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Alumni watch: Mullery, Schroeder, Dale
Matt Mullery’s team, Landstede Zwolle, played its first exhibition game on Saturday, but no box score can be found. Zwolle lost 80-93 to Dutch rivals ZZ Leiden. The Brown alum arrived in the Netherlands on August 15.
Princeton’s Marcus Schroeder attended D-League tryouts on Saturday in Oakland, one stop of many on his journey to land a pro contract. Princetonbasketball.com writes,
Yesterday he was in Oakland.
Tonight he’s in Seattle.
Tomorrow he’ll land in China.
Marcus Schroeder will go wherever he has the best chance to continue his basketball career.
“I’m trying to play next year. Overseas, anywhere – it doesn’t really matter,” Schroeder said from a hotel in the Emerald City. “I do not have an agent. I’ve been trying to represent myself, using different contacts that I’ve developed throughout my college career.”
Cornell alum Louis Dale played his second game with German team Gottingen, scoring 10 points in a win against UBC Tigers Hannover, a German Pro-A team.
Louis Dale makes pro debut
Recent Cornell graduate Louis Dale ‘10 made his pro debut for German squad BC Gottingen yesterday, providing 15 points and six assists in his team’s 77:59 defeat of Wurzburg, a second division team, in an exhibition match.
In the video below, the team prepares for a downtown photoshoot:
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Jeremy Lin vs John Wall, ESPN on Amaker’s recruiting, Louis Dale interview, new Jaques blog
NBC Sports blog ProBasketballTalk thinks recent Harvard grad Jeremy Lin’s fearlessness and attitude might help him make his way onto a NBA team’s bench, even though his stat line might not.
At the beginning of Friday’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Washington Wizards, those assembled at the COX Pavilion in Las Vegas were on their feet and craning their necks to get a look at No. 1 overall pick John Wall.
But while Wall was the star of pre-game warmups, Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin ended up stealing the show. Lin isn’t the most athletic guy in Las Vegas, and he’s not the most skilled, but he may be the most fearless.
… Lin’s bid for an NBA roster spot may come up just a bit short. Friday was by far the best of Lin’s four summer league games, and his stat line still didn’t look all that impressive: 13 points on 6-12 shooting, four rebounds, two assists, four turnovers, and six fouls. It’s hard to make the NBA as an undrafted rookie without great athleticism, a great shooting stroke, or great court vision, and Lin doesn’t have any of those. What Lin does have is the toughness, determination, and savvy that have made him one of the most fun players to watch in summer league, and there’s always a chance an NBA team will want somebody with Lin’s attitude and approach to the game on their bench.
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See the earlier blog post containing the video highlights of Jeremy Lin at the Mavs. vs Wizards (John Wall) game last night.
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USA Today has the following segment on Jeremy Lin in their Vegas roundup:
Lin drawing attention
One of the fan favorites at the NBA’s Vegas Summer League has been Dallas Mavericks guard Jeremy Lin.
Lin is an undrafted free agent who played at Harvard and is trying to become the first American-born Asian to play in the NBA. Lin’s parents are from Taiwan.
Against the Washington Wizards and John Wall, the No. 1 pick in the 2010 draft, Lin more than held his own with 13 points, six assists, four rebounds and two steals. He knocked down a long, high-arcing three-pointer and made drives and passes that energized fans, many who came to see Wall.
“My most obvious goal is to make an NBA roster, along side helping this team win as many games as we can,” Lin said. “A lot of people haven’t seen me play coming from a smaller conference. … I’ve known that I can play. I just needed a chance.”
Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson said the team has been tracking Lin since his freshman season at Harvard.
“He’s a player. He’s smart. He’s good court savvy,” Nelson said. “He’s a combo guard who play a little one or a little two. He’s athletic and makes everyone around him better. He’s quicker than you think and has the ability to get into the paint and draw contact.”
In consecutive Summer League games, Lin has scored 8, 4, 12 and 13 points.
