Cornell soccer 2024

chimpfood · October 27, 2024, 11:44:32 AM

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Quote from: chimpfoodThat win is big for the Ivy standings, not the rpi. Long as we win out the regular season it seems like we should be good for NCAAs.
of course, just curious about the effect. i didn't expect it to move much if at all.
Where are you checking the RPI? Where I'm looking it says they're at 17. Or did it just change based on other results?

Where are you both looking?

http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/search/label/RPI%20Rank?m=1

They fell to 22 since I wrote that but this website is really good.

dbilmes · October 27, 2024, 02:34:08 PM

We have our final two games at home, and winning one of those games should get us into the Ivy Tournament, where hopefully we can turn the tables on Penn if we play them. We play Harvard next week, and they are battling Dartmouth and us for the final two spots in the Ivy tourney. We finish against Columbia, which is 1-3-1 in the Ivies and 1-10 overall. Meanwhile, Dartmouth and Harvard play each other the final weekend, with the loser most likely missing out on the Ivy Tournament.
The 1-0 loss at Yale is a real outlier on our schedule. That is Yale's only Ivy win. We outplayed them for most of the game, but there was a stretch in the second half where we couldn't get the ball out of our own end, leading to a series of corner kicks for Yale, one of which resulted in a hand ball call on us. The ensuing penalty kick was the only goal of the game.

ugarte · October 30, 2024, 04:11:47 PM

Some result(s) elsewhere in the country shifted the RPI enough to bump Penn to 6 and Cornell to 19.

ugarte · November 01, 2024, 06:02:06 PM

Quote from: ugarteSome result(s) elsewhere in the country shifted the RPI enough to bump Penn to 6 and Cornell to 19.

Penn down to 9 and Cornell up to 15 lol

chimpfood · November 02, 2024, 10:20:37 AM

Up to 10th in the pairwise thanks to some teams ahead of us dropping games and Syracuse beating Pitt. Win this afternoon and we're in a really good spot.

chimpfood · November 02, 2024, 04:26:41 PM

1-0 Cornell on a Harris pen, drawn by Danny Lokko

ugarte · November 02, 2024, 04:27:04 PM

Not watching yet but Cornell scores first against Harvard on a PK.

chimpfood · November 02, 2024, 05:11:35 PM

2-0 going into second half, Kiisa kingi finally back.

scoop85 · November 02, 2024, 06:03:23 PM

Tidy 3-0 win that clinches a spot in the ILT

ugarte · November 03, 2024, 01:44:32 AM

Final regular season game is against 1-10-1 Columbia. Their only win of the season? Yale. lol

chimpfood · November 09, 2024, 06:04:55 PM

4-1 W vs Columbia, that all but guarantees a home NCAA playoff game for us but we probably at least need to make the final of the Ivy tourney for a bye. Onto the playoffs!

semsox · November 09, 2024, 09:45:15 PM

Asking this very genuinely because I have not followed Men's D1 soccer closely, but what happened that we went from:

This on Sept. 28th:

Quote from: chimpfoodLoss to Yale that with how bad the Ivy is pretty much puts us out of contention for an at large bid. Gotta get going in league play and win the tournament now.

To this on Oct. 20th:

Quote from: chimpfoodThat loss really hurts. I think all 3 of penn's goals came off of crosses into the box which really reflects how our team is just too small. Friedberg also really hasn't been impressive to me since his freshman year. RPI hasn't updated yet but our NCAA tournament hopes are probably down to either winning out and losing too Penn in the Ivy final or just winning the Ivy tournament.

To this today:

Quote from: chimpfood4-1 W vs Columbia, that all but guarantees a home NCAA playoff game for us but we probably at least need to make the final of the Ivy tourney for a bye. Onto the playoffs!

Again, this is meant to be a genuine question, as the extent to which I'm following the team this year is through this thread, and a few times I feel I've had whiplash checking in with what the outlook looks like for the rest of the season. Is it a combination of continuing to put up W's and getting favorable results elsewhere? Down year in some of the other conferences? Something else?

ugarte · November 09, 2024, 09:47:48 PM

Quote from: semsoxAgain, this is meant to be a genuine question, as the extent to which I'm following the team this year is through this thread, and a few times I feel I've had whiplash checking in with what the outlook looks like for the rest of the season. Is it a combination of continuing to put up W's and getting favorable results elsewhere? Down year in some of the other conferences? Something else?

Ivy overall was stronger than i think chimpfood expected, we played a solid OOC schedule and we kept winning (and so did Penn).

chimpfood · November 09, 2024, 09:57:50 PM

Quote from: semsoxAsking this very genuinely because I have not followed Men's D1 soccer closely, but what happened that we went from:

This on Sept. 28th:
Quote from: chimpfoodLoss to Yale that with how bad the Ivy is pretty much puts us out of contention for an at large bid. Gotta get going in league play and win the tournament now.

To this on Oct. 20th:
Quote from: chimpfoodThat loss really hurts. I think all 3 of penn's goals came off of crosses into the box which really reflects how our team is just too small. Friedberg also really hasn't been impressive to me since his freshman year. RPI hasn't updated yet but our NCAA tournament hopes are probably down to either winning out and losing too Penn in the Ivy final or just winning the Ivy tournament.

To this today:
Quote from: chimpfood4-1 W vs Columbia, that all but guarantees a home NCAA playoff game for us but we probably at least need to make the final of the Ivy tourney for a bye. Onto the playoffs!

Again, this is meant to be a genuine question, as the extent to which I'm following the team this year is through this thread, and a few times I feel I've had whiplash checking in with what the outlook looks like for the rest of the season. Is it a combination of continuing to put up W's and getting favorable results elsewhere? Down year in some of the other conferences? Something else?

Well for what it's worth after that Yale game we only lost one (to highly ranked Penn) and got favorable results elsewhere. And the second one, we did win out it's just we're probably fine even if we lose in the Ivy semis and not the final now, again because of good results elsewhere. On top of all this this was my first year really following the soccer rpi and it's heavy weight on strength of schedule still makes it really confusing to me. Because of the weak teams that we are playing results from our past opponents have literally been mattering more than our own wins which makes things hard to predict.

Also a side note, immediately after our win we dropped significantly the rpi due to strength of schedule. I know that in hockey they remove wins that lower your rpi from the equation but I guess not in soccer?

dbilmes · November 13, 2024, 08:57:27 PM

Cornell dominated the Ivy Awards.
Alex Harris becomes the first Cornell player to be named Offensive Player of the Year (he was actually co-Offensive Player of the Year, sharing that honor with Penn's Stas Korzenkiowski).
Both Harris and Connor Miller were unanimous first-team All-Ivy selections. Ryan Friedberg, Andrew Johnson and Alioune Ka were also on the first team, and Aidan Martin was named the Rookie of the Year -- the third straight year a Cornell player has earned that honor.