Men's Basketball January 2025

[chimpfood]

40 point loss is really ugly. Tough weekend coming up with Yale and brown on the road. We're gonna have to figure out whatever the hell this was or were worrying about even making Ivy madness.

[rss77]

Worse loss in how many years?  Humiliating loss-not sure what the prescription to get the ship back on course.  Defenses seem to have Cornell's offense figured out.

[billhoward]

It's a delicate dance getting the team home safely. You don't want the team bus sliding off the road trying to keep just 5 or 10 mph under the speed limit (to get home at a reasonable hour), and you don't want the bus driver going real safe but turning the 5:40 Hanover to Ithaca run into 7-8 hours and concerns about driver fatigue; many drivers are over 50. Every school has a travel coordinator who can book, if available, a dozen to twenty rooms last minute but not every stretch of the road has a hotel with that much availability. And it may be a $2500 hit to the travel budget And once you get say 2 hours from home, it takes a really bad blizzard to stop. I believe the most common Dartmouth to Cornell route has the bus going diagonally southwest off I-91 onto Route 7 in Vermont and then intercepting Route 88 near Albany with that final leg on Route 79. You hope those roads are plowed as well as the interstates.

If you're in hockey, the 2018 Humboldt Broncos Junior A team crash is etched in everyone's mind. A Saskatchewan truck driver drove through a flashing stop sign, T-boned the bus and killed half the players, coaches and staff on board.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/remembering-humboldt-broncos-bus-crash-victims-1.5085126

[billhoward]

Worse loss in how many years?  Humiliating loss-not sure what the prescription to get the ship back on course.  Defenses seem to have Cornell's offense figured out.

We have done better—lower-margin losses—against arguably better teams:

[rss77]

Note where Cornell stands in Ivy Statistics:  https://ivyleague.com/stats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2024  Especially offensive rebounds and defense. Vince Lombardi's old maxim olds true-The Best Offense is a good defense.  Also Pete Carril when he coached at Princeton-he believed offense could run hot and cold and good defense brought forth a more consistent effort in terms of wins and losses.  Also surprised that Cornell ranked last in average attendance-a lot of competition for sports fans given men's and women's ice hockey and the high level of the wrestling program?

[George64]

Also surprised that Cornell ranked last in average attendance-a lot of competition for sports fans given men's and women's ice hockey and the high level of the wrestling program?

You'd think Dartmouth - fewer students, faculty and staff, really small town, middle of nowhere, decent hockey, good skiing.

[upprdeck]

I think the issue is that the number is wrong for Cornell

we reported no attendance for 4 games

The 5 games they did report we avg almost 1150

Hard to really know because we have different attendance numbers on cornellbigred vs espn on some games

You know. Athletics is hard.

[chimpfood]

Yeah no way we have the lowest attendance, we've had good crowds for the Ivy League games.

[upprdeck]

Well if you add 4 games with zero to the equation it brings down the number pretty fast.

[Al DeFlorio]

40-25 Cornell lead shrinks to 42-37 at hslftime

[chimpfood]

Tough L, yale is really good but we need to be better than .500 in the Ivy. If the season ended now we wouldn't even make Ivy madness.

[rss77]

Watching Cornell's defense drives me up the wall.  Just so poor guarding in the paint.

[rss77]

Naz Williams has had some good looks but can't can them tonight.

[rss77]

Phew!

[chimpfood]

30 mins till tipoff, a win here would be big for our Ivy madness odds.