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While the men's basketball team is struggling, the women's basketball team beat Dartmouth, 61-52, on the road for its second straight Ivy road win. Emily Pape scored her 1,000th career point during the game, which Cornell led from start to finish.

Harvard's first two goals last night in 5-4 loss to Dartmouth were shorthanded scores. At one point, Dartmouth was 0-for-2 on the power play but had given up two goals during those two power plays. That's not something which happens too often!

Quote from: ugarte on January 05, 2026, 10:33:07 PMdon't want to start a new thread for this but Harvard's excellent QB transferred to TCU

He graduated from Harvard last month, so he was planning all along on transferring to a big-time football school to improve his NFL prospects.

Quote from: rss77 on January 03, 2026, 04:06:39 PMDid not see this one coming: Cornell over a good Columbia team 67-60.  Credit to Emily Pape, Rachel Kaus, Clarke Jackson, and others.  Certainly helped that Columbia's top scorer Riley Weiss went 1-14. Biggest win for the program in years. GBR!!

Just to give this victory a little perspective, Columbia was 24-7 last year and won a game in the NCAAs. It was the preseason pick to finish second this season behind Princeton, receiving three first-place votes. Cornell was picked seventh in the preseason poll. And Cornell's win came on the road. Hopefully, this will give Cornell some confidence after a lackluster non-league performance.

This is the entire writeup on the official Harvard website of its 9-1 loss to Q:
HAMDEN, CT. - No. 18 Men's hockey fell to No. 10 Quinnipiac in its first game after the holiday break.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Richard Gallant opened the scoring on the first shot of the game after some good work in the offensive zone led to some turnovers before Gallant went five hole to open the scoring.
 
That would be it for the Harvard offense as it was the only goal of the game for the Crimson.

Quinnipiac would go on to score the next nine goals in the game.

It's nice to see the Sun sports staff churning out some stories during the winter break. I can't recall that happening with any frequency in recent years. And this story even has some quotes from the coach.

This a nice article about Ken Dryden's grandson, who is a goalie for Taft School in Connecticut. It sounds like he a wonderful relationship with Ken.

Cornell was up 1-0 against Princeton after one period, but then gives up two quick goals and now trails 2-1 late in the second period.

Crazy game at Quinnipiac today, as the bad guys win 7-6 over Holy Cross in OT after blowing a 3-goal lead in the final 6 minutes. Holy Cross scored five goals in the third period and Q scored three. A player on HC, DeBoer, who had four goals all season, had a natural hat trick in the third period.
Sadly, HC couldn't convert on a point-blank show in OT and a few minutes later Q finished off a 2-on-1.

Cornell lost a five-set heartbreaker to Yale in the semifinals Friday night, dropping the deciding set, 15-12.
Even so, it was a good season, and Cornell has made back-to-back trips to Ivy Tournament. The coach, Trudy Vande Berg, who has been here for 10 years, was rewarded earlier this week with a multi-year contract extension.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like Nikki Morgan ordered her to shake up the program last year, so she replaced the entire coaching staff, and the recruiting and game performance has since been better.

Princeton edged Cornell for the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League Tournament, which it will host this weekend. Cornell finished 10-4 in the Ivies, one game behind Princeton. Cornell, the No. 2 seed, will play No. 3 seed Yale (also 10-4) in the semifinals Friday. Brown is the No. 4 seed.
Yale cost Cornell a chance at the No. 1 seed when it swept Cornell this past Friday night in New Haven. Cornell swept Yale earlier in the season in Ithaca.

Quote from: chimpfood on November 14, 2025, 12:42:31 PMAlso a lot of larger schools just won't schedule basketball games against mid majors that they think they might lose against, hell we've seen it ourselves over the past couple of years.

The Yale coach was complaining about that in a preseason article.
The University of New Haven just went DI in all sports and they hosted Penn State in their campus gym, which seats less than 1,000. The Penn State coach was willing to come there to help promote their program, but in return, UNH has to play at Penn State the next three years and won't receive any money for coming.

With two weekends left in the regular season, Cornell is alone in first place with an 8-2 record. Cornell was upset by a 4-6 Dartmouth team this past Friday.
Cornell closes the season against the four teams in second through fifth place. I would imagine that two wins would be enough to clinch a spot in the Ivy Tournament. If Cornell wins out, of course, it would win the regular season title and clinch the No. 1 seed in the Ivy Tournament.

Quote from: chimpfood on November 02, 2025, 05:39:51 PMAnyone know if the band is going to the games this weekend? I forget if they travel to away ECAC games during football season.

Usually the pep band doesn't travel to hockey games during football season. I'm hoping they can put together an alumni pep band for Lynah East.

Quote from: stereax on October 28, 2025, 06:42:29 PMBand's here, btw. Nice touch.

From watching on ESPN, it sounds like the pep band gets to play as much as it wants during the women's game. It's too bad they play so much piped-in music during the men's games, cutting in to the amount of pep band time.