Cornell Basketball in the News

In an interview with NavySports.com, Navy head basketball coach Billy Lange mentioned that Cornell's Steve Donahue attended a coaching roundtable this spring in Annapolis. Below is an excerpt from the interview with Lange:

NavySports.com: You hosted a coaches' roundtable a few weeks ago that brought in several collegiate coaches from around the area. How did that get started and what did it entail?
Lange: After the spring of 2007, I started putting together a group of guys to get together and just have a brainstorming session to talk basketball. Last year, it was at Robert Morris and our goal was to always bring it down here. We had about 40 coaches come in from all levels (NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NBA, former coaches, TV personalities) and just talk basketball. We had a couple of keynote speakers that talked about a couple of main points, but for the most part, it was just an open forum where guys talked basketball for a day-and-a-half. It was excellent.

NavySports.com: Who were some of the coaches that attended?
Lange: Well, we had Steve Donahue from Cornell, had John Giannini from La Salle, Joe Mihalich from Niagara, Mark Phelps from Drake, Mike Rice from Robert Morris, Steve Seymour (former asst. coach at Virginia), Pete Gillen (former head coach at Virginia), the list goes on and on. I am forgetting some and I apologize, but we had so many guys that its hard to remember them all. It was just very laid back and casual. We just picked brains about everything relating to the game. Our job has become year-encompassing. Coaching and your team with exact X's and O's only goes on during the season, but your game prep and practice prep, thinking about your team, plus recruiting and alumni and camps, doesn't give you an opportunity to step outside and talk about the game. I have been a big believer in that you have to get better in your craft. For me personally, I am not looking at any big changes systematically, but little things that I can pick up on or hear about something is what we were looking for.