News and Notes: Thursday Edition

Above, A Date in Cornell Basketball History, Cornell's Media Guides for the '92-'93, '93-'94, '94-'95 and '95-'96 seasons.  Below, news and news for Thursday...

• As we first reported, Yanni Hufnagel (Cornell '06) has accepted an assistant coaching position at Vanderbilt.  He was an assistant at Harvard and a former team manager at Cornell under Steve Donahue. The Tennessean writes, "Animated and highly energetic, the 2006 Cornell graduate plans to arrive in Nashville to begin his job next week, pending a background check."

• HamptonRoads.com writes: "Chesapeake’s Darryl Smith signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Cornell University.  Smith, a 6-foot-3 guard, played at Norfolk Collegiate as a freshman and sophomore but transferred to Blue Ridge School, a boarding private school near Charlottesville, for his junior and senior seasons.  This past season he averaged 14.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4 assists and 1.8 steals for the Barons who were 7-13.  Smith also played on for the football team which won the VISAA Division II state title this past season with a 41-16 win over Nansemond-Suffolk."