“He’s gotten better every game,” Nelson said. “He’s your typical young player in that he will look good done night and struggle the next like all rookies.”
Making Dallas’ roster will be tough. The Mavericks already have Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, Jose Barea, Rodrigue Beaubois and DeShawn Stevenson, and the acquired guard Dominique Jones the night of the draft.
“I’m just trying to play my game and hopefully get a shot at the NBA,” Lin said.
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ESPN’s TrueHoop blog writes,
Jeremy Lin stole the show late in the stellar Dallas-Washington game. With the Mavs down a couple of possessions, Wall and JaVale McGee trapped Lin off a high ball screen. Lin split the defenders, darting left through the opening. Against the collapsing Washington defense, Lin then propelled 270 degrees in the air to get off a right-handed jumper against contact. The acrobatics roused the Cox Pavilion crowd, who almost rioted when Lin was whistled for a charge.
Zach Harper of Hardwood Paroxysm on the John Wall-Jeremy Lin fourth quarter battle: “Funny thing happened on the way to the Bellagio … Jeremy Lin and John Wall faced off in the fourth quarter of the Wizards-Mavericks game in Vegas and pretty much played each other to a standstill. That’s right. An undrafted Harvard, SMAHRT kid, point guard went toe-to-toe with the number-one pick in the NBA draft and sort-of held his own. The final box score will show John Wall with an impressive 21 points (let’s just forget about the 4/19 shooting), 10 assists and seven rebounds. But it won’t show that the majority of the Lin’s 11 fourth quarter points were the result of him getting the better of the ‘best player in the draft’ for times than Wall will care to remember. Lin and Wall played the equivalent of an iso chess match on the hardwood game board. The kid from the Ivy League refused to back down from the YouTube sensation and while Wall walked away with the highlight reel, Lin walked away as the fan favorite.”
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ESPN’s Andy Katz has an article about Harvard coach Tommy Amaker’s high level of recruiting. Excerpt:
At Quinnipiac, coaches hailing from the Big East and the A-10, among others, all said that the Crimson landed an impact player in [Laurent] Rivard, who has the capability to compete at a much higher level.
Amaker has made Harvard an attractive basketball destination for recruits. Former coach Frank Sullivan was beloved by his colleagues during his 16 years in Cambridge, Mass., and was brought on to be a basketball advisor for the America East after he was pushed out of Harvard. But the program received no national attention, even under Sullivan. Amaker has the name (he played for Duke in the mid ’80s) and the tenure as a head coach (even if he was inconsistent with Seton Hall and Michigan) to raise Harvard’s profile.
But landing recruits (and the rare, but not damaging, “unintentional secondary basketball violation” when assistant Kenny Blakeney had conversations with the staff prior to officially joining the school in 2007), has given the Crimson a chance to do something special.
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EuroBasketNews has an exclusive interview with recent Cornell graduate Louis Dale, who will be playing for German team DC Goettingen. An excerpt in which he talks about his college career:
You just finished a stellar 4 year career at Cornell. What will you never forget about your Sweet 16 run in 2010 at the NCAA tournament?
I won’t forget my teammates and coaches and how hard we had to work to achieve what we did. Going through that experience with some of my best friends truly made the sweet 16, ’sweet’.
You played against John Wall in the NCAA tournament. He was drafted #1 in the 2010 NBA draft. Some said that you were on of the top point guards at March madness. Does it hurt that you didnt get drafted?
I would’ve loved to have been drafted much like any other basketball player, but the fact that I wasn’t only makes me try to analyze my game and see where I can get better.
You played in the Ivy League which is not one of the stronger divisions. Do you think this might of hurt your chances of being drafted and not getting the deserved respect that you should of gotten?
I definitely think playing in the Ivy League hurts a bit in terms of being considered for the NBA, but hopefully in time someone will help change this situation.
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Recent Cornell grad Jon Jaques, who blogged for the NYT Quad Blog during his college career, is now blogging at Slam Online (in addition to embarking on a pro Basketball career in Israel).
