Cornell Basketball in the News

Some late afternoon references to Cornell Basketball in the news media...

• From the Hartford Courtant, quoting UConn coach, Jim Calhoun as his team prepares for Harvard on Sunday, "Everybody is expecting Cornell to be the best team in the league. I haven't seen Cornell, but after seeing Harvard on tape they're going to have to go a ways to be much better than Harvard."

• From the Dayton Daily News, "Since a season-opening 75-43 victory over Albany that gave [Jim] Boeheim his 800th career victory, the [Syracuse] Orange have averaged 91 points a game in deflating every opponent, ranked or not. Then-No. 13 California and then-No. 6 North Carolina fell on consecutive nights in the 2K Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden. Two-time defending Ivy League champ Cornell lost by 15 points in the Carrier Dome (Nov. 24), watching what had been a close game at halftime evaporate in a 17-5 Syracuse spurt to start the second half."