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Cornell fell to Princeton 79-58 on March 5, 1988, the season finale of the 1987-1988 season, but the Big Red still managed to win the Ivy League thanks to some help around the Ivy League.
The Cornell Basketball Blog monitors the Big Red's bracket projections until the 2009 NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday.CORNELL
The Ivy race figures to come down to the Cornell-Princeton rematch on Saturday in Ithaca. The Big Red (9-3) lead the Tigers (7-4) by a game and a half.
Best win (RPI): La Salle (No. 108)
Worst loss (RPI): @Princeton (No. 293)
Today the Ivy League Office announced that Cornell's Ryan Wittman was once again named to the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll. The Ivy League Office noted:2008-2009 AWARD WINNERSCornell junior Ryan Wittman (Eden Prairie, Minn.) averaged 22.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists while making 59 percent of the his field goals and seven-of-10 shots from three-point range. Wittman opened the week by scoring 20 points, grabbing six rebounds and dishing off two assists in a showdown victory over second-place Dartmouth. He made seven-of-11 shots, including four-of-five from three-point range in the 75-57 victory. Wittman then responded with 24 points on 10-of-18 shooting to go along with five rebounds and three assists. He made three-of-five shots from beyond the arc and scored 16 of his points in the decisive second half, adding four rebounds and an assist without a turnover in nearly singlehandedly keeping the visitors in the game.
It is March Madness at Cornell and in Ithaca! For the second consecutive season, the Big Red can win the Ivy League outright in Newman Arena and earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Sam Aleinikoff and SlopeTV outlines Cornell's potential scenarios to clinch an NCAA Tournament Bid:Possible Scenarios for a Cornell NCAA Tournament Bid
The final weekend of Ivy League basketball is almost here and a league that seemed fairly straightforward just a few days ago isn’t anymore. With the Cornell loss at Harvard on Saturday, the Big Red (19-9) fell to 9-3 in Ivy League play, just one game ahead of Princeton (12-12, 7-4) in the loss column. Also still in contention for at least a share of the Ivy League title and an NCAA tournament birth are Yale (12-14, 7-5) and Dartmouth (9-17, 7-5).
In most conferences, the regular season crown is important merely for school pride and seeding in the conference tournament, but the Ivy League remains the only conference in the country that decides its representative in the tournament via the regular season champion. As Cornell Head Coach, Steve Donahue, has reiterated throughout the season, in the Ivy League the regular season is a round-robin tournament. After 14 games a-piece, the champion is crowned.
Well, maybe not this year. In the Ivy League, if two or more teams are tied at the end of a season, they compete in a single elimination playoff on a neutral site (as Cornell Women’s Basketball did last year to win the NCAA tournament birth over Harvard and Dartmouth). No tiebreakers are used. Overall record is disregarded. Head-to-head results also go down the drain.
Going into the final weekend of Ivy play here are all of the possible outcomes for the Big Red and the results that would need to occur for each one to happen:
Cornell Outright Conference Championship1) Cornell W vs. Princeton
2) Cornell W vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton L at Columbia and Princeton L at Penn
3) Cornell L vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton L at Columbia, Princeton L at Penn, Yale L vs. Dartmouth or Harvard and Dartmouth L at Yale or BrownCornell Shared Conference Championship
1) Cornell W vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton W at Columbia, Princeton W at Penn (Cornell Tie with Princeton)
2) Cornell L vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton L at Columbia or Penn (Cornell tie with Princeton)
3) Cornell L vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton L at Columbia or Penn, Yale W vs. Harvard and Dartmouth or Dartmouth W vs. Yale and Brown (Cornell tie with Princeton and Yale or Dartmouth)Cornell Misses Out on the Championship All Together
1) Cornell L vs. Penn, Cornell L vs. Princeton, Princeton W at Columbia and Princeton W at Penn
The bottom line is that to some extent both Cornell and Princeton still control their own destinies in terms of the NCAA tournament. If Cornell can knock off Princeton on Saturday night, they’re in. If Princeton wins out, they can win the league outright with a Cornell loss vs. Penn on Friday night. Still they control their own destiny because even with a Cornell win vs. Penn on Friday night, they could go dancing by winning their final 4 games (including the possible one-game playoff vs. Cornell). Yale and Dartmouth both need some help to get a shot at the big dance.
Seemingly the most important game remaining on the Ivy League slate is Princeton at Cornell on Saturday night in Newman Arena where the Big Red are 11-0 this year and have run off 19 in a row overall, the third longest current streak in the country. (Cornell is technically 13-0 as the home team this year, but 2 of those wins came in the NIT Season Tip-off at St. John’s.) In the first contest between these two squads, Princeton came away with a shocking 61-41 upset victory infet Princeton, NJ.
