big weekend for basketball @Harvard/@Dartmouth

[Jordan 04]

Princeton falls to Brown @ home.

[phillysportsfan]

Yeah next weekend is a bigger weekend, convincing win over Dartmouth tonight so with a weekend sweep we clinch a share of the Ivy title and with a Saturday Princeton loss at Columbia we clinch the Ivy title outright

[phillysportsfan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/sports/ncaabasketball/21cornell.html
Great article in the NY times

Interesting passage at the end. In this quote Donahue sounded much more convincing about wanting to stay here.

As the Big Red motors toward March, the rumblings about Donahue being a candidate for high-profile jobs will inevitably grow. He said he was very comfortable in the Ivy League, where he has been the past 20 years, 10 at Cornell and the 10 before that as a Penn assistant. A job at a larger college, he said, would have to be a home run for him and his family because it would be difficult for him to leave Cornell.

"I'm not the kind of guy who jumps at different things," he said.

Cornell Athletic Director Andy Noel joked he would refer to the potential of Donahue's leaving as "the unspeakable," and said he hoped that Donahue could have a run of longevity and success similar to what Pete Carril had at Princeton from 1967 to 1996.

"What Steve has already done at Cornell is phenomenal," Noel said. "I like to focus on what else could be done."

[YankeeLobo]

Yes we won 79-70!!!!! Take that Lobo

We were good.

But were we New Mexico good?

No we are not as good as New Mexico but Lobo said we would lose

I picked Cornell to lose at Harvard, and I was very wrong.  I didn't see Wittman having the performance he did in that game.  I've said before, if Wittman is on, Cornell is tough to beat.  If Wittman is on, they can make the 2nd round this year.  But Wittman, as good as he is, isn't the impact player he needs to be for Cornell to win a game like they lost at Kansas.  That's why I made the reference to Jimmer Fredette, the guard at BYU.  He has 20+ pt games every time he's out there.  Wittman is not as good as Fredette, not even close really, but for a guy that averages 1.7 assists per game and is widely thought of as a great 3 pt shooter, I don't think Wittman looks for his own shot enough.  He's not even averaging 13 shots per game this year.

[phillysportsfan]

Yeah Wittman has really stepped up the last 2 games, he has got to be POY over Lin if we win out

[YankeeLobo]

By the way, New Mexico BARELY escaped tonight at home vs Air Force, the worst team in the MWC.  The Princeton offense is difficult to watch, but the slowing of pace almost took down the 12th ranked team in the country on an off night.  Glad Cornell was able to pull that one out vs Princeton last week.