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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.

Not to be overlooked, but the Cornell women's soccer team, an Ivy doormat for decades, rallied last weekend to defeat Penn, 2-1, on the road. It was the first time Cornell won at Penn in 30 years!
Cornell closes the season with games against Brown and Dartmouth, the two teams right ahead of it in the standings. If Cornell can beat those two teams and get a little help, it might be able to grab the final spot in the Ivy tournament, which would be an amazing accomplishment.

Even though the volleyball team lost tonight to Penn, Cornell sits alone on top of the Ivy standings with a 6-1 record.
Cornell was picked fourth in the preseason poll, and already has defeated the three teams picked to finish ahead of them, including a dramatic road win at Princeton Friday night.
Hopefully, Cornell can continue to play well the second half of the Ivy season and earn the top seed for the Ivy tournament.

Quote from: Trotsky on October 10, 2025, 04:49:08 AMEverything College Hockey (ECH) NCAA Top 20 Prediction:

01. W. Michigan
02. Penn State
03. Michigan State
04. BU
05. BC
06. Maine
07. Denver
08. Connecticut
09. Michigan
10. Minnesota
11. Ohio State
12. Masachusetts
13. North Dakota
14. Arizona State
15. Providence
16. Cornell
17. Quinnipiac
18. Wisconsin
19. Northeastern
20. St. Thomas

This is the only ranking I've seen this season which puts Cornell ahead of Quinnipiac.

Not only did the men's soccer team defeat Yale for the first time since 2015, but the women's soccer team also beat Yale, 1-0, scoring just 58 seconds into the game. It was the women's soccer team's first Ivy road victory since 2015. We may have lost the football game to Yale, but at least the soccer and field hockey teams all beat the Yalies this weekend.

This was a sweet win for Cornell coach Smith. It was Cornell's first win over Yale since 2015, covering Smith's entire tenure at Cornell.

Harvard just released the remaining tickets for Lynah East this morning. Apparently, they weren't able to sell out the rink forcing fans to buy tickets to other games as well. Tickets are $50 a pop! Harvard has to make up the federal funding it lost.

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Quote from: chimpfoodBig 3-0 bounce back win over western Michigan. Looked really good today.

Not sure why Cornell didn't post the highlights from the game since it was in Ithaca and on ESPN+. First goal was a nice volley off a set piece, second and third were great counterattacking passes into space followed by clean finishes after nice runs right at the box. WMU defense probably got an earful during film review over the latter pair.

I found the highlights on the Cornell Athletics YouTube channel.

The NY Times published its obituary on Dryden today. I loved the anecdote about how pissed off Phil Esposito was after Dryden stoned him during the Stanley Cup finals.

According to an article in the Sun, the ECAC women's semifinals and finals will now be held in Lake Placid.

The Columbia student newspaper has an article about how a group of alums want to upgrade the men's lacrosse program from the club level to the Division I level. However, it appears there are a lot of obstacles in the way, including Title IX regulations about having an equal number of male and female athletes. Since Columbia already has a women's lacrosse team, it would have to figure out another way to add a men's team sport with dozens of athletes. Of course, the current administration may do away with Title IX in its pursuit of eliminating anything that is linked to DEI.
In the meantime, the club lacrosse team shares a practice field with the women's ultimate frisbee team. "We're splitting the field for practices with girls' frisbee, and because of that it's always a safety hazard for them. It's also hindering on us."

Column paying tribute to Yale's Allain in CT Hearst Newspapers. According to what Allain said in column, it was his choice to retire, but he'd been preparing to do so after this season. But over the summer had his doubts, and was reflecting on how he didn't like how angry he had been at times last season when things weren't going well at practice. The article said the AD met with him on Aug. 7 and asked him to return for one more season. His retirement was announced the next day.
No mention of new sound system playing a role in his decision.