In his first post, he discusses how his Cornell career inspired the title of his blog, “Blue Clips”:
… Although I will be more democratic in my coverage of college basketball topics on this blog, of course the blog’s title pays homage to Cornell Basketball. “Blue Clips” is one of the many idioms our coach Steve Donahue (now the head man at Boston College) became known for during my career. Whenever we sat down for a team film session, the clips Coach D decided had won us the previous game were marked with a blue tab on his laptop. One-hundred percent of the time these clips would feature us diving on the floor, grabbing 50-50 balls, making an extra pass, or scrapping for an offensive rebound to earn an extra possession. Coach D started calling these highlights “Blue Clips” and the rest is history.
Since this expression literally came out of the blue, our team thought it was hilarious and ran with it. We congratulated each other for Blue Clips. We pointed out the Blue Clips to each other in other games we watched. Coach D begged us for Blue Clips before and during games (“Blue Clips” was written on the whiteboard pre-game checklist before each NCAA Tournament game). Since it turned out that Blue Clips helped us win basketball games, the term became much more than an inside joke. So in Cornell basketball lingo, Blue Clips = success. I apologize if I picked a title that means nothing to anyone but myself, but (get ready for the cheesiest closer of all time) I’ll strive for “Blue Clips” in every blog I write (warned you).
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News: Jaques & Dale reflect on pro contracts, Cornell’s future; + more
Cornell’s Jon Jaques and Louis Dale spoke to Brian Delaney of the Ithaca Journal about their recently signed pro-contracts (both one-year deals) and about Cornell basketball’s chances for next year.
Similar information is repeated in an Ithaca Journal article.
They are excited about Germany and Europe, and they expect big things from Centenary transfer Anthony Gatlin.
Dale – “What’s fun about it is we’re all real excited to have this opportunity to travel and play the game we love, and just see a different part of the world.” Dale said BG Goettingen plays a pressing, up-tempo style similar to Missouri, which bounced Cornell from the 2009 NCAA tournament. The Club won the 2010 EuroChallenge title in May, led by former Bucknell standout Chris McNaughton. McNaughton, however, recently signed on with another team. Dale said coach John Patrick told him he wants a point guard that can score and set up his teammates – pretty much what the country saw Dale do in the 2010 tournament.
Jaques – “It’s wild. I think part of the reason I was so (initially) resistant to playing was that until two, three months ago, I never thought of myself as a pro basketball player. Now it’s kind of unbelievable. Being paid to play basketball, basically have a job playing basketball. So many people would kill for it; it’s pretty remarkable.” Jaques said Steve Donahue had told him that he’d have a good opportunity to sign with an Israeli team because of his Jewish heritage, and that’s exactly what’s transpired. Jaques said he’ll be about a 40-minute drive from Jeff Foote’s Maccabi Tel-Aviv team, if Foote makes that club’s roster right away. There have been reports that Tel-Aviv would loan Foote out for a year for developmental purposes.
As for Cornell in 2010-11, Jaques reiterated what several teammates and former coaches have already publicly stated – that the Big Red’s question mark next season will be experience, not talent, when it comes to potentially winning a fourth straight title.
“Definitely enough talent to win a league championship,” Jaques said.
He went on to say Anthony Gatlin, a 6-8 bouncy combo forward, can be a matchup problem for Ivy opponents. “He’s going to cause so many problems for opponents because of his length and athleticism,” Jaques said. “It’s something you don’t see a lot of in the Ivy League. Seeing him work out in the gym and the weight room, he’s gotten so much stronger in the last year, and he’s a pretty skilled player. When he adds that strength to his game, he’s going to be a hard matchup.”
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The Ithaca Journal article also summarizes Ryan Wittman’s performance with the Celtics’ Summer League squad yesterday.
Wittman update
In the NBA’s Orlando Summer League on Thursday, Indiana rallied from a 27-point halftime deficit to beat Boston, 86-85.
