News and Notes: Wednesday Edition

Below, some news and notes for Wednesday...

• Andy Glocker of CNNSI.com writes about Harvard's efforts to rise to national prominence in basketball. Glockner notes of the Ivy League, "Ever since Penn's trip to the 1979 Final Four helped spawn an 'Academic Index', the Ivies have been happy being an anachronism, with a funky conference schedule, no tournament and no real hope of landing legitimate high Division I talent thanks to the academic, financial and competitive constraints every team in the league faces.  Almost despite itself, its self-regulation and, in several cases, faculty pushback against basketball commitment, though, the league has spawned a handful of very good teams. Two years after Princeton nearly stunned Georgetown in the famous 1-16 game in 1989, the Tigers were wearing white as an 8-seed. Then came two separate top-25 Penn teams, a top-10 Princeton team, and some years later, Cornell's breakthrough 30-win campaign that ended in the Sweet 16. These last two seasons were two of the strongest and deepest in the RPI era and generated very worthy champions."

• Cornell incoming freshman, Braxston Bunce (Kelowna Secondary School) Kelowna, BC, Canada, 6-11, C, is among the the final seventeen players who are competing for twelve roster spots to represent Canada in the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Men in Brazil from June 16-20.  As part of Team Canada's training camp and tryouts this week, Bunce will compete for the "Red Team" in an open-to-the-public intersquad scrimmage on Thursday.

• Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) tweeted about his summer workouts in New York with Louis Dale (Cornell '10).  Foote will be a member of the Brooklyn Nets' summer league team in Orlando while Dale is expected to return for a third season with his pro German club, Goettingen.

• Mike Weinstein, an AAU coach with the Joy of the Game club in suburban Chicago, told the Pioneer Local that one of his young prospects in his program reminds him of "Highland Park’s Chris Wroblewski, who led Cornell deep into the NCAA tournament."

• On Tuesday night in the Puerto Rico BSN Championship Series, Jeff Aubry (Cornell '99) finished with 2 point and 10 rebounds but his Arecibo Capitanes fell to Mayaguez 94-68 and now trail the series 2-1.