Men’s Basketball 23-24

[Mr. Niss]

I thought from the posts that we had lost.

True about a lot of game-chatter in the "Other Sports" forum. I swear given the grousing during lax season, I'm sometimes surprised when I find we won 16-7.

to be fair to this thread, the posts went from "it's 19-0 Cornell" to "It's 27-21 Cornell" to "we're losing somehow" to "whew! we escaped," so having the in-game posts imply that we might lose is an accurate representation of the game. 1 point was not the largest deficit of the game; Dartmouth was up 8 with 8:30 left.

When you realize that Dartmouth outscored us something like 44-19 at one point ... I don't even know how to complete that thought.

[Mr. Niss]

Man we are such a streaky team (which is quite an understatement, I know).  But I love this team like I've never loved a woman.

[semsox]

This is a really likable team. I'm still not sure if they have the "it" factor that I thought the Wittman/Dale/Foote teams had even early on in that run, but definitely the best Cornell team since 2010.

[dbilmes]

Nice to see a good bounce-back from the near-debacle at Dartmouth. Hopefully, we can give Yale a good game next Saturday.

[Ken711]

Nice road win by the Big Red.  The first away weekend road sweep since 2019.  Yale beat Penn 74-58, with their 7' center leading the way with 24 points.  He's going to be force in the Ivy League as he's only a sophomore.

[dbilmes]

Cornell's first win at Harvard since 2019. The last time Cornell was 6-0 in Ivy League was 2010. Also, Cornell's 10 road wins are tied for most in the NCAA.

[chimpfood]

Great win, can't wait for the Yale game next week. 6-0 vs 6-0. Hoping to get some votes in the AP poll this week.

[ugarte]

Great win, can't wait for the Yale game next week. 6-0 vs 6-0. Hoping to get some votes in the AP poll this week.

can't tell if i can go yet but... tempting

[Trotsky]

I thought from the posts that we had lost.

True about a lot of game-chatter in the "Other Sports" forum. I swear given the grousing during lax season, I'm sometimes surprised when I find we won 16-7.

to be fair to this thread, the posts went from "it's 19-0 Cornell" to "It's 27-21 Cornell" to "we're losing somehow" to "whew! we escaped," so having the in-game posts imply that we might lose is an accurate representation of the game. 1 point was not the largest deficit of the game; Dartmouth was up 8 with 8:30 left.

Wanna say I was not being critical of the posts -- they were good information. I was saying I literally someone how missed that we had won, until I saw the "escaped" post and I exhaled.

I don't think people were grousing (I am on Mets reddit; I know grousing).  I think people watching just registered shock at the turnaround.

[Mr. Niss]

I don't understand Ken Pom, in particular how Yale is ranked so much ahead of us at 15-6 while we're 17-3.  They've beaten nobody but Princeton.  The have a couple of terrible losses.  Their games against top teams aren't any better than ours.

[upprdeck]

and we lead the ncaa in road wins dont we?

[Iceberg]

I don't understand Ken Pom, in particular how Yale is ranked so much ahead of us at 15-6 while we're 17-3.  They've beaten nobody but Princeton.  The have a couple of terrible losses.  Their games against top teams aren't any better than ours.

Basketball version of Quint Kessenich?

[CU2007]

Is there a world where Cornell continues winning but stumbles in say the Ivy League title game and gets an at large to the dance? I don't know enough about college hoops but have always heard the Ivy League is, and always will be, a one bid league.

[scoop85]

Is there a world where Cornell continues winning but stumbles in say the Ivy League title game and gets an at large to the dance? I don't know enough about college hoops but have always heard the Ivy League is, and always will be, a one bid league.

Perhaps if we go 14-0 in the regular season and lose in the final. But even that may be a stretch, since we won't have any quad 1 wins.

[ugarte]

I don't understand Ken Pom, in particular how Yale is ranked so much ahead of us at 15-6 while we're 17-3.  They've beaten nobody but Princeton.  The have a couple of terrible losses.  Their games against top teams aren't any better than ours.

might be margin of victory; i think it measures by possession not just ultimate result.