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Below is Cornell Athletics' official press release from the Ivy League media day.
* Red-White Scrimmage Highlights
* First Day of Practice Highlights
* 2009-10 Season Preview
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the third straight year, the Cornell men's basketball team will be the hunted. The Big Red was the unanimous choice by the media as the favorite to take home the 2009-10 Ivy League championship when the preseason poll was announced on Wednesday by the league office. The Big Red is the first team in the League's storied history not named Penn or Princeton to garner a unanimous first-place selection and has now pulled that feat two years in a row.
The two-time defending Ivy League champion men's basketball team, directed by head coach Steve Donahue, will be looking to become the fourth team in Ivy League history to capture three consecutive outright Ancient Eight titles when it begins the upcoming campaign.The 2008-09 Big Red posted a 21-10 mark, claimed its second straight Ivy League title with an 11-3 record and became the first Ivy League school other than Penn or Princeton to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in consecutive years. Cornell set team records for points (2,281), 3-pointers (241) and blocked shots (121) this past season. The Big Red will return all five starters, including two-time first-team all-league selections Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman and reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Jeff Foote, as well as eight of the team's top nine scorers for the 2009-10 campaign.
Directly behind Cornell is traditional Ivy League power Princeton, who received 96 votes just a year after being picked to finish eighth. Each of the eight schools had two media representatives who cover Ivy League basketball eligible to vote. Penn (92 points) was picked third, followed by Harvard in fourth (86 points). Yale was fifth with 59 points, while Columbia (55), Brown (41) and Dartmouth (19).
Cornell opens its 2009-10 season on Saturday, Nov. 14, when it visits Alabama of the SEC in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
2009-10 Ivy Men's Baketball Preseason Media Poll
1. Cornell - 128 points (16 first-place votes)
2. Princeton - 96
3. Penn - 92
4. Harvard - 86
5. Yale - 59
6. Columbia - 55
7. Brown - 41
8. Dartmouth - 19
* First Day of Practice Highlights
* 2009-10 Season Preview
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the third straight year, the Cornell men's basketball team will be the hunted. The Big Red was the unanimous choice by the media as the favorite to take home the 2009-10 Ivy League championship when the preseason poll was announced on Wednesday by the league office. The Big Red is the first team in the League's storied history not named Penn or Princeton to garner a unanimous first-place selection and has now pulled that feat two years in a row.
The two-time defending Ivy League champion men's basketball team, directed by head coach Steve Donahue, will be looking to become the fourth team in Ivy League history to capture three consecutive outright Ancient Eight titles when it begins the upcoming campaign.The 2008-09 Big Red posted a 21-10 mark, claimed its second straight Ivy League title with an 11-3 record and became the first Ivy League school other than Penn or Princeton to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in consecutive years. Cornell set team records for points (2,281), 3-pointers (241) and blocked shots (121) this past season. The Big Red will return all five starters, including two-time first-team all-league selections Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman and reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Jeff Foote, as well as eight of the team's top nine scorers for the 2009-10 campaign.
Directly behind Cornell is traditional Ivy League power Princeton, who received 96 votes just a year after being picked to finish eighth. Each of the eight schools had two media representatives who cover Ivy League basketball eligible to vote. Penn (92 points) was picked third, followed by Harvard in fourth (86 points). Yale was fifth with 59 points, while Columbia (55), Brown (41) and Dartmouth (19).
Cornell opens its 2009-10 season on Saturday, Nov. 14, when it visits Alabama of the SEC in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
2009-10 Ivy Men's Baketball Preseason Media Poll
1. Cornell - 128 points (16 first-place votes)
2. Princeton - 96
3. Penn - 92
4. Harvard - 86
5. Yale - 59
6. Columbia - 55
7. Brown - 41
8. Dartmouth - 19
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