News and Notes: Tuesday Edition

Cornell and Wisconsin will meet again on November 18, 2012 after the Big Red knocked off the Badgers in the Second Round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament.  Below, some news and notes for Tuesday...

• Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) scored 12 points on Monday to help his Zalgiris team of Lithuania defeat Lietuvos Rytas in Vilnius, Lithuania to claim the SuperCup trophy, a two-game series between the teams as a preseason event in preparation for Lithuania's LKL regular season competition.  Below highlights from the game. Above, Foote throws down a dunk. The LKL regular season starts September 26 for Zalgiris which is the 4th ranked team in all of Europe and a member of the EuroLeague.  See the preview of Zalgiris in the EuroLeague on the league's official website.  The best players in the world not playing in the NBA are in the EuroLeague.

• Sports Bank's countdown of the top 111 teams for 2012-2013 thus far includes the following Cornell opponents: 

#77 Harvard Crimson
#90 Vanderbilt Commodores
#103 Arizona State Sun Devils

• Thus far, Cornell has confirmed televised games this season at Duke (ESPNU) and Arizona State (Pac12 Sports Network).  The Big Ten Network is expected to pick up Cornell's visit to Wisconsin.