News and Notes: Around the Ivy League

Between December 20 through December 21st, Cornell will play a pair of games in Madison Square Garden as a participant in the Holiday Festival. Both games are tentatively scheduled to be televised on the MSG Network. The following is a list of the preseason tournaments involving Ivy League programs during the 2009-2010 season.

What: Connecticut 6
When: Nov. 13 in Bridgeport, Conn.
Who: Yale vs. Sacred Heart; Fairfield vs. Central Connecticut; Quinnipiac vs. Hartford

What: Legends Classic
When: Nov. 18-22; Nov. 27-29
Who: Michigan State, Florida, Rutgers, UMass, Valparaiso, Toledo, Georgia Southern, Troy, Vermont, Drexel, Cornell

What: Preseason NIT
When: TBD (campus sites); Nov. 25 and 27 (New York)
Who: UConn, Hofstra, Yale, Colgate, LSU, Western Kentucky, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Duke, Charlotte, Elon, Coastal Carolina, ASU TCU, Cal State Northridge, Texas State

What: Philly Classic
When: TBD (campus sites); Nov. 27-28 (Philadelphia)
Who: St. John’s, Siena, Temple, Virginia Tech, Delaware, Brown

What: Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival
When: Dec. 20-21 in New York
Who: Davidson, St. John’s, Cornell, Hofstra

PROJECTED CORNELL BIG RED MEN'S BASKETBALL 2009-2010 SCHEDULE

• November 14, 2009-@Alabama (Cornell season opener)
  
• November 18, 2009-@UMass (Legends Classic)
  
• November 20, 2009- vs. Seton Hall
• November 24, 2009-@Syracuse
  
• November 27-29, 2009 (three consecutive subregional games in the Legends Classic in Philadelphia against Drexel (host), Vermont and Toledo. Order of games in Philadelphia TBA)
  
• December 2, 2009-@Bucknell
• December 6, 2009-vs. St. Joseph's
• December 20, 2009-vs. Davidson (@ Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival) (Televised MSG Network)
  
• December 21, 2009 vs. Hofstra or St. John's (@ Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival) (Televised MSG Network)
• December 29, 2009-@La Salle
• December 31, 2009-Opponent TBA
  
• January 2, 2010-vs. Bryant
  
• January 5, 2010-@ Kansas (Televised Jaykawk TV)
• January 7, 2010-@South Dakota
• January 11, 2010-Opponent TBA
  
• January 15, 2010-vs. Columbia
  
• January 22, 2010-@Columbia
  
• January 29, 2010-Dartmouth
• January 30, 2010-Harvard
• February 5, 2010-Yale
• February 6, 2010-Brown
• February 12, 2010-@Penn
• February 13, 2010-@Princeton
• February 19, 2010-@Harvard
• February 20, 2010-@Dartmouth
• February 26, 2010-Princeton
• February 27, 2010-Penn
• March 5, 2010-@Brown
• March 6, 2010-@Yale