cornell wins 71-67 over alabama

[jhib]

I guess we are all now Alabama fans for the rest of the regular season, right?

[Al DeFlorio]

Some interesting post-game quotes on the Alabama web site: http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/111409aab.html

Never thought I'd see a comment like this one (by JaMychal Green, Alabama's big forward) about a Cornell basketball team:

On Cornell's inside presence:
"No. 1 (Jeff Foote), he was huge – 7-foot-1 I believe. No. 33 (Alex Tyler) was strong. They had a good interior inside. I felt that our post fought hard even though we were undersized."

[Al DeFlorio]

last win against sec team was against Arkansas in 1972

Not only that, but when was the last time we beat an SEC team on the road? Was that Arkansas win home or away?

Don't know if it was the last road win against an SEC team (at the time, unlike Arkansas in 1972-3), but the Walt Esdaile-led team of 1966-7 won at Kentucky on December 28, 1966.  Somehow I was able to pick the Kentucky broadcast up on my car radio in Yorktown Heights, NY.  91-77, or something like that, was the final score.  The Kentucky announcers were besides themselves.

[billhoward]

Some interesting post-game quotes on the Alabama web site: http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/111409aab.html

Never thought I'd see a comment like this one (by JaMychal Green, Alabama's big forward) about a Cornell basketball team:

On Cornell's inside presence:
"No. 1 (Jeff Foote), he was huge – 7-foot-1 I believe. No. 33 (Alex Tyler) was strong. They had a good interior inside. I felt that our post fought hard even though we were undersized."

Would that this was a quote from the non-conference Alabama-Cornell football game.

Yes, we're all Alabama fans for the rest of the season. Roll, Tide. No longer Roll Over, Tide.

[dbilmes]

I wonder if this was the first time Cornell has won a game in the state of Alabama in any sport?

[ugarte]

last win against sec team was against Arkansas in 1972

Not only that, but when was the last time we beat an SEC team on the road? Was that Arkansas win home or away?

Don't know if it was the last road win against an SEC team (at the time, unlike Arkansas in 1972-3), but the Walt Esdaile-led team of 1966-7 won at Kentucky on December 28, 1966.  Somehow I was able to pick the Kentucky broadcast up on my car radio in Yorktown Heights, NY.  91-77, or something like that, was the final score.  The Kentucky announcers were besides themselves.

Sooooo close!

[imafrshmn]

last win against sec team was against Arkansas in 1972

Not only that, but when was the last time we beat an SEC team on the road? Was that Arkansas win home or away?

Don't know if it was the last road win against an SEC team (at the time, unlike Arkansas in 1972-3), but the Walt Esdaile-led team of 1966-7 won at Kentucky on December 28, 1966.  Somehow I was able to pick the Kentucky broadcast up on my car radio in Yorktown Heights, NY.  91-77, or something like that, was the final score.  The Kentucky announcers were besides themselves.

Sooooo close!

http://ivy50.com/blackHistory/story.aspx?sid=5/15/2007

[Al DeFlorio]

last win against sec team was against Arkansas in 1972

Not only that, but when was the last time we beat an SEC team on the road? Was that Arkansas win home or away?

Don't know if it was the last road win against an SEC team (at the time, unlike Arkansas in 1972-3), but the Walt Esdaile-led team of 1966-7 won at Kentucky on December 28, 1966.  Somehow I was able to pick the Kentucky broadcast up on my car radio in Yorktown Heights, NY.  91-77, or something like that, was the final score.  The Kentucky announcers were besides themselves.

Sooooo close!

Thanks for finding that.  

Lot of memories in that box score.  Considerable talent on that Cornell starting five, but a season-ending loss at Princeton cost them the Ivy championship.  Gregg Morris was a jumping jack a la Syracuse's Dave Bing, and the two did go head-to-head on the court.  Blaine Aston scored the last-second game-winner to beat Bill Bradley at Barton two seasons before.  John Sponheimer, one of only two Cornell subs to score, was an all-Ivy lineman on the football team, and we'll likely never see that two-sport combination again.  Not much scoring off the bench for either team.

Lily-white Kentucky had been NCAA finalist the year before, losing to Don Haskins's Texas Western team that started five blacks.  Pat Riley didn't let a loss to Cornell hinder his Hall of Fame career.

[Jim Hyla]

last win against sec team was against Arkansas in 1972

Not only that, but when was the last time we beat an SEC team on the road? Was that Arkansas win home or away?

Don't know if it was the last road win against an SEC team (at the time, unlike Arkansas in 1972-3), but the Walt Esdaile-led team of 1966-7 won at Kentucky on December 28, 1966.  Somehow I was able to pick the Kentucky broadcast up on my car radio in Yorktown Heights, NY.  91-77, or something like that, was the final score.  The Kentucky announcers were besides themselves.

Sooooo close!

http://ivy50.com/blackHistory/story.aspx?sid=5/15/2007

Ah, memories, THANKS guys.

[billhoward]

Sunday 11/29: Alabama 68, #15 Michigan 66. Alabama plays (and loses) to good teams early on, it toughens them for tests like this.