Offtopic: Big Red Hoops

[ugarte]

Cornell 63, Harvard 62

http://cornellbigred.fansonly.com/sports/m-baskbl/recaps/020902aaa.html

Finally, the Big Red pulls off a league win - and against a first division team (and Harvard to boot!).  I am rooting for Yale to break the stranglehold the P schools have had on the Ivy title.

[Adam 04]

There are 8 fr. out of 13. That is a young team!!!

[Rich Shapiro \'85]

Is K'aron Barnes hurt?  Has he left the team? Or is he just riding the pine?

[Al DeFlorio]

I had the same queston, Rich.  From yesterday's Ithaca Journal:  "The Big Red had to juggle its line up after starting guard Ka'Ron Barnes broke a bone in his left hand during practice on Tuesday."

Tough break--literally.  He apparently is a good one--good kid, too.

[scoop85]

Although the injury is disappointing, I had been concerned that perhaps he had jumped ship due to the losing.  He's apparently a talented kid, and I hope in a year,  or perhaps two, Barnes will be part of a winner.  Given the number of Freshman getting big minutes, it looks like there is some hope down the road.

[Al DeFlorio]

I had the same concern.  The loss of Vandenberg--expected to be the top "big man" even though a frosh--to an earlier injury didn't help.

I hope Donahue can hold things together until the young 'uns get more experience.  I think Jake Rohe already jumped ship.

[curoadkill]

As a sidenote, the Pep Band was displaced by a Middle/High school band at the basketball game. Nothing like working hard to arrange for a split band between hockey and basketball only to be told we can't play because they'd hired someone else... way to support the home team band.

[Greg Berge]

> There are 8 fr. out of 13.

Yikes, that IS young.  I don't follow hoops of any stripe -- what's the story?  New coach with a full housecleaning?  Or is Ivy hoops like women's hockey -- tons of frosh because when the students get serious about their degrees they drop out of sports?