Men's Basketball March 2025

ugarte · March 03, 2025, 10:15:06 AM

Quote from: upprdeckAnother example of IVY being dumb. Punish kids for being smart and graduating early

Not sure how it punishes the kid here when it means he gets a scholly for grad school. It hurts the team and the school, though.

rss77 · March 03, 2025, 10:31:26 AM

One can extend eligibility by taking additional undergraduate courses but on the flipside all your financial aid gets taken away. Cornell for years has been for graduate student eligibility but cannot get support to overturn the rule.

scoop85 · March 03, 2025, 12:21:01 PM

Quote from: chimpfoodSomething of note that I caught while watching the game back: the announcers said that Okereke can graduate this year and if he does he would have to leave Cornell as graduate students can't play in the Ivy League. He is listed as a junior so I don't know if that means that he can choose if he graduates this year or not but we would be losing a huge piece if he leaves before his senior year.

If he does leave after this year, it's a big loss. He'd be a POY candidate

chimpfood · March 06, 2025, 05:52:25 PM

I'm sure most of you aren't students so can't take advantage of this unfortunately but Cornell is giving away free Ivy madness tickets. They are going to the students who attended the most games over the course of the season which I think is a great way to decide it. Hopefully this should make for a good Cornell contingent in providence.

scoop85 · March 08, 2025, 03:58:49 PM

Hoops hits 100 again, beating Columbia 100-81. 2nd place Ivy regular season finish. We get Dartmouth next week.

rss77 · March 08, 2025, 05:46:25 PM

Finishing the regular season on a high note. They have a shot at winning it all. Yale has faltered down the stretch. Good chance at revenge against Dartmouth next Saturday.

chimpfood · March 08, 2025, 06:35:17 PM

Dartmouth lost to Harvard today, should be an easy win IF we play at the top of our game as we have been. I don't think I can handle 4 straight first round exits.

CU2007 · March 08, 2025, 08:23:10 PM

Quote from: chimpfoodDartmouth lost to Harvard today, should be an easy win IF we play at the top of our game as we have been. I don't think I can handle 4 straight first round exits.

I dunno, didn't we just lose to them by about 300 points?

rss77 · March 09, 2025, 06:31:42 PM

Yes-a few weeks ago but Cornell is playing at the top of their game right now and their defensive play has tightened up too.

upprdeck · March 09, 2025, 06:32:21 PM

shooting has come back to life at a good time

ugarte · March 10, 2025, 12:13:25 PM

Quote from: rss77Yes-a few weeks ago but Cornell is playing at the top of their game right now and their defensive play has tightened up too.

that weekend was a very loud wakeup call. After a 15-point loss to Yale, an embarrassing loss to Harvard, a blowout loss against Dartmouth and a couple of very close games against Yale (blew a big lead and lost) and Brown (led the whole way but it got uncomfortable), we ripped Penn, Princeton and Columbia apart. I'm with rss. We beat Dartmouth by 12 the first time; that's much more like the rest of Dartmouth's record than our blowout loss to the Green is like the rest of ours.

chimpfood · March 10, 2025, 02:08:52 PM

Donahue out at Penn

arugula · March 10, 2025, 04:07:19 PM

That's a shame. Great coach. Never should've left here. Could've been a Shaferesque institution. Went for the lottery ticket.

arugula · March 10, 2025, 04:07:48 PM

Jacques bring him back as an assistant or advisor?

rss77 · March 10, 2025, 04:14:16 PM

Never will happen-His wife absolutely hated living in Ithaca. Besides he already has a former head coach in Peiceton grad Mike Brennan.