Cornell Basketball in the News

All is smiles in Cornell Basketball Land. Louis Dale (pictured above) and the Big Red are coming off their second consecutive Ivy League title and are the overwhelming favorite to three-peat and return to the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Below, an article referencing Cornell Basketball in the news media.

The Big Red are referenced in an article published in the May/June issue of the Penn Gazette. The article, which is definitely worth reading in full about the discontent in the Penn basketball program, states in part:

...Such is the degree of enmity that exists in [Penn] Quaker Nation after two lackluster seasons that have placed Penn squarely in unfamiliar territory as a middle-of-the-pack Ivy League team, sniffing at title contention during the final weeks of February but ultimately having to rely on other teams to do what the Quakers lately cannot—that is, beating Cornell at Ithaca...''

A thrilling, 62-55 overtime win at Princeton on Feb. 17 in a game the Quakers controlled for most of the second half offered the promise of a strong finish to the season. In similar circumstances a year earlier, Penn had won five of eight games, all the while knowing that it was all but powerless to stop Cornell’s inexorable run to an undefeated Ivy season. Yet this season produced no reprise. Faced with a Cornell team that showed signs of fallibility (while still finishing 11-3), the Quakers lost five of their last seven games, including four of five at the Palestra. Remove senior Kevin Egee’s buzzer beating three-pointer at Columbia and the final tally is worse.