The Sweet Sixteen

[ugarte]

Not as many common opponents as with Temple (I forgot to check against Wisconsin), but here are the COP with Kentucky:

                  Cornell             Kentucky
Drexel            W 61-54(A)          W 88-44(H)
Alabama           W 71-67(A)          W 66-55(H), 73-67 (N)

The Drexel comparison is more telling, but I can't extract much of value from this that we didn't already know. Cornell and Kentucky played Drexel within a few weeks of each other, but back in 2009. Cornell played Alabama to open the season; Kentucky played them in mid-season and in the SEC tournament.

All we can say is "Kentucky is probably better than Cornell. Now let's go play the game."

Interesting note (to me): Cornell handed Alabama a loss in their first game; Kentucky in their last game. I'm a bit surprised that a 17-15 Alabama team wasn't even invited to the CIT; HARVARD got invited to the CIT.

[phillysportsfan]

Not as many common opponents as with Temple (I forgot to check against Wisconsin), but here are the COP with Kentucky:

                  Cornell             Kentucky
Drexel            W 61-54(A)          W 88-44(H)
Alabama           W 71-67(A)          W 66-55(H), 73-67 (N)

The Drexel comparison is more telling, but I can't extract much of value from this that we didn't already know. Cornell and Kentucky played Drexel within a few weeks of each other, but back in 2009. Cornell played Alabama to open the season; Kentucky played them in mid-season and in the SEC tournament.

All we can say is "Kentucky is probably better than Cornell. Now let's go play the game."

Interesting note (to me): Cornell handed Alabama a loss in their first game; Kentucky in their last game. I'm a bit surprised that a 17-15 Alabama team wasn't even invited to the CIT; HARVARD got invited to the CIT.

And to add to the Harvard sucks thread, Harvard got killed by 20+ by Appalachian State

[Beeeej]

Now the Onion gets into the act:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cornell-drains-fun-out-of-cinderella-run-by-explai,17149/

"It'd be foolish to ascribe any of the properties of a pan-dimensional function space to the NCAA Tournament," said Cornell center Jeff Foote...

[Roy 82]

Now the Onion gets into the act:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cornell-drains-fun-out-of-cinderella-run-by-explai,17149/

"It'd be foolish to ascribe any of the properties of a pan-dimensional function space to the NCAA Tournament," said Cornell center Jeff Foote...

Where did they get that "ass in the air" bear logo? I assume that their own graphics folks made it. Can we steal it?

[ugarte]

Now the Onion gets into the act:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cornell-drains-fun-out-of-cinderella-run-by-explai,17149/

"It'd be foolish to ascribe any of the properties of a pan-dimensional function space to the NCAA Tournament," said Cornell center Jeff Foote...

Where did they get that "ass in the air" bear logo? I assume that their own graphics folks made it. Can we steal it?

I'm pretty sure I've seen it before. I think they use that when they need a banner-style logo.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Now the Onion gets into the act:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cornell-drains-fun-out-of-cinderella-run-by-explai,17149/

"It'd be foolish to ascribe any of the properties of a pan-dimensional function space to the NCAA Tournament," said Cornell center Jeff Foote...

Where did they get that "ass in the air" bear logo? I assume that their own graphics folks made it. Can we steal it?

I'm pretty sure I've seen it before. I think they use that when they need a banner-style logo.

I've seen it too.  The University owns it.

[YankeeLobo]

32-16 at the half.  Getting ugly.  We don't belong on the same court as Kentucky.  Great run though!

[scoop85]

32-16 at the half.  Getting ugly.  We don't belong on the same court as Kentucky.  Great run though!

Amazing how much better UK is than Temple/Wisconsin.  They have some holes in their game, especially in the half court offense, but they what is especially impressive and surprising to me is how good they are on defense.  As much as I despise Calipari, the guy knows how to coach and motivate.

[YankeeLobo]

32-16 at the half.  Getting ugly.  We don't belong on the same court as Kentucky.  Great run though!

Amazing how much better UK is than Temple/Wisconsin.  They have some holes in their game, especially in the half court offense, but they what is especially impressive and surprising to me is how good they are on defense.  As much as I despise Calipari, the guy knows how to coach and motivate.

Yeah, Calipari is no slouch, aside from that awful call he made in the 2008 National Championship game, not giving that foul with 5 seconds left.  

Granted, he's practically dealing with an NBA team in Kentucky, making Cornell look like a high school team right now.  They can't even run an offense because of UK's athleticism on defense.  I don't think the press playing off the "dumb kids vs smart kids" storyline all week helped our cause either.  Kentucky is taking it to their future financial advisers.

[YankeeLobo]

C'mon Wittman...

[YankeeLobo]

Making a nice little run here, dont think it's going to be enough but at least Kentucky's not wiping the floor with them

[scoop85]

Making a nice little run here, dont think it's going to be enough but at least Kentucky's not wiping the floor with them

We really had some chances in the second half, and getting it down to six was pretty impressive.  UK started hitting foul shots, and we couldn't get over the hump.  

What a season, and what a career for our seniors.  I never thought we'd play on such a big stage!

[sockralex]

UK had much better defense than expected.  As anticipated, UK ran the transition amazingly well, but I didn't think they could have shut down the 3 as well as they did.  They left Cornell with some difficult, hand-in-your face shots that didn't fall.  The open ones didn't fall either for the most part.  Got them down to a few points in the closing minutes but just could not sustain.

Great season. Cornell was a lot of fun to watch and should hold their heads up high.  We are all very, very proud of this team.

[YankeeLobo]

Making a nice little run here, dont think it's going to be enough but at least Kentucky's not wiping the floor with them

We really had some chances in the second half, and getting it down to six was pretty impressive.  UK started hitting foul shots, and we couldn't get over the hump.  

What a season, and what a career for our seniors.  I never thought we'd play on such a big stage!

It was close, if our star showed up it would've been closer, but we wouldn't be there without him anyway.  Kentucky put on an absolute clinic on perimeter defense, Donahue just had no answer for Calipari and the Kentucky athletes.

[ugarte]

Making a nice little run here, dont think it's going to be enough but at least Kentucky's not wiping the floor with them

We really had some chances in the second half, and getting it down to six was pretty impressive.  UK started hitting foul shots, and we couldn't get over the hump.  

What a season, and what a career for our seniors.  I never thought we'd play on such a big stage!

It was close, if our star showed up it would've been closer, but we wouldn't be there without him anyway.  Kentucky put on an absolute clinic on perimeter defense, Donahue just had no answer for Calipari and the Kentucky athletes.

Hard to say that our star "didn't show up." Their stars are simply better than ours. Kentucky defended the perimeter the same way that Missouri did last year and Stanford did in 2008. Cornell is not going to match up well with an elite team that can defend foot one-on-one and pressure the three point shooters.

This was a great year. To think there is an iota of shame in losing to this Kentucky team is insane. The best team won last night but that doesn't detract from how good this team is: as players, as people, as a unit, and as representatives of a league with a sports culture that doesn't make a mockery of the term student-athlete.