Men's Basketball 24-25

[rss77]

Akron gave Gray a good chunk of money

[ugarte]

Akron gave Gray a good chunk of money

GWU is an A10 school with VCU, St. Joe's, LaSalle. You better believe they have an NIL budget, especially compared to the CAA (Stony Brook, Monmouth, Towson, VCU before they got too good for the CAA).

[chimpfood]

Matt Morgan went off in the summer league for the hornets but it seems like he has signed with a team in Italy. I was hopeful that this would be the year he gets an nba contract but I'm just glad to see him still going strong. He was the only reason the team was at all watchable when he played for Cornell.

[chimpfood]

As usual it seems we're having trouble getting non con teams to come here, so far the only games I can find are vs Illinois state, at lasalle, at Iona, at Colgate, at Syracuse, and at cal. This totals to one home game out of 5, and I would be shocked if we were only playing one away game in Cali. Also it seems likely that we'll play at least 1 other power 5 team which would undoubtedly be away.

[ugarte]

i'm looking at the iona game and trying to make it work. Monday night, though... tough to get out of NYC early enough.

[nycred]

Full Non-Con Schedule 24-25

marywood nov 4
samford nov 8
@la salle nov 12
lafayette nov 16
robert morris nov 21
@iona nov 25
@syracuse nov 27
@colgate dec 4
@army dec 8
@cal berkley dec 10
illinois state dec 22
siena college dec 30
psu schuykill jan 5

Should be an interesting home opener (ignoring marywood, a d3 school) against a tough stamford team that was a 13 seed last year. Classic syracuse game as always, hopefully a return(or improvement on) the competitive play of the 22-23 season's game. colgate should have a a decent student turnout, and games against cal and Illinois state will be interesting as well. Interestingly enough, we round out non-con play against a uscaa school.

Anyone have any thoughts?

[arugula]

Why are we travelling to California during or just before finals?

[billhoward]

Full Non-Con Schedule 24-25

marywood nov 4
samford nov 8 ...

You slur Samford and it sounds like Stanford.

[ugarte]

Full Non-Con Schedule 24-25

marywood nov 4
samford nov 8 ...

You slur Samford and it sounds like Stanford.

thanks

[nycred]

Oops didn't notice my typo, guess the stanford bias runs deep

[Ken711]

Another Cornell bb recruit, 6'8" G/SF.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/02/jax-abalos-batavia-cornell-recruit-high-school-boys-basketball/

[David Harding]

Another Cornell bb recruit, 6'8" G/SF.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/02/jax-abalos-batavia-cornell-recruit-high-school-boys-basketball/

I'll try to see him play sometime this winter.  His school is in the same conference as the high school my daughters attended.

[nycred]

2024-2025 Preseason Poll

1. Princeton – 127 (15)
2. Yale – 108
3. Brown – 92 (1)
4. Cornell – 67
5. Columbia – 58
6. Harvard – 55
7. Penn – 51
8. Dartmouth – 18

Anyone have any thoughts? As much as I hate Brown over us, I can't really complain after their 6 game winning streak to end regular season play+their win over Princeton in the ILT. Losing 3 out of our 5 leading scorers will definitely hurt, but I think Nazir will have a breakout season and make the All-Ivy first team, the juniors will reach new heights, and the sophomores will surprise a lot of people.

[mountainred]

That looks like a fair guess to me, though the person who voted for Brown to win may not have heard Nana Owusu-Anane is out for the season.  IMHO, that moves the Bears back to the back.

Princeton is the heavy favorite and Yale always makes the ILT.  And on the other side, Dartmouth is still a mess.  Everyone else is fighting for the last two ILT slots.

Lot of question marks for the good guys, but there is talent and none of the players defected.  Don't see us winning the regular season (F'ing Princeton) or finishing last; anything else is possible.  One day, Cornell has to win an ILT game, right?

[nycred]

Kenpom Preseason Ivy Rankings

End of last season's ranks in parenthesis

Princeton: 77(69)
Yale: 109(90)
Cornell: 168(103)
Penn: 192(213)
Columbia: 209(232)
Brown: 243(191)
Harvard: 259(228)
Dartmouth: 314(336)

The model seems very displeased with the fact that Brown lost Owusu-Anane. Harvard's drop can probably be attributed to the loss of Malik Mack. Princeton stays about the same. Yale's drop probably comes from the loss of Danny Wolf. Obviously, the biggest drop is for our boys; a 65-place drop is pretty insane. It definitely comes from losing 3 of our 5 top scorers, but I honestly think we're a lot better than the model indicates. Fiegen and Beccles will surprise people, and I wouldn't be surprised if we finished the season at about where we ended it last year, maybe a little worse.