Big Win for Men's B-Ball!!!

[ugarte]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Adam Gore is out for the season with a torn ACL, injured in the Northwestern game.[/quote]
Aaaaaaaaaargh!

Of course, compared to last season, this is almost good news. Has anyone seen an update on Grant?

[CornellFan]

A great site for Cornell basketball discussion and information is on the Cornell message board at:

http://boards.basketball-u.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

Hoping to get me more Cornell basketball fans to participate.

[CornellFan]

From the Ithaca Journal:


Khaliq Gant, who suffered a serious neck injury back in January, is back on campus and attending all team functions. "Khaliq is in everything we do," Head Coach Steve Donahue said. "He's at every practice, all the strength and conditioning sessions, team meetings. He's a tremendous leader and he's helping guys all the time."

[David Harding]

Northwestern almost lost to DIII Wheaton College Thursday evening.  For those who are not familiar with Wheaton Collge, suffice it to say that it is Billy Graham's alma mater.  

[q]"Fear David," indeed

Wheaton nearly pulls off colossal upset

By Adam Rittenberg
Daily Herald Sports Writer
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006

Early in the second half Thursday night, nine Wheaton College fans lined up in the row behind Northwestern?s basket.

Each man had a letter painted on his chest, spelling out a message:

"Fear David."

Make no mistake, Northwestern is anything but a hoops Goliath, a fact proven again Thursday. But Division III Wheaton made sure to bring its slingshots to Evanston -- and it nearly hit its mark.

A surreal atmosphere at Welsh-Ryan Arena nearly produced an equally surreal result. Wheaton center Andy Wiele missed a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired, allowing Northwestern to escape 41-39 in front of 3,542.

The Wildcats (6-2) won their fourth straight game by 2 points or fewer and their fifth straight overall. But unlike victories over Miami and Western Michigan, the Wildcats had nothing to celebrate.

"Definitely relief," said freshman forward Kevin Coble, who led Northwestern with 12 points, 10 after halftime. "We were lucky to get away with that one."

Wildcats coach Bill Carmody likened the game to a season-opening loss to Cornell, a depressing thought given the 34 days separating that disaster from Thursday's near catastrophe. Even in victory, Northwestern continues to struggle in critical areas.

.....

Welsh-Ryan hardly felt like the road for Wheaton. Its fans packed a corner of the arena, with dozens spilling into Northwestern's empty "Wild Side" student section.

Coble, who grew up in Arizona, has several high school friends who attend Wheaton.

"I actually talked to them this morning," Coble said. "They said they were going to bring the whole army out there, and they certainly did."[/q]

[Trotsky]

[quote David Harding]For those who are not familiar with Wheaton College, suffice it to say that it is Billy Graham's alma mater.[/quote]

And Dennis Hastert's.

[Chris '03]

Cornell lost (again) to Penn last night.

However, tonight they beat Princeton by TWENTY, holding them to 35 points, lowest for an Ivy game since the shot clock came in apparently.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Chris '03]Cornell lost (again) to Penn last night.

However, tonight they beat Princeton by TWENTY, holding them to 35 points, lowest for an Ivy game since the shot clock came in apparently.[/quote]
And that came after trailing 9-0 early!  Princeton must...well...suck.

[billhoward]

[quote Al DeFlorio][quote Chris '03]Cornell lost (again) to Penn last night.

However, tonight they beat Princeton by TWENTY, holding them to 35 points, lowest for an Ivy game since the shot clock came in apparently.[/quote]
And that came after trailing 9-0 early!  Princeton must...well...suck.[/quote]

The glass-is-half-empty fans would believe that a big win over Princeton correlates to your conclusion ("Princton sucks") as opposed to Cornell's having climbed the mountain. Sigh. Hard to believe Princeton will be down for more than a couple years, just as you know that two off years for Cornell hockey or lacrosse are anomalies.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote billhoward]
The glass-is-half-empty fans would believe that a big win over Princeton correlates to your conclusion ("Princton sucks") as opposed to Cornell's having climbed the mountain. Sigh.[/quote]
The fact that Columbia handled Princeton the night before is not a good sign for the Tigers.  Unless, of course, Columbia has "climbed the mountain" coincidentally with us.;-)

[CornellFan]

Columbia and Cornell are both much improved.  Princeton was 9-4 coming into Ivy play and had a few nice wins this year including destroying Rice which boasts the NCAA's leading scorer and future NBA draft pick Morris Almond.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote CornellFan]Columbia and Cornell are both much improved.  Princeton was 9-4 coming into Ivy play and had a few nice wins this year including destroying Rice which boasts the NCAA's leading scorer and future NBA draft pick Morris Almond.[/quote]
Worth noting that among Rice's nine wins this year were the following opponents:  Incarnate Word, Paul Quinn, Texas-Permian Basin, Lamar, Prairie View A&M, Western Carolina, and East Carolina.  In addition to Princeton, teams beating Rice include North Texas and Belmont.  Not sure Rice really counts as a "nice win."

That said, I'm always happy to beat Princeton in basketball.  Let's not get carried away yet with its significance, however.  This team has nice young talent and is dealing well with injuries.  Let's hope it's tendency to blow late leads has been deep-sixed.

[brm93]

56-51 victory over Columbia--they were down by seven points with less than 5 minutes left in the game.  The team is learning from their "growing pains" collapses earlier this season and is now turning the tables, even with two consecutive poor shooting games.  They are still very much in the running this year and next year (and beyond) could be really special.

[JohnnieAg'99]

Up by 5 at the end, and they lose with less than a second left on a layup.  The women lost to Sucks too.

[ugarte]

[quote JohnnieAg'99]Up by 5 at the end, and they lose with less than a second left on a layup.  The women lost to Sucks too.[/quote]

And on a night that Penn lost to Yale to boot. We may be seeing a new age of parity in the Ivies.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote JohnnieAg'99]Up by 5 at the end, and they lose with less than a second left on a layup.  The women lost to Sucks too.[/quote]
According to the cornellbigred.com recap, Harvard was up 63-58.  Cornell came back to take a 64-63 lead, then lost it on a--literally--last second lay-up.

What's really disappointing is that Columbia crushed Harvard by 20 the night before, and Harvard could no longer play their top scorer and rebounder, who had run out of eligibility for this weekend's games.