Men’s soccer

[scoop85]

Cornell knocked off High Point 4-1 today after dropping a 2-1 game in 2 OT at #18 Wake Forest in which the Red were down to 10 men after a red card. Cornell looked terrific today; High Point is no slouch, having made the NCAA's last year and being their conference's favorite this season.

Lots of talent for Cornell throughout the field, but especially in the attack and in the midfield. They play an entertaining aggressive style, and should be Ivy contenders (picked 2nd behind Yale in the preseason coaches' poll).

[ugarte]

Cornell knocked off High Point 4-1 today after dropping a 2-1 game in 2 OT at #18 Wake Forest in which the Red were down to 10 men after a red card. Cornell looked terrific today; High Point is no slouch, having made the NCAA's last year and being their conference's favorite this season.

Lots of talent for Cornell throughout the field, but especially in the attack and in the midfield. They play an entertaining aggressive style, and should be Ivy contenders (picked 2nd behind Yale in the preseason coaches' poll).

looking for the highlights and i read the recap: Cornell was down to *9* men for the OT because of a pair of red cards that the recap does not otherwise comment on. Yikes.

I watched some of the High Point game and they do look good in part because High Point looked good. I stopped watching when we were up 2-1 and was very surprised to see that we pulled away so decisively.

[ugarte]

Pulling this up and out of the football thread. With the 3-0 win at Penn, the Big Red have jumped to 19 in RPI. NINETEEN. Probably a function of the flaws in RPI as a metric but also incredible. Also probably greatly aided by playing two ACC teams in Syracuse (23 despite a 5-5 record because of their SOS) and Wake Forest.

[scoop85]

Pulling this up and out of the football thread. With the 3-0 win at Penn, the Big Red have jumped to 19 in RPI. NINETEEN. Probably a function of the flaws in RPI as a metric but also incredible. Also probably greatly aided by playing two ACC teams in Syracuse (23 despite a 5-5 record because of their SOS) and Wake Forest.

The Penn win was an absolute smack down, as we dominated all over the field. Preseason favorite Yale has been mediocre, so that path is there for a league championship. But lots more soccer to play.

[Trotsky]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

[CU2007]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

How does the ncaa tourney work? League champs and top so-and-so ranks in the RPI? Basically, do we have a legit chance to make the tourney as an at-large or would we need to win Ivy?

[Weder]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

How does the ncaa tourney work? League champs and top so-and-so ranks in the RPI? Basically, do we have a legit chance to make the tourney as an at-large or would we need to win Ivy?

It's a 48-team tournament with 24 automatic bids (every conference gets one). The top 16 seeds get first-round byes. The Ivies used to frequently get 2 teams in but I don't think that's happened recently.

[mountainred]

Not that it matters for selection purposes, but the Big Red is now #24 in the Coaches' poll.

[jtwcornell91]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

UTRGV is the result of the merger of UT Brownsville, where I worked from 2000-2002, and UT Pan-American.  When I was at UTB, or more properly "The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College", the sports teams were playing in the Junior College league via TSC's membership.

[ugarte]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

How does the ncaa tourney work? League champs and top so-and-so ranks in the RPI? Basically, do we have a legit chance to make the tourney as an at-large or would we need to win Ivy?

Hard to say. I do think we have a chance at at-large this year but I figure our trip through the ivy league will slowly whittle away at our SOS even as we win games and a single loss could be a deathblow. Not a lot of margin for error.

[jtwcornell91]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

UTRGV is the result of the merger of UT Brownsville, where I worked from 2000-2002, and UT Pan-American.  When I was at UTB, or more properly "The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College", the sports teams were playing in the Junior College league via TSC's membership.

I remember the sports teams being the Scorpions (people even made some weird scorpion hand-gesture), which apparently is still TSC's mascot.  In the brief period between the separation of UTB and TSC and the formation of UTRGV, UTB was (according to Wikipedia) the Ocelots, a name I never heard, since I haven't been to Brownsville since my Hurricane Sabbatical in 2005.

[Trotsky]

Here is the RPI table.  Some fun WTF teams.  UNH, Hofstra, Grand Canyon, Marshall, Central Arkansas, "UTRGV".  Go Vaqueros!

UTRGV is the result of the merger of UT Brownsville, where I worked from 2000-2002, and UT Pan-American.  When I was at UTB, or more properly "The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College", the sports teams were playing in the Junior College league via TSC's membership.

I remember the sports teams being the Scorpions (people even made some weird scorpion hand-gesture), which apparently is still TSC's mascot.  In the brief period between the separation of UTB and TSC and the formation of UTRGV, UTB was (according to Wikipedia) the Ocelots, a name I never heard, since I haven't been to Brownsville since my Hurricane Sabbatical in 2005.

HE REMEMBERS ME!

[Al DeFlorio]

Cornell 4, Harvard 0 after 30 minutes.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Cornell 4, Harvard 0 after 30 minutes.

Wow.

[scoop85]

5-0 at halftime after an "Olympico" goal that curled in directly off a corner kick. An absolute beat down of a team that last week had a scoreless tie with preseason league favorite Yale.

We are damn good, folks.