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Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
ugarte mountainred Cornell over NC State 20-13. Tough day for the guys who weren't expected to start, but Duke Pickett with a huge win. Cornell beat Virginia Tech West Virginia 26-9, with two surprising losses from a couple of our ranked wrestlers. Fortunately, they were more than offset by some big wins from some of our fill-ins and a surprise quick pin by our heavyweight. I really want our staby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
upprdeck props for another win.. Agreed. KenPom has Cornell up another dozen or so places and is now projecting 13-17, 5-9 in the league.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
Cornell over NC State 20-13. Tough day for the guys who weren't expected to start, but Duke Pickett with a huge win.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
ugarte mountainred ugarte I know some of you are in the Albany/Troy area, so if you feel like checking out the Cornell wrestling team, they're going up against NC State, Virginia Tech and Kutztown on Saturday in the Journeymen/ASICS Duals at HVCC. On behalf of my parents and brother -- all of whom are WVU graduates -- the Big Red face West Virginia not Virginia Tech. About the only mistake thby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
ugarte I know some of you are in the Albany/Troy area, so if you feel like checking out the Cornell wrestling team, they're going up against NC State, Virginia Tech and Kutztown on Saturday in the Journeymen/ASICS Duals at HVCC. On behalf of my parents and brother -- all of whom are WVU graduates -- the Big Red face West Virginia not Virginia Tech. About the only mistake that would have beenby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
CAS 3 senior starters on team. Frosh haven't contributed much yet. Yeah, if Miller graduates and takes his fourth year somewhere else, Cornell will have to replace more than half of its minutes. Yikes! On the bright side, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth and Penn are a combined 2-15 so far this season.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
ugarte mountainred Win #3. Cornell 67 Canisius 60. I saw that we had the lead and then refused to follow. No way. They had to win one before I started paying close attention again. The last three minutes were pretty frustrating, so I'm not sure they solved anything. 3 turnovers and 5 fouls in the last three minutes. But it didn't matter because Canisius missed 5 FT's and a bunch of lay-ups dby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Win #3. Cornell 67 Canisius 60. It wasn't pretty and the Big Red was rather fortunate that the Griffs did not capitalize on a ton of chances down the stretch. But after last season (and the Penn State game), the guys were due some luck. Nice game for Daryl Smith: 13 points. He's not as flashy as our starters, but he makes better decisions.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
upprdeck there are multiple winnable games coming up. lets see if the can win 3-4 At the half, the Big Red leads Drexel 26-17. It hasn't been pretty, but it's been effective so far. Not as effective in the second half and Drexel rallies to win 61-59. Too many turnovers late. Next three games (Canisius, at Bingo and UMass Lowell) are all winnable.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
ugarte mountainred Ugh. The only thing missing was Havlicek making the steal. it reminded me of the lax final against syracuse but without any of the stakes. I almost said the exact same thing, except that they never played a lax final in 2009.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
ugarte I don't dislike this team. I'm torn on these guys. They play hard and to the buzzer. Shoot, they played hard in most games last season. I enjoy watching the defense go at it. I hate watching the playground offense, though that could just be my biases of what's "good basketball." Excuse me, I have to go tell some kids to get off my lawn.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Ugh. The only thing missing was Havlicek making the steal. On the bright side, it wasn't like Cornell was close because of freakish three point shooting. We shot well, okay 22 of 23 from line won't be repeated, but not anything absurd. We played good D. That looked like two evenly-matched teams. Ivy teams are going hate playing Cornell.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
South Carolina with a pretty easy win over the Big Red, but that was to be expected. Next up tomorrow is Penn State, which will be tough. On Sunday, it will be either Drexel or Southern Cal who are both rated in the bottom half of D1.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Amazingly, 10 wins looks very doable. There's the D3 game and games with bottom 50 squads Bingo, UMass-Lowell and Howard. That's six. Win at home versus Dartmouth (we even did that last year) and Penn (they are brutal), eight. You only need 2-17 against the rest of the league slate and 5 games against so-so squads like St. Peter's and Canisius.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
Ugly game, but nice comeback: Cornell 58 Colgate 52. Big Red trailed by 17 early. We're basically a playground team, but the playground moves can be fun to watch. The defense is much better, especially if the other team is easily rattled.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
3 for 19 is probably the same kind of statistical anomaly as 9 for 18 was on Friday. Shooting regressed to the mean very quickly. The Courtney offense is take 3s or try to dribble penetrate for a circus lay-up and/or draw a foul. The only year it has worked was his first because he had Wrobo, Ferry and Groebe bombing away at a 40% clip. I think ugarte has pegged our level. We're bad, butby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
