Cornell Basketball 2025-26 Thread

[ugarte]

wasn't expecting a road win out of this pair, though it would be nice. i appreciate a tough but competitive schedule to start the season. we aren't in the running for an at-large bid, so may as well schedule tough games. cute bit of scheduling to have the guys play Alfred to salve the wounds after traveling to East Lansing for a beatdown.

Doesn't look like we schedule road games for seniors (if we ever did). SIU is a 5+ hour drive from Noard and Feigen's hometowns north of Chicago. Nothing near LA (Hinton), NC (Nix), Idaho (LaBeau) or Utah (Zentner).

[mountainred]

Cornell is not going to win often when they shoot 6-31 from behind the arc.

Still, two competitive games against good opponents and without a key player.  Hope Fiegen is back this week and makes a difference.  He should.

Lafayette and Army are games the Big Red should win.

[ugarte]

@Lafayette tonight in ~20 minutes.

[ugarte]

@Lafayette tonight in ~20 minutes.

kind of a sloppy start and not shooting well. despite that, only down 22-21 at the 8 minute time out.

[ugarte]

@Lafayette tonight in ~20 minutes.

kind of a sloppy start and not shooting well. despite that, only down 22-21 at the 8 minute time out.

Good run out of the break, Lafayette came back to tie it but Noard hit a three at exactly the 4 minute mark to go up 34-31 at the break.

[chimpfood]

I'm sorry but this Estonian dude fucking blows.

On a more positive note, Beccles is doing a great job of getting penetration, drawing 2, then moving the ball and not being selfish forcing a shot. Also Hinton is doing good at getting to the line which we always struggle with.

[ugarte]

@Lafayette tonight in ~20 minutes.

kind of a sloppy start and not shooting well. despite that, only down 22-21 at the 8 minute time out.

Good run out of the break, Lafayette came back to tie it but Noard hit a three at exactly the 4 minute mark to go up 34-31 at the break.

Nice run to stretch the Cornell lead to 8 before a running layup by Lafayette at the end of the half cut it to 6.

[ugarte]

12-4 Cornell run to start the second half forces a Lafayette timeout before the first break. Cornell 58-44.

[chimpfood]

Noard is unreal. We're lucky he stayed.

[ugarte]

Noard is unreal. We're lucky he stayed.

yeah running away now - Noard drive and dish to Hinton on the perimeter has Cornell up 78-59 with 9:09 remaining.

[chimpfood]

Very refreshing and encouraging win. This team can contend in the Ivy if we play like we did tonight. Although Yale has looked unreal so far this year.

[Mr. Niss]

My look at Yale's schedule led me to believe that, other than a game against Alabama, they play nobody.  KenPom has them losing only the Alabama game.  Not sure not challenging your team is great scheduling.

[Ken711]

My look at Yale's schedule led me to believe that, other than a game against Alabama, they play nobody.  KenPom has them losing only the Alabama game.  Not sure not challenging your team is great scheduling.

Harvard does the same as Yale when it comes to football. Their out of conference scheduling is very weak. I guess they like the wins and confidence building it gives them.

[chimpfood]

Also a lot of larger schools just won't schedule basketball games against mid majors that they think they might lose against, hell we've seen it ourselves over the past couple of years.

[dbilmes]

Also a lot of larger schools just won't schedule basketball games against mid majors that they think they might lose against, hell we've seen it ourselves over the past couple of years.

The Yale coach was complaining about that in a preseason article.
The University of New Haven just went DI in all sports and they hosted Penn State in their campus gym, which seats less than 1,000. The Penn State coach was willing to come there to help promote their program, but in return, UNH has to play at Penn State the next three years and won't receive any money for coming.