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Cornell Cribs: The “Dog Pound”
The Cornell Basketball Team welcomes you to their humble abode. Louis Dale, Jeff Foote, Andre Wilkins, Chris Wroblewski, Jon Jaques, and Alex Tyler show you around their bedrooms.
Related video: Members of the Cornell basketball discuss what it’s like to live in one house. (Click here.)
Friday News
The Columbia Spectator previews this weekend’s matchups with Brown and Yale.
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The Columbia Spectator profiles Yale’s Alex Zampier. Zampier leads the league in scoring and has twice been named player of the week.
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The Cornell Daily Sun previews this weekend’s matchups with Brown and Yale.
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The Ithaca Journal previews Cornell’s Friday game against Yale, and notes that Yale’s coach Jones doesn’t plan on chasing Cornell’s shooters, as other teams have done, leaving Foote to wreak havoc inside. Yale has two 6′10″ men who might “lay on (Foote) pretty hard,” says Cornell coach Donahue.
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The Ithaca Journal scouts Yale and concludes:
Say this for Yale: a James Jones-coached team won’t allow itself to be physically manhandled like Harvard was Saturday night. The Bulldogs will push back, and they have the big-bodied personnel to do so.
Still, provided Cornell doesn’t let its new top-25 ranking negatively affect its play, it’s difficult to see Yale pulling off an upset in Ithaca. If Cornell continues to defend like it has in recent weeks, the Bulldogs will be unable to keep pace.
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The Columbia Spectator asks what it would take for other Ivies to root for Cornell.
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The Daily Princetonian previews Princeton’s Friday game against Harvard.
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The Harvard Crimson reviews the conference games so far, delcaring Cornell as the league’s Qdoba, Harvard and Princeton as the Chiplote’s, Brown, Columbia, and Yale as the Felipe’s, and Dartmouth and Penn as the 7-Eleven’s. They also provide some weekend picks.
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The Yale Daily News previews Yale’s weekend games @ Cornell and Columbia.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian previews this weekends Penn @ Dartmouth game. They notethe extensive similarities between the two teams:
The Big Green (4-14, 0-4 Ivy) have not won consecutive games this season either, and the similarities between Penn and Dartmouth don’t end there.
Both lost their head coaches midway through the season — Dartmouth’s Terry Dunn stepped down in early January — and are without last year’s leading scorers.
While forward Tyler Bernardini red-shirted this season due to injury, the Big Green lost forward Alex Barnett and his 15.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game to graduation.
And not unlike the injury depleted Quakers’ bench, the Big Green played with just nine available bodies against Columbia last week
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Four Ivy League athletes (Brown’s Matt Mullery, Columbia’s Patrick Foley, and Cornell’s Geoff Reeves and Chris Wroblewski) were named to ESPN the Magazine’s Academic All-District Team. Read the releases at Brownbears.com, GoColumbiaLions.com, and CornellBigRed.com.
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The Bleacher Report mentions Cornell among this weekend’s previews:
Cornell has two more home games against two of the worst Ivy League teams, Yale and Brown. Should the Big Red win (as they should convincingly), Steve Donahue’s team would move to 20-3 and 6-0 in the Ivy League. Cornell has moved up to 37th in Ken Pomeroy’s efficiency rankings. The Big Red’s recent improvement on the defensive end of the floor has spurred their jump from the mid 70s to the 30s.
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ESPN’s Jay Bilas thinks Cornell could pull a George Mason (i.e., make it to the final four):
The Big Red have experience, really good guards in Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman, and a very good big man in Jeff Foote. People forget this, but the reason that George Mason reached the Final Four is because it could guard and score in the post with wide-body Jai Lewis and lefty Will Thomas. Most mid-majors get hurt because they are unable to guard in the post. Cornell can do that.
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Monday Morning News
The Chicago Tribune catches up with Cornell’s Chris Wroblewski.
The Birmingham News, Alabama, laments that state basketball talent — including Cornell’s Louis Dale — is allowed to get away.
The Pottstown PA Mercury discusses why high school basketball player Kevin Mulqun has chosen to attend Dartmouth next year.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel argues that loyalty is a lost term in the buy-out world if even Ivy League schools like Penn and Dartmouth are firing coaches mid-season now.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says Jerome Allen sees the glory coming back to Penn basketball.
The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Brian Kotloff agrees: after Temple, he’s finally feeling the buzz again.
Today’s games: Dartmouth faces off against St. Francis (NY) tonight at 7 PM ET.
Intro by Bill Bradley.