuse, but is probably smarting after getting handled by Iowa. Even a great game will probably not be enough.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2018-19 - 5 years ago
ugarte ugarte Dual season opens tonight at 7pm against Binghamton (on ESPN3) Cornell didn't send anyone out for 125 and #1 Yianni Diakomihalis took the night off at 141 and we rolled anyway, 36-6. I didn't start watching until the middle of 165, so the early matches are just from the Cornell Wrestling twitter feed. 125: Cornell forfeit. We didn't send anyone to the Bearcat last week, so I wonby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: M Soccer 2018 - 5 years ago
A reason to be optimistic: Emeka Eneli won the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and was second team All-Ivy. Sophomore Charles Touche was first team, Freshman Tate Keir joined Eneli on the second team, and Junior John Scearce was honorable mention.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's basketball 2018-19 - 5 years ago
scoop85 rss77 Looking at the lineup out there at times outside of Boeheim or Morgan who else can put points up? Prognosis even in league play looks pretty grim. Gordon had some nice games last year, but he’s been off this year. Also I thought Whiteside and Davis could contribute more this year, so hopefully that will come. McBride, Whiteside, Gordon and Kuhn are 2 for 32 from behind the arcby mountainred - Other Sports