Former Cornell standout Ryan Wittman, who is dressing for Boston’s team, played just over 16 minutes and scored three points. He had two rebounds, an assist, a steal and no turnovers.
Wittman and the Celtics wrap up play in Orlando at noon today against New Jersey. Wittman will also play on New York’s Las Vegas Summer League team. The Vegas schedule goes from July 9-18.
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Princeton is set to face national champions Duke on November 14, according to a release from PrincetonTigers.com:
The Tigers will travel to Duke, the defending national champions, to start a four-game participation in the O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic tournament on Nov. 14.
Later in November, Princeton will play three games at either Miami University in Ohio or James Madison to complete the CBE event.
The rest of Princeton’s 2010-11 schedule is still being finalized and will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Louis Dale to play in Germany
Cornell’s Louis Dale tweets:
Signed with BG Göttingen! I’ll be living in Germany next year! Guess I have another team to cheer for in the World Cup ha! The Deutschland!
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Cornell News — Tuesday March 23, 2010
Lexington Herald Leader: Cornell’s Coury calls playing ex-UK teammates “extra special”
“It will be a great battle,” Coury said. “I think it’s going to be a great game. I can’t wait.”
Coury, a walk-on from West Bloomfield, Mich., played for UK in 2006-07 and 2007-08 before transferring to Cornell.
Another Cornell player, senior Ryan Wittman, has a tenuous tie to UK.
He might play his last college game against UK just like his father did. Or, he might not.
Ryan’s father, Randy Wittman, played for Indiana, which lost to UK in the 1983 Sweet 16 game — the same game Ryan is playing against UK this year. Kentucky won that game 64-59.
Ryan was asked if that provided extra motivation or revenge for him against Kentucky.
“He really hasn’t said too much about that,” Ryan said of his father. “He kind of lets me enjoy my own experience.
“I don’t know how much extra motivation you need in the Sweet 16, with the chance to go to the Elite Eight,” he said.
“If you are not motivated already, you shouldn’t be here.”
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Ithaca Journal: A year later, Cornell’s Dale makes his mark
Louis Dale isn’t the type of person to talk publicly about being disappointed in his play on the basketball court.
After games in his career in which he’s struggled, it’s been almost impossible to discern if the affable, smile-a-mile-wide point guard has been bothered by any off-night he’s endured.
His teammates, however, saw that two sub-par showings in past NCAA tournaments ate away at him during the last calendar year; pushed him to expand his conditioning levels in New York City last summer to a new level.
They were not, then, surprised at Dale’s brilliant two-game stint here last Friday and Sunday. Dale scored 26 points in the second-round 87-69 victory over Wisconsin, played a leading role in dispatching Temple on Friday and boarded a plane back to Ithaca having thoroughly exorcized his NCAA demons.
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New York Times: One for the Books
The N.C.A.A. men’s tournament’s Round of 16 doesn’t start till Thursday, but one game has captured the country’s imagination. Kentucky vs. Cornell has taken on deep philosophical undertones, far beyond the usual Goliath vs. David cliché. Yes, Kentucky has seven national championships and Cornell has a grand total of two N.C.A.A. tournament victories (both last weekend), and yes, Kentucky’s famous sons include legends like Adolph Rupp, Dan Issel and Sam Bowie, while Cornell would rather point out that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an alumna, although we hear she does have a mean crossover move.
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Wall Street Journal: Kentucky vs. Cornell, The One Game You Can’t Miss
There hasn’t been a college basketball matchup in some time that better defines this sport’s extremes. Or, for that matter, one that will render so many verdicts on its future.
Given all their differences, these two teams are hardly even playing the same sport.
Kentucky, the East Region’s No. 1 seed, is college basketball’s winningest program all-time. They own seven NCAA titles. The men’s basketball program pulled in $14.8 million in revenue in fiscal year 2008-09, according to government data.
