Cornell ends the season ranked at #17 on the ESPN/USA Today poll, which can be seen here.
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Cornell receives 10 votes in ESPN/USA Today poll, sits at 28th
Cornell received 10 votes in this week’s ESPN/USA Today poll. This is down from 15 last week, but places the Big Red at 28th nationwide, up from 29th.
Both the AP and ESPN/USA Today poll can be seen here.
Cornell drops to 3 votes in AP Poll
Cornell received 3 votes in this week’s AP poll, down from 5 last week. The poll can be seen here. This ties Cornell with Louisville at 33rd, up from 37th last week.
Cornell recieves 15 votes in ESPN/USA Today poll
Cornell received 15 votes in the ESPN/USA Today poll. Although this is 2 less than last week, it places Cornell at 29th (as opposed to 30th last week).
See both the AP and ESPN polls here.
Cornell receives 5 votes in AP poll
Cornell received 5 votes in today’s AP poll, up from 2 last week. See the full poll here.
News — Monday March 1, 2010
Collegehoops.net ranks Cornell at #29 in its national Top 50, up from #31 last week. However, Cornell drops one spot from #9 to #10 in CHN’s Non-BCS Top 25.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Neil Fanaroff thinks witnessing Cornell’s celebration after clinching a share of the Ivy victory provided motivation for the Quakers.
Sophomore point guard Zack Rosen put it bluntly, saying “sometimes visuals hurt more than hearing about stuff.”
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The Daily Pennsylvanian reviews Penn’s loss at Cornell.
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Watch a local news segment from News 10 Now recapping the Penn @ Cornell game.
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Dick Jerardi of the Philadelphia Daily News mentions the Penn @ Cornell game in his column today.
Never in it in Ithaca
On Feb. 12, Penn beat Cornell by 15 points at the Palestra. Exactly 15 days later, Cornell was favored by 22 points in Ithaca and won by 20. Think those guys in Vegas are pretty good?
Cornell (25-4, 11-1 Ivy League) clinched a tie for the league with its 68-48 win. The Big Red will get its third consecutive title this weekend by either winning at Brown or Yale and/or having Harvard or Princeton lose a game.
Penn (5-20, 4-7) got 23 points from Zack Rosen, but not enough of anything from anybody else to have much of a chance. The Quakers had 21 turnovers and all those not named Rosen shot 10-for-33.
Cornell shot 28-for-50 and 10-for-23 from the arc.
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Storming the Floor presents part VII of Covering the Ivy.
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The Columbia Spectator reviews Columbia’s weekend games, including a sweep of Penn and loss to Princeton.
“To sweep Penn is major for any program in this league,” Columbia head coach Joe Jones said after the victory.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian reviews Penn’s heartbreaking one-point loss at Columbia.
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The Dartmouth reviews Dartmouth’s weekend games against Yale and Brown.
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The Harvard Crimson reviews Harvard’s Saturday win over Yale. The Senior Night victory marked the most single-season wins in school history.
The two free throws, Lin’s final points in his home gym, were followed by a standing ovation as he exited to allow McGeary to finish up the game.
“This is one I’ll never forget,” Lin said.
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A second Harvard Crimson piece reviews Harvard’s senior night.
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Harvard Crimson sports blog The Back Page reflects on some Ivy hoops stats, including efficiency margins.
In line with common knowledge, Cornell is by far the leader in the Ivies in efficiency margin at .28. Princeton’s efficiency margin is .15, barely above Harvard’s .13. After the top three teams, there is a major drop off. Brown, Yale, and Penn come in at -.04, -.05, and -.06, respectively. Columbia sits at -.14 and Dartmouth occupies the cellar at -.22.
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The Daily Princetonian reviews Princeton’s loss to Cornell and win over Columbia.
Princeton’s 67-52 victory against Columbia marks the first time the Tigers have beaten the Lions on the road in five years, offering some consolation for Princeton after a 47-50 loss to the Big Red that ended the Tigers’ Ivy League championship hopes.
