Men's basketball 2018-19

CU2007 · March 03, 2019, 02:45:02 AM

Quote from: Ken711Cornell loses to Brown 75-51. Out-scored this weekend 116-163. With a 5 game losing streak this team is trending down at the wrong time.

Yea, baring a miracle next weekend, they choked away a nice cushion in the league standings and it ends next Saturday night

mountainred · March 04, 2019, 10:30:34 AM

Quote from: CU2007
Quote from: Ken711Cornell loses to Brown 75-51. Out-scored this weekend 116-163. With a 5 game losing streak this team is trending down at the wrong time.

Yea, baring a miracle next weekend, they choked away a nice cushion in the league standings and it ends next Saturday night

Choke is too strong -- they were the underdog in all five of their losses -- but they did stink this past weekend when they could least afford it.

A sweep this weekend at home (it could happen, they swept Harvard and Dartmouth on the road) and the four seed remains a possibility. But it has to be a sweep.

mountainred · March 08, 2019, 08:51:59 PM

The Guys bounced back impressively beating Harvard 72-59, Morgan with 31.

In the end, it won't matter. Brown and Penn both won, so they meet tomorrow in what is basically a play-in game. Cornell loses the tiebreaker to Penn if all three teams tie at 7-7.

I wonder if they could get a CIT berth at 15-15....

scoop85 · March 08, 2019, 09:13:17 PM

Quote from: mountainredThe Guys bounced back impressively beating Harvard 72-59, Morgan with 31.

In the end, it won't matter. Brown and Penn both won, so they meet tomorrow in what is basically a play-in game. Cornell loses the tiebreaker to Penn if all three teams tie at 7-7.

I wonder if they could get a CIT berth at 15-15....

The Ivies are crazy this year. Too bad we'll fall a but short. But it would be great if we could get the win tomorrow and be invited to the CIT or CBI (or whatever they're called) so that Morgan's Cornell career can be extended.

upprdeck · March 08, 2019, 10:27:13 PM

at .500 i think they would get a bid.

mountainred · March 09, 2019, 09:53:56 AM

I think they could. The CIT has invited Ivies in the past -- Columbia has won the thing and Yale was a runner-up -- and I think they are struggling to fill their bracket. Last year they only had 20 teams.

Since the Sweet 16 season, every Ivy other than Cornell has played in some kind of post-season tournament. Even fricking Dartmouth.

ugarte · March 09, 2019, 07:59:11 PM

Props to Cornell women's hoops for getting into the Ivy Tournament.

mountainred · March 09, 2019, 08:43:10 PM

So, who had Morgan's string of double figure games ending on senior night? Crazy. Cornell still wins 66-51 to finish .500 and tied for 4th. Now, we wait for the CIT.

mountainred · March 12, 2019, 03:56:24 PM

Matt is, not surprisingly, a unanimous pick for first-team all-Ivy. The only Cornellian to make the all-Ivy announcement. He's the second Cornell player to be a unanimous all-Ivy pick more than once (Witt did three times).

He's also only the 6th guy in Big Red history to be named first-team more than once.

billhoward · March 13, 2019, 10:40:48 AM

Quote from: mountainredMatt is, not surprisingly, a unanimous pick for first-team all-Ivy. The only Cornellian to make the all-Ivy announcement. He's the second Cornell player to be a unanimous all-Ivy pick more than once (Witt did three times). He's also only the 6th guy in Big Red history to be named first-team more than once.

Cornell should compose a Beowulf-like poem, or song, about him. It would probably be titled, Against the Odds. Unless that has been reserved for our FOGOs.

mountainred · March 17, 2019, 12:16:36 PM

Another recruit, Earl's third from the prep school ranks: PG Greg Dolan was second team all-league for the big schools where he set up PoY, and Harvard recruit, Chris Ledlum. Jordan Jones was the Class A (which looks about the middle) Player of the Year.

Dolan won't help replace Julian, but he had a lot of interest from mid-majors and this team is shallow at PG.

scoop85 · March 17, 2019, 08:11:36 PM

Cornell hoops to get some postseason action too:

https://twitter.com/rmumbasketball/status/1107430120250322945

ugarte · March 17, 2019, 10:40:01 PM

Quote from: scoop85Cornell hoops to get some postseason action too

well all right!

mountainred · March 18, 2019, 08:48:01 AM

Quote from: ugarte
Quote from: scoop85Cornell hoops to get some postseason action too
well all right!

Winnable game too, though these non-NCAA tournaments often come down to who actually wants to be there.

djk26 · March 18, 2019, 09:12:12 AM

Quote from: scoop85Cornell hoops to get some postseason action too:

Very cool, and congratulations to the men's basketball team. With the NCAA, NIT, CBI and CIT, there are now 144(!) men's teams that make it to some sort of postseason, although after the NCAA, nobody cares except people associated with the programs in the other tournaments, or fans of teams who rarely if ever make the NCAA. It does mean that any sort of winning record gets you a shot at some sort of postseason.

It's hard to argue with this article from two years ago:

Four postseason tournaments is 2 or 3 too many

Quote from: Doug Robinson, Desert Newsthis isn't about basketball and postseason glory; it's about TV and money. It's filling airtime on TV and selling ad revenue. It's squeezing the last dollar possible out of "student-athletes." As writer Andy Hutchins wrote, it "functions as a way for college athletics to funnel money to people outside athletic departments."

All true, but there are a bunch of kids whose seasons aren't over thanks to the extra tournaments. I may be naive, but there must some of the kids who will enjoy a chance to keep playing basketball.