Men’s Basketball 23-24

[ugarte]

Earl starts an all-senior lineup including Darius Ervin, Evan Williams and Max Watson. Brown starts on a 7-0 run. I was about to type "nice, but come on this came is important" but Cornell responded with an 8-0 run of their own. As I type, Brown is up 12-8 but they've all been subbed out. Watson has a three. Erving and Williams are 0 for 3 shooting. I'm curious whether they will get put back in later to get some points on Senior Night.

This decision coming back to bite cornell ih the a

Demeaning opponent?

I don't think you can blame the start when the score was like 9-8 when they got subbed out. Cornell is simply playing poorly in the second half. Brown is getting all the rebounds (not to mention whistles) and they are shooting the lights out while we are ice cold. Brown up 13 now, with ~11 minutes to go.

[blackwidow]

Earl starts an all-senior lineup including Darius Ervin, Evan Williams and Max Watson. Brown starts on a 7-0 run. I was about to type "nice, but come on this came is important" but Cornell responded with an 8-0 run of their own. As I type, Brown is up 12-8 but they've all been subbed out. Watson has a three. Erving and Williams are 0 for 3 shooting. I'm curious whether they will get put back in later to get some points on Senior Night.

This decision coming back to bite cornell ih the a

Demeaning opponent?

I don't think you can blame the start when the score was like 9-8 when they got subbed out. Cornell is simply playing poorly in the second half. Brown is getting all the rebounds (not to mention whistles) and they are shooting the lights out while we are ice cold. Brown up 13 now, with ~11 minutes to go.

The mindset carries over. Earl would not have done that if it was yale or princeton.

[Al DeFlorio]

Earl starts an all-senior lineup including Darius Ervin, Evan Williams and Max Watson. Brown starts on a 7-0 run. I was about to type "nice, but come on this came is important" but Cornell responded with an 8-0 run of their own. As I type, Brown is up 12-8 but they've all been subbed out. Watson has a three. Erving and Williams are 0 for 3 shooting. I'm curious whether they will get put back in later to get some points on Senior Night.

This decision coming back to bite cornell ih the a

Demeaning opponent?

I don't think you can blame the start when the score was like 9-8 when they got subbed out. Cornell is simply playing poorly in the second half. Brown is getting all the rebounds (not to mention whistles) and they are shooting the lights out while we are ice cold. Brown up 13 now, with ~11 minutes to go.

Not the score, the message sent to Brown's team...and Cornell's.  Many saw tonight as a "trap" game as it was.

[ugarte]

Earl starts an all-senior lineup including Darius Ervin, Evan Williams and Max Watson. Brown starts on a 7-0 run. I was about to type "nice, but come on this came is important" but Cornell responded with an 8-0 run of their own. As I type, Brown is up 12-8 but they've all been subbed out. Watson has a three. Erving and Williams are 0 for 3 shooting. I'm curious whether they will get put back in later to get some points on Senior Night.

This decision coming back to bite cornell ih the a

Demeaning opponent?

I don't think you can blame the start when the score was like 9-8 when they got subbed out. Cornell is simply playing poorly in the second half. Brown is getting all the rebounds (not to mention whistles) and they are shooting the lights out while we are ice cold. Brown up 13 now, with ~11 minutes to go.

Not the score, the message sent to Brown's team...and Cornell's.  Many saw tonight as a "trap" game as it was.

Fair enough. Brown lead at 10 with ~4 to go. No bueno.

[ugarte]

Nix and Tsang-Hinton subbed in for like one possession. Weird.

[ugarte]

Brutal 78-74 loss to Brown, fall into three-way tie for first in the conference. Guess I'll check on the hockey g... dammit.

[underskill]

I mean does it really make a difference if they need to win the tourney to qualify for the ncaa anyways

[chimpfood]

I mean does it really make a difference if they need to win the tourney to qualify for the ncaa anyways

the difference between having to beat Yale and Princeton vs just having to beat one of them

[chimpfood]

Dismal performance, starting our bench warmer seniors bit us in the ass.

[blackwidow]

I mean does it really make a difference if they need to win the tourney to qualify for the ncaa anyways

Getting the regular season title for once would be nice. Also, i dont care if the team is terrible. It's the arrogance

[semsox]

I think 'arrogance' is a strong word. Those seniors were getting up for the same practices, running the same drills, etc. for four years. It's not obvious to me that the competitive advantage in this single game isn't worth the sportsmanship and camaraderie advantage that builds over the course of the year and culminates in this acknowledgement of the contributions of these players.

[ugarte]

I think 'arrogance' is a strong word. Those seniors were getting up for the same practices, running the same drills, etc. for four years. It's not obvious to me that the competitive advantage in this single game isn't worth the sportsmanship and camaraderie advantage that builds over the course of the year and culminates in this acknowledgement of the contributions of these players.

i agree. they were in until the first stoppage. they didn't play particularly badly and i don't think brown took it as a slight. brown just outplayed us on the glass and the perimeter. they gave us fits on the road too, so i'm not going to blame earl for giving some run to three guys for four minutes.

[upprdeck]

In the long run as long as we beat Col/Penn the Princeton game was going to decide everything anyway. Losing to Brown doesn't do much to us, and perhaps kicks them in the butt.

[Ken711]

In the long run as long as we beat Col/Penn the Princeton game was going to decide everything anyway. Losing to Brown doesn't do much to us, and perhaps kicks them in the butt.

Need to use it as a wakeup call. Going to be tough to beat Princeton on the road.  So far this season, none of the top three Cornell/Princeton/Yale have beaten the other away from their home court.

[Jordan 04]

Will there be a ticket allotment for sale through Cornell once the Ivy tournament teams are officially set?  The tournament website currently shows all-session tickets, and individual championship game tickets, as "Sold Out".