Cornell, the East’s No. 12 seed, is the lowest remaining seed in the tournament. While it has some experienced, surprisingly skilled players—particularly the sweet-shooting senior forward Ryan Wittman—this is still a team that, by Ivy League rules, isn’t allowed to give out athletic scholarships. Moreover, the team, which had never won an NCAA tournament game until this season, took in less than $1 million in 2008-09.
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FoxSports: Myth of Experience Exposed by Kentucky
[Cornell] starts four seniors.
Wow. Isn’t that great?
That’s the problem with nonsense; you hear it long enough, you start to believe it. Four seniors? As Derrick Coleman once said, whoop-de-damn do. Nice story, but nothing to bet on. Sure, everybody likes to see hard-working upperclassmen beat a team of one-and-dones. But while experience might help at the so-called mid-majors, it’s also the single biggest ruse come tournament time.
In March — especially, in March — talent trumps everything. And as college ball is presently constituted, “senior” has become shorthand for “not good enough.” Show me a senior, I’ll show you a guy who couldn’t go pro.
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Pat Forde, ESPN.com: Tourney’s Early Winners and Losers
Winner: Kentucky. The Wildcats now have the tournament laid at their feet. Kansas is gone. So are East Regional seeds 3 through 10. Just concluded are games against a No. 16 seed (East Tennessee State) and a faux No. 9 (Fake Wake Forest). Up next for a team with four first-round NBA draft picks is a date with a No. 12 seed that doesn’t give athletic scholarships (Cornell). Following that could be a regional final with the No. 11 seed (Washington). The last time a team made a Final Four without facing a single opponent seeded in the top half of the tournament? Michigan State, 2001.
Winner: Offense. Teams won in the second round by putting the ball in the basket and pushing the tempo. Fourteen of 16 winners scored at least 65 points. Ten of 16 scored 75 or more. Seven scored 80 or more. And nobody’s offense was more devastatingly productive than Cornell’s. The Big Red blitzed the normally sound defenses of Temple and Wisconsin for 82.5 points per game, including an astounding 1.45 points per possession against the Badgers.
Loser: Flukes. If you can toss seeding aside, there really aren’t any still playing. There isn’t a single team in the Sweet 16 with double-digit losses, and the average win total is 28.7. The lowest-rated remaining team in Ken Pomeroy’s ratings is Cornell at No. 45, and the other 15 all are in the top 35. The lowest-rated team in Jeff Sagarin’s ratings is Cornell at No. 28. And the lowest-rated remaining team via RPI is Cornell at No. 46.
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Basketball Prospectus: Kentucky on a roll
(12) Cornell vs. (1) Kentucky (Syracuse: Thursday, 9:57)
After a regular season in which they won games with superior defense, Kentucky fired a shot heard around the hoops-analysis world this weekend by scoring 90 points in 68 possessions against a pretty good ACC defense, one replete with relatively large high-major-type people. This explosion represented something new and undeniably impressive, even for a team that’s already a one-seed sporting a 34-2 record.
So the case for Kentucky, in this game or indeed in this tournament, can be stated pretty succinctly. They already defend. Between DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson, and Daniel Orton, they already tell you to forget about making twos. And they already make their own twos (Cousins and Patterson) while absolutely dominating their offensive glass (Cousins). If the Wake Forest explosion is repeatable and John Calipari starts to get dependably accurate shooting from John Wall and Eric Bledsoe, well, good luck rest of the field.
Cornell has been known to score a point or two in their own right these past few days, and for those wondering if they can do so against the “longer, quicker” Wildcats I would offer a reminder. Temple and Wisconsin might not be your cup of visual tea on offense, but there is no denying that those two teams know how to play some D. True, Kentucky’s past record and the laws of hoops gravity unite to suggest that the Big Red can’t possibly venture north of 1.40 points per trip again. Not to mention I conservatively estimate that Cornell big man Jeff Foote will have his shot blocked 175 times by this UK front line. But Foote will also draw some fouls, and Cornell’s been in every game they’ve played in calendar 2010, save one. (At Penn. No, I don’t pretend to understand it.)
