Get all the information you need about the Cornell Big Red's game at Penn State tonight, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 with The Cornell Basketball Blog's Game Preview Center. Below, some news and notes for Wednesday...
- Our Tweets of the Day from the world of Cornell Basketball on the twittersphere.
- Below, Penn State's ComRadio previews the Cornell-Penn State game for tonight.
- SB Nation writes, "The Penn St. Nittany Lions will play their final non-conference game on 2011-12 on Wednesday as they host the Cornell Big Red. Penn State is coming off an easy win against Mount St. Mary's and currently hold a 7-5 record. The Big Red aren't faring quite so well in the young season, with a 4-5 record after dropping a game against No. 24 Illinois on Monday. Lions guard Tim Frazier is a player to keep an eye on in the game. According to the official Penn State Athletics website, Frazier is the only NCAA Division I player averaging over 17 points and seven rebounds per game. He was named as a candidate for the Bob Cousy Award on Monday. The game will begin at 7:30 PM ET on Wednesday, December 21 at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, PA. You can watch the game on the Big Ten Network or listen to the game on Penn State Sports Network 1450 AM or on Sirius 131."
- IllinoisHQ writes, "...There was another brief negative barrage at home Monday, when Bruce Weber called time with Cornell leading 42-36. The Illini, who trailed by 10 earlier, caught up at 32-32 but shot 1 of 12 to start the second half, and it didn't look good. But to its credit, the home assemblage was in full voice when the timeout ended, and Weber's up-and-down team responded. The Illini needed every bit of the Assembly Hall advantage to quell Cornell's Big Red uprising, 64-60... The 82-75 verdict against Gonzaga stands as the UI's best performance but was followed by extended stretches of mediocrity: Illinois trailed St. Bonaventure 39-30; Coppin State climbed within 59-57 with 7:00 to go; UNLV rolled 64-48 Saturday; and Cornell led 48-44 before Brandon Paul and D.J. Richardson drained six clutch jumpers in the last 7:38."
- St. Louis Today writes, "Challenged at home by St. Bonaventure, Coppin State and Cornell, Illinois has refused to fold, and maintained a No. 25 ranking... [Brandon] Paul has shown an ability to take over games down the stretch, making all of the big plays that produced the win over St. Bonaventure and several key buckets against Cornell."
- The New York Post notes that Ryan Woerner, an assistant coach at SUNY New Paltz and former assistant coach at Xavier High School in New York was an "intern with the Cornell men’s basketball team that went to the Sweet 16 in 2009-10"
- The Steel Bottom blog reports, "The Springfield Armor announced today that they have waived Michael Sturns to make room for the return of center Jeff Foote. The current Armor roster stands at 10. Foote returns to the Armor after a stint in the Portland Trail Blazers’ training camp. Foote, who was acquired from the NBA D-League available player pool on Nov. 29, played in two games with the Armor (one start) and averaged 16.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 32.5 minutes. Foote will be available when the Armor travel to Bismarck, ND to take on the Dakota Wizards on Thursday, Dec. 22 at 9:00 PM EST."
- From our regular series A Date in Cornell Basketball History, above a front page of a December 17, 1953 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun featuring a basketball article by the late Dick Schaap (Cornell '55). Schaap passed away ten years ago today.
- Game Recaps-Below are links to our game recap sections from each of Cornell's games this season.
- November 11, 2011 at St. Bonaventure L 58-79
- November 14, 2011 vs. Binghamton W 76-61
- November 16, 2011 at Buffalo L 59-68
- November 20, 2011 vs. Boston University W 71-66
- November 22, 2011 at Delaware L 68-76
- November 27, 2011 vs. American L 63-65
- December 3, 2011 vs. Lehigh W 81-79 (OT)
- December 17, 2011 vs. Albany W 85-82 (OT)
- December 19, 2011 at Illinois L 60-64
- Cornell RPI Watch: The RPI (Rating Percentage Index) is a measure of strength of schedule and how a team does against that schedule. It does not consider the margin of victory, but only whether or not a team won and where the game was played (home/away/neutral court). The formula is 25% team winning percentage (WP), 50% opponents' average winning percentage (OWP), and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage (OOWP). (See: CollegeRPI.com for a further explanation of the formula.) The RPI may be the most influential factor in NCAA Tournament seeding. Cornell's RPI rank as of December 21 is No. 179 out of 344 total Division I teams. While neither the Ken Pomeroy or Jeff Sagarin rankings are used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, the KenPom.com site ranks Cornell No. 168 in the nation, while the USA Today Sagarin rankings have Cornell at No. 203. Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.
- Here is a look at Ivy League results and upcoming games. A full Ivy composite schedule may viewed by clicking here.
