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Numerous sources are reporting today that the NCAA has approved the expansion of the NCAA Tournament from 65 teams to 96 teams. The change could take effect as soon as next year. Is the expansion a positive development for Ivy League and Cornell Basketball?
Below, a report of Cornell's new ranking in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 Coaches' Poll from Bloomberg.com.
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Cornell University’s basketball team, off victories over Dartmouth College and Harvard University this weekend, is ranked No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll.
The last time the Big Red were nationally ranked was Jan. 3, 1951, when the team started the season with nine consecutive victories and climbed as high as No. 14 in the Associated Press poll.
Cornell (18-3 overall, 4-0 in the Ivy League) defeated Dartmouth 71-37 Friday and Harvard 86-50 Saturday in Ithaca, New York. Cornell wasn’t ranked in this week’s Associated Press Top- 25 writers’ poll, but received the second most “other” votes, effectively placing it at No. 27.
“It is an honor for our program to be recognized in this manner,” Coach Steve Donahue said in a statement. “But it doesn’t change our goals or get us closer to winning the Ivy League title and earning an invitation to the NCAA tournament.”
The University of Kansas is No. 1 in both polls.
The Big Red beat Alabama, St. John’s, Drexel, La Salle, Massachusetts and were beating No. 1 Kansas until the final minute before losing 71-66.
The last time an Ivy League team appeared in a national poll was the 1997-1998 season, when Princeton University finished No. 8 in the final writers’ and No. 16 in the final coaches’ poll.
The last Ivy League team other than the University of Pennsylvania or Princeton to be ranked in a national poll was Columbia during the 1969-70 season, reaching No. 13, according to the Ivy League.
Cornell is led by small forward Ryan Wittman, who is averaging 17.5 points and 7-foot center Jeff Foote, averaging 12.4 points and 8.4 rebounds.
Dick Vitale voted Cornell No. 24 in his ballot as cast in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll this week. Cornell's is No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Top 25 Poll, while the Big Red sit in the 27th position in the Associated Press Poll.
The week's new Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today top 25 polls are out, and what do you know? Kansas is back on top. Surprised?
Few should be. Kansas' ascension to the top of both polls was a given after its gutty overtime win at Kansas State Saturday. Had Kansas lost, the Syracuse-Villanova debate would have raged for at least a day, and then everyone would have remembered that the polls don't really matter at this point in the season, and then everyone would have calmed down. Kansas' road mettle prevented that dire scenario. We should all be thankful.
In the meantime, a big round of applause -- first person to do that thing where they clap in a circle (ha, "round" of applause, get it?) gets punched in the face -- for mighty Cornell. The Big Red dominated Jeremy Lin and Harvard on Friday night, and that win, along with their 18-3 record and high-profile near-toppling of Kansas on Jan. 6, earned Cornell the first ranking in the history of its basketball program. Banner day! According to ESPN research, Cornell is the first Ivy League team to land in the top 25 since Princeton in 1997-98, when the Tigers were ranked the entire season.
This is good news for a variety of reasons. The first? It's always good to see the Ivy League in the national picture. The second? Kids at Ivy League schools have it pretty rough, sports-wise and this is something to rally around. Third? More Andy Bernard jokes! There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
For the first time in 59 years, the men’s basketball team finds itself ranked among college basketball’s elite –– appearing in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll at No. 25. Cornell received 53 votes from the panel of 31 Division 1 coaches, and is also on the bubble of the Associated Press top 25 poll –– occupying the second spot of “others receiving votes.”
The last Cornell team to find itself ranked in a national poll was the 1950-51 squad that climbed as high as No. 14 in the AP poll on Jan. 3, 1951. That season, the Red opened with nine straight wins, including one over Stanford. The team then fell out of the rankings following an 85-45 loss at Columbia.
The last Ivy League squad to make a splash in the national limelight was the 1997-98 Princeton that team that finished at No. 8 in the final AP poll and No. 16 in the final USA Today/NABC poll. The most recent team other than Penn or Princeton to appear in the national polls was Columbia in 1969-70, which ascended as high as No. 13 during a seven-week run.
In CollegeHoopsNet.com's (CHN) National Top 50 Ranking, Cornell is No. 30 in the country. Below is a summary of Cornell's rankings this season on CHN's Top 50.
Below, The Cornell Basketball Blog monitors the Ivy League's bracket and seeding projections until the 2010 NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday.
Below, some news and notes...They’ve been knocking on the door for a while, but the Cornell men’s basketball team finally cracked the Top 25, garnering just one more vote than Ole Miss in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll. It’s the first time in 59 years that the Big Red have been among the top 25 teams in the nation, dating back to Jan. 3, 1951.
That also makes them the first ranked Ivy team to crack the top 25 since Princeton did it at the end of the 1997-98 season. That squad finished No. 8 in the year-end AP poll and No. 16 in the final USA Today poll.
The Big Red are fresh off two dominating performances to open Ivy play. They trumped Dartmouth by 34 and then topped that by taking down Harvard (seemingly their closest rival in-conference) by a whopping 36 points.
In my opinion, this news all but seals the fact that Cornell as a contender is here to stay. They may be losing three superstars at the end of the year, but a Top 25 ranking (even in February) is a tough recruiting tool to combat. And that’s before we even factor what this national attention could do to their ranking in the NCAA Tournament. It looks like Penn’s resurgence in the Ivies won’t be as easy as waiting for Cornell’s “Big Three” to graduate.
In the wake of Saturday's 36-point blowout of Harvard, Cornell cracked the national men's basketball rankings on Monday, taking over the 25th spot in the latest ESPN / USA Today top 25 coaches poll.
Cornell was two spots out of The Associated Press top 25, with 39 votes.Cornell was last ranked in the AP poll during the 1950-51 season, but has never been ranked in the coaches poll. The Big Red is 18-3 on the season, with two losses against No. 4 Syracuse and No. 1 Kansas.
Cornell Hoops Reaches Top 25Coming off of two terrific blowout wins over Dartmouth and rival Harvard, the Cornell Big Red were voted into the National Top 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll for the first time in their history. The Big Red received 53 votes, and find themselves ranked 25th-- a truly historic achievement for an Ivy League squad. The Red also received enough votes to put them in 27th position in the AP Poll, just two slots away from the Top 25.
Cornell [18-3 (4-0), RPI: 34, SOS: 148] Big Red made a big statement Saturday night by blasting Harvard 86-50 at home. Cornell isn't your traditional Ivy League team. The Big Red won 71-67 at Alabama and 71-66 at St. John's. It also lost at Syracuse by 15 points and at Kansas by five. Cornell is 0-2 against RPI top-50 foes and 3-3 against the top 100. Since the Ivy League awards its automatic NCAA tournament bid to its regular-season champion, Cornell needs to win at Harvard in the rematch on Feb. 19 to feel really confident about making the NCAA field.
Just how good is 18-3 Cornell? Good enough to take an Ivy League team seriously when the NCAA Tournament starts?
Harvard looked to be the Big Red’s biggest obstacle to an unbeaten conference season until Cornell dealt the Crimson an 86-50 beatdown on Saturday — a day after beating Dartmouth by 34. The Harvard game got so out of hand that Cornell coach Steve Donahue used 18 players. That’s right, 18 players. How many teams even dress 18 players?
Cornell (4-0) and Princeton (2-0) are the only unbeaten teams in league play. They meet for the first time on Feb. 13 at Jadwin Gym.
Far Above Cayuga's Waters: After Cornell's decisive victory over Harvard this weekend, what are the chances that Cornell does NOT make the tournament? Could this team be an upset picks of sorts to at least make it out of the first round?
Eric Prisbell: I would expect Cornell to be in the field, earn a decent seed (10, 11 or 12) and be a trendy upset pick against some big boy from a power conference. This is a team that nearly -- and perhaps should have -- knocked off Kansas in Lawrence.
With no conference tournament in the Ivy, the regular season race is where it's at, so the victory over Harvard is huge. They play again Feb. 19, but Cornell is the big favorite to earn the automatic berth, no question.
It was great to see a must-see game in the Ivy League! I wish I could have gone.
For love of Ivy: If you missed it, the first Harvard-Cornell matchup went to the Big Red (18-3, 4-0) in a big way, 86-50, on Saturday. Cornell outscored Harvard, 38-24, in the first half. Cornell cleared its bench, with all 18 players getting at least two minutes on the court. Seven of the 13 bench players scored. Harvard may not want the rematch, Feb. 19, in Boston.
It was a big week for Palo Alto High grad Jeremy Lin, starting with a four-page spread (and a full-page photo of him) on Harvard basketball in Sports Illustrated. While that recognition was great for Lin, the weekend offered something potentially even better.
Harvard hit the road for crucial Ivy League games on Friday and Saturday, first at Columbia and then at Cornell. At stake for Lin and the Crimson was first place. As it turned out, the SI story proably was the highlight of the week as too many turnovers led to an 86-50 loss to Cornell on Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell won the battle for first place by using a 16-0 first-half run and a 17-0 second-half run to secure the win.
Harvard (3-1, 14-4) returns to action this weekend with a pair of pivotal games against Princeton (2-0, 11-5) and Penn, with both games being anticipated sellouts.
Cornell (4-0, 18-3), meanwhile, now has won 16 of its past 17 and its past 18 Ivy League games at home.
The good news for Harvard is that it did not have to win in Ithaca. The Crimson defeated Columbia on Friday, 74-45, to get its weekend split and will have a home date against Cornell on Feb. 19.
In the first half, Harvard looked every bit the young team on its first lengthy Ivy road trip. The Crimson turned the ball over 14 times in the first 20 minutes and Cornell took full advantage in using a 16-0 run for a comfortable 38-24 halftime lead.
Harvard got within 10 points twice in the second half with plenty of time remaining but followed its spurts with more turnovers as Cornell kept the Crimson at an arm's length. All told, Harvard committed 25 turnovers and Cornell responded with 12 three-pointers. Jeremy Lin led Harvard with 19 points.
Against Columbia, Lin scored 13 first-half points as he repeatedly carved his way to the rim in the opening -- making five of six field goals. He did not attempt a shot in the second half while sitting out the final eight minutes of the easy victory, Harvard's seventh straight. That's a streak of success not seen by Harvard since the 1995-96 season.
Big Red Machine
Round 1 of Cornell-Harvard went to the Big Red, and there was no need to go to the judges’ scorecards. Cornell was overpowing in a 86-50 win Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., showing that the Crimson still have plenty of work to do to dethrone the defending Ivy League champ.
The matchup between Cornell (18-3, 4-0 Ivy) and Harvard (14-4, 3-1) drew rare national attention for a league game, and many were left wondering what all the hype was about.
The experienced and deep Big Red smothered Harvard, forcing 26 turnovers. Cornell controlled the tempo completely, as evidenced by a remarkable 66-36 edge in field goal attempts.
Though Harvard coach Tommy Amaker was disappointed with the performance, the loss should serve as a valuable learning experience for his young squad. The Crimson have four games and two weeks to regroup before Cornell visits Cambridge on Feb. 19.
Though the Crimson will be tested by other conference foes - most notably on Friday at home against Princeton - it’s highly possible they will enter the Cornell rematch with a chance to draw even in the Ivy standings.
Neither the Ken Pomeroy or Jeff Sagarin rankings are used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Nevertheless, the KenPom.com site ranks Cornell No. 39 in the nation, while the Sagarin rankings have Cornell at No. 29. Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.
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