Men's basketball 2019-20

[mountainred]

Elmira was a last minute add to "replace" the canceled home game with Towson and break up what would have been an 11 game lay-off.  I'm not a big fan of D3 games, but finding out of conference opponents in early January is almost impossible because the rest of the world is playing in conference unless there is TV $$$$.  At best, they give the deep bench guys a chance to play after practicing all season.

Elmira is 1-10 and will be playing their third game in four days.  It better be little more than a scrimmage with overpriced drinks for sale.

[mountainred]

Because this thread needs some potentially good news -- Recruit Sean Hansen had a 38 point, 5 block game over the weekend.

[mountainred]

Cornell 70 Elmira 33.  Elmira was awful, even by D3 standards.  But no one got hurt and the bench guys got some minutes.

[scoop85]

Hoops losing to a poor Columbia team 48-29 at the half in NYC. We've now officially become a shit-show.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Hoops losing to a poor Columbia team 48-29 at the half in NYC. We've now officially become a shit-show.

What were we before?  Piss poor?

::pain::

[scoop85]

Hoops losing to a poor Columbia team 48-29 at the half in NYC. We've now officially become a shit-show.

What were we before?  Piss poor?

::pain::

Well, we had been competitive against better competition earlier in the year, and in fact led in many of the games. Now we can't seem to compete with another Ivy bottom-feeder.

[mountainred]

Hoops losing to a poor Columbia team 48-29 at the half in NYC. We've now officially become a shit-show.

What were we before?  Piss poor?

::pain::

Well, we had been competitive against better competition earlier in the year, and in fact led in many of the games. Now we can't seem to compete with another Ivy bottom-feeder.

Second half was better, but still a 75-61 loss.  Cornell made it a little interesting, but there isn't enough offense to come back from 19.

McBride had a nice game, but otherwise it was pretty bad.  

I'm with Scoop, I didn't think it would be this bad back in November.  But the team is really struggling.

[Trotsky]

Holy shit, we're winning.  42-36 vs Columbia.

[Trotsky]

62-50, final.  It would appear we are not the worst D-1 basketball program in the nation.

[mountainred]

62-50, final.  It would appear we are not the worst D-1 basketball program in the nation.

There are worse.  Which is scary.  But I'm just going to be happy with the first D1 win in almost three months.

[ugarte]

somehow the basketball discussion about the current year got shifted to the 20-21 thread, which started with a discussion of scheduling changes.

in any event, i was looking at the schedule and even though this is admittedly a stupid way of looking at it, we have 6 losses by 4 or fewer points; flipping those games would give us a 12-11 record. it is very difficult to conceive of this team having a winning record but for a few bounces.

[mountainred]

Never noticed the drift -- maybe we just want this season to be over?

I think Scoop called the guys the best 1-7 team in the country a few months back.  Not to bring back any painful memories, a couple of those close losses came after blowing big leads, so they felt terrible.

[rss77]

When Brian Earl was hired I was very hopeful that he could get Cornell back to a winning program. Inability to recruit strength up front up front has hampered their efforts. Continuing recent trends point production has come from Knapp and McBride at the guard position with inconsistent point production from the front line.

[mountainred]

Pretty mediocre final home stand.  Double digit loss to Dartmouth.  Nine point loss to Harvard, but the Crimson led by 20 and there was never a moment in the second half where the BR had a realistic shot of winning.

My take is that a big man would be great, but Earl needs to recruit better at all positions.  Dickson (So.) and Filien (Fr.) have gotten regular minutes the last two weekends and have looked intriguing for the future, but I don't see either being the next Shonn Miller.

[rss77]

Pretty surprising win at Princeton.  They bring back some pieces back year like McBride, Boeheim, Knapp, and Dickson and maybe can get to 10-12 wins at best. Earl will be in his 5th year-make or break?