Holt Harmon Highlights

Above, a new highlight video package of committed Cornell recruit, Holt Harmon (Plano West HS), Plano, TX, 6-9, 245, PF.

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Cornell Athletics Game Notes: Cornell at St. Bonaventure (11.11.11)

Men's Hoops Opens 2011-12 Campaign At St. Bonaventure
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Game #1: Cornell at St. Bonaventure
Tip off: Friday, Nov. 11, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Bob Lanier Court at The Reilly Center (5,480), Olean, N.Y.
2011-12 Records: Cornell (0-0, 0-0 Ivy); St. Bonaventure (0-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Series Record: Cornell leads 8-4
Last Meeting: St. Bonaventure won 56-54, November 19, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Radio: HITS 103.3 FM (Barry Leonard)
TV: None
Live Stats: available at www.GoBonnies.com
Live Video: available at www.GoBonnies.com
Tickets: available by calling (607) 254-BEAR

HEAD COACH BILL COURTNEY
Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his first season at Cornell (10-18, .357) ... Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell men's basketball team will test itself right away in one of the most hostile environments around when it opens the 2011-12 season at St. Bonaventure on Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. at Bob Lanier Court at the Reilly Center in Olean, N.Y. Barry Leonard will provide the call on HITS 103.3 FM, which can be heard live on the internet as part of the RedCast subscription service.

With three Ivy League titles in the last four seasons, Cornell basketball has high expectations, and those aren't unwarranted under second-year head coach Bill Courtney. Despite losing much of its frontcourt strength due to graduation, the Big Red returns arguably the top backcourt in the Ivy League in seniors Chris Wroblewski and Drew Ferry. Wroblewski, a second-team All-Ivy pick and a third-team Capital One Academic All-American a year ago, returns as the conference's leader in steals and was second in assists while averaging 14.2 points per game. Ferry led the Ivy League in 3-point field goals made (80) and is one of three double figure scorers back for the Big Red (11.9 ppg.). The third remaining double figure scorer is junior forward Errick Peck (11.0 ppg.), Cornell's top returner in the frontcourt and one of the most talented players in the Ancient Eight.

Cornell is coming off a 10-18 season that saw Courtney's team drop a number of close games throughout the season while adjusting to a new style of play. In all, that team lost 10 contests by five points or less, including games to eventual NCAA tournament teams Boston University and Princeton, nationally ranked Minnesota and the Bonnies. However, the Big Red closed the season as one of the hottest team in the Ancient Eight, winning six of its final nine contests.

ABOUT ST. BONAVENTURE
• 2010-11 Record: 16-15 (8-8 Atlantic 10).
• Conference: Atlantic 10.
• Head Coach: Mark Schmidt (Boston College '85), 54-68, fifth season at St. Bonaventure; 136-158, 11th season overall.
• St. Bonaventure returns four starters from last year's squad that posted the school's first winning record (16-15) and postseason appearance (CBI) since 2001-02. That team featured just 10 scholarship players.
• Senior center Andrew Nicholson is an All-America candidate and returns as one of the nation's top returning scorers (20.8 ppg.).
• St. Bonaventure is picked to finish fourth in the league preseason poll, the highest since SBU was slotted second in the East division prior to the 2002-03 campaign.
• The Reilly Center, home of the Bonnies, is widely considered to be one of the top homecourt advantages in the country. SBU has won 68 percent of its games all-time on its home court.
• Head coach Mark Schmidt has done a fine job turning around the fortunes of a downtrodden program and has posted a 54-68 record in his first four seasons.

CORNELL VS. THE ATLANTIC 10: Cornell is 18-19 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10. The Big Red is 8-4 all-time against St. Bonaventure and has also faced Dayton (0-1), Duquesne (0-2), Fordham (4-4), La Salle (3-2), Massachusetts (1-0), Richmond (0-1), Saint Joseph's (0-3), Saint Joseph's (1-3), Saint Louis (0-1), Temple (1-0) and Xavier (0-1). Cornell has never played Charlotte, George Washington or Rhode Island. The Big Red was a perfect 4-0 against Atlantic 10 teams in 2009-10, topping Massachusetts and La Salle on the road, knocking off Saint Joseph's at home and defeating A-10 champ Temple in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Jacksonville, Fla. The Big Red has won six of the last nine meetings against Atlantic 10 squads dating back to its 58-54 victory at St. Bonaventure in 2004-05, but dropped last year's contest to the Bonnies 56-54 in Ithaca, N.Y.