DISCUSS CORNELL BASKETBALL| Fri, Nov 14 | South Dakota | W 79-69 | ||||
| Mon, Nov 17 | at St. John's | L 75-86 | ||||
| Tue, Nov 18 | at Loyola (MD) | W 82-72 | ||||
| Sat, Nov 22 | at Siena | L 56-74 | ||||
| Mon, Nov 24 | Loyola Chicago | W 78-53 | ||||
| Tue, Nov 25 | East. Michigan | W 67-54 | ||||
| Sun, Nov 30 | at Indiana | L 57-72 | ||||
| Wed, Dec 3 | at (16) Syracuse | L 78-88 | ||||
| Sat, Dec 6 | at Minnesota | L 54-71 | ||||
| Sat, Dec 20 | La Salle | W 79-70 | ||||
| Mon, Dec 22 | at St. Joseph's | L 67-71 | ||||
| Mon, Dec 29 | Boston U. | W 89-59 | ||||
| Wed, Dec 31 | Quinnipiac | W 73-70 | ||||
| Sat, Jan 3 | Ursinus | W 99-45 | ||||
| Tue, Jan 6 | Bucknell | W 75-64 | ||||
| Mon, Jan 12 | at Bryant | W 69-46 | ||||
| Sat, Jan 17 | at Columbia | W 71-59 | ||||
| Sat, Jan 24 | Columbia | W 83-72 | ||||
| Fri, Jan 30 | Brown | W 90-58 | ||||
| Sat, Jan 31 | Yale | W 64-36 | ||||
| Fri, Feb 6 | at Princeton | L 41-61 | ||||
| Sat, Feb 7 | at Pennsylvania | W 88-73 | ||||
| Fri, Feb 13 | Harvard | W 96-75 | ||||
| Sat, Feb 14 | Dartmouth | W 79-76 | ||||
| Fri, Feb 20 | at Yale | L 60-72 | ||||
| Sat, Feb 21 | at Brown | W 85-45 | ||||
| Fri, Feb 27 | at Dartmouth | W 75-57 | ||||
| Sat, Feb 28 | at Harvard | L 70-71 | ||||
| Date | Opponent | Time | ||||
| Fri, Mar 6 | Pennsylvania | 7:00 pm | ||||
| Sat, Mar 7 | Princeton | 7:00 pm | ||||
Losing with Louis: Junior guard Louis Dale (12) dribbles towards a Harvard defender during the Red’s 71-70 loss Saturday.“I came off a double screen,” Wittman said. “After that, Louis was the second option. He got the ball and made a play. And it didn’t go our way.”
With a win, the Red could have clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title. In a good twist, the loss sets up an exciting weekend for Newman Nation. The Red can win the league title outright next weekend with a win over Penn and a Princeton loss, or two wins.
“We just got to work hard this last week in practice,” Dale said. “Make sure we win these last two games coming up and win the Ivy League championship.”
The game was different from the first affair between the two squads at Newman Arena weeks earlier. Harvard standout Jeremy Lin redeemed himself from his eight-turnover performance by scoring 20 points and helping to shut down Wittman after he went on a scoring spree in the second half.
“He played well tonight,” Wittman said. “You don’t expect him to have eight turnovers like he did the last game. We knew he was going to come out and be ready to play.”
At one point in the second half, Wittman looked unstoppable. The Ivy League Player of the Year candidate scored 13 points in a four-minute stretch but was held quiet after the Crimson adjusted to him. The strategy worked well for the Crimson as the rest of the team struggled to score, with only senior center Jeff Foote reaching double digits with 14.
“We knew it was going to be a serious game,” said senior center Jeff Foote. “It was the biggest game in 50 years for them, and we knew they were going to be hyped up. We just wanted to play our game, so we came out and executed our game plan.”
Wittman shot 7-of-11 from the field and 4-of-5 from long range to lead the Red (19-9, 9-3 Ivy League) with 20 points. Dartmouth’s (9-17, 7-5) centerpiece player, senior forward Alex Barnett, scored 19 and grabbed nine boards for the Green, but was overshadowed by Wittman, a potential rival for Ivy League Player of the Year honors.
“We rotated different guys on [Barnett], gave him different looks,” said freshman guard Chris Wroblewski. “We played five-man defense, made sure we knew where he was on the floor. Foote was on him during the game, Wittman, Battle came in and gave us great minutes on defense. We were just trying to keep fresh legs with him.”
Three other Red players finished in double figures. Junior guard Louis Dale, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, put up 14 points and five boards, Foote scored 11 and grabbed six boards and freshman guard Chris Wroblewski scored 11 and added two rebounds, two assists and two steals. Cornell used a steady onslaught of 3-pointers to increase its lead, making 11-of-19 on the night. As a team, the Red shot 50 percent from the field — much better than Dartmouth’s 35 percent.
“We focused a lot on our defense all week in practice, and we knew what they were going to try to do on offense,” Foote said.
Sophomore guard Ronnie Dixon scored 12 for the Green — the only player besides Barnett in double figures. Dartmouth’s 6-9 sophomore forward Clive Weeden snagged a game-high eight rebounds.
Barnett helped Dartmouth off to a hot start, scoring his team’s first six points to push the Green to an 8-2 lead. Cornell stormed back after a time-out and eventually pulled away thanks to its defense. The Red held the Green scoreless for a 6:54 stretch late in the first half, and went into the intermission with a 33-25 lead.
Two second-half 3-pointers from senior guard Adam Gore disrupted Dartmouth’s momentum, built up during a 9-4 run, and pushed Cornell’s lead to 12. Two more treys by Wittman and another 3-pointer by Wroblewski quieted the crowd and finished off a 5:10 stretch in which Cornell hit six consecutive 3’s.
“Those 3’s were huge,” Foote said.
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