NCAA Tournament 2024

[Give My Regards]

This is the day
Our life will surely change

This is the day
When things fall into place

Today is my birthday.

Not that anyone should care, except that... the only other time Cornell has ever played a game on my birthday was...

... the 2003 quarterfinal win over BC.

[dbilmes]

This is the day
Our life will surely change

This is the day
When things fall into place

Today is my birthday.

Not that anyone should care, except that... the only other time Cornell has ever played a game on my birthday was...

... the 2003 quarterfinal win over BC.

We all care! Happy Birthday and let's hope history repeats itself.

[George64]

seeing the loss numbers for Dryden and Cropper is just so insane.

Galajda also insane. He would have the all time wins record if not for COVID.

Dryden and Cropper only played varsity for three years, too.  I saw one freshmen game where Ken played forward.  It was abundantly clear why he was a goalie!

[Al DeFlorio]

seeing the loss numbers for Dryden and Cropper is just so insane.

Galajda also insane. He would have the all time wins record if not for COVID.

Dryden and Cropper only played varsity for three years, too.  I saw one freshmen game where Ken played forward.  It was abundantly clear why he was a goalie!

Think Dryden was a skater in the varsity-freshman game.  Ned didn't want to discourage his varsity.

[ursusminor]

seeing the loss numbers for Dryden and Cropper is just so insane.

Galajda also insane. He would have the all time wins record if not for COVID.

Dryden and Cropper only played varsity for three years, too.  I saw one freshmen game where Ken played forward.  It was abundantly clear why he was a goalie!

Think Dryden was a skater in the varsity-freshman game.  Ned didn't want to discourage his varsity.

RPI's freshmen defeated the varsity that year, and the varsity went on to a 3-19 record with no wins and many drubbings from D-I schools. Ned was indeed wise especially considering the RPI game vs Cornell was only 5-2. https://sports-chronicles.com/rpih/pages/results_by_season#1965-66 In case anyone looks, Penn was a club team that year.

[imafrshmn]

Today is a great day to break a curse. Set your altars, light your candles, do whatever rituals you need to do to get right. Let's do this!

[imafrshmn]

For the ticket counters out there: reported attendance for yesterday's Missouri regional games (MSU-WMU,NoDak-UMich) was a COMBINED 3148, which would be about 63% of capacity).

[BearLover]

For the ticket counters out there: reported attendance for yesterday's Missouri regional games (MSU-WMU,NoDak-UMich) was a COMBINED 3148, which would be about 63% of capacity).

So what happened to the other 37% of tickets? Weren't tickets going for $2000?

[imafrshmn]

For the ticket counters out there: reported attendance for yesterday's Missouri regional games (MSU-WMU,NoDak-UMich) was a COMBINED 3148, which would be about 63% of capacity).

So what happened to the other 37% of tickets? Weren't tickets going for $2000?

Ok i made a mistake in interpretation. 3148 was the official capacity for the venue as they were able to add additional seating for this event. So this was in fact a "sellout" in ticketing terms. But each school was only allotted 400 tickets... it's possible that many of the remaining 1548 seats were bought up by scalpers hoping to capitalize on the high demand, but maybe they miscalculated on that front...
 The upshot was a rink that was about 50% full for both games, so certainly a raw deal for these teams and their fans.

[pjd8]

This is the day
Our life will surely change

This is the day
When things fall into place

Today is my birthday.

Not that anyone should care, except that... the only other time Cornell has ever played a game on my birthday was...

... the 2003 quarterfinal win over BC.

We all care! Happy Birthday and let's hope history repeats itself.

I'll take birthday luck as another weapon in the arsenal. Happy, happy birthday!

[VIEWfromK]

But that still doesn't excuse lossess to Harvard, Princeton, Colgate...... that's due to Cornell's preferred style of play..

And those teams knowing what it takes to beat Cornell

[jtwcornell91]

Who decided to let Dick Vitale do the play-by-play in the BU-Minnesota game?

[ugarte]

Here's a question: based on the boards, it looked like UMass and AIC were the co-hosts of the Springfield regional. What happens if AIC beats RIT in the AHA final?* There's no way they send two four-band teams to play in Springfield, right?

*Do not say "according to YATC an AIC win would have eliminated UMass" even if it is true.

[Iceberg]

AIC couldn't have gone to Springfield since the site is their home rink. They probably would've played BU or BC

[ugarte]

AIC couldn't have gone to Springfield since the site is their home rink. They probably would've played BU or BC

interesting! i guess they shared some of the administrative burden and revenue from hosting?