THE SERIES: The Big Red leads the all-time series 8-4, with the last win coming in Olean during the 2004-05 season, a 58-54 Cornell victory at the Reilly Center. The Big Red had its five-game win streak in the series snapped a year ago in a 56-54 last-minute victory for the Bonnies. The teams first met on Jan. 1, 1923, a 28-16 win for Cornell in Olean.

THE STORY LINES
• Head coach Bill Courtney enters his second season at the helm of a Big Red program. His team finished the 2010-11 season strong, winning six of its last nine contests. Cornell will attempt to improve on a 10-18 record from a year ago by turning around 10 losses that came by five points or less.
• Cornell has had a tough preseason, as 10 different players have missed varying amounts of time due to injuries.
• The Big Red are flying under the radar despite winning three of the last four Ivy League championships and advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2010.
• Cornell had won six straight season openers, including the last two on the road (2009 at Alabama, 71-67, and 2010 at Albany, 65-61).
• Leading scorer Chris Wroblewski is considered one of the top point guards in the country. He led the Ivy League in steals, ranked second in assists and sixth in scoring a season ago en route to earning third-team Capital One Academic All-America honors. He is a nominee for the Bob Cousy Award as the nation's top point guard for the second straight season.

SEASON OPENERS: The Big Red has posted a 73-41 all-time record in its previous 114 season openers. Cornell has won six consecutive openers, including a 71-67 win at Alabama in 2009-10 and a 65-61 victory at Albany in 2010-11, and is now 12-19 on the road to open a year, 53-16 at home and 8-6 in neutral site/unknown site games.

WROBLEWSKI NAMED TO CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA THIRD TEAM: Chris Wroblewski was named to the Capital One Academic All-America third-team for his performance on the court and in the classroom during the 2010-11 season. He was one of two Ivy League players to earn the honor, joining Brown's Garrett Leffelman, a second-team member. Wroblewski was the fourth Cornellian to earn a spot on the Academic All-America team and the first non-senior. Jeff Gaca was a third-team pick in 1993, Lenny Collins was a third-team member in 2006 and Graham Dow earned first-team accolades in 2007.

WROBLEWSKI NAMED FINALIST FOR LOWE'S SENIOR CLASS AWARD: Senior guard Chris Wroblewski has been named one of 30 finalists for the Lowe's Senior Class Award it was announced today by the committee. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. He joins Penn's senior guard Zack Rosen as the only Ivy League players on the list. Wroblewski was a third-team Capital One Academic All-American as a junior and has twice been named to the academic all-district team. The two-year team captain has been involved in numerous charitable endeavors and has been a four-year starter on the court. His teams have won two Ivy titles and is a two-year member of the Bob Cousy Award Watch List as the nation's top point guard. A second-team All-Ivy pick as a junior, he was the conference's leader in steals and was second in assists and assist-to-turnover ratio and sixth in scoring. He has twice led the conference in 3-point field-goal percentage.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 82-39 in the last four seasons.
• The Big Red is 44-12 in its last 56 Ivy League contests over the four three years.
• The team is 24-17 in its last 41 games away from Newman Arena and 18-15 in its last 33 true road games.
• Cornell is 47-9 over its last 56 home games and 30-7 in the last three seasons and 42-8 in the last four years.
• The Big Red has won its last six season openers.
• In non-conference games, the Big Red is 38-27 over the last four seasons.

TALL IVY: Over the last five seasons, Cornell's 53-17 record is the best among Ivy League teams in conference action. Penn, who claimed the 2006-07 title, is second at 40-30, followed by Yale (39-31), and 2010-11 Ivy champions Harvard (36-34) and Princeton (36-34). Rounding out the field is Columbia (32-38), Brown (29-41) and Dartmouth (16-54).

STATING THE STATES: Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 16 states and one Canadian province.

