Below, some news and notes...- In Rush The Court's feature "Checking in with the Atlantic 10," RTC writes with respect to St. Joe's, "Coach Martelli’s young squad stretched their losing streak to four on Sunday, dropping a 12-point decision to Cornell. The Big Red are expected to repeat as victors in the Ivy this season and represent the Ivies at the NCAA. "
- Following Harvard's victory over Boston College last night, Rush The Court writes, "It’s been a foregone conclusion that Cornell would once again own the Ivy League this year, but could Harvard challenge the Big Red in the Ancient Eight?"
- Here at The Cornell Basketball Blog, we are not sure what to make of Harvard's win last night. On the one hand, anytime an Ivy beats an ACC team, it is definitely a very big win. But, it has to be noted that Boston College played the game without its best player, Rakim Sanders. Still, Harvard certainly has our attention. Jon Tannenwald of Philly.com tweets, "I'm not sold on Harvard yet but BC is really bad this year." Tannenwald also tweets that Boston College lost to a St. Joseph's team that Cornell blew out.
- Further down below in the post we address Cornell's and its opponents' RPI rankings. Last night's action was very, very helpful for Cornell, currently ranked No. 26.
- Several Tweeters in cyberspace are wondering if the Ivy League is a two-bid league this season. Northstar Basketball tweets, "It's a major longshot, but theres a small chance that the Ivy League gets 2 bids. Cornell & Harvard are both really good & have good resumes." Blogging the Bracket tweets, "Harvard Beats Boston College For Second Straight Season: Two Ivy Bids A Possibility?" And Dana O'Neil of ESPN tweets that Harvard's win, "Should make Ivy League interesting."
- A blogger for Cornell's radio station, WVBR seems to believe Harvard will challenge Cornell and writes in his post "The Ivy League Basketball Race Will be [a] Race to the End" as follows:
The Cornell Men's Basketball Team was expected to run away with the Ivy League this season. Early season results, though, indicate Cornell may find itself in a duel with Harvard for the Ivy League title. The Crimson are 6-2 and one of their losses was a 79-73 loss at no. 14 Connecticut that came down to the last minute. The Crimson also have a triple overtime win against William & Mary. That may not sound like much, but, although it's early, William & Mary's RPI is 13th in the nation and they won at Wake Forest by 10. Harvard is averaging almost ten points a game more than their opponents. Cornell is 7-2 against a grueling schedule but wasn't able to sustain a strong effort for forty minutes against either of the 2 Big East teams it faced, unlike Harvard did against UConn. Also, some of Cornell's games against lesser conference teams have been closer than what might have thought based on Cornell's early season expectations.
Cornell is no doubt a deeper team than Harvard. When you get into Ivy play, Jeff Foote's 7' 265 lb frame becomes much more of a weapon than during the early season. For comparison, Harvard's biggest player, Keith Wright, is only 6-8 and weighs 240. Mark Coury, Jon Jaques, and Adam Wire will punish Ivy League squads that try to double Foote. While Cornell is loaded with three-point shooters, meaning they can get away with one having a bad shooting performance, the Big Red have almost relied too much on the three this year. That means they haven't drawn many fouls and opponents have had a huge advantage in points from the foul line.
- Author Kathy Orton explained that when she was writing her book Outside the Limelight, "I did fight [with my editors] to keep most of the [details of the] Harvard game at Cornell and the Princeton game at Cornell because those were such dramatic games."
- Washington Jewish Week references Cornell's Eitan Chemerinski and writes, "Last season, [Jewish Day School of Potomac, Maryland] made it to the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference finals before losing in overtime. The Lions also have lost top scorer Eitan Chemerinksi, now playing college ball at Cornell. JDS relied very heavily on Chemerinski, a 6-foot-8 forward/center, for its offense last year."
- AuburnPub.com writes, "Syracuse is 8-0, but its last four wins have been against Cornell, Columbia, Colgate and Maine - not exactly the Four Horsemen."
- Click the link below to keep reading this post.
- Below is a look at Cornell's RPI rank (as of Thursday, December 9) following a 7-2 start for the Big Red. All of Cornell's opponents are also listed (out of 347 total Division I teams). Cornell's results against these opponents are in parentheses.
5. St. John's14. Syracuse (L)
26. Cornell
36. Kansas
43. Harvard
51. Seton Hall (L)
56. Hofstra
74. Alabama (W)
79. La Salle
87. St. Joseph's (W)
109. Vermont (W)
116. South Dakota
124. Princeton
151. UMass (W)
163. Davidson
170. Drexel (W)
181. Columbia
196. Brown
268. Yale
293. Toledo (W)
300. Bucknell (W)
311. Dartmouth
333. Penn
338. Bryant
NR- Clarkson (D-III)
NR- PSU-Erie (D-III)
- Below are links to our game recaps from each of Cornell's games this season. Associated press recaps courtesy of Rivals.com/YahooSports.com are always available by clicking on Cornell's schedule/results on the right column of this blog.
- at Alabama (W 71-67)
- at UMass (W 74-61)
- vs. Seton Hall (L 79-89)
- at Syracuse (L 73-88)
- Toledo (Phil.) (W 78-60)
- Vermont (Phil.) (W 67-59)
- at Drexel (W 61-54)
- at Bucknell (W 104-98)
- vs. St. Joseph's (W 78-66)
- Below, check out results and upcoming action around the Ivy League. (click here for a composite Ivy League schedule) (Click here for a TV schedule of Ivy League games.