A close game will of course be said in real time to favor Cornell (”The longer they hang around,” etc.), but I’m not so sure. That’s exactly what was being said on January 6 when the Big Red played at Kansas, and goodness knows Steve Donahue’s team “hung around” for the full 40 in Allen Fieldhouse that night. Then in crunch time Sherron Collins did his thing. Time after time in the final minutes of that game Collins hurtled into the lane and flung himself into the nearest red uniform, a course of action which, wonder of wonders, was invariably interpreted as a violation on the part of the defense. (Scroll to the bottom of this play-by-play. I still remember the exasperated expression on Geoff Reeves’ face after one such call.)
I can envision Wall doing that too. The likelihood is that he won’t have to, but it’s something to keep in mind if it comes to that.
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CNNSI: Breaking Down the Sweet 16
12. CORNELL
How they got here: Beat Temple 78-65, beat Wisconsin 87-69.
Selling points: The Big Red had the most impressive weekend of any team in the field, eviscerating two of the nation’s top 20 defenses (essentially a pair of Ohio-vs.-Georgetown-level explosions). They are extremely experienced and confident, coming off this weekend and having played well at Kansas and Syracuse earlier in the season. They’re the nation’s best three-point shooting team and now get to play less than an hour from their campus in a building they played in in December.
Warning signs: The Big Red get a whole different animal now in Kentucky, a team with NBA-level talent, size and athleticism that poses an extreme threat on the offensive end that’s nothing like what Temple or Wisconsin could offer. As good as Cornell is, there’s a limit to their ability that Kentucky will sorely test.
Final Four-cast: Raining (jumpers), with a possible violent storm on the horizon.
If Cornell can execute offensively as well as it did in the first two rounds, and frustrate Kentucky enough with a zone to keep them from running wild, the upset is not impossible. Of course, things could go the other way and be an easy UK win. Even if Cornell does the unthinkable, the Big Red might then have to do it again against an extremely physical West Virginia squad. If Cornell navigates this to make it to Indy, it’s probably the greatest Final Four run of the modern era.
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CNNSI: Simply put, Kentucky is better than the rest
Both teams dominated the opposition in their first two NCAA tournament games — but you pretty much expected that from Kentucky. The Big Red, on the other hand, you had to see to believe. This team isn’t some fluky mid-major. Cornell posted the highest shooting percentage (61.1) of any Wisconsin opponent in nine years and outrebounded the fourth-seeded Badgers 27-20.
Still, the Big Red be considerable underdogs against the Wildcats, and understandably so. Their first two opponents were slow-down defensive teams with limited options offensively. Wall and Cousins are two of the most athletic scorers in the country. Cornell is more experienced (four senior starters), but the Wildcats’ reliance on freshmen hasn’t slowed them down to date.
But what makes the matchup so intriguing, so historic (Cornell is the first Ivy school to make it this far since 1979), is that the two teams represent such diametrically opposite facets of the college sports environment. John Calipari’s uber-talented team is, to put it bluntly, a band of mercenaries. It’s no secret Wall, Cousins and fellow freshman Eric Bledsoe are simply passing through Lexington on their way to the NBA. Cornell is a rare bastion for the sport’s few remaining purists, a talented team whose members aren’t even on athletic scholarships, and most of whom “will go pro in something other than sports,” as those NCAA ads like to espouse.
Is it still possible in 2010 for an old-fashioned team of “student athletes” to compete with a more standard team of “athletes who moonlight as students?” We’re about to find out.
HOME COOKING: Cornell
The Big Red won’t have to travel far — their campus is only about an hour from Syracuse — but that doesn’t necessarily mean the crowd will be in its favor. Kentucky fans caravan like no other school’s, and while only the most crazily optimistic Cornell fans saw this Sweet 16 trip coming, Wildcats followers likely bought up their tickets as soon as the bracket was announced.
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Intro by Bill Bradley.