CORNELL BEYOND THE ARC — 600 AND COUNTING: The Big Red hit nine 3-pointers vs. Yale on March 5, its 627th consecutive game with a made trey. With five 3-pointers at Seton Hall on Nov. 14, Cornell extended its streak of games with at least one 3-pointer to 600. The last time Cornell did not hit a 3-pointer was against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2). Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, Cornell has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 676 of 680 games, connecting on 4,202 treys, an average of 6.2 per game. Cornell has set records for treys in a season in each of the previous three years, going from 228 in 2007-08 to 241 in 2008-09 and to 326 a year ago. Cornell has hit at least 10 3-pointers in a game 28 times in 62 games over the last two years, including an Ivy League single-game record 20 at Brown in 2009-10.

BOMBS AWAY: Cornell made 251 3-pointers in 28 contests during the 2010-11 campaign. The 9.0 3-pointers per game ranked second all-time in a season for the Big Red (behind only the 9.6 per game in 2009-10) and ranked sixth among all Division I teams a season ago. Last season, Cornell ranked first nationally in 3-point percentage (.430) and third in 3-pointers made per game in 2009-10, and ranked in the top 20 nationally in 3-point percentage in 2008-09 (fourth, .411), 2007-08 (fourth, .409) and 2006-07 (18th, .396).

RED-WHITE SCRIMMAGE: Senior Drew Ferry scored 19 points and Chris Wroblewski finished just two rebounds shy of a triple-double to help White top Red 76-41 on Oct. 22 at Newman Arena in Bartels Hall in the annual Red-White Scrimmage. Ferry connected on five 3-pointers and had three assists and two steals without a turnover, while backcourt mate Wroblewski controlled the game with 17 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds. The duo led four double figure scorers, as Dwight Tarwater chipped in with 17 points and Josh Figini notched 10. Both players also recorded five rebounds. Freshman Galal Cancer also had a strong debut with seven rebounds and five assists. The White team posted 21 assists and just six turnovers in picking up the win for assistant coach Marlon Sears. The Red team's lone double figure scorer was Johnathan Gray with 10 points. Miles Asafo-Adjei scored nine points and had five assists and four rebounds. Jake Matthews scored eight points for assistant coach Mike Blaine's squad.

WHAT WAS LOST: Cornell said goodbye to three seniors last spring, as Mark Coury, Aaron Osgood and Adam Wire closed out their Big Red careers.
• Coury was one of the team's top post players in his two seasons on the court at Cornell, first as a reserve on last year's Sweet 16 squad in 2009-10, and last year as a regular in the rotation. A transfer from the University of Kentucky, Coury's biggest highlight came when he beat the shot clock to hit the game-winning basket with 35 seconds left at the Palestra to help Cornell sweep Penn a year ago.
• A team captain in 2010-11, Osgood was expected to be a major factor in the post, and was when healthy. One of the team's top scorers (7.3 ppg.) and rebounders (4.5 rpg.), Osgood played in 43 career games with eight starts, shooting 52 percent from the floor and averaging 3.0 points and 2.0 rebounds.
• Another team captain, Wire was a four-year letter winner who ranked among the top 20 all-time in steals and field goal percentage in school history. He totaled more that 100 steals and 100 assists and set career highs in scoring, rebounding and assists in his final season.

HOW TO FOLLOW CORNELL
• Men's basketball games will be broadcast on HITS 103.3 FM for the 2011-12 season. Longtime voice of the Big Red Barry Leonard returns on the call with the play-by-play, while former All-Ivy center Eric Taylor'05 is on board to do color analysis. A half-hour pregame show and postgame analysis will enable Big Red fans to follow Coach Bill Courtney's team throughout the season. The audio of all games will also be available as part of the RedCast subscription service.
• The Big Red's home contests will all be broadcast live with streaming video as part of the RedCast subscription service. Visit www.CornellBigRed.com/showcase for all the latest information on Cornell broadcasts.
• Cornell will use SIDEARM Live Stats for each of the Big Red's home games in 2010-11. Visit www.CornellBigRed.com for all of the official statistics.
• You can follow the team on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Highlights, interviews and features on all 36 of Cornell's varsity sports can be found at www.youtube.com/cornellathletics, www.facebook.com/cornellathletics or www.twitter.com/cornellsports.

