cornell gets killed by penn 79-64

[phillysportsfan]

You are right that a 48pt output is not good but Princeton basically got to play their slow paced game and we still won. You cant always blow out teams on the road. A lot of that 48pt output has to do with shooting 2/8 from the 3. I think we average about 10 3's a game.

I am still not happy about the Penn loss, mainly because it had to be against Penn, of all teams, their fans belief that Penn/Princeton need to return to dominance for all to be right with the world is so annoying

Big game on Friday @ Harvard, a win would effectively eliminate Harvard
Lets hope Penn knocks off Princeton tomorrow night

[ugarte]

The lower point total for Cornell on Saturday was largely a product of Princeton taking the full shot clock on every possession.

Exactly. Princeton plays most of their defense on the offensive end of the floor, running out the clock and minimizing the number of possessions each team has.

[YankeeLobo]

Princeton is #1 in the nation in scoring defense (PPG allowed), but you're totally right.  Just a continuation of the problems from Penn.::rolleyes::

Also, how about some perspective on EXPECTING this team to sweep Penn and Princeton.  In the history of the Ivy League, Penn and Princeton have been swept at home 6 times.

Six.

In the modern history of Ivy League basketball, how many teams have been ranked?  I can think of two, including Cornell this year.  Point being, if we were ever to expect a Penn/Princeton sweep, this was the year.

[mnagowski]

I am still not happy about the Penn loss, mainly because it had to be against Penn, of all teams, their fans belief that Penn/Princeton need to return to dominance for all to be right with the world is so annoying.

As opposed to our non-annoying quest to dominate all things hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling?

I find a lot of things annoying about Princeton, but high standards for their basketball team is not one.

[Jim Hyla]

You are right that a 48pt output is not good but Princeton basically got to play their slow paced game and we still won. You cant always blow out teams on the road. A lot of that 48pt output has to do with shooting 2/8 from the 3. I think we average about 10 3's a game.

I am still not happy about the Penn loss, mainly because it had to be against Penn, of all teams, their fans belief that Penn/Princeton need to return to dominance for all to be right with the world is so annoying

Big game on Friday @ Harvard, a win would effectively eliminate Harvard
Lets hope Penn knocks off Princeton tomorrow night

Obviously I'm not happy about the loss either, but since I believe we were going to lose to someone in the league, that was as good a loss as we could have had.

We lost to a team that wasn't going to directly affect us later in case of tied for first.
It gave the Penn AD another reason to keep their coach.
It hopefully brought us back to reality, wiping out the talk on the team, if it ever existed, about top 25. Now they can just worry about winning the Ivy, which is really the only thing that matters now.
I think the team responded Sat in a good manner. PU is a good team, they play a defense that we don't like, and they were at home. But we did win.

Obviously I'd like to go undefeated, but having to lose, that wasn't bad. Now to prove my point they need to win out, and show P-P how they can really play at home.

[ugarte]

Princeton beat Penn at the Palestra by 7. It looks to me like Penn isn't as bad as their early season would indicate, they just wouldn't play for that coach. Not that we should have lost - much less lost by so much - but the game may look less awful by the end of the season.