Cornell Basketball in the News

So, Penn alums want to move to the ACC? Hmmm. Maybe Penn should actually concentrate on actually becoming decent in athletics before it aspires to move to more competitive conferences. Well of course, this year Penn has Ivy champions in men's soccer and in men's fencing, a sport in which two Ivy schools don't even compete, including Cornell. And that about does it for Penn's champions during 2008-2009.

Penn did not do any better last year either, winning just 3 Ivy League team titles in women's squash, women's lacrosse, and women's soccer. Meawhile, Cornell won 8 team titles a year ago, including men's basketball, wrestling, and men's lacrosse. This year, Cornell already has four Ivy titles (men's basketball, wrestling, men's indoor track, women's indoor track) and is the favorite to win win a couple more in the spring (men's lacrosse, men's outdoor track, women's outdoor track and with other solid contenders in baseball, softball and rowing).

Well, the Daily Pennsylvanian is now doing its best to hype up a Penn sports team. The DP writes:

So, you're a Penn sports fan.

Tough sledding, eh?

No football titles since 2003, the worst basketball season in nearly two decades, and if Glen Miller has to wish one more departing hoopster "well on his future endeavors," you might just burst out of your Red and Blue Crew T-shirt like some sort of Incredible Ivy League Hulk. (Oxymoron?)

The way I see it, you have two options: On the one hand, you could curse the successes of rivals Cornell and Villanova, marvel at how unspeakably cool 'Nova coach Jay Wright is and sharpen your pitchfork for the athletic department's April 26"town hall" meeting on the state of men's basketball.

Or, there's door number two: Hop on the bandwagon of the national powerhouse hiding among us, the best program of its kind on the East Coast, the Sovereigns of Stick, the Fiends of Franklin, the Caesars of Spruce Street, the Inspiration for Insufferable Idioms.

Behold women's lacrosse, the best - and, quite possibly, only - show in town.