NEXT UP: The Big Red will open its 2011-12 home season against Binghamton on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena in Bartels Hall.

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News and Notes: Monday Edition

Below, some news and notes for Monday...

• Above, our Tweets of the Day from the world of Cornell Basketball on the twittersphere.

• The Bona Venture recaps St. Bonaventure's exhibition win over Mansfield. The Bonnies' head coach Mark Schmidt said, "" We turned the ball over too many times. I thought we were over-dribbling a little bit, but overall I thought we rebounded well. I thought we defended at times well, especially in the first half. Overall we learned a lot and we got to go back to practice tomorrow and get better for Cornell." Cornell visits St. Bonaventure in the season opener for both teams on November 11. Fans interested in watching the Big Red at St. Bonaventure via streaming online video will be able to do so though Bonnies All Access.

• Above, an excerpt from ESPN the Magazine's preseason power rankings.

• The Valley News notes that this week local Pittsburgh area basketball players "Micah Mason of Highlands and Nolan Cressler of Plum are expected to sign letters of intent with Drake and Cornell, respectively."

• The UB Spectrum makes indirect reference to Drew Ferry's participation on the Athletes-in-Action club that traveled to China this summer with members of the Buffalo basketball team. Cornell faces Buffalo this month. The Spectrum notes, "The athletes were part of a 10-man team that consisted of players from Appalachian State, Memphis, Michigan, Clemson, Northwestern, and Cornell."
  

• The Ivy League Office notes that Cornell's Chris Wroblewski was nominated for the prestigious Lowe's Senior Class Award. Only 25 players nationwide were nominated. Penn's Zach Rosen is also a nominee out of the Ivy League. The League office issued the following news release:
  

Penn's Zach Rosen (left) and Cornell's Chris Wroblewski were selected as candidates for the Lowe's 2011-12 Senior CLASS Award

Cornell's Wroblewski, Penn's Rosen Selected as 2011-12 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Candidates

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- The Ivy League saw two of its men's basketball student-athletes selected as candidates for the 2011-12 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, the company announced Friday. Cornell senior guard Chris Wroblewski and Penn senior guard Zach Rosen are among the 30 men's basketball seniors chosen.

To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition.An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

Wroblewski was a third-team Capital One Academic All-American as a junior and has twice been named to the academic all-district team. The two-year team captain has been involved in numerous charitable endeavors and has been a four-year starter on the court. He was a key player on two conference championship teams including the Big Red's Sweet 16 run as a sophomore. Wroblewski is a two-year member of the Bob Cousy Award Watch List as the nation's top point guard. A second-team All-Ivy pick as a junior, he was the conference's leader in steals and was second in assists and assist-to-turnover ratio and sixth in scoring.

Rosen is a two-time first-team All-Ivy and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District honoree. He posted 22 double-figure scoring games as a junior and averaged 14.3 points per game. He led Penn with 152 assists, which is fourth on the school's all-time single-season list, and became the first player in Penn history to exceed 100 assists as a freshman, sophomore and junior.

The 2011-12 candidate class includes three men's players who were members of last year's CoSIDA Academic All-American team, one Associated Press All-American and seven players who are on teams ranked in the Associated Press preseason top 25 poll.

Lowe's, an official Corporate Partner of the NCAA, will announce the men's Senior CLASS Award® winner during the 2012 NCAA Men's Final Four®, which will be held March 31 and April 2 in New Orleans. The women's award winner will be announced during the NCAA Women's Final Four®, which will be held April 1 and 3 in Denver.

The 60 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists in both men's and women's basketball midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, Division I men's and women's coaches and fans who will select one finalist who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.

For more information on all the candidates, visit www.seniorCLASSaward.com.

• Slope Media's Time Weisberg will be interviewing Chris Wroblewski on November 8 and will make the podcast available on the Slope website.
  

• In Ivy League news, Penn squeaked out a narrow exhibition win over Canadian school, Carleton.
  

