Men's Basketball January 2025

[chimpfood]

I'm keeping my eye on mbeng for Yale. Even though he is only their third leading scorer he's probably their best player but he coughs the ball up quite a bit. If we can get force 3-4 turnover from him and maybe get him into foul trouble early to limit what he can do on defense we'll be in a good spot.

[ugarte]

counting on all of you to keep me informed on progress while i'm watching the end of the cornell/princeton dual meet which will probably decide the ivy wrestling title.

[Mr. Niss]

I'd love to understand what these refs are looking at.  Poulakidas threw a check to set a pick, should have been an offensive foul, no call, he then hits two threes and our guy gets clubbed with no call leading to another easy two.  Very frustrating.

[ugarte]

counting on all of you to keep me informed on progress while i'm watching the end of the cornell/princeton dual meet which will probably decide the ivy wrestling title.

Oof. Turn on the game right before the half to see Cornell down 8 and Yale takes a time out to set up a final shot with 7 seconds left.

[ugarte]

Dubious foul on Hinton but Yale hits both. Cornell is down 10 at the half.

EDIT: Oh damn, 14-0 run for Yale to close the half. Rough.

[ugarte]

Getting uglier. Not our day. Down 18 with 13:05 left.

[chimpfood]

Gonna lose most games where you let up 100 points. Pretty infuriating that after I say I think Ragland needs more pt he plays 5 minutes in the first half which was the only time the game was close. Three of yales guys just completely had their way with us. Mbeng had a triple double and 5 steals, poulakidis was knocking down everything, and Townsend bodied his way to the cup every time. I honestly don't know how to fix that but we need to figure it out because we play them again in 2 weeks.

[rss77]

Poulikidas reminds me of the UPenn star Matt Maloney from back in the day.  Don't see how they could have defended him any better. Townsend is impressive but he does push the envelope with the way he engages contact with opposing players-not a fan. 5-17 3 point shooting in 2nd half did not help either Cornell either.

[billhoward]

Getting uglier. Not our day. Down 18 with 13:05 left.

And then it became a race to see if Cornell got to 80 before Yale to 100. In this likely prop bet, it was Cornell FTW. Man, in the blink of an eye it went from Cornell up 5 in the second part of the first half to down 20 in the second. Admittedly, the Yale runup seemed more solid than our early lead. For this game.

Ivy Tournament strategy: maintain a 2-3 seed, avoid Yale 'til the finale, hope for a really good game, make the dance, see if we can be the 15-seed that takes down a 2-seed.

[chimpfood]

Long as we can finally win an Ivy tourney game I'll be happy tbh. Of course winning would be electric but I'd be satisfied with the season if we just make the final.

[rss77]

Agreed on all points-make the tourney! Also IMO Yale has an opportunity to do damage in the NCAAs if they make it out of the tourney.  Additional comment on Townsend-I think the refs gave him way too much leeway.  Leaning in when the Cornell defender is straight up-that's a foul??

[ugarte]

Road games at Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend. Should be sweepable. Let's go Red.

[ugarte]

Not a great start! Almost halfway through the first half and Cornell is down 21-7.

[ugarte]

Not a great start! Almost halfway through the first half and Cornell is down 21-7.

31-12 at the 8 minute break. Defense is trash, Harvard is shooting well from distance and the ball movement has been awful. Noard and Feigen barely touching the ball since I tuned in. Nimani got an open look from the corner and bonked it off the side of the backboard.

[Ken711]

Road games at Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend. Should be sweepable. Let's go Red.

Cornell looks more like they will be swept this weekend, if the Harvard game is an indication?