Men's Basketball 22-23

semsox · February 18, 2023, 08:45:29 PM

Harvard shot 28% from 3 and 50% for the game. We shot 25% from 3 and 33% for the game. We took 10 more 3's than Harvard, but that's the math. Disappointing game

mountainred · February 18, 2023, 08:53:18 PM

Looks like I chose a good one to miss. You aren't beating many teams if you miss two of every three shots.

CU2007 · February 23, 2023, 06:29:56 PM

So what is the realistic path to the playoffs for us now?

upprdeck · February 23, 2023, 07:02:39 PM

cornell beats Columbia

but if we dont win both we want Yale to win out cause we have a win over them and Penn so we would beat Brown in tiebreakers

Harvard to not win out because they beat us h2h twice if the ivies use that as the first tiebreaker?

CU2007 · February 25, 2023, 06:00:00 PM

So for the Ivy tourney, it looks like:
Win, win - in
Lose, win - in only if Yale beats Brown next weekend
Win, lose - same as above
Lose, lose - out

upprdeck · February 25, 2023, 06:12:44 PM

win tongith and we get 2 shots next week. Lose tongith and we need some help But yale would be playing for the IVY title so a little help there.

chimpfood · February 25, 2023, 08:31:14 PM

At some point shots have to start falling... right?

mountainred · February 25, 2023, 08:41:42 PM

Pretty brutal second half. Cornell is still the 4 seed with a win v. Columbia and a Brown loss to Yale. As Upperdeck says, Yale will be playing for the top seed and the chance to avoid Penn/Princeton, so there is something.

Not that I see this team winning a game at the ILT right now.

CU2007 · February 25, 2023, 09:44:23 PM

Quote from: mountainredPretty brutal second half. Cornell is still the 4 seed with a win v. Columbia and a Brown loss to Yale. As Upperdeck says, Yale will be playing for the top seed and the chance to avoid Penn/Princeton, so there is something.

Not that I see this team winning a game at the ILT right now.

Seem to have really fallen off after the hot start. Wasn't someone important hurt? Is he back/expected back?

chimpfood · February 25, 2023, 09:57:17 PM

Max was hurt but he's been back the past few games and back to his high scoring ways. I'm still very hopeful for our chances as Columbia should be an easy win and if any team can pull off upsets it's this one.

Ken711 · February 25, 2023, 10:59:27 PM

Mojo for this team was long gone. Looking to next season and some taller front court players being brought in.

CU2007 · February 26, 2023, 01:02:05 PM

Strangely, the final games next weekend are not all at the same time. So Cornell will need to win at 2PM and then huddle around a TV and root for Yale at 7:30PM

mountainred · February 27, 2023, 02:52:39 PM

Quote from: chimpfoodMax was hurt but he's been back the past few games and back to his high scoring ways. I'm still very hopeful for our chances as Columbia should be an easy win and if any team can pull off upsets it's this one.

Nazir missed two or three games, but he's back. I don' think there has been a meaningful injury other that his.

I'm not sure there are easy wins for this team right now, but they should beat the Lions at home. And if they don't, they really don't belong in the ILT.

I know Ken calls it mojo, but the defense went from so-so to bad with the losses at Harvard, Penn and Princeton. Then the offense went from elite to mediocre in the last couple of losses.

One thing is that the rotation seems to have shrunk; lots of guys still play, but only seven logged 10+ minutes at Yale. And that includes Josh Baldwin who may one day be a huge part of the team, but right now he's an overmatched freshman.

As recently as last year there were two off-off-Broadway post-season tournaments that wanted you to pony up to play. But the Basketball Classic gave up after they spent last March getting turned turned by the likes of UMBC and Merrimack. Earlier this season, there was a CBI bracketology page (who would bother, I ask even though I read the page) that had us listed, but no Ivy is currently listed. I have to think the school has better uses for $50K.

upprdeck · March 03, 2023, 06:08:00 PM

Yale plays for first no matter what happens.

not sure of the tie breaker rules but normal convention of head 2 head and such would work out going down the standings..

Yale wins
Penn wins

tied h2h, both split with Princeton so 4th/5th/6th place team matters

If Cornell wins cornell split with penn and yale
Brown lost to both twice
dart split both.
Yale lost all 4

So Col beating Yale in game 1 makes Penn the champ

I must have got lost somewhere though, I dont think that can happen . but too lazy to go back and look.

Yale since the Cornell loss has only lost 1 game and playing the best of anyone.

billhoward · March 03, 2023, 07:19:07 PM

Quote from: upprdeckYale since the Cornell loss has only lost 1 game and playing the best of anyone.

Cause and effect? Yale's been playing better since the release of the DiSantis book. Has anybody read it?