News and Notes: Monday Edition

Below, news and notes...

• Cornell's 2014-2015 roster of returning players is now available on the team's official website

• Cornell Basketball appears in Spirit Magazine.

• Sporting News quotes Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) on the NBA D-League and writes:

Jeff Foote, a veteran of European powerhouses Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Zalgiris, who also had a stint with New Orleans in the NBA, and spent the year with the Springfield Armor, said that pay is the one big difference between overseas and the D-League.  "If they were to increase the salaries here, this would be easily the second-best league in the world," Foote said. "I think that is kind of what kills it, unfortunately. I get the business aspect of it, I understand, it is tough to raise the revenues to pay the players. But I think that is where the competition loses out. It is tough to raise a family on a D-League salary. In Europe, everything that is covered here in the D-League is covered there, too, plus you make six times, seven times more money."

• See also the Bleacher Report for a Foote mentiom.

• Texas Tech announced the signing of Jonathan Gray's (Cornell '13) younger brother.

• The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette gives mention to Errick Peck (Cornell '13)

• Check out the now updated profiles, including senior year honors and accolades, of Cornell's five incoming recruits for next season.  The class consists of Riley Glassmann (Fremd HS) Palatine, IL, 6-5, G, William "Will" Bathurst (Olean HS) Olean, NY, 6-3, G, Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof (Gonzaga HS) Washington, D.C., 6-7, F, Pat Smith (Archbishop Wood HS) Warminster, PA, 6-5, F, and Kyle Brown, (Newport HS) Bellevue, Washington, 6-3, G.  The Olean Times Herald notes that Wil Bathurst was "the Big 30 Player of the Year, [and] was a first-team [All Western New York] selection for the second year in a row."

• Cornell's 2014-2015 Schedule will be highlighted by Cornell's participation in ESPN's Charleston Classic.  Visit the Cornell team page at the Charleston Classic for more information.   In this ESPN-produced event, Cornell is guaranteed three (3) games against the field of eight (8) participants and all games are broadcast on the ESPN family network.  Potential opponents in Charleston include: Miami, South Carolina, USC, Penn State and Akron with two additional participants to be named at a later date.  The two unconfirmed additional participants are Charlotte and Drexel.  Cornell's thirty (30) games for the 2014-2015 schedule is rumored to include the following:

1. Loyola, MD (away)

2. UMass-Lowell (home)

3. Binghamton (away)

4. Colgate (home)

5. Siena (away)

6. St. Peter's (home)

7. Howard (home)

8. Radford (away)

9. Canisius (home)

10. Buffalo (away) (Guarantee Game)

11. BCS Guarantee Game TBD (away)

12. BCS Guarantee Game TBD (away)

13. D-III Game TBD (home)

14. Charleston Classic Game

15. Charleston Classic Game

16. Charleston Classic Game

17-30. Fourteen Ivy League Games

Visit The Cornell Basketball Blog's Community Forum and Message Board to interact with other fans of Cornell and Ivy League basketball. Membership is free! You may also follow us on Twitter.  Not a member of Twitter? See what The Cornell Basketball Blog is tweeting and retweeting each day by just visiting our Twitter Timeline.  The Cornell Basketball Blog received mention on NBC Sports' social media Must Follow College Hoops Directory.