News and Notes: Red-White Game Date Confirmed

Below, some Cornell Basketball news and notes.

• Sources close to the situation confirmed that Cornell will host its annual Red-White Game, a public intersquad scrimmage on October 24 at 4:30 p.m. There is no confirmation as to the extent of electronic media coverage, but the game may be streamed over the internet via either WVBR (audio-only) or possibly even audio and video via RedCast. Barry Leonard, the voice of Big Red Basketball, will likely handle the arena's PA duties for the game.

• Cornell will announce a hiring of a third assistant coach before the commencement of practices on October 16.

• ESPN and Sagarin released a historical computer ranking of nation's top Division I basketball programs, calculating results from the 1930s through the present. Here is how some of the Division I teams finished.

1. Kentucky
19. Utah
23. Syracuse
26. DePaul
31. Temple
39. Bradley
44. Western Kentucky
45. Alabama-Birmingham
53. Saint Louis
54. UConn
64. Florida
67. Duquesne
69. Miami (Oh.)
75. San Francisco
77. Northwestern
79. Santa Clara
81. Wichita State
83. Toledo
84. Southern Illinois
85. Princeton
87. Penn
100. Holy Cross
127. Gonzaga
146. Navy
157. UMass
166. Nevada
174. Davidson
179. Cornell
185. Yale
190. William & Mary
192. Columbia
198. Army
200. Lafayette
203. Siena
206. Centenary
211. American
217. Dartmouth
218. NC-Wilmington
220. Boston U.
232. Bucknell
235. Colgate
236. Harvard
246. Brown
255. Drexel
275. Vermont
312. Lehigh
316. Albany
330. Binghamton

• Finally, out of bounds, we are pleased to note that another member of the Cornell family wins a Nobel Prize. Jack Szostak PhD '77, shares the prize in medicine as announced this week.