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102-91 final. Not remotely that close. Feigen with 33 and Noard with 20+.

D didn't have their leading scorer so... even worse than it looks.

And now down 14. Defense es no bueno.

Dartmouth ran out to a big lead while I was watching wrestling but with the first three baskets out of halftime, Cornell is up 59-55.

major is so talented but all he wants to do is toe-drag in traffic

Quote from: stereax on January 09, 2026, 07:27:53 PMWalsh on an invisible trip, 1-1.

idk i saw the guy go flying.

disappointing defensive sequence that led to a clean look. the backhand pass out of traffic to set it up was nice though. don't love that the shot got through.

putting Pastabilities on the same list as the brooklyn bakery Baguettaboutit.

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Quote from: stereax on January 07, 2026, 07:56:28 PM3) What jersey do I even wear? It's Crunch-Amerks, and I don't have a Bolts or Sabres [gag] jersey. Devils are a nonstarter as they are being a Fucking Embarrassment. Cornell jersey seems a bit much, and I don't think there's a Cornell player on either roster. My CHL Volts jersey (beloved, the one I was wearing last week because its original owner plays for UNO now) also no, especially if I'm travelling to Syracuse, that's far too much and I'd worry too much about losing it or creasing it or whatever. Preds (on Youth Day?), Sharks (would inevitably look like a puck bunny), Flyers away (would rather be caught dead than wearing a Flyers jersey in public), Leafs home or black third (not a Leafs fan, most of these are mystery jerseys) (also I think wearing a Leafs jersey to a Bolts-Sabres affiliate game would get me my ass kicked), Flames (if the Preds and Devils jerseys weren't embarrassing enough...) Kane Hawks (gross), Selanne duck foot Ducks (anachronistic yuck)? I'd have to pack it into the clear bag anyway... and not wearing a jersey is boring...

the alternate universe where Carrie Bradshaw's column was about hockey

You never saw "Old Dogs, New Tricks"?

Old Togs, Hat Tricks

Cornell - Duke on the LIU Post campus? Yes, thanks.

As for Cornell being ranked 6 after a natty, I think the reason why is pretty obvious.

Quote from: Ken711 on January 07, 2026, 09:58:50 PM

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After spending the fall in greyshirt at Cornell, Anthony Knox has committed to Rutgers for the 2026-27 season.

not a big surprise that he returned close to home. rutgers is a great program.

Quote from: stereax on January 07, 2026, 07:56:28 PM3) What jersey do I even wear? It's Crunch-Amerks, and I don't have a Bolts or Sabres [gag] jersey. Devils are a nonstarter as they are being a Fucking Embarrassment. Cornell jersey seems a bit much, and I don't think there's a Cornell player on either roster. My CHL Volts jersey (beloved, the one I was wearing last week because its original owner plays for UNO now) also no, especially if I'm travelling to Syracuse, that's far too much and I'd worry too much about losing it or creasing it or whatever. Preds (on Youth Day?), Sharks (would inevitably look like a puck bunny), Flyers away (would rather be caught dead than wearing a Flyers jersey in public), Leafs home or black third (not a Leafs fan, most of these are mystery jerseys) (also I think wearing a Leafs jersey to a Bolts-Sabres affiliate game would get me my ass kicked), Flames (if the Preds and Devils jerseys weren't embarrassing enough...) Kane Hawks (gross), Selanne duck foot Ducks (anachronistic yuck)? I'd have to pack it into the clear bag anyway... and not wearing a jersey is boring...

the alternate universe where Carrie Bradshaw's column was about hockey

Quote from: The Rancor on January 07, 2026, 02:33:40 PMWe have scoring coming from all lines.
Line matching you really want to have best on best. Top lines not only have scoring chances because of puck possession, but prevent scoring chances defensively because they are controlling the puck. You're always at all levels going to have stronger and weaker lines/players and coaches are trying to find the best chemistry between all of them. It is a little less science than it is jazz.

getting a little tired of the goals we don't score

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Quote from: BearLover on January 06, 2026, 01:17:25 PM"Then you get the right people," Jones said. "And you know, some guys you lose might be for the right reasons. They might not be the person that fits into our culture, fits into our program. And that's a big part of the long history of Cornell. As you get the right people here, you get good people, hard-working people."

Casey throwing shade at Robertson and Pelletier. Nice!

Maybe, maybe not. I think Casey is too diplomatic to say anything other than, effectively, "I got the guys that I want on the team right now."  He'd never come out and complain, "Those guys who left early for the pros or the transfer portal? Eff 'em."

I'm being tongue-in-cheek. Of course Casey is going to be diplomatic, as he should. You're never going to get more out of a coach than a quote like this one that implies the guys who left weren't "the right people, good people, hard-working people."

I don't think he's talking about Robertson, I think he's talking about recruits that weren't interested. Maybe that means Pelletier but I doubt that too. I think it's generic coachspeak.

It's generic coachspeak but it seems to refer to guys who left or didn't want to come. It directly follows this line in the article: " For what Cornell lost, it appears it gained it all back and then some — seven of the Big Red's nine goals this weekend came off the sticks of freshmen." The quote also comes after the article discusses the departure of Bancroft and Robertson and all of last year's graduating seniors. The point being, Cornell lost a lot, but they brought the right guys in, good people who want to work hard, and that's why they're having success.

I think it's a small difference but complimenting the new guys isn't implicitly a dig at the guys who left. I don't think the issue with Robertson or Bancroft was ever a lack of effort. They were Cornell guys until they weren't.

We're almost all back? Maybe? We have two dual meets on Saturday - at Lehigh and Bucknell (with a 2ish hour drive between the two), and Coach Grey says we're going to have the full lineups but I feel like I've heard that before. Ruiz hasn't wrestled since October and it's unclear why other starters have been sitting out. Honestly, kind of a bummer that wrestling has - not only at Cornell - started to shift emphasis to optimizing for the postseason instead of season-long competition being a chance to see your stars over and over.

In any event, we had a lot of starters sit out the Southern Scuffle (hosted by UTC over the weekend) but we did get some good results out of it and at least there's more wrestling to base updated rankings on. Starters at 149, 157, 165, 174 and 197 didn't compete and we still took 7th, which is interesting.

At the Scuffle, Vince Cornella (141) had a couple of surprisingly close matches but finished with a dominant win over a 2x All-American in the final - 7-2 over Penn's CJ Composto. His SF win was also over a ranked wrestler.

Greg Diakomihalis (125) returned to competition and didn't look *great* against the better opposition he facedin Chattanooga but he did finish in 4th (ahead of previous starter Milani). Christian Hansen (184) had a decent tournament, losing only to a Penn State backup (who'd be starting in most of the country) and a coin flip match against an App State kid for 3d place. He'll have to win those matches in March if he wants to make the podium.

Tyler Ferrara (133) lost in the QF against a very annoying (stylistically) opponent and he's going to have to learn to deal with the idiosyncratic guys to go as far as he wants to. After one win in the consolation bracket that (a) guaranteed him an 8th place finish and (b) advanced him farther than teammate Brett Ungar, he was withdrawn from the remainder of the tournament. Suggests to me that Ferrara has won the starting spot going forward in this quasi-wrestleoff, not that he has any actual injury.

Greg D. has been substituted in as starter by almost all rankers. He jumped into all of the top-33 rankings and one of the top-20s. Cornella's win over Composto gave him a boost to the top-8 (mostly).

2x NQ Ethan Fernandez returned to action but was underwhelming. Nothing suggests that he has a chance to displace Jaxon Joy in the starting lineup at 149.

College Wrestling Report rankings have been added to the chart.

                Flo WIN IM TOM AWN CWR WSt SHP CR   RPI
125: Greg D. 26 NR 33 18 NR 32 19 32* --   --
133: Ferrara 21 19 16 19 13 14 16 14 --   --
141: Cornella 5 8 6 7 9 5 9 6 --   --
149: Joy 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 --   --
157: Shapiro 6 5 7 1 3 3 1 1^ --   --
165: Cerchio NR NR NR NR NR NR 68 36 --   --
174: Ruiz 2 2 2 2 4 2 5 1^ --   --
184: Hansen  21 20 30 NR NR 28 25 25 --   --
197: Hanning NR NR NR NR NR NR 67 39 --   -- 
285: Davis 31 NR NR NR NR 32 42 32 --   --
TEAM NCAA: 8 8 8 7 -- 7 7 10 --   --
TEAM DUAL:      22 11 18 17 -- -- 9 26 --   --

* Greg D. not listed as the starter but this is where he'd be if SHP slotted him for Milani like everyone else did (and I assume he will after this weekend).
^ Ruiz and Shapiro don't have enough matches to calculate DII, but placed where their provisional ratings would have

Flo ranks to 33.
WIN ranks to 20.
Intermat ranks to 33.
Open Mat ranks to 20.
AWN ranks to 20.
CWRranks to 33.
WrestleStat ELO updated.
SHP DII Three wrestlers currently considered #1 by the machine, though two don't yet have enough matches for it to really count. (explainer)

CR and RPI will be out in a week or two. These are factors in at-large bids and tournament seeding.

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Quote from: Will on January 07, 2026, 10:15:46 AM

Quote from: BearLover on January 06, 2026, 01:17:25 PM"Then you get the right people," Jones said. "And you know, some guys you lose might be for the right reasons. They might not be the person that fits into our culture, fits into our program. And that's a big part of the long history of Cornell. As you get the right people here, you get good people, hard-working people."

Casey throwing shade at Robertson and Pelletier. Nice!

Maybe, maybe not. I think Casey is too diplomatic to say anything other than, effectively, "I got the guys that I want on the team right now."  He'd never come out and complain, "Those guys who left early for the pros or the transfer portal? Eff 'em."

I'm being tongue-in-cheek. Of course Casey is going to be diplomatic, as he should. You're never going to get more out of a coach than a quote like this one that implies the guys who left weren't "the right people, good people, hard-working people."

I don't think he's talking about Robertson, I think he's talking about recruits that weren't interested. Maybe that means Pelletier but I doubt that too. I think it's generic coachspeak.

don't want to start a new thread for this but Harvard's excellent QB transferred to TCU