Get all the information you need about the Cornell Big Red's games vs. Penn (Friday, February 17, 7 pm) and Princeton (Saturday, February 18, 6 pm), with The Cornell Basketball Blog's Game Preview Center. Below, some news and notes for Friday...- An NBA D-League All Star, Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) and his Springfield Armor are back in action tonight against Iowa. All D-League games are broadcast online via Futurecast on the league website. The D-League All Star game is February 25 at 2 pm and will be broadcast on NBA TV. In action last night in the first of two consecutive games against Iowa, Foote finished with 15 points and 8 rebounds and 1 block. "This is one of the most contentious games I've ever been a part of, I'm from the Ivy League and we're not used to this,'' Foote told the Springfield Republican and the media. See additional recaps on Nets are Scorching and Nets Daily. Below, Foote talks about his rookie season, All-Star selection, and New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin.
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- The next Cornell Rebounders Club luncheon is February 21.
- Visit The Cornell Basketball Blog's updated profiles of Cornell's five committed recruits from the classes of 2012 and 2013: Robert Mischler (Mishawaka HS) Marian, IN, 6-2, G, Braxston Bunce (Kelowna Secondary School) Kelowna, BC, Canada, 6-11, Holt Harmon (Plano West HS), Plano, TX, 6-9, F; Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012) and Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013).
- Previewing the upcoming WPIAL playoffs in western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Post Tribune writes of the head to head match up of the region's two leading scorers, including Cornell recruit, Nolan Cressler:
When it comes to their local basketball legacies, Highlands' Micah Mason and Plum's Nolan Cressler belong on an Alle-Kiski Valley greatest hits album. The star guards — and top two scorers in the WPIAL — have undoubtedly cemented their places among the area's best. But some of the all-time greats left their marks in the playoffs, on the WPIAL's biggest and brightest stage. Both Mason and Cressler have had outstanding senior seasons. Both broke their school's scoring records and have numerous individual accolades. Both are headed to Division I colleges — Mason to Drake and Cressler to Cornell. But both would prefer playoff success over regular-season accolades. "I have thought about that more than I can explain," Cressler said. "Good players are remembered, yes, but a lot of it is based on what they did or didn't do in the postseason. Some of the best to come out of this area haven't done it in the playoffs." ...Cressler, who is averaging 25.4 points, has played in just three playoff games, including two last season. He had 29 points in a 53-51 preliminary-round win over Latrobe, and 23 in a 70-45 loss to Shaler in the first round. But this could be the year the experienced Mustangs break through. Led by Cressler, Plum has soared into the Class AAAA playoffs on a four-game winning streak, which includes victories over two of the top-ranked teams in the WPIAL — Woodland Hills and defending champion Gateway. Plum could get another shot at top-seeded Shaler (20-2) should the Mustangs get past Kiski Area.
- Previewing the weekend action around the Ivy League, the Harvard Crimson writes:
Though the defeat [to Princeton] will hurt its potential NCAA seed, Harvard is still in good shape for the league championship. With a one-game lead and four of its last six at home (where it hasn’t lost in its last 25 games)—and the other two contests at beatable Cornell and Columbia—the Crimson is still the favorite to win its first outright Ivy title ever. But for a team with larger aspirations—a squad that is talented enough to win games in the NCAA tournament—there is still a lot that needs to be improved...
CORNELL (10-12, 5-3) AT PENN (13-11, 5-2)-Zack Rosen versus Chris Wroblewski. The battle of the senior, redheaded, Jewish ballers. It’s going down like a dreidel after too many spins, an overly-dense matzo ball, or some Manischewitz after a long, hard day. Because after Lin (okay, I mentioned him again) proved this month that Ivy-educated Asian-Americans can indeed play, it’s up to these two to do the same for the Ancient Eight’s Jews. The nation will be watching. Don’t let us down, gentlemen. You’re our best hope.Pick: Penn 75, Cornell 67
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CORNELL AT PRINCETON-There have been a lot of great players to come out of these two programs recently, and many of them have found success playing ball elsewhere. Because while not all Ivy Leaguers are lucky enough to be the talk of the country and the biggest story of the NBA season (you don’t know that’s who I’m referring to!) it is certainly possible to continue one’s playing career around the world. For example, Kareem Maddox is playing in Holland. Dan Mavraides is playing in Greece. Louis Dale is playing in Germany. Jeff Foote is playing in the NBADL. Ryan Wittman is playing in Poland. What’s that? Wittman’s still at Morgan Stanley? Well, never mind then. Pick: Princeton 65, Cornell 61
- The Yale Daily News refers to the roadtrip to Cornell as an "odyssey" and quoted Yale head coach James Jones as saying in reference to the Harvard-Dartmouth roadtrip, "It’s not as bad as the Cornell road trip...Back-to-back road trips are tough. That’s the nature of the beast [playing in the Ivy League].”
- In discussing Harvard [before the Crimson lost to Princeton last Saturday], CBS Sports wrote that the Crimson are incomplete and that "This isn’t [the] Cornell from a few years ago. It doesn’t have the size or consistent deep threats that team embodied."
- Also on Harvard, the Boston Globe writes, "The best-case scenario for [Tommy] Amaker is that the final weekend of games - at Columbia and Cornell - will not mean anything in terms of the NCAA bid."
- Steve Donahue told the Philadelphia Inquirer on the recruitment of Jeremy Lin, "Who could have envisioned this?... If someone wrote a movie and put this kid in it, nobody would ever believe it... We were interested, but that's not to say I thought he was going to be incredible. He was a good student and had some skills and looked like he had a good upside."
- The NY Daily News writes of Lin's continuing explosion on the NBA scene, "Jeremy Lin never seemed to have it this easy when the opposition was Cornell and Princeton."
- Yahoo writes that Lin had to overcome adversity in reaching the NBA because "He played basketball at an Ivy League school not named Cornell or Princeton."
- CNNSI.com discusses the comparison between Lin and Tim Tebow and writes, "Tebow also won something called the Heisman Trophy. Perhaps you've heard of it. As a senior at Harvard, Lin lost the Ivy League Player of the Year award to Ryan Wittman of Cornell."
- The Yale Daily News writes, "Lin’s Harvard education has raised the already burgeoning profile of Ivy League basketball. In tandem with Cornell’s run to the Sweet 16 in the 2010 NCAA Tournament and Harvard’s standing in the national rankings this season, Lin’s success has legitimized Ancient Eight basketball."
- 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
- December 21, 2011 at Penn State L 67-74
- December 28, 2011 at Stony Brook L 58-69 (OT)
- December 31, 2011 at Bucknell L 60-63
- January 3, 2012 at Maryland L 62-70
- January 7, 2012 vs. Albright W 78-60
- January 13, 2012 vs. Princeton W 67-59
- January 14, 2012 vs. Penn L 52-64
- January 21, 2012 at Columbia L 56-61
- January 28, 2012 vs. Columbia W 65-60
- February 3, 2012 at Harvard L 60-71
- February 4, 2012 at Dartmouth W 68-59
- February 10, 2012 vs. Yale W 85-84 OT
- February 11, 2012 vs. Brown W 72-63
- 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 February 17 is No. 176 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. 183 in the nation, while the USA Today Sagarin rankings have Cornell at No. 189 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 64 Army 67 (Box Score - Recap)
Cornell 67 Penn State 74 [Big Ten Network] (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, December 22
