Men's Basketball January 2025

[Iceberg]

Cornell was 7-for-16 from the foul line in a one-point loss. That says it all.

Strange turnaround compared to Saturday when seemingly no one could miss a free throw

[upprdeck]

hard to lose a game when you shoot 65%

[marty]

Cornell was 7-for-16 from the foul line in a one-point loss. That says it all.

Strange turnaround compared to Saturday when seemingly no one could miss a free throw

If we're missing shots, it must be the coaching! ::bolt::

[mountainred]

Terrible coaching at the end there, Jacques NEEDS to call a timeout the second that naz crossed half after that missed free throw but he just let him go. Not to mention how after that naz was trapped under the hoop and we still didn't call a timeout. And then the last shot being a fadeaway from our big man was icing on the cake. Terrible finish, this loss could come back to hurt us. I want everyone on the team shooting 100 free throws every morning for the next week.

A more experienced coach would probably be ready to take a TO once Nazir got in trouble under the basket, but new coaches make mistakes.  The good ones learn. My guess is most coaches would have let their senior playmaker, who is normally tremendous in the open court, try to take advantage of a chaotic situation and not taken a TO.  This team is generally more dangerous playing full court, rather than half.  I had no issues with that decision other than it didn't work this time.

And the playbook for "you have less than a second to get a shot off" is pretty limited. You take what you can get.

This game was lost because Cornell played horrible defense as opposed to merely poor defense.  And they still likely win if they hit free throws at their usual rate.

[rss77]

That was the late coach Bobby Knight's philosophy not to call a time out. He felt you got a better shot if you played it out.  Agreed one would want it in Nazir's hands but Brown knew  and to their credit they converged on him altering his shot.  When one looks at the box score-Brown had 12 second chance points and Cornell had just 1 which reflects that Brown had 9 offensive rebounds and Cornell had just 4.

[chimpfood]

Yep as I have cooled down and gotten less pissy with time after the game I agree that not calling a timeout immediately was the right play, especially given the trouble we've had inbounding the ball this year. That said, Jacques needs to be ready to call one the second that naz gets stuck under the cup but he didn't and we probably lost a second or two because of that.

[Al DeFlorio]

P scores last 5 for 37-36 lead at half.

[ugarte]

P scores last 5 for 37-36 lead at half.

I checked in while still recording a podcast and Cornell was up by 1 about halfway through the second half and the next time i got to check in, Cornell had run away with it. Final: 85-76 good guys.

[mike1960]

Great win in Princeton's house!

48% field goal
40.7 three point

[chimpfood]

Massive win. It's cool being road warriors but let's sweep at home next weekend and we're in a fantastic spot.

[Mr. Niss]

Great win in Princeton's house!

48% field goal
40.7 three point

That's a great finish, because for the first 1/4 of the game they barely could hit a shot and were fortunate that Princeton was in the same boat.

[mountainred]

Huge, huge win, as everybody has said.  Shot brilliantly from the line, so whatever was going on against Brown seems to have passed.  

Tied with Princeton for second in the league, and with the tie-breaker over them, and 3 road wins.  First place Yale has only on road win.  Gotta hold serve next weekend at home and Dartmouth is a lot more dangerous than in recent years.  But the team is in a great place.

[scoop85]

While not on a back-to-back, this is the 1st time we've beaten Penn and Princeton on the road in the same season since we went 14-0 in the league in 2007-2008. I forgot how bad Princeton was that season until I looked at the box score.

Now we just need to regain our mojo at home that has been strangely lacking this year.

[mountainred]

While not on a back-to-back, this is the 1st time we've beaten Penn and Princeton on the road in the same season since we went 14-0 in the league in 2007-2008. I forgot how bad Princeton was that season until I looked at the box score.

Great catch!  Man, it really doesn't feel the same this way.

Playing around with KenPom, Cornell is the #1 team in nation for both 2 point FG percentage and effective FG percentage (all shots with a 50% bonus for 3 pointers).

[CU2007]

Great win. Makes that home loss to Brown even more annoying.