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Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
It's basically 5 teams for 4 slots, unless you think Brown can win out. At least one projector has Cornell with the best odds for winning the Ivy League bid. Not sure I buy it, but it is fun to see. One thing Cornell has going for it is two games left against last place Columbia (but as upprdeck said, the Lions did beat Penn). Harvard still has two games left to play against both Yale andby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
ugarte mountainred Not to steal ugarte's thunder, but wresting hosts Brown and Harvard this weekend. It's hard to imagine any scenario where the Brown dual has much drama, but there are two interesting potential matchups against Harvard. At 165 #8 Julian Ramirez should face #12 Phillip Conigliaro. And at Heavy, Lewis Fernandes (probably) could meet the Ivy's other top heavy in Yaraslau Slavikoby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
The men's hoops team played maybe their best half of the year, taking a 5 point halftime deficit and turning it into a 76-61 win over Harvard. Jordan Jones was back and led the team with 18 points. Other than being way too sloppy with the ball, and some of that is Harvard's quickness and length, the offense looked really good. They took open threes, but tried to work the ball inside and had 20by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Harvard comes to town fresh off a one point win at Dartmouth. Two Harvard forwards have missed time; Chris Ledlum has missed the last two games and Mason Forbes has only played in one game. If they remain out, Harvard has a very short bench. They basically relied on 6 guys at Dartmouth, but one of those guys is Noah Kirkwood and he'll be easily the best player on the floor Saturday. The compuby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
Not to steal ugarte's thunder, but wresting hosts Brown and Harvard this weekend. It's hard to imagine any scenario where the Brown dual has much drama, but there are two interesting potential matchups against Harvard. At 165 #8 Julian Ramirez should face #12 Phillip Conigliaro. And at Heavy, Lewis Fernandes (probably) could meet the Ivy's other top heavy in Yaraslau Slavikouski (that is the nby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
upprdeck hard to see the Columbia game given the forecast.. anywhere from 10-20 inches expected sun-mon around here, gonna be a tough travel day by bus for monday game. Called it. Team is off until Saturday when they play Harvard.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
It's 80-55 -- someone else can watch the last 8 minutes.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
They've hit their last four from the line, so that's something right? Ugly first half. Tons of fouls, horrid shooting and, of course, they are making Yale's bigs look good. No Jones and no Dolan, which is not helping, but it does not look good. 44-33 at the half.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Assuming the game goes forward, the Big Red travel to Yale for a single-ish game this Saturday. Yale was the pre-season favorite, are very well coached, and have a couple outstanding guards (Swain, Cotton), but they don't have their usual dominant bigs (now watch a youngster break out). Because of the holidays and Covid, they haven't played since 12/28 (a one-side loss at a really good St. Maryby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Dean going the length of the floor after the missed FT was nice (the play before with Manon dribbling into trouble and turning it over on the other hand). And they harassed Princeton perfectly on their last desperate attack. You want them to take that shot. Kid just made an insane 3. It never should have come down to that though. Cornell led by 18 with 16 minutes to go. Princeton switchedby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Cornell blows an 18 point lead and Princeton hits a circus three at the horn to win 72-70. I didn't expect to win at Princeton, but this loss is galling.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Good first half in New Jersey: Cornell 39 Princeton 25. The Tigers are without their best player, injured last night, but Jones is still out for Cornell. Cornell's pace looks like it is throwing off the Tigers, especially down their PG. But the Tigers trailed at the half last night and won going away.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
upprdeck but we have to finish around the basket better. Bart Torvik's website breaks down 2 point shots as "at the rim" or "mid-range" (or dunks, but there aren't enough of those to matter). Cornell was 8-22 at the rim, Penn was 20-28. There is your difference. The Quakers also shot 17 more FTs, which I'd love to be more ticked off about, but we did get very 3-ball heavyby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Ken711 Cornell loses to Penn 79-65. The FG shooting % says it all. 34% for Cornell vs 51% for Penn. Cornell shot 12 for 37 from inside the arc. That's brutal. The threes helped their shooting percentage. Chris Manon does some good things. He's a strong rebounder and an intense defender. But 2 for 12 shooting is hard to watch.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Penn wins 79-65 as the game gets away late. Quakers could do what they wanted to near the rim, and Cornell couldn't hit enough 3's to stay in it. It may be a while before see any more bracketology stories with Cornell's name. Princeton next and they destroyed Columbia in the second half. Maybe Cornell's depth will play a role tomorrow night.