Cornell Selected Upset of the Day by RushTheCourt.Net

Above, Ezra Cornell's Basketball team just earned its first "signature win" of the season with a 71-67 victory at Alabama.

RushTheCourt.net selects Cornell's win over Alabama as the "Upset of the Day" for 11.14.09. RushTheCourt writes:

Upset of the Day. Cornell 71, Alabama 67. Another day, another SEC team embarrasses itself at home. Did anyone in Alabama care? Probably not. Don’t get us wrong here – Cornell is a fantastic Ivy League team with all five starters returning and gobs of game experience under their collective belt. And Alabama is dealing with a new coach, a new system and a fanbase that is on its best day mildly interested in basketball, to put it nicely. But an SEC team with two top 25-type players in its lineup should never lose this game at home (sorry, Goodman, but we disagree with you here). This is not to take anything at all away from Cornell, who completely deserved the win today and will assuredly push everyone on its schedule this year, BCS team or not. The Big Red shot 10-18 from three, and when Bama made a run to cut a 15-pt second half lead to two, Ryan Wittman (23/3), Louis Dale (13/4/5 assts) and Jeff Foote (17/7/3 blks) held steady down the stretch. When Anthony Grant gets this thing going later this year, and we honestly believe he will, this win alone will probably be worth an additional seed line for Cornell. Its first win over an SEC school since 1973 (!!) is quite simply a huge boon for this program, and the forty-plus excited comments on Cornell Sports Blog seems to confirm it. Congrats, fellas.

Meanwhile, the HoopsReport.com probably was not surprised. They picked Cornell:

CORNELL (+7.5) at Alabama: This Cornell team has been together for a couple years now. Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman are legit big-time players. Cornell won the Ivy two years in a row and was undefeated in conference play two seasons ago. Alabama will be decent this year but the Tide has a new coach (Anthony Grant) and he has to figure out how to mesh the talent. Cornell will keep this one close and could even win the game on the road.