Florida Atlantic 51 Harvard 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Princeton 59 Siena 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, December 23
Maine 71 Brown 58 (Box Score - Recap)
Dartmouth 74 Albany 82 (Box Score - Recap)
Marist 71 Penn 84 (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, December 28
Columbia 59 Marist 79 (Box Score - Recap)
Cornell 59 Stony Brook 68 OT [Cablevision] (Box Score - Recap)
Thursday, December 29
Brown 49 St. Francis (N.Y.) 66 (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 67 Boston College 46 [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 70 Davidson 75 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 71 Wake Forest 72 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, December 30
Princeton 75 Florida State 73 (3OT) [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Lafayette 67 Columbia 77 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, December 31
Cornell 60 Bucknell 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Holy Cross 65 Dartmouth 61 (Box Score - Recap)
Yale 70 Florida 90 [ESPNU] (Box Score - Recap)
Saint Joseph’s 69 Harvard 74 (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, January 1
Princeton 76 Florida A&M 61 (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 55 Duke 85 [ESPNU] (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, January 2
American 70 Brown 61 (Box Score - Recap)
Fairleigh Dickinson 52 Columbia 67 (Box Score - Recap)
Tuesday, January 3
Bucknell 67 Dartmouth 59 (Box Score - Recap)
Harvard 54 Fordham 60 (Box Score - Recap)
Holy Cross 67 Yale 82 (Box Score - Recap)
Cornell 62 Maryland 70 [ESPN3] (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, January 4
Columbia 66 Colgate 59 (Box Score - Recap)
Penn 78 Lafayette 73 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, January 7
*Dartmouth 47 Harvard 63 (Box Score - Recap)
Albright 60 Cornell 78 (Box Score - Recap)
Sunday, January 8
Columbia 65 Elon 60 (Box Score - Recap)
The College of New Jersey 68 Princeton 79 (Box Score - Recap)
St. Joseph’s (N.Y.) 86 Yale 101 (Box Score)
Tuesday, January 10
Harvard 70 Monmouth 61 (Box Score - Recap)
La Salle 68 Penn 57 (Box Score - Recap)
Wednesday, January 11
Longwood 79 Brown 77 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, January 13
*Penn 66 Columbia 64 (Box Score - Recap)
*Princeton 59 Cornell 67 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, January 14
*Brown 64 Yale 68 (Box Score - Recap)
Longwood 67 Dartmouth 83 (Box Score - Recap)
George Washington 48 Harvard 69 (Box Score - Recap)
*Princeton 62 Columbia 58 (Box Score - Recap)
*Penn 52 Cornell 64 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, January 21
*Yale 73 Brown 60 (Box Score - Recap)
*Cornell 56 Columbia 61 (Box Score - Recap)
*Harvard 54 Dartmouth 38 (Box Score - Recap)
Saint Joseph’s 80 Penn 84 (Box Score - Recap)
Monday, January 23
Brown 67 Bryant 60 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, January 27
*Dartmouth 59 Brown 66 (Box Score - Recap)
*Harvard 65 Yale 35 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, January 28
*Harvard 68 Brown 59 (Box Score - Recap)
*Columbia 60 Cornell 65 (Box Score - Recap)
*Dartmouth 52 Yale 62 (Box Score - Recap)
*Princeton 67 Penn 82 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, February 3
*Princeton 77 Brown 63 (Box Score - Recap)
*Columbia 64 Dartmouth 62 (Box Score - Recap)
*Cornell 60 Harvard 71 (Box Score - Recap)
*Penn 53 Yale 60 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, February 4
*Penn 65 Brown 48 (Box Score - Recap)
*Columbia 52 Harvard 57 (Box Score - Recap)
*Cornell 68 Dartmouth 59 (Box Score - Recap)
*Princeton 54 Yale 58 (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, February 10
*Brown 60 Columbia 86 (Box Score - Recap)
*Yale 84 Cornell 85 (OT) Box Score - Recap
*Harvard 56 Penn 50 (Box Score - Recap)
*Dartmouth 47 Princeton 59 (Box Score - Recap)
Saturday, February 11
*Brown 63 Cornell 72 (Box Score - Recap)
*Yale 59 Columbia 58 (Box Score - Recap)
*Dartmouth 55 Penn 58 (Box Score - Recap)
*Harvard 62 Princeton 70 [ESPNU] (Box Score - Recap)
Friday, February 17
*Brown at Harvard, 7 pm
*Columbia at Princeton, 7 pm [ESPNU]
*Cornell at Penn, 7 pm
*Yale at Dartmouth, 7 pm
Saturday, February 18
*Brown at Dartmouth, 7 pm
*Columbia at Penn, 7 pm
*Cornell at Princeton, 7 pm
*Yale at Harvard, 7 pm
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