News and Notes

Below, some news and notes...

• Members of the Northfield Mount Hermon School (Northfield, Massachusetts) basketball team and their coach, John Carroll will attend Cornell's game tonight against UMass in Amherst.

• Penn's Tyler Bernardini is on crutches according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
  

• Dick Jerardi of the Philadelphia Daily News writes, "Steve Donahue has really given his Cornell team a challenging schedule as it goes for its third consecutive Ivy title. The Big Red opened at Alabama and won, 71-67. Get a few more like that, win that Ivy title again and Cornell might get an NCAA seed that gives them a realistic shot at a first-round upset. Former VCU head coach and Florida assistant Anthony Grant was coaching his first game at Alabama. That probably was not what he envisioned."

• The Independent Florida Alligator writes, "Mississippi State, Alabama and Georgia got a taste of the giant killers’ potential, as they dropped their season openers to Rider, Cornell and Wofford, respectively."

• Jason King of YahooSports writes:

Q: What team has suffered the worst loss thus far?

A: Iowa’s 62-50 home loss to Texas-San Antonio was brutal – especially since it didn’t even feel like an upset. Four players – including starters Jake Kelly and Jeff Peterson – transferred from the Hawkeyes program after last season. Other attention-grabbers: Cornell over Alabama, Missouri State over Auburn, Cal State Fullerton over UCLA, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi over Oregon State and Rider over Mississippi State (although I’m not going to read too much into that one, considering the Bulldogs played without Renardo Sidney and John Riek).

• After falling to Cornell 71-67 on Saturday, last night Alabama picked up a win over SWAC preseason favorite, Jackson State, winning 86-69.

• The Boston Herald writes, "UMass lost its opener at Central Florida and will look to rebound tonight at home against Cornell." The Herald addresses five questions facing the Minutemen this season.

• Below, a look at recent and upcoming Ivy action. (click here for a composite Ivy League schedule)
  

Friday, November 13
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 at Brown, 7 pm
Manhattan at Princeton, 7 pm
Cornell at UMass, 7:30 pm [online video from UMass available]

Friday, November 20
Brown at St. John's, 7 pm
Longwood at Columbia, 7 pm
Seton Hall at Cornell, 7 pm [SNY/Time Warner Cable Sports]
Bryant at Harvard, 7 pm