phillysportsfan OVERRATED! SUCKS lose 58-57 to Holy Cross, so much for being in the top 25 Holy Cross pressed them out of the gate and forced 25 turnovers (give or take). Saunders, Chambers and Moundou-Missi are very good, but there is nothing backing them up right now. (Not that I'm complaining).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
ugarte I can't believe it. Neither could the George Mason announcers. They weren't insulting or obnoxious -- they remember Courtney fondly from his time down there -- but over and over they would say "I can't believe that shot didn't fall."by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
As down as I was on these guys, I need to step up and say that's a nice win to start the season. 68-60 over George Mason. Beating an A-10 team, even a bad one, hasn't happened since December 2009. {Edit: Temple is A-10, so March 2010 in the NCAA Tournament.} Miller makes a huge difference and he and David Onuorah down low take away many of easy shots we gave up last season. When Hatter is oby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
CAS Maybe hard not to win 5 games, but we managed to last year. Interesting we had players transfer from last year's 1 D-1 win team, who now are playing at Vandy and Cal. Even really bad teams should be able to luck into 5 wins. Only 3 D1 squads failed to reach that standard last season. Last year's team was just flat out brutal on the defensive end; Shonn's return should help a lot. Forby mountainred - Other Sports
Basketball 2014-15 - 9 years ago
The good news is Shonn Miller is back and looks healthy. Shonn is a defensive force (rebounding, protecting the rim) who can single-handedly move the Big Red from horrific on defense (#350 of 351 last season if you believe Ken Pomeroy) to merely bad. At bad you have a chance of staying in games you just didn't have when the other team was scoring 1.2 points per possession. Ivy hoops online dby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
Great comments ugarte. My knowledge is all second-hand as well. I think Jacob Aiken-Phillips is a senior this year, but he was solid last year (1st team all-Ivy). Maybe he was fighting a bug or something yesterday? And you are probably right about Duke -- Nickal is a very blue-chip recruit and the loss was just 7-5. Based on Coach Koll's comments, I thought everyone was wrestling "unatby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
At the risk of stepping into ugarte's arena (and feel free to correct my mistakes), here is what the team looks like with the first open event of the season finished: 125: Nahshon Garrett finished 3rd as a freshman and 2nd last year. Unfortunately, the one man he hasn't beaten, Illinois' Jesse Delgado, returns for his senior season. Dalton Macri is "ivy shirting" this season and jby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-15 Wrestling thread - 9 years ago
jts15 Found a preview if you are interested. Actually, Rob Koll's preview is about as good as any: .by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Throw in the towel? - 9 years ago
The Ivies started as a football conference and I think the Ivy Agreement specifically states that there must be round robin competition in football (and in as many other sports as possible). Dropping football probably means dropping out of the Ivy League, which is not going to happen.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Yale-Cornell football - 9 years ago
billhoward If I heard right, Luke Hagy is a ray of light: first Cornell player ever with both 1,000 career yards rushing and 1,000 receiving, and he's a junior. Hagy is a solid RB, but that stat is mainly a function of playing with the most prodigious passing QB in school history for two years. Luke is on pace for something like 100 receiving yards this season after having 652 yards last seaby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-2015 Basketball - 10 years ago
Chris '03 mountainred Swampy Swampy Well, last night March Madness ended. Now all the AD's have come back from their junket business trip to the FF and return to the business of running their universities' athletic programs. So I give AN a week to call a press conference. If we don't hear anything by then, we should assume that Courtney is staying. I don't know what BC can do -- or more impby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-2015 Basketball - 10 years ago
Josh '99 Swampy Could you send a louder message that winning, retaining players, and teaching the game count for almost nothing at Cornell?Maybe it's just basketball in a general sense that counts for almost nothing at Cornell. This is probably the answer, not that it sends any better message to the program.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: 2014-2015 Basketball - 10 years ago
Swampy Swampy Well, last night March Madness ended. Now all the AD's have come back from their junket business trip to the FF and return to the business of running their universities' athletic programs. So I give AN a week to call a press conference. If we don't hear anything by then, we should assume that Courtney is staying. I don't know what BC can do -- or more importantly, is likely toby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Harvard at Cornell lax 2014 - Har 14-9 (postgame) - 10 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 billhoward Jim Hyla rss77 Credit to Harvard but this game pointed to one of the weaknesses of the college game which is the faceoff. The rules committee needs to look at some reforms which would negate faceoff advantage. I think a 45 second shot clock would be a step in the right direction. That's what SU wants. We should be able to beat them, they're terrible at faceoffs. Becauby mountainred - Other Sports