• The Boston Globe profiles Boston College freshman, Patrick Heckmann and writes, "[Steve] Donahue, in his second year at BC, had international recruiting connections from his time at Cornell and Penn, but coaching in the Ivy League, where teams can’t offer scholarships, his resources were limited. 'We got to know a lot of people that are over there,' Donahue said. 'Whether it’s owners, agents, people that run the FIBA in those countries. So you get to know the younger kids. We’ve always done that, but we never had scholarships in the Ivy. So it was hard with no foreign aid.’'"
  

• Check out The Cornell Basketball Blog's Season Preview Index for a complete listing of 2011-2012 Cornell and Ivy League basketball season previews.

• Cornell will have at least four games televised during the 2011-2012 season including at Stony Brook (Cablevision 118), at Maryland (ESPN3), at Illinois (ESPN3) and at Penn State (Big Ten Network). Time Warner Cable, VerizonFios1, and Comcast Sports are among other networks that may also pick up Cornell games against Ivy League opponents such as Columbia, Princeton and Penn.

• Check out The Cornell Basketball Blog's updated profiles of Cornell's four committed recruits from the classes of 2012 and 2013, Braxston Bunce (Kelowna Secondary School) Kelowna, BC, Canada, 6-11, Holt Harmon (Plano West HS), Plano, TX, 6-9, F; Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012); and Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013). In addition, a listing of the Ivy League's committed recruits in the class of 2012 is available by clicking here. Above, new video highlights of Holt Harmon.
  

• If you have not had the opportunity to check it out yet, take a look at the exclusive Inside Tour of Cornell Basketball. The tour video was produced by the staff of Slope Media with background music performed by Cornell alumnus, Alex Kresovich. The background song, is the main theme song for the 2012 version of the video game, NBA2K. Also a must see-- check out the three-year combined highlight video package produced by Slope Media from the '08-'09, '09-'10 and '10-'11 Big Red seasons.

• Below is an updated directory listing of some Twitter feeds associated with the Cornell basketball program. You can also follow The Cornell Basketball Blog on Twitter.

-Josh Wexler ('88)
-Steve Cobb ('05)
-Ryan Rourke ('06)
-Andrew Naeve ('07)
-Jason Canady ('08)
-Khaliq Gant ('09)
-Conor Mullen ('09)
-Ryan Wittman ('10)
-Pete Reynolds ('10)
-Jon Jaques ('10)
-Louis Dale ('10)
-Alex Tyler ('10)
-Geoff Reeves ('10)
-Jeff Foote ('10)
-Andre Wilkins ('10) (inactive)
-Aaron Osgood ('11)
-Adam Wire ('11)
-The Cornell Rebounders Club
-Max Groebe ()
-Andrew Ferry ()
-Peter McMillan ()
-Errick Peck ()
-Josh Figini ()
-Galal Cancer ()
-Ned Tomic ()
-Dominick Scelfo ()
-Jake Mathews ()
-Dwight Tarwater ()
-Manny Sahota ()
-Dave LaMore ()
-Shonn Miller ()
-Devin Cherry ()
-Nolan Cressler (committed recruit)
-Braxston Bunce (committed recruit)
-Holt Harmon (committed recruit)
-Tim Higgins (committed recruit)
-Assistant Coach Mike Blaine ()
-Assistant Coach Marlon Sears ()
-Assistant Coach Arlen Galloway ()
-Brian Delaney, WPIE/ESPN Radio Ithaca ()
-Cornell Daily Sun Sports ()
-Slope Sports ()
-WVBR Sports ()
-Former assistant coach, Jay Larranaga ()
-Former head coach, Steve Donahue ()
-Former assistant coach, Nat Graham ()
-Former assistant coach, Woody Kampmann ()
-Former Assistant Coach Ricky Yahn ()
-Former Intern Assistant Ryan Woerner ()

• Throughout the year we provide periodic updates on Cornell's alumni playing professionally. Below, some updates:
  

