Men's Basketball 22-23

[semsox]

Results be damned, what a wildly entertaining game

[Mr. Niss]

Miami on a one-and-one still ...

damn how do they get the ball into the guy who shoots 87%?

[jeff '84]

104-94 with 3:31 left. Our offense has been excellent, but Miami has some high level talent and we're giving up too many offensive boards. Entertaining game against a very good team.

107-104. :06 to go (but Miami at line)

[scoop85]

Miami on a one-and-one still ...

damn how do they get the ball into the guy who shoots 87%?

Yeah, not great by us

[Mr. Niss]

I they overturn this call I may throw my 2010 replica Ivy League championship trophy through a window.

[scoop85]

Ah, so close

[Mr. Niss]

I love Brian Earl to pieces.  But that last play, blech.  You can't have the play be the shortest guy on the floor heaving one when the other team is expecting the shot.

We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams.  Man.  We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game.

[scoop85]

I have no complaint with Watson taking the last shot. Nice block by the Miami kid. Needed a screen there

[mountainred]

At 21 down I was glad I didn't try to figure out how to order Bally Sports. By the end I really regretted that decision.  Disappointed, but you have to like the fight this team has.

[Mr. Niss]

Wish he realized he had time.  Could've pumped and gotten the guy in the air.  Hindsight is 20-20.  Reminds me of the 73-72 loss to Kansas in late '09 (although in that one we led until like the last minute; and, of course, Kansas was #1 and hadn't lost at home in like 72 games).

[mountainred]

We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams.  Man.  We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game.

The computers are going to love the offensive work, but hate the defense.  Still, they had this as a 16 point loss, so there should be jump.  Is this finally the year for a win at the Dome?

[Mr. Niss]

We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams.  Man.  We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game.

The computers are going to love the offensive work, but hate the defense.  Still, they had this as a 16 point loss, so there should be jump.  Is this finally the year for a win at the Dome?

We jumped from 185 to 166.  Kind of disappointing.  I thought we'd get a bigger bump.  Not that it matters.  We are now ahead of Harvard and Penn, behind Yale (91) and Princeton (111).

One of my kids is at Syracuse.  We don't miss a game.  Cornell has the best chance to beat Syracuse that we've had in the 41 years since we last beat them.  They also could get waxed, depending upon which Syracuse team shows up.  Hopefully, it will be the one that played Colgate and Bryant.

[mountainred]

Slightly bigger jump on Bart Torvik's site, but both slot Cornell in the 160s and in the top half of all D1 teams.  Which essentially hasn't happened since the Sweet Sixteen.*  So, we have that going for us.

*In Courtney's second year -- last year with 'Ski and Ferry and first with Shonn -- the team started fairly high but played themselves out of the top 200.  Make of that what you will, if anything.

[ugarte]

We have two losses this year -- both by two points to two ACC teams.  Man.  We should jump 100 points in KenPom for this game.

The computers are going to love the offensive work, but hate the defense.  Still, they had this as a 16 point loss, so there should be jump.  Is this finally the year for a win at the Dome?

We jumped from 185 to 166.  Kind of disappointing.  I thought we'd get a bigger bump.  Not that it matters.  We are now ahead of Harvard and Penn, behind Yale (91) and Princeton (111).

One of my kids is at Syracuse.  We don't miss a game.  Cornell has the best chance to beat Syracuse that we've had in the 41 years since we last beat them.  They also could get waxed, depending upon which Syracuse team shows up.  Hopefully, it will be the one that played Colgate and Bryant.

i still can't believe we never beat them during the 3 year Ivy title run.

[dbilmes]

The first time I clicked on this article, I was able to read it all the way through, but now it has a paywall. That's too bad because it gives the background on how Earl decided to transition to Cornell's current style of play. To summarize, the decision was made during the winter when Ivy basketball was cancelled and Cornell was limited to only practices. As the team was racing up and down the court during practices, Earl realized the current makeup of the team fit in well with that style of play, especially since most of the players were interchangeable in the different positions they could play. He notes that their current 9-2 record is misleading because their schedule hasn't been that tough, and that the players need to learn how to close out tight games (both Cornell losses were by 2 points on the road). It's been over 50 years since Cornell has defeated Syracuse. It would be nice if we could end that streak this weekend.