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General Category => Other Sports => Topic started by: mountainred on March 10, 2019, 12:04:06 PM

Title: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: mountainred on March 10, 2019, 12:04:06 PM
Quote from: ugarteProps 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 Undergraduate Analytics Group has been doing weekly expectations for making the ILT.  In mid-February, they gave the women a 0.2% chance of making it.  That seems absurdly low, but that was the number.

The ILT match-up is versus Princeton who has dominated the Big Red lately (Cornell has one win in the last decade) but their last game was close.

It appears the regular starting rotation should all return next season.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: billhoward on March 10, 2019, 05:36:44 PM
This is great that the women's team made the ILT. It also shows how mixed the team's success in the past was if making the tournament is a big thing.

Is YUAG a real thing?
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: dbilmes on March 10, 2019, 08:41:36 PM
Cornell was picked to finish last in the preseason poll.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: mountainred on March 10, 2019, 09:19:40 PM
Quote from: billhowardIs YUAG a real thing?
Yep (https://sports.sites.yale.edu/)
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: Swampy on March 10, 2019, 10:43:33 PM
Quote from: mountainred
Quote from: billhowardIs YUAG a real thing?
Yep (https://sports.sites.yale.edu/)

Sounds like a great way to have fun while learning.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: billhoward on March 11, 2019, 08:13:01 AM
Quote from: Swampy
Quote from: mountainred
Quote from: billhowardIs YUAG a real thing?
Yep (https://sports.sites.yale.edu/)
Sounds like a great way to have fun while learning.
Learning (trying) to meet women. They probably all believe they're the next analytic genius for the Sox.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: billhoward on March 11, 2019, 12:44:39 PM
Quote from: dbilmesCornell was picked to finish last in the preseason poll.
Was not. Team was picked to finish eighth. Same phrasing as for Cornell football.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: ugarte on March 17, 2019, 12:31:58 PM
Good for the women for making the ILT but Princeton ripped them apart again, this time 68-47.
Title: Re: Women's basketball - ILT bound
Post by: mountainred on March 18, 2019, 08:50:50 AM
Quote from: ugarteGood 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.