CHAMPIONS!

[Greg Berge]

Dartmouth tied.  Cornell has won the RS championship.

[KeithK]

...but a disappointing way to do it....

(I'll be happy later. Right now I'm annoyed.)

[min \'97]

Yeah! Congrats to the team! Thank you Coach Schafer!

[min \'97]

oh, lighten up keith, will you? :-P
cornell's last RS title was before I was born...

other observations... hahvahd continues its downfall; brown and rpi keep moving up; and scary as it is, cornell may face slu again...

[littleredfan]

what does the dartmouth tie mean for the ivy championship?

[vicb]

Cornell is the first winner of the Cleary Cup.  Ain't that a Bit$h .

[KeithK]

Dartmouth still can win the Ivy outright with a win over Yale tomorrow.  If they tie or lose tomorrow we clinch at least a shre of the Ivy (remember, Harvard can catch us in the Ivy standings by beating Princeton/yale next weekend).

[littleredfan]

i dont know what happened to lynah..so quiet, pretty much uncreative...seemed like the townie sections were louder than the student sections! and sections E-G werent filled until more than halfway through the first period...it was pretty pathetic.

cornell just hasnt played #8 well ever since the princeton game.  we played crappy then, nearly lost/went to OT with to a faster, more agile yale team, lost a hard fought game to dartmouth, beat a really awful vermont team, and now have tied st lawrence... the dominating play that we saw earlier in the year is pretty much gone (esp evident in the first period....the second and third periods were a lot better, we just couldnt capitalize on some chances), it seems. lets hope we find our dominating ability through all periods soon

edit:also, any word on the women's bball game? i saw the end of regulation...how did it go in OT?

[Al DeFlorio]

The Cleary and a buck will get you a ride on the T.;-)

[Dart~Ben]

For what it's worth, Dartmouth should've lost tonight and given you guys at least a share of the Ivy title. Despite outshooting Princeton 45-28 or so, Dartmouth absolutely fell apart in the 3rd and OT and probably the latter part of the 2nd as well. We were fricking lucky to survive and gain the 1-1 tie. I think if it was anyone but Princeton we would've lost, fortunately Princeton was a very bad team that had a great night from a goaltender.

Hopefully we can beat Yale and still win the title outright, but after tonight I'm not nearly as confident as I was after last weekend. Any momentum Dartmouth had following the 2 great games last weekend was definitely lost tonight.

In fact if I were a Cornell fan (which thankfully I'm not ;-)  ) I'd feel pretty good about my chances of sneaking away with at least a share of the Ivy Title as well.

[kaelistus]

I'm sure Dartmouth will be all ready for tomorrow. So don't try this reverse woofing on us!

Go Yale! :-)

[Greg Berge]

I am VERY happy to win the RS title... I have been waiting (no exagerration) for 21 years.

I don't think it was backing in.  Backing in is getting the title on less than a win on the LAST day.  With 3 games to go, it's a solid, dominating title!

It sucks to be so many miles off from the next person who realizes just what this team, as opposed to so many great Cornell teams, has just accomplished.

[cbuckser]

The regular-season title is a phenomenal achievement, and I'm extraordinarily happy that Cornell won.

The disappointment over tonight's tie,  the understated reaction to clinching first place, and the concern over the team's play over the last five games are a testament to another impressive accomplishment:  raising the expectations for this team.

[jtwcornell91]

Wonderful irony there, since Cornell also ended his head coaching career.  Right up there with Clarkson winning the regular season in the first year after the CC rule was repealed but the last year before there was a trophy for the RS winner.

It's a little disappointing to clinch it with a tie, and also as a result of other games played (so the Faithful missed out on chanting opportunities), but of course the fact that it's already wrapped up with three games to play is a testament to this team's dominance of the ECAC all season long.

Now the task is to ratchet the intensity back up and not enter the playoffs flatfooted.

[littleredfan]

i think with the tie we drop to #11 in pwr/rpi  ::worry::