Schedule Update

Here is yet another glimpse of the 31 projected games on the Big Red's 2009-2010 schedule. All games are tentative until formally announced by Cornell Athletics.

• November 18, 2008-@ UMass, (Legends Classic-Field includes UMass, Cornell, Toldeo, Rutgers, Vermont, Drexel, Florida, Michigan State, Valparaiso plus three additional teams)
• TBA Opponent (Legends Classic)
• TBA Opponent (Legends Classic)
• TBA Opponent (Legends Classic)
• November 20, 2009- vs. Seton Hall
• December 20, 2009-vs. Davidson (@ Madison Square Garden ECAC Holiday Festival)
• December 21, 2009 vs. Hofstra or St. John's (@ Madison Square Garden ECAC Holiday Festival)
• January 5, 2010-@ Kansas
  
• vs. St. Joseph's (Home)
• @South Dakota
• @Alabama
• @La Salle
• @Boston University
• vs. Bryant (Home)
• @Syracuse
• Local New York State rival TBA
• Local New York State rival TBA
• 14 Ivy League Games

SCHEDULE COMMENTS:

• Kansas is likely the preseason #1 team in the nation.
  
• Cornell will host Seton Hall (Big East) and St. Joseph's (A-10) in Ithaca this season. Cornell visits Seton Hall during 2010-2011.
• Cornell Head Coach Steve Donahue annually attempts to schedule road games in the home states of each of his players. For example, the Kansas game is a return home for Geoff Reeves (Burlington, Kansas). Reeves will go head-to-head with former Burlington High School (Kansas) teammate, Tyrel Reed, a guard with the Jayhawks.
  
• The Alabama game is a return home for Louis Dale (Birmingham, Alabama).
• The South Dakota game is a "return home" for Pete Reynolds. He is from Blair, Nebraska, roughly a 2 hour drive away.
• The Legends Classic game at UMass will feature a return back to Amherst for Cornell 's Max Groebe, a former Minuteman before transferring to Cornell in 2008.
  
• The ECAC Holiday Festival is a reunion of sorts for Cornell head coach, Steve Donahue and Davidson head coach, Bob McKillop. Donahue served as an assistant to McKillop during the 2008 U.S. Men's Basketball U18 Trials. MSG's Holiday Festival also serves as a potential rematch for Cornell and St. John's. The Big Red fell to the Red Storm last season in the opener of the NIT Season Tip-Off, 86-75 after trailing the Big East squad by just 1 point at halftime. Cornell, however, played the Red Storm without All Ivy League point guard, Louis Dale.
• Cornell will play in some of the country's most prestigious arena's this season, including Allen Fieldhouse (Kansas), Madison Square Garden (St. John's), the Carrier Dome (Syracuse), Coleman Coliseum (Alabama), and the Mullins Center (UMass).
  

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