Yale 86 Sacred Heart 92 (Connecticut Six) Box Score - Recap
Brown 68 St. Francis (N.Y.) 64 Box Score - Recap
Dartmouth 58 Boston College 89 Box Score - Recap
Harvard 87 Holy Cross 77 Box Score - Recap
Penn 55 Penn State 70 Box Score - Recap
Saturday, November 14
Princeton 71 Central Michigan 68 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 71 Alabama 67 Box Score - Recap
Sunday, November 15
Brown 55 Virginia Tech 69 Box Score - Recap
William & Mary 85 Harvard 87 (3OT) Box Score - Recap
Dartmouth 44 George Mason 60 Box Score - Recap
Monday, November 16
Yale 63 Hofstra 68 (NIT at Storrs CT) Box Score - Recap
Penn 65 Villanova 103 Box Score - Recap
Tuesday, November 17
Yale 65 Colgate 55 (NIT Storrs CT) Box Score - Recap
Columbia53 DePaul 59 [SNY] Box Score - Recap
Wednesday, November 18
Rhode Island 78 Brown 57 Box Score - Recap
Manhattan 54 Princeton 61 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 74 UMass 61 Box Score - Recap
Friday, November 20
Brown 76 St. John's 79 Box Score - Recap
Longwood 61 Columbia 72 Box Score - Recap
Seton Hall 89 Cornell 79 Box Score - Recap
Bryant 51 Harvard 77 Box Score - Recap
Saturday, November 21
Army 56 Princeton 52 Box Score - Recap
Dartmouth 60 Furman 83 Box Score - Recap
Delaware 97 Penn 94 2OT Box Score - Recap
Quinnipiac 71 Yale 64 Box Score - Recap
Sunday, November 22
Maine 62 Brown 75 Box Score - Recap
Monday, November 23
Harvard 53 Army 56 Box Score - Recap
Charlotte 88. Yale 74 NIT Box Score - Recap
Tuesday, November 24
Princeton 50 George Washington 65 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 73 Syracuse 88 Box Score - Recap
Loyola (Md.) 58 Dartmouth 41 Box Score - Recap
Bucknell 59 Columbia 73 Box Score - Recap
Drexel 58 Penn 49 Box Score - Recap
Elon 65 Yale 69 NIT Box Score - Recap
Wednesday, November 25
Brown 70 Bryant 68 Box Score - Recap
New Hampshire 60 Harvard 78 Box Score - Recap
Friday, November 27
Cornell 78. Toledo 60 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Brown 79 Siena 99 (Philadelphia Hoops Classic) Box Score - Recap
Yale 48 Army 64 Box Score - Recap
Hartford 56 Dartmouth 68 Box Score - Recap
Saturday, November 28
Cornell 67 Vermont 59 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Brown 79 Siena 99 (Philadelphia Hoops Classic) Box Score - Recap
Yale 48 Army 64 Box Score - Recap
Hartford 56 Dartmouth 68 Box Score - Recap
Sunday, November 29
Cornell 61 Drexel 54 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Harvard 78 Boston U. 70 Box Score - Recap
Princeton 60 California 81 [CSN California] Box Score - Recap
Monday, November 30
Columbia 55 Sacred Heart 60 Box Score - Recap
Tuesday, December 1
Vermont 63 Dartmouth 58 Box Score - Recap
Wednesday, December 2
Holy Cross 85 Brown 79 (OT) Box Score - Recap
Cornell 104 Bucknell 98 (OT) Box Score - Recap
Yale 48 Hartford 46 Box Score - Recap
Rice 64 Harvard 85 Box Score - Recap
Thursday, December 3
Lehigh 75 Columbia 70 Box Score - Recap
Princeton 44 Rutgers 58 Box Score - Recap
Friday, December 4
Penn 67 Navy 73 [CBS College Sports] Box Score - Recap
Saturday, December 5
Columbia 60 Stony Brook 63 Box Score - Recap
Brown 55 Minnesota 91 Box Score - Recap
Sunday, December 6
Harvard 73 UConn 79 [SNY/ESPN Fullcourt] Box Score - Recap
Lafayette 48 Princeton 62 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 78 St. Joseph's (PA) 66 Box Score - Recap
Monday, December 7
Brown 62 Providence 78 Box Score - Recap
Vermont 72 Yale 60 Box Score - Recap
Tuesday, December 8
Columbia 102 Wagner 91 Box Score - Recap
Albany 78 Penn 60 Box Score - Recap
Wednesday, December 9
Harvard 74 Boston College 67 Box Score - Recap
Bryant 54 Yale 69 Box Score - Recap
Saturday, December 12
Columbia at Bryant, 1 pm
Army at Dartmouth, 7 pm
Penn at Monmouth, 7 pm
Sunday, December 13
Princeton at UNC Greensboro, 1 pm
Lyndon State at Dartmouth, 7 pm
Wednesday, December 16
Monmouth at Princeton, 7 pm
Thursday, December 17
Dartmouth at Lehigh, 7 pm
Sunday, December 20
Cornell vs. Davidson, Noon [MSG Holiday Festival, Fox Sports Atlantic/MSG]
Dartmouth at New Hampshire, 1 pm
Princeton at Maine, 3 pm
Monday, December 21
Yale at Providence, 7 pm
Cornell vs. St. John's/Hofstra, 7/9 pm [MSG Holiday Festival, Fox Sports Atlantic/MSG]
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