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Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
This is hardly the first Cornell hoops team to go o-fer on the P/P trip. 8-6 almost certainly gets you in the ILT, and that means winning at Brown, and at home v. Columbia and Dartmouth. ILT is very much in play, and it's not like the #1 seed brings it to Newman.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Not sure if I've ever seen a team get killed on the offensive glass like Cornell was today and still cruise to a 20 point win (it was 99-77 when the deep bench went in). 22 turnovers fixes a lot.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 2022-23 - 1 year ago
Desultory was a good word. Rarely do you see little action at the lightweights, though you have to think Ethan was told "do not get pinned!" I remember thinking Loew's injury was bad when it happened, but am really wondering about Fernandes. If those two remain out, the Princeton dual gets really dicey.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
KenPom breaks its ratings down for just league games. Small sample size alerts in place. The offense is the league's best thanks to being the best three point shooting team in the league (despite Ragland's efforts) and the best free throw shooting team (over 80%!). Plus the second lowest turnover rate. The defense is the league's third best. This is a function of forcing turnovers on rouby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Sprint Football - 1 year ago
As an aside, there is a fairly new sprint football league in the midwest, cleverly called the Midwest Sprint Football League.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
With today's results in, Cornell and Princeton are 3-1, Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth and Penn are 2-2, Yale and Columbia are 1-3.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
upprdeck and yale still shot almost 60% but going 31-34 fts helps If you don't turn the ball over against Cornell, you will get a good shot. But that is easier said than done, which is why Cornell had a 17-7 advantage on points off turnovers.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
A 41-12 run over the last 12 minutes. 10 for 11 from the field, 17-18 from the stripe in that run. Close to perfect basketball for that run.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
upprdeck why is the game at 5pm ? are they trying to make it harder for locals to show up? Because ESPN insisted. Gotta have Eastern Michigan at Akron on in prime time.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Computers list Cornell as a one (KenPom) to three (T-Page) favorite tonight. Yale's offense has been sputtering a bit; their only Ivy win so far was a 58-54 rockfight with Harvard.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
And the Big Red join Princeton and Columbia in first place. Ho-hum 74-63 win at Dartmouth, but games in Hanover are never automatic. Cornell had a 21-11 advantage on points off turnovers, which was the difference in the game.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
semsox I guess what I'm ultimately getting at is, is the the ultimately ceiling of Earl's team a realistic expectation of an NCAA W (not even expecting two W's like in 2010), or is it the 2008 or 2009 squads, excellent Ivy League teams that were clearly a notch below their eventual NCAA matchup, or is it even lower than that, good Ivy League teams that due to their style could surprise and winby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
semsox Perfunctory win over Binghamton, 86-70. I have to admit, I have no idea how to feel about this team. I can still remember the feeling of momentum going into the 2007-2008 year, and we all know how that eventually turned out. Last year was such an abrupt about face from Earl's previous results, and this year seems to be similarly promising, but is the style too gimmicky? Is this the starby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
A bit sloppy late, but the Big Red close the out of conference slate with an 86-70 win over Bingo. Williams with a career high of 23 and Manon was very solid with 16 points and 7 steals. Freshman Josh Baldwin earned quality minutes as the 10th man. This was a 20 point game with 12 minutes to go, so Cornell was in control almost the entire way. On the down side, Boothby's shooting slump contby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
This message made me think "Ivy coaches have been pretty steady lately." The last coaches hired were Earl, Engles at Columbia and McLaughlin at Dartmouth before the '16-17 season. Penn hired Steve the season before and everyone else has over a decade of tenure (James Jones has been at Yale for over twenty years). That is crazy. Since 2010, there have been only five coaches fired (or nby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Scoop, completely agree we should be in the running for a spot in the IOLT and frankly I'd be disappointed if this team didn't make it. Bill, based on his resume there is a chance that Earl is an Ivy League lifer, though he would almost certainly bolt for the Princeton job when it opens up.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Thought I would give folks a quick thumbnail on the league now that virtually every out of conference game has been played. 1) Yale (10-3) -- The computers have Yale as the clear league favorite as they are the only league team that is top 100 nationally in both offense and defense. Yale has a couple of nice wins, though nothing jaw-dropping, and all of the losses were on the road against legby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Really great first half, helped by Colgate struggling from the 3pt line, followed a slightly sloppy second half, helped by Colgate bouncing back on threes. The final three minutes were a slog, but there is lots of room for error with a seventeen point lead. Dolan was terrific and got some deserved love from the Colgate announcers. And Nix got a few 1st half minutes, which was nice to see.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
If anyone wants to watch the Colgate game today, it tips at 2pm. If 'gate is hitting their threes, they are pretty tough to beat (ask Syracuse), but it is a very winnable game if they aren't (losses to Penn and Delaware).by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Soccer 2022 - 1 year ago
Swampy scoop85 Emeka Eneli was drafted by Real Salt Lake in the 1st round of the MLS draft, #25 overall pick. First Cornellian to be selected in the 1st round. Following the chatter regarding the USMNT and World Cup, it seems many top players are going straight to the pros, from MLS academies for talented teenagers to MLS, and then for very elite players perhaps to European club teams and the Uby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Trotsky Women with a 7-point second quarter vs Penn State. Is that good? It's not ideal.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
After the awful second half at Syracuse, it was good to see the team take of business against an overmatched opponent.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
rss77 Cornell is not going to beat anyone not even Little Sisters of the Poor going 1 for 22 on field goals like it did in the second half-simple math. Colgate beat SU hitting a record number of 3s in the Dome and they were almost beat by Bryant. Cornell had open looks from 3 that were not going in-thus the game. Thought it was Cornell's best chance of beating them and just did not work out.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
mountainred Mr. Niss We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams. Man. We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game. The computers are going to love the offensive work, but hate the defense. Still, they had this as a 16 point loss, so there should be jump. Is this finally the year for a win at the Dome? Guess not. Getting shots on the Syracuse zone is toughby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Women's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
scoop85 dbilmes In her 18 seasons at the helm of the Big Red program, Smith has led Cornell to unprecedented success. Bottom line: without Meduka there’s very little success in 20 years. I guess coaching the only league winner in school history makes that statement technically true. But it really is more of an indictment of the program than praise for Smith.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Slightly bigger jump on Bart Torvik's site, but both slot Cornell in the 160s and in the top half of all D1 teams. Which essentially hasn't happened since the Sweet Sixteen.* So, we have that going for us. *In Courtney's second year -- last year with 'Ski and Ferry and first with Shonn -- the team started fairly high but played themselves out of the top 200. Make of that what you will, if aby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Mr. Niss We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams. Man. We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game. The computers are going to love the offensive work, but hate the defense. Still, they had this as a 16 point loss, so there should be jump. Is this finally the year for a win at the Dome?by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
At 21 down I was glad I didn't try to figure out how to order Bally Sports. By the end I really regretted that decision. Disappointed, but you have to like the fight this team has.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Women's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
RichH billhoward mountainredPrinceton flirts with the top 25 annually and I'm pretty sure Columbia won the women's NIT. There have been two NITs: Men’s and women’s? and Pre-season and post-season, for both men and women. I stand corrected that the Lions only made the QF of the women's NIT, but that is still a big climb for that program. Sure the NIT isn't what it was, but I would enjoyby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Women's Basketball 22-23 - 1 year ago
Yeah, Hartford athletics are a mess right now, but you have to respect a team taking care of business like that. I don't follow the women nearly as much as the men, but they seem to playing well and Ivy womens' teams can make some noise. Princeton flirts with the top 25 annually and I'm pretty sure Columbia won the women's NIT.by mountainred - Other Sports