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Cornell trails Penn at the half 38-36. Still no Jones. Game is being played at Cornell's pace, but Penn is winning the game near the rim. Or at least hitting more of their shots there. Cornell is shooting just 6-22 from inside the arc, which is woof. EDIT: At the half, Columbia leads Princeton by a dozen because why not?by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Yeah, in a one bid league like the Ivy, they just plug in the first place team and move on. We get the tie-break because of our record. Still, fun to see.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Cornell has a bad habit of overpursuing on defense, which leads to good looks on threes if you are willing to be patient. Dartmouth did a great job of keeping the ball moving until someone was open. 14 assists on 25 made shots for them. Penn has been leading Brown by 10 most of the game.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Guys gut out a 79-71 win. Dean Noll really stepped up late: 20 points with some great drives, plus 7 rebounds. Shout out to Evan Williams (the player not the drink). He played some key minutes and looked really good on defense and on the glass, plus had two clutch free throws. For about an hour, Cornell is alone in first place in the Ivy League.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Poor half. Dartmouth leads 34-33. Cornell without Jones and N. Williams, but Dartmouth down two starters, so that can't be an excuse. Cornell led by 9, but the offense has really stagnated.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Weder mountainred Weder dbilmes For as long as I can remember, Cornell opened its Ivy season against Columbia, playing one weekend in NY and one weekend in Ithaca. Is this the first year that the schedule has changed? Yes, though it was supposed to start last season. The goal was to reduce the number of back-to-back games. Part of the issue had to be that every other league starts in-leaby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Weder dbilmes For as long as I can remember, Cornell opened its Ivy season against Columbia, playing one weekend in NY and one weekend in Ithaca. Is this the first year that the schedule has changed? Yes, though it was supposed to start last season. The goal was to reduce the number of back-to-back games. Part of the issue had to be that every other league starts in-league play around Neby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Fortunately, there really isn't a dominant big in this year's league. Brown has Gainey and the Bears are very physical. Harvard has some studs in the 6-7 range (Ledlum, Kirkwood, and Forbes if he gets healthy) but they are more athletic wings than true bigs. Princeton has their usual post player, but he beats you by finding the open cutter, not grabbing 10+ rebounds and blocking shots. And Peby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Cornell is supposed to open the season tomorrow versus Dartmouth. I say supposed to because Princeton/Harvard and Columbia/Yale have already been postponed. Still, Dartmouth must be on the road by now, if not already in Ithaca. It's hard to say the first league game is a must win, but this is close to one if the Big Red want to make the ILT. Losing at home to the team projected to finish sby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
Thanks Scoop. The pessimist in me worries that what we've seen so far is a mirage fueled by a cupcake schedule, but I do think we're pretty good. Not win the league good, but win a bunch of games and legitimately contend for the Ivy Tourney good. Sunday will tell a lot about us and Dartmouth. Boothby can't keep shooting 60% from behind the arc, can he?by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
League play begins Sunday (Omicron notwithstanding), so here is a quick synopsis of the competition for those who haven't really been following. Princeton -- The Tigers (10-3) have had the most impressive non-conference season. They have two power 5 wins (though Oregon State is dreadful), a 2OT loss to 10-1 Minnesota, and no bad losses. They start 3 seniors and 2 juniors, shoot the 3 well (3by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Men's Basketball 21-22 - 2 years ago
upprdeck the difference was that VT made so many 3s and SU missed most of theirs.. That, and the Hokies are probably a better team than the Orange this year. They did everything else a little bit better than SU. If you missed it, Syracuse beat Brown 93-62 on Monday thanks to a very one-sided second half. Sports aren't transitive, but that is encouraging.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
Looks like Vito and Yianni are now not going. Sucks because I was looking forward to watching them, but they don't need the work.by mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
Looks like the Scuffle is letting teams enter more than one per weight. Here is a list of current entrants. (I hope that's not behind oaywall). Perhaps they are loading up brackets in case some teams cancel. Many Cornell non-starters listed, but no Darmstadt. I'm getting a distinct feeling that we've seen the last of Ben. If so, I wish him well and good health. He was a lot of fun to watby mountainred - Other Sports
Re: Wrestling 21-22 - 2 years ago
ugarte Out of curiosity, decided to see what the wrestlestat.com algorithm thinks. (Don't take it seriously. It's not like ELO for chess.) 125: Vito #3 133: Dom #55 not much respect from the computer for his SOS. 141: Handlovic #97; interestingly, Saunders is #58. I'm really not sure what's going on with Saunders. He was a Team USA rep at cadet and juniors. 149: Yianni #1 157: Yapoujian #2by mountainred - Other Sports