News and Notes: Friday Edition

Below, news and notes for Friday...

• Ned Tomic leads the Akron Canton AmPro in both scoring (27.5) and rebounding (11.5).

• The Cornell Rebounder Club's  "Welcome Back Picnic" is just around the corner on August 28.  If we are all lucky, Cornell Athletics will give us some video footage as they have in the past.

• Princeton released its schedule and previewed Cornell, noting, "First-team All-Ivy Leaguer 6-7 Shonn Miller (11.5 ppg, 6.8 rpg) is back, though Cornell's next two leading scorers, 6-3 Johnathan Gray (10.0 ppg) and 6-6 Errick Peck (9.7 ppg) are not. Twelve Big Red players got a start last season, and five of those players are on the upcoming season's roster."

• Below is a tentative listing of opponents on Cornell's 28-game 2013-2014 schedule which will include 6 home nonconference games.  The games listed are in no particular order. Teams which participated in the 2013 postseason are noted.  Cornell's nonconference schedule will likely feature three Top 35 preseason teams, two in the Top 10 (Syracuse is one of them).  The opponents:

1. at Syracuse (2013 NCAA Tournament Final Four) (Season opener)
2. vs. Loyola (MD) (2013 CollegeInsider.com Invitational Tournament
3. vs. Binghamton
4. at Western Michigan (2013 College Basketball Invitational)
5. at St. Bonaventure
6. at Stony Brook (2013 Postseason National Invitational Tournament)
7. at St. Peter's
8. at Colgate
9. NOVEMBER 22, 7 pm, vs. Siena 
10. NOVEMBER 25, 7  pm vs. Radford
11. DECEMBER 7, vs. St. Francis (PA)
12. at BCS Opponent (Contract signed, "NCAA Tournament team")
13. at BCS Opponent (Contract signed, "NCAA Tournament team")
14. vs. Division III Opponent
15. PLUS 14 Ivy League Games