“I thought that our team showed a tremendous amount of maturity,” head coach Sydney Johnson ’97 said after Princeton’s victory at Columbia. “I think we are growing up a bit. We’ve learned some hard lessons … One of those lessons is when our energy is low, we get beat at home. When our energy is high, we can have two great efforts on the road. We came up short last night [at Cornell], but [our team] did a tremendous job of being mindful of that lesson and coming here tonight ready to play.”
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The Cornell Daily Sun reviews Cornell’s weekend victories over Princeton and Penn.
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MSNBC’s Beyond the Arc blog notes:
OK, but who’s in?
The first team the Big Dance will be Cornell. Simple as that. The Big Red (25-4, 11-1) earned a share of the Ivy League title by routing Penn on Saturday. They’re two games up on Princeton and Harvard. Winning one of those two games on Friday or Saturday seals it.
And then the major conference teams can hope Cornell’s not in their region…
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes:
Son-of-a-gun: Make that two of ’em. In case it has passed you buy, Former Indiana star Randy Wittman’s son, Ryan, is at Cornell, and former Syracuse standout Leo Rautins’ son, Andy, is playing for the Orangemen. Both are having similar senior seasons as their dads. Leo averaged 12.1 points as a senior at Syracuse, Andy is at 11.8. Randy averaged 18.9 points his senior year with the Hoosiers, Ryan is scoring 17.4 for the Big Red.
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Bleacher Report discusses Cornell’s clinching of a share of the Ivy title, but points out that Cornell has not yet clinched an NCAA berth.
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ESPN’s Weekly Watch briefly mentions Cornell in a segment entitled “5 to avoid”:
Cornell: With the ability to shoot 3s (especially Ryan Wittman) and a big man in the middle who can finish and pass (Jeff Foote), the Big Red can cause big trouble.
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Cornell loses votes in ESPN/USA Today poll
Cornell dropped from 24 to 17 votes in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
Both the AP and ESPN polls can be seen here.
Cornell remains at 2 votes in AP poll
Cornell remains at just 2 votes in the AP poll.
See the poll here.
Although the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Elton Alexander dropped Cornell out of his ballot after the Penn loss and chose to reward Maryland over Cornell this week, he kept Cornell in mind:
Cornell did not make the cut this week, but the Big Red will be back.
Cornell votes plummet: 2 votes in AP poll, 24 in ESPN/USA Today
After its loss to Penn, Cornell received only 2 votes in this week’s AP poll and 24 votes in the coaches’ poll, tumbling out of the ESNP/USA Today rankings. Cornell now sits at #28 nationwide in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
View the rankings here.
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Evening Update
Cornell rose to #22 in the ESPN/USA Today Poll today but remained at #27 in the AP poll, despite triple the votes.
The Ithaca Journal’s Brian Delaney reflects on Cornell’s rankings this week. Cornell moved up to #22 in the ESPN/USA Today poll but remained at #27 in the AP poll despite receiving almost triple last week’s votes. Delaney writes,
From my standpoint, it’s not surprising that Cornell still isn’t ranked in the AP poll. There are a lot – a lot – of good teams out there that appear to be on a very similar level. Siena, for instance, has 18 votes in the AP poll, and I bet there are more than a few media members and fans in the Albany area who think the Saints are better than Cornell. Either way, it’s very close. So are, for that matter, UNLV, Baylor, Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, Maryland, Charlotte, etc. A key thing to remember is the Big Red simply cannot record a marquee win at this stage of its schedule. Other teams, like A&M, can appear outside of the equation until they beat Texas Tech, Missouri and Baylor in consecutive games.
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Cornell remains at #4 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer previews Penn’s upcoming meeting with Cornell.
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ESPN’s College Basketball Nation Blog notes the popularity of Harvard’s Jeremy Lin in Cousy Award voting:
Harvard’s Jeremy Lin is currently in second place with 27 percent of the fan voting for the Bob Cousy Award, which is given to the nation’s top point guard. That trails only John Wall’s 36.8 percent.
The month-long voting process began Friday, with the point guard who receives the most fan votes getting one vote toward the final committee vote.
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NESN.com profiles Harvard’s Jeremy Lin.
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Intro by Bill Bradley.