Cornell Basketball 2025-26 Thread

[ugarte]

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

[marty]

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

Terrible for Yale?

[CU2007]

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

Terrible for Yale?

Yale can now tell potential recruits that they'll get to play in a big arena with a ton of fans as opposed to going and playing western Connecticut in front of 200 people. It's not the end all-be all but it helps. Similar to Cornell hockey playing at msg.

[ugarte]

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

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.

Honestly not a terrible deal?

Terrible for Yale?

Yale can now tell potential recruits that they'll get to play in a big arena with a ton of fans as opposed to going and playing western Connecticut in front of 200 people. It's not the end all-be all but it helps. Similar to Cornell hockey playing at msg.

I meant for UNH as a new D1 team. Tougher sell for Yale.

[CornellLonghorn]

Cooper Noard receives Ivy Player of the Week is #2 in scoring in the country.

[Mr. Niss]

Has the start of the game been delayed?  Or is this typical ESPN+ difficulties?

(edit: now ESPN+ saying the game starts at 8:30 ...?)

[Mr. Niss]

10-19 from the free throw line is nauseating.  Tough for an Ivy League team to compete against the big boys when you can't shoot free throws.

[chimpfood]

Sepp still sucks unfortunately. Everyone who is playing well is small. It was good to see Rafiq get out there finally and he turned it on. Overall just glad to be back in Newman and get out of there with a win

[upprdeck]

ask SU what happens when you cant make Fts.  Maybe it was a CNY thing last night

[scoop85]

We have so many nice pieces that it's frustrating we don't have real quality bigs. Colgate comes in tomorrow with a 6'8" freshman, Andrew Alekseyenko, who we offered. He's averaging over 15 PPG and is exactly the kind of player we seem to be missing out on in recruiting the past few years.

[mountainred]

Tonight should be a good test.  Much better Patriot League team than the guys have played so far.  KenPom says Cornell is a 2pt favorite, though Vegas seems to say the Big Red by 4.5.  You have to think the Raiders will try to exploit the Big Red's interior and Jon has only had one practice to prepare.

[ugarte]

I think once the Ivy season starts we should probably break up the thread by weekend (even though we don't have the old hockey scheduling anymore). But here we go against Colgate.

Feigen is back. 9-9 at the first break.

[Mr. Niss]

24 is a problem.  He's extremely sloppy with the ball, repeatedly.  Not sure I understand why he's on the court so much other than that these are "preseason" games and Jon's getting a look at a bunch of guys.

[ugarte]

Noard with a corner 3 with 4 seconds on the clock to send it to OT. Great shooting down the stretch to close the gap. Free throw shooting problems somewhat eased by excellent rebounding.

[scoop85]

Going to double OT after Noard makes an ill advised pass that leads to Colgate's tying basket. Some great plays mixed with plenty of gaffes.