Friday, November 11
Johnson & Wales 66 Brown 86 (Box Score - Recap)
Columbia 57 Connecticut 70[ESPNU] (Box Score - Recap)
Cornell 58 St. Bonaventure 79 (Box Score - Recap)
MIT 49 Harvard 76 (Box Score - Recap)
Dartmouth 56 Rutgers 62 (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 59 Maryland-Baltimore County 45 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 73 Central Connecticut State 69 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, November 12
Wagner 73 Princeton 57 (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, November 14
Albany 77 Brown 68 (NIT Tip-Off-1st Round@Syracuse, N.Y.)[ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Temple 73 Penn 67 OT (Box Score - Recap)
Furman 58 Columbia 62 (Box Score - Recap)
Binghamton 61 Cornell 76 (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, November 15
Harvard 73 Holy Cross 64 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 62 Quinnipiac 68 [SNY] (Box Score - Recap)
Brown 52 Manhattan 54 NIT Tip Consolation@Syracuse, N.Y. [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, November 16
Cornell 59 Buffalo 68 (Box Score - Recap)
Vermont 65 Dartmouth 53 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 58 North Carolina State 60 [ESPNU] (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, November 17
Penn 78 Rider 72 OT (Box Score - Recap)
Lyndon State 37 Yale 101 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, November 19
Buffalo 53 Princeton 61 (Box Score - Recap)
Hartford 52 Brown 59 (Box Score - Recap)
American 66 Columbia 58 (Box Score - Recap)
Bryant 62 Dartmouth 66 (Box Score - Recap)
Robert Morris 60 Penn 66 (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 77 Loyola Marymount 67 (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, November 20
Boston University 66 Cornell 71 (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, November 20
Boston University 66 Cornell 71 (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, November 21
Brown 48 George Mason 74 (NIT Consolation Fairfax, VA) (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, November 22
Brown 79 Monmouth 71 (NIT Consolation Fairfax, VA) (Box Score - Recap)
Columbia 53 Stony Brook 67 (Box Score - Recap)
Cornell 64 Delaware 72 (Box Score - Recap)
Wagner 71 Penn 65 (Box Score - Recap)
Elon 56 Princeton 55 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 62 Seton Hall 73 (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, November 24
Dartmouth 69 San Francisco 71 (Great Alaska Shootout) (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 75 Utah 47 [HDNet] (Battle 4 Atlantis Bahamas) (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, November 25
Dartmouth 64 vs. Alaska-Anchorage 52(Great Alaska Shootout) (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 46 Florida State 41 [VERSUS] (Battle 4 Atlantis Bahamas) (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 56 Bucknell 62 (Legends Classic, Lewisberg, PA) (Box Score - Recap)
Pittsburgh 78 Penn 58 [TCN] (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, November 26
Yale 84 Army 75 (Box Score - Recap)
Columbia 59 Manhattan 41 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 56 Morehead State 68 (Legends Classic, Lewisberg, PA) (Box Score - Recap)
James Madison 60 Penn 58 [TCN] (Philly Hoop Group Classic) (Box Score - Recap)
Dartmouth 48 Western Michigan 65 (Great Alaska Shootout) (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 59 Central Florida 49 [VERSUS] (Battle 4 Atlantis Bahamas) (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, November 27
Brown 64 Sacred Heart 77 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 66 West Alabama 66 (Legends Classic, Lewisberg, PA) (Box Score - Recap)
American 65 Cornell 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, November 28
Swarthmore 42 Columbia 104 (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, November 29
Manhattan 72 Penn 75 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 74 Hartford 69 (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, November 30
Dartmouth 50 New Hampshire 53 (Box Score - Recap)
Lafayette 69 Princeton 54 (Box Score - Recap)
Rhode Island 56 Brown 65 [myRITV] (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, December 1
Harvard 55 Vermont 48 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, December 2
Columbia 69 Loyola Marymount 61 (LA Westside Centennial Classic) (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, December 3
Vermont 52 Yale 68 (Box Score - Recap)
Brown 54 Iowa 75 (Box Score - Recap)
Lehigh 79 Cornell 81 (OT) (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 65 Villanova 73 [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Columbia 72 North Texas 57 (Box Score - Recap) (LA Westside Centennial Classic)
Sunday, December 4
Columbia 78 La Sierra 56 (Box Score - Recap) (LA Westside Centennial Classic)
Seattle 70 Harvard 80 (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, December 5
Brown 49 Providence 80 [ESPN3/SNY] (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 73 Sacred Heart 71 (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, December 6
Holy Cross 45 Columbia 46 (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, December 7
Delaware 60 Penn 69 (Box Score - Recap)
New Hampshire 69 Brown 56 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 59 Rutgers 57 (Box Score - Recap)
Bryant 59 Yale 76 (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, December 8
Harvard 53 Connecticut 67 [ESPN2] (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, December 10
Central Connecticut State 80 Brown 90 (Box Score - Recap)
Long Island 53 Columbia 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 76 Boston University 52 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 60 Drexel 64 (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 73 UCLA 77 [DirecTV] (Box Score - Recap)
Dartmouth 47 Notre Dame 65 [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, December 13
Dartmouth 51 IPFW 56 (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, December 14
Princeton 72 Rider 71 OT (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, December 17
Elon 54 Dartmouth 62 (Box Score - Recap)
Albany 82 Cornell 85 OT (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, December 18
Princeton 71 Northeastern 62 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 68 Rhode Island 65 [COX RI] (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, December 19
Cornell 60 Illinois 64 [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Dartmouth 55 Colgate 61 OT (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, December 21
Dartmouth at Army, 7 pm
Cornell at Penn State, 7:30 pm [Big Ten Network]
Thursday, December 22
Florida Atlantic at Harvard, 7 pm
Princeton at Siena, 7 pm
Friday, December 23
Maine at Brown, 2 pm
Dartmouth at Albany, 2 pm
Marist at Penn, 7 pm
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