News and Notes: Around the Ivy League (Updated with Breaking News)

Above, Mark Coury (No. 42), a Kentucky transfer joins Cornell for the 2009-2010 season. Below, some news and notes around the Ivy League.

• The big news of the day is Columbia's head coach Joe Jones revealing at the Ivy Media Day that seven-foot transfer center, Max Craig is likely out for the entire first semester with a leg injury.

• Also noteworthy, Brown lost a player from its roster with Sean Kane dropping off the team's official website. Kane appeared in 18 games and averaged 8 minutes per game. For our updated report on the Ivy League's roster sizes for the '09-'10 and '10-'11 seasons, click here.
  

• The Harvard Crimson is running a fantasy ranking of Ivy League players.

• The Harvard Crimson also reports on Harvard's first practice and Tommy Amaker's coaching clinic. The article discloses minor injuries to Andrew Van Nest and Pat Magnarelli. Both players missed all of last year due to season ending injuries.

• Notes from a Basketball Junkie agrees with CollegeHoopsNet.com that Cornell could win a first round game in the NCAA Tournament.

• DePaul, winless in the Big East conference a year ago, announced that is November 17 game against Columbia will be broadcast on Lake Shore Public Television. Click here for other televised Ivy games.

• Columbia Athletics, Dartmouth Athletics, Penn Athletics and Yale Athletics, have all posted stories on the Ivy League media poll, while Harvard Athletics added some quotes. The Ivy office add a audio file for those interested in listening to the conference. The Ithaca Journal also covered the media poll results and wrote:

Cornell unanimously picked by media to three-peat as Ivy champs

PRINCETON, N.J. -- It's been all about the accolades for the Cornell Class of 2010. As sophomores, they carried the Big Red to its second-ever Ivy title -- first in 20 years -- en route to a perfect 14-0 League campaign, program-best 22 wins and a myriad of other school records. A year ago, as juniors, they did not disappoint, helping Cornell become the first non-Penn or Princeton team in Ivy history to repeat as outright champions. Today, before even stepping onto the court as seniors, they are back at it, as the Big Red have been unanimously chosen first in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll for the second consecutive season. Princeton, Penn and Harvard were picked to finish second, third and fourth, respectively.

Cornell (21-10, 11-3 Ivy) was the overwhelming favorite among 16 Ivy media members after returning all five starters, three All-Ivy selections, and the Ivy Rookie and Defensive Players of the Year from a team that repeated as league champs a season ago. The Big Red lose emotional leader Adam Gore to graduation but head coach Steve Donahue will rely on a veteran senior class that is led by the All-Ivy duo of Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale.