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Adam Wire ('11) and Aaron Osgood ('11), teammates on the Vaerlose basketball club in Denmark's premier league have launched a blog (click here), covering their adventures in Copenhagen.NBA Finals 2011 Photos
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Osgood ('11) and Wire ('11) Live From Denmark
Adam Wire ('11) and Aaron Osgood ('11), teammates on the Vaerlose basketball club in Denmark's premier league have launched a blog (click here), covering their adventures in Copenhagen.A Date in Cornell Basketball History
Continuing our regular series, A Date in Cornell Basketball History, above, an advertisement for "Junior Weekend" and an excerpt from a game preview appearing in the Cornell Bulletin from February 1946 (the wartime newspaper of Cornell University in place of the temporarily suspended Cornell Daily Sun). The Bulletin advertises a pep rally for Cornell's home contest against Penn on February 2. The Big Red prevailed 70-58 and finished the 1945-1946 season 6-2 in the EIBL (the Ivy League predecessor) and 12-5 overall. The Junior Weekend also featured "freshman cap burnings" and a "Stairway to the Stars" semiformal dance.News and Notes: Sunday Edition
Below, some news and notes for Sunday...- In news around the country, the Big 5 is just a shell of its former self according to ESPN's Dana O'Neil. ESPN also has a feature on Penn State while YahooSports has some coverage of Maryland. Cornell faces Penn State on December 21 and Maryland on January 3.
- Several Cornell alumni were involved in exhibition games in Europe over the weekend. Goettingen (Germany) defeated Karlsruhe 82:67 with Louis Dale ('10) chipping in 14 points. Goettingen, is a member of Germany's premier league while Karlsruhe is in the second division. Meanwhile, Zastal (Poland), a premier league team in its country, took down Sponkia 87-77. Jeff Foote ('10) scored 16 points wihile Ryan Wittman ('10) contributed 14. On September 1, Foote scored 19 points while Wittman added 8 points as Zastal, cruised to an 81-53 win over Polpharma, a PLK league rival. Listen to an interview following the game with Foote on Radio Zielona Gora.
- TheValley News Dispatch writes:
D-I hoopers
Basketball season is more than two months away, but Alle-Kiski fans can look forward to watching a pair of Division I recruits play.
Plum's Nolan Cressler verbally committed to Cornell last week, joining another local standout, Highlands' Micah Mason, a Drake recruit.
The Valley hasn't had two Division I recruits heading into a season since 2004, when Freeport's Dave Bauman committed to Albany and Plum's Mike McKee picked Kent State.
Cressler narrowed his list of five offers to Cornell and Yale.
"Cornell is the place I will be the happiest," said Cressler, who averaged 25.5 points per game last season.
Mason was the WPIAL's top scorer, at 33.3 points. He is awaiting medical clearance to return to competitive basketball. He was diagnosed with POTS Syndrome and spinal cord meningeal compression, which has caused varying symptoms, such as irregular heartbeat, dizziness and digestive problems.
Friday, September 2, 2011
News and Notes: Friday Edition
Below, some news and notes for Friday...- Following the news of Harvard losing two more players, the program's 15th and 16th cuts from the roster in the last 3 seasons, the worst attrition rate by a wide margin in the Ivy League, we have updated our league roster report. Dartmouth and Penn join Harvard among Ivy schools which have lost 10 or more players to reasons other than medical/health conditions or graduation. Instead, these roster losses are attributed to involuntary player cuts or players leaving the program due to dissatisfaction with the experience.
- Cornell Athletics published a photo album of the Friedman Strength & Conditioning Center, which serves as the training facility for some of Cornell's athletic teams, including men's basketball. Several of Cornell's teams have their own separate fitness facilities, such as Cornell's ice hockey and wrestling teams. Above, Cornell basketball players, Jon Gray and Miles Asafo-Adjei make the "Wall of Honor" for their accomplishments in the training room.
- As more and more Ivy League teams roll out their 2011-2012 schedules and as opinions are voiced on the level of difficulty and challenge of those schedules, below we take a look back at the results of Cornell's five games against Top 25 opponents during the 2009-2010 season. Cornell ultimately finished 2-3 on the year against Top 25 teams (losing to three teams ranked in the top 10) with the Big Red finishing as No. 17 in the country.
- YourPlum.com published an article on the commitment of Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012) to Cornell.
- The Fairfax City Patch interviewed Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013), a recent commit to Cornell:
PVI Junior Recruited to Ivy League, Tim Higgins will attend Cornell University in 2013
Tim Higgins is 6'10'', a junior at Paul VI Catholic High School and the youngest ever basketball recruit to the Ivy League. Higgins confirmed his verbal acceptance to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. this week.
According to Paul VI Coach Glenn Farello, “Tim is one of those rare players who combines work ethic, intelligence and respect for
all, in an unassuming way. Tim is as focused on academics as he is basketball. Going to Cornell will give him the best of both. We are expecting great success for Tim when he suits up for games in the Ivy League, as well as in the classrooms on the Cornell campus.”In the midst of this exciting news, Tim took time to answer a few questions for Patch.
Patch: Why did you choose Cornell? Were other schools recruiting you?
Tim: I chose Cornell because of its academic opportunities, the coaching staff, the campus and how I fit into their basketball program. I did have other schools within the Ivy, Patriot and Colonial leagues recruiting me.
Patch: Have you visited Cornell? If so, what did you like about the school?
Tim: Yes, I have visited Cornell twice. I like its variety of schools and courses within the university. I also liked the size of the campus and its multitude of libraries and buildings.
Patch: Most high school seniors would envy your position - you've already got the whole college thing figured out! But you're only a junior - what's that feeling like?
Tim: It is a good feeling that all my prior work and efforts have helped me achieve this goal. Now I will have extra time to focus on my academic work and basketball at Paul VI.
Above, a pair of Cornell basketball related tweets from the twittersphere in the last 24 hours. Breaking down the 2011-2012 schedule
Last night the team released their schedule for the 2011-2012 season and if you've been following this blog there were no surprises of the listed non-conference opponents. That's because their is still a home non-conference game to be added.
"Mason may also add another home non-conference game, either in mid-November or December."
There is no way the school and the coaching staff would pass up a chance to add another home game, they obviously just haven't found a good match-up yet. Although at this point with most schools having already released their full schedules I can't imagine their options are great. I'm guessing it would be sometime in mid-November because as of now, they only have two home games slated for that month, one of which being the exhibition match against Lycoming. The preseason NIT games make it difficult to squeeze an extra game in but I'm sure they will find a team to come to Fairfax.
While the non-conference opponents won't wow you again this season, you can't discount how good potential wins against Virginia Tech and Virginia might end up being. Those games have been getting some press as the better non-conference games within the ACC and will no doubt be excellent early tests for this revamped Patriots squad. Tech might be taking a step back this year from a team that narrowly missed the NCAAs but Virginia will be a much improved team as they have started to bring in some top recruits. Let's also not forget that success in the preseason NIT can bring them some really solid opponents at Madison Square Garden (Syracuse) during Thanksgiving time. Fans ragged on last season's schedule and it turned out to be a good enough resume to make the dance as an at-large and finish the season with an RPI of 24.
Bucknell was in the NCAA tournament last season and usually atop of the Patriot League standing year in and year out. Radford and Manhattan are nothing to get excited about but wins are the resume are wins on the resume. Duquense and Charleston are usually in the top 100 RPI and sometimes the top 75. And there's always the Bracketbuster game to boost the team's RPI and resume.
The CAA slate is where the real excitement is as the team tries to repeat last season's success of a 16-2 record. After the first conference game at Towson in early December the Patriots will have two tough roads games at ODU and Drexel in the beginning of January. Since they only play Drexel once, that could an important stretch during conference play this season. Throw a road in at JMU and it could very well be their toughest month on the schedule.
After only playing VCU once in recent years they finally get them twice this season; both in the span of 11 days. The Rams come to the Patriot Center February 14 and then Mason travels to Richmond February 25. The ODU, Drexel road games will be important in January but these two against VCU at the end of the season could really determine where the Patriots are in the final CAA standings.
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While the non-conference opponents won't wow you again this season, you can't discount how good potential wins against Virginia Tech and Virginia might end up being. Those games have been getting some press as the better non-conference games within the ACC and will no doubt be excellent early tests for this revamped Patriots squad. Tech might be taking a step back this year from a team that narrowly missed the NCAAs but Virginia will be a much improved team as they have started to bring in some top recruits. Let's also not forget that success in the preseason NIT can bring them some really solid opponents at Madison Square Garden (Syracuse) during Thanksgiving time. Fans ragged on last season's schedule and it turned out to be a good enough resume to make the dance as an at-large and finish the season with an RPI of 24.
Bucknell was in the NCAA tournament last season and usually atop of the Patriot League standing year in and year out. Radford and Manhattan are nothing to get excited about but wins are the resume are wins on the resume. Duquense and Charleston are usually in the top 100 RPI and sometimes the top 75. And there's always the Bracketbuster game to boost the team's RPI and resume.
The CAA slate is where the real excitement is as the team tries to repeat last season's success of a 16-2 record. After the first conference game at Towson in early December the Patriots will have two tough roads games at ODU and Drexel in the beginning of January. Since they only play Drexel once, that could an important stretch during conference play this season. Throw a road in at JMU and it could very well be their toughest month on the schedule.
After only playing VCU once in recent years they finally get them twice this season; both in the span of 11 days. The Rams come to the Patriot Center February 14 and then Mason travels to Richmond February 25. The ODU, Drexel road games will be important in January but these two against VCU at the end of the season could really determine where the Patriots are in the final CAA standings.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
News and Notes: Thursday Edition
Below some news and notes for Thursday...
Above, our Tweets of the Day from the twittersphere...- In preseason exhibition action in Poland, Cornell alumni-- Jeff Foote ('10) scored 19 points while Ryan Wittman ('10) added 8 points as their club, Zastal, cruised to an 81-53 win over Polpharma, a rival in Poland's PLK league.
- The Daily Pennsylvanian notes that Mike Hall (Woodward Academy) College Park, GA, 6-10, F/C, has narrowed his college list to five schools: Virginia Tech, George Mason, Penn, Harvard and Cornell. Hall has scheduled visit dates to George Mason (September 1), Penn (September 16) and Harvard (September 23). Of the schools already eliminated from consideration, Hall had offers from Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, Charlotte, Northwestern, Cal, Florida State, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Murray State, New Mexico State, Fairfield, Furman and Tennessee Tech according to Rivals.com. It is not known whether Hall will use his two additional NCAA permitted official visits to his other finalists.
- VirginaPreps.com published the following story on the recruiting commitment of Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013) to the Cornell Big Red. Higgins joins Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012) as committed recruits in the last week.
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