Two More Cornell Games Set for Television

Cornell Athletics issued a press release noting that two Cornell men's basketball games will be televised on Time Warner Sports. The release states in part:

The two-time defending Ivy League champion men's basketball team, directed by head coach Steve Donahue, will have its season opener against Seton Hall on Nov. 20 and its Ivy League home opener vs. Columbia on Jan. 16 televised. The 2008-09 Big Red posted a 21-10 mark, claimed its second straight Ivy League title with an 11-3 record and became the first Ivy League school other than Penn or Princeton to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in consecutive years. Cornell set team records for points (2,281), 3-pointers (241) and blocked shots (121) this past season. The Big Red will return all five starters, including two-time first-team all-league selections Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman and reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Jeff Foote, as well as eight of the team's top nine scorers for the 2009-10 campaign. The Big Red will meet the Pirates with a 21-game home win streak on the line in front of the Newman Nation fans. That mark enters the 2009-10 campaign as the third-longest in the country. Cornell faces Columbia sporting a 15-game Ivy League home win streak.

Below is a list of the games involving Ivy League teams that The Cornell Basketball Blog has identified as nationally televised games during 2009-2010. Additional games will likely be added to this list.

• November 20-Seton Hall at Cornell-Time Warner Sports
• November 24-Cornell at Syracuse-ESPN360
• December 6-Harvard at UConn-MyTV9/SNY
• December 20-Cornell vs. Davidson (Madison Square Garden)-MSG Network
• December 21-Cornell vs. St.John's or Hofstra (Madison Square Garden)-MSG Network
• December 29-Yale at Colorado-FSN Rocky Mountains
• December 30-Dartmouth at Quinnipiac-NESN
• December 31-Penn at Duke-ESPN2
• January 6-Cornell at Kansas-ESPN Full Court
• January 16-Columbia at Cornell-Time Warner Sports
  
• February 19-Yale at Princeton-ESPNU

All of Cornell's home games are broadcast with live video and audio over the internet through Cornell's Redcast while most Ivy League teams offer similar video feeds for single game purchase.

Below are links to the Ivy League schedules:

• Cornell will play 31 games, including two Division III games (PSU Behrend and Clarkson).
• Brown will play 31 games, including two non-Division I opponents (Keene State and Philadelphia Sciences).
• Columbia will play 28 games.
• Dartmouth will play 28 games, including one Division III game (Lyndon State).
  
• Harvard will play 28 games, including one Division III game (MIT).
• Penn will play 28 games.
  
• Princeton will play 28 games, including one Division III opponent (Goucher College).
• Yale will play 31 games, including one Division III game (Albert Magnus).

(edited 10.10.09)