News and Notes

Below, some news and notes...

• In Ivy League roster report news, Brown sophomore, Stefan Kaluz has left the team.

• Below, some notes from Cornell's weekend action during the Legends Classic.
  

1. While Max Groebe appeared in the subregional opener against Toledo on Firday, Groebe stayed in the team's hotel on Saturday when Cornell faced Vermont. Groebe is reportedly battling flu like symptoms. He did attend the third game on Sunday against Drexel, but did not dress.
   
2. Alex Tyler missed both the Vermont and Drexel games with a hamstring injury which will keep him out (as a precautionary measure) until the Holiday Classic on December 20 in Madison Square Garden. While Tyler could play this week, if pressed, the team does not want to risk further injury and losing him for Ivy League play.
3. Class of '09 alums, Conor Mullen and Khalig Gant both attended Cornell's win over Drexel on Sunday, as did Randy Wittman, father of Cornell's Ryan Wittman. The elder Wittman, currently an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards, hopes to attend roughly five more games this season.
4. Cornell red-shirt transfer, Anthony Gatlin attended all three games in Philadelphia as a spectator.
5. At the conclusion of the Legends Classic, the Gazelle Group held a trophy presentation ceremony and awarded Jon Jacques and Ryan Wittman a place on the All-Tournament teams. Wittman was MVP. Jacques had priceless shock expression on his face when he won the award and nobody in the gym applauded louder than coach Steve Donahue when Jon's name was announced.
   

• Folowing Cornell's win over Drexel on Sunday, Jon Tannenwald, a Penn alum and blogger for Philly.com asked Drexel head coach Bruiser Flint how Cornell stacks up against the better Penn teams he's faced. Flint responded, "They're not as athletic as those guys. Penn always had two or three guys who athletically were just - and that's why they dominated. They don't have an Archibong or an Onyekwe, or a Michael Jordan. They're a good team, but athletically, Penn was just a little bit better. What [the Big Red] do, they do well. They run their offense, they shoot the hell out of the ball, they make good passes. They're a good team in that respect."

• RushTheCourt.net notes that Cornell's win over UMass could be a pivotal game come tournament selection time. The site writes, "The Minutemen had a great opportunity to get a leg up on the Ivy League power, but stumbled badly with a 13 point home loss to the Big Red."

• The Cornell Daily Sun ran a late story on Cornell's defeat at Syracuse on November 24.
  

• Cornell's Adam Wire gets mention in his hometown newspaper, The Pilot. The article notes:

Wire Continues to Contribute

Pinecrest graduate Adam Wire is continuing to contribute to what may go down in history as the golden era of men's basketball at Cornell University.

The Big Red is off to a 3-2 start in a season that will be marked by a bid to win its third Ivy League title in a row. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound junior forward from Southern Pines provides a unique range of skills off the bench that complement a strong offensive team. As a sophomore, he led his team in steals and was third in the league while averaging 14 minutes of action per game.

Wire saw only brief action as the Ithaca, N.Y. college opened the season with a 71-67 victory at Alabama, the program's first win over an SEC team in 37 years. Then in a 74-61 win against Massachusetts, Cornell's first-ever over that school, he scored seven points, grabbed seven rebounds and handed out two assists.

The former all-conference player for the Patriots went 5-for-5 from the field and scored 11 points to go with five boards in an 89-79 loss at home against Seton Hall. The Big Red suffered an 88-73 loss at Syracuse on Wednesday before defeating Toledo 78-60 in Philadelphia Friday afternoon.

Below, recent results and upcoming action around the Ivy League. (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 78 Brown 57 Box Score - Recap
Manhattan 54 Princeton 61 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 74 UMass 61 Box Score - Recap

Friday, November 20
Brown 76 St. John's 79 Box Score - Recap
Longwood 61 Columbia 72 Box Score - Recap
Seton Hall 89 Cornell 79 Box Score - Recap
Bryant 51 Harvard 77 Box Score - Recap

Saturday, November 21
Army 56 Princeton 52 Box Score - Recap
Dartmouth 60 Furman 83 Box Score - Recap
Delaware 97 Penn 94 2OT Box Score - Recap
Quinnipiac 71 Yale 64 Box Score - Recap

Sunday, November 22
Maine 62 Brown 75 Box Score - Recap

Monday, November 23
Harvard 53 Army 56 Box Score - Recap
Charlotte 88. Yale 74 NIT Box Score - Recap

Tuesday, November 24
Princeton 50 George Washington 65 Box Score - Recap
Cornell 73 Syracuse 88 Box Score - Recap
Loyola (Md.) 58 Dartmouth 41 Box Score - Recap
Bucknell 59 Columbia 73 Box Score - Recap
Drexel 58 Penn 49 Box Score - Recap
Elon 65 Yale 69 NIT Box Score - Recap

Wednesday, November 25
Brown 70 Bryant 68 Box Score - Recap
New Hampshire 60 Harvard 78 Box Score - Recap

Friday, November 27
Cornell 78. Toledo 60 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Brown 69 Univ. of the Sciences 48 (Philadelphia Hoops Classic) Box Score
Columbia 60 Syracuse 85 Box Score - Recap

Saturday, November 28
Cornell 67 Vermont 59 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Brown 79 Siena 99 (Philadelphia Hoops Classic) Box Score - Recap
Yale 48 Army 64 Box Score - Recap
Hartford 56 Dartmouth 68 Box Score - Recap

Sunday, November 29
Cornell 61 Drexel 54 (Legends Classic at Philadelphia, Pa.) Box Score - Recap
Harvard 78 Boston U. 70 Box Score - Recap
Princeton 60 California 81 [CSN California] Box Score - Recap

Monday, November 30
Columbia at Sacred Heart, 7 pm

Tuesday, December 1
Vermont at Dartmouth, 7 pm

Wednesday, December 2
Holy Cross at Brown, 7 pm
Cornell at Bucknell, 7 pm
Yale at Hartford, 7 pm
Rice at Harvard, 8 pm

Thursday, December 3
Lehigh at Columbia, 7 pm
Princeton at Rutgers, 7:30 pm

Friday, December 4
Penn at Navy, 7 pm [CBS College Sports]

Saturday, December 5
Columbia at Stony Brook, 2 pm
Brown at Minnesota, 3:30 pm

Sunday, December 6
Harvard vs. UConn, 1 pm
Lafayette at Princeton, 5 pm
Cornell vs. St. Joseph's (PA), 2 pm