Men's Basketball January 2025

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??

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

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.

ugarte
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?

We can't create of the dribble and they are playing tight out to the arc. Down 42-24. Noard has 16 and Williams has 6. Really need to see more Ragland and less Nimani. Okereke needs to do *something* with the ball.

The only good thing about this game is that both Hintons are sporting Sideshow Bob hair.

ugarte
The only good thing about this game is that both Hintons are sporting Sideshow Bob hair.

Closed to 12, Okereke missed a shot from right under the basket, the defense allowed a wide open 3, Okereke and Cain botched a handoff into a fast break the other way the Williams dribbled of the clock to take a contested 3 that missed.

We're down 17 at the half. blech

Just keep working, almost there

Hugely disappointing at the end there. They handed us OT and we blew it. I also hate intentionally missing that last free throw. Just make it a one point game and see if we can get a turnover on the inbound since they have no timeouts. Need a win tomorrow or we’re in a dangerous spot.

Got buried in too big a hole. Rebounding and turnovers. Tough matchup tomorrow especially with Brown beating Princeton tonight

Several issues killed a good comeback

Missed FTs, make them and they are leading with a min to go.

I don't like calling Timeouts that really don't do much for you. Rather save them for when it matters.

The lack of rebounding late hurt. 1 Harvard guy and 4 Cornell guys several times and a couple got tipped into plays for scores

those 2-3 phantom foul calls. The one where Noard just stood there, did nothing, didnt even try to stop the shot and got called for a foul was funny on the replay for how bad it was, but several others as well.

But when you allow close to 50 3 halves in a row bad things happen

Makes the end of the first half even more annoying!

Did today’s game get moved to 5? I could’ve sworn it was scheduled for 6 before.

nasty bus ride home tonight

Awful start

back to back 19 pt holes. what happened to the offense

Not like it matters down 23 but how is that Dartmouth’s ball?

Down 26 at half… I don’t even know what to say

Scrubs in with 11 minutes to go, down 33, so embarrassing

40 point loss is really ugly. Tough weekend coming up with Yale and brown on the road. We’re gonna have to figure out whatever the hell this was or were worrying about even making Ivy madness.

Worse loss in how many years? Humiliating loss-not sure what the prescription to get the ship back on course. Defenses seem to have Cornell's offense figured out.

It's a delicate dance getting the team home safely. You don't want the team bus sliding off the road trying to keep just 5 or 10 mph under the speed limit (to get home at a reasonable hour), and you don't want the bus driver going real safe but turning the 5:40 Hanover to Ithaca run into 7-8 hours and concerns about driver fatigue; many drivers are over 50. Every school has a travel coordinator who can book, if available, a dozen to twenty rooms last minute but not every stretch of the road has a hotel with that much availability. And it may be a $2500 hit to the travel budget And once you get say 2 hours from home, it takes a really bad blizzard to stop. I believe the most common Dartmouth to Cornell route has the bus going diagonally southwest off I-91 onto Route 7 in Vermont and then intercepting Route 88 near Albany with that final leg on Route 79. You hope those roads are plowed as well as the interstates.

If you're in hockey, the 2018 Humboldt Broncos Junior A team crash is etched in everyone's mind. A Saskatchewan truck driver drove through a flashing stop sign, T-boned the bus and killed half the players, coaches and staff on board. [www.cbc.ca]

rss77
Worse loss in how many years? Humiliating loss-not sure what the prescription to get the ship back on course. Defenses seem to have Cornell's offense figured out.

We have done better—lower-margin losses—against arguably better teams:

Note where Cornell stands in Ivy Statistics: [ivyleague.com] Especially offensive rebounds and defense. Vince Lombardi's old maxim olds true-The Best Offense is a good defense. Also Pete Carril when he coached at Princeton-he believed offense could run hot and cold and good defense brought forth a more consistent effort in terms of wins and losses. Also surprised that Cornell ranked last in average attendance-a lot of competition for sports fans given men's and women's ice hockey and the high level of the wrestling program?

rss77
Also surprised that Cornell ranked last in average attendance-a lot of competition for sports fans given men's and women's ice hockey and the high level of the wrestling program?

You’d think Dartmouth - fewer students, faculty and staff, really small town, middle of nowhere, decent hockey, good skiing.

I think the issue is that the number is wrong for Cornell

we reported no attendance for 4 games

The 5 games they did report we avg almost 1150

Hard to really know because we have different attendance numbers on cornellbigred vs espn on some games

You know. Athletics is hard.

Yeah no way we have the lowest attendance, we’ve had good crowds for the Ivy League games.

Well if you add 4 games with zero to the equation it brings down the number pretty fast.

40-25 Cornell lead shrinks to 42-37 at hslftime

Tough L, yale is really good but we need to be better than .500 in the Ivy. If the season ended now we wouldn’t even make Ivy madness.

Watching Cornell's defense drives me up the wall. Just so poor guarding in the paint.

Naz Williams has had some good looks but can't can them tonight.

Phew!

30 mins till tipoff, a win here would be big for our Ivy madness odds.

Dominant first half

63-27 halftime, Red

Are we sure we’re not playing Penn State Altoona?

scoop85
Are we sure we’re not playing Penn State Altoona?

Now 81-38

This is sick. I sat down to start watching late. Women's hockey was up 3-0 in the waning seconds so I switched that off. Men's hockey was down 3-1 and I think I heard the PBP guy say that it looked like Schafer got hit with something so I switched that off. Then this? What am I supposed to do? Talk to my family?

Our scrubs can’t score for shit but that’s fine when you grab a 40 point lead early. Carry this momentum into Princeton.

ugarte
This is sick. I sat down to start watching late. Women's hockey was up 3-0 in the waning seconds so I switched that off. Men's hockey was down 3-1 and I think I heard the PBP guy say that it looked like Schafer got hit with something so I switched that off. Then this? What am I supposed to do? Talk to my family?

+1

Some other ideas:

Didnt look at tie breakers , but win one of the last 2 gets us in,

Chance for a 3 way tie for 4th and 6 teams ,500 or better,

Yale and then the other 5 are all about the same team

Yep, if we either win one of our last two games or brown and Harvard lose next week (playing Yale and Dartmouth) we are in. I like our odds but let’s just get it done tomorrow. Should be a fun game, usually gets a big crowd.