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Great win at Harvard. Right back in the race for a spot in Ivy Madness.

Everyone should care! There's a reason they hang Ivy Championship banners in Lynah.

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Quote from: David Harding on January 22, 2026, 09:48:32 PMCornell Sun article complains about soccer player honors that haven't been awarded for the last ten years. 

Strange situation. Why wouldn't Smith give out awards?

Very weird. Is it possible he just forgot or didn't know about them? Is he such a "name on the front of the jersey" guy that he is against individual honors?

Is Colgate really the 2nd biggest game at this point? Do they send a lot of visiting fans? I would have thought Quinnipiac at this point. I guess Colgate has the advantage of being the only home game on that weekend.

We are 9th, but closer to 4th than 11th.

Quote from: Trotsky on November 15, 2025, 07:44:59 AMThe canned music has got to be stopped now before it settles in and destroys our environment.  I assume it's just incompetence, not malice, but everybody needs to reach out and energize other fans and demand they end this bullshit immediately.

I always assume something so vile must be a profit center, but in this case I can't see it as a cash grab, just thoughtless stupidity.  So let's kill it before it kills us.

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Agreed. The Lynah experience of years past seems to be teetering on an existential cliff.

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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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

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Quote from: ugarte on November 14, 2025, 04:30:40 PM

Quote from: dbilmes on November 14, 2025, 03:06:11 PM

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

Terrible for Yale?

Yale can now tell potential recruits that they'll get to play in a big arena with a ton of fans as opposed to going and playing western Connecticut in front of 200 people. It's not the end all-be all but it helps. Similar to Cornell hockey playing at msg.

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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.

My third or fourth hand understanding is that athletics has decided to limit the band more and more at men's games. First killing pregame. Then adding jock jams. Now apparently controlling when they play entirely. Seems gone are the days that the band coordinates announcements with ACM and otherwise uses its own judgment to fill other breaks. A system which... Worked fine?

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That's a damn shame and an awful decision. What benefit would that possibly bring?

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Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

Adam - I found the summary useful but noted the following line regarding home and away game weightings: For postseason conference tournament games, there is no weighting.

Is this true if the game is played at the home rink of the higher seed rather than a neutral site? And if so, what is the rationale there?

Is

yes it's true for all conference tournament games. The rationale stems from conversations with CC coach Kris Mayotte on our podcast a couple seasons ago, after his team barely lost out on an NCAA bid because it lost a best-of-3 home playoff series. He thought the team was getting punished for earning home ice, and then losing a tooth-and-nail 4/5 series. I thought he had a great point and it wasn't just sour grapes - and was glad to see it get taken to the Committee and go from there. Other coaches had said similar things over the years, but none had suggestion that kind of specific solution.  As you know 1.2/0.8 isn't really an accurate home/away split as it is, so to get dinged for it in a 4/5 series in the postseason seems pretty unfair.

Makes sense, thanks

Quote from: adamw on October 27, 2025, 01:07:22 PM

Quote from: upprdeck on October 25, 2025, 10:51:14 AMClarkson has beaten PSU/NDAK and also got dominated by a bad RIT team and lost to Canisius who also beat Colgate, but Colgate has tied BU and beaten Maine?  Canisius lost to LIU which is that teams only win.

Also since NPI has replaced the pairwise. What tweaks were made to make that different?

It's complicated

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=npi

Adam - I found the summary useful but noted the following line regarding home and away game weightings: For postseason conference tournament games, there is no weighting.

Is this true if the game is played at the home rink of the higher seed rather than a neutral site? And if so, what is the rationale there?

Is

Congrats to Casey on his first win as Cornell Head Coach. Here's hoping it's the first of many.

Admittedly I don't really follow the women's team but they have built a hell of a program

I was at Cornell for some of those polo championships and don't even recall hearing about them.

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on October 18, 2025, 09:16:29 PMAnd the women win again, 4-2 over BC.

BC lost 7-1 and 11-0 (!!) to Minnesota for what it's worth.