-Jeff Aubry ('99) (Halcones Rojos, LNBP Mexico premier league/Arecibo Capitanes, BSN Puerto Rico premier league)-As of November 7, Aubry is averaging 5.1 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. Halcones is 16-4 (2nd place out of 14 teams in the Mexican LNBP). On November 4 , Aubry finished with 4 points and 4 rebounds in a 85-82 win over Abejas. He followed up on November 6 with 12 points and 4 rebounds in a 98-97 defeat to Lechugueros. Aubry, a 6'11" center, splits his time in both the Mexican and Puerto Rican professional leagues. He is also a member of Puerto Rico's national team joining several NBA stars and is expected to compete with the team in 2012 Olympic qualifying. A well traveled pro player, Aubry spent several seasons in the NBA D League in the early part of his career with the Fayetteville Patriots and Florida Flame and earned honorable mention all D-League in 2002. During his more than a decade of pro experience, Aubry has also played professionally in the ABA (Miami Tropics) and abroad in Puerto Rico (Arecibo, Leones de Ponce, and Santurce, BSN Puerto Rico), Spain (Tarragona, LEB Gold Spain 2nd Division), Mexico (Halcones Rojos and Chihuahua Dorados, LNBP Mexico premier league), Poland (Slask Wroclaw, PLK Poland premier league), Argentina (Libertad Sunchales, Liga A Argentina), Uruguay (Hebraica, LUB Uruguay )and Peru (Alas Peruanas, Peru).

-Cody Toppert ('05) (Ourense, LEB Silver Spain 3rd Division)-As of November 7, Toppert is averaging 7.8 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. Ourense is 4-1 (1st place out of 13 teams in the Spanish LEB Silver). On November 6 in a win over Tenerife, Toppert scored 9 points. Like Aubry, Toppert, a 6'4" guard, is a veteran of the NBA D League, a former Albuquerque Thunderbird. During his pro career, Toppert has also played in England (Plymouth Raiders, British Basketball League), Italy (Forli, LegaDue Italy 2nd division), the CBA (Great Falls Explorers), as well as in Portugal (Barriernese, LCB Portugal premier league), Germany (Goettingen, BBK Bundesliga Germany premier league) and New Zealand (Taranaki Mountain Airs, NBL New Zealand premier league).

-Jason Hartford ('08) (Unsigned free agent)-As of November 7, Hartford is unsigned for the 2011-2012 season. He was cut during the week of October 17 by Cader Rocha, LUB Uruguay premier league and is now a free agent. He was averaging 12.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, second on the team in both categories. The 6'9" Hartford previously played professionally in Portugal (Ginasio, LCB Portugal premier league), Finland (Huima, Korisliiga Finland premier league) and Mozambique (Maxaquene, D1 Mozambique premier league).

-Louis Dale ('10) (Goettingen, BBK Bundesliga Germany premier league)-As of November 7, Dale is averaging 13.7 points (leading his team in scoring), 2.4 assists, and 2.0 rebounds per game. Goettingen is 1-6 on season (17th place out of 18 teams in the German BBK). On October 5, Telkom pounded Goettingen, 84-65 despite 17 points from Dale. Dale is in his second professional season, both seasons in Germany with Goettingen.

-Ryan Wittman ('10) (Unsigned free agent)-As of November 8, Wittman is unsigned for the 2011-2012 season. He played the 2010-2011 season in Italy (Forli, LegaDue Italy 2nd division) and in the United States (Fort Wayne Mad Ants, NBA D-League).

-Jeff Foote ('10) (Unsigned free agent)-As of November 8, Foote is unsigned for the 2011-2012 season. He played the 2010-2011 season in Spain (Melilla, LEB Gold Spain 2nd division) while on loan from Euro League powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv of Israel.

-Adam Wire ('11) (Vaerlose, Denmark BBK premier league)-As of November 8, Wire is averaging 10.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. Vaerlose is 3-6 (7th place out of 10 teams in the Danish BBK). On November 2, in a 92-88 win over Horsens, he finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds. On November 4, 2011 he was named the Eurobasket Player of the Week for Denmark. The 2011-2012 season is his rookie year.

-Aaron Osgood ('11) (Vaerlose, Denmark BBK premier league)-As of November 8, Osgood is averaging 10.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game. Vaerlose is 3-6 (7th place out of 10 teams in the Danish BBK). On November 2, in a 92-88 win over Horsens, he finished with 14 points and 8 rebounds. The 2011-2012 season is his rookie year.

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Blueprint for Success, the yearbook commemorating Cornell's memorable 2009-2010 season is now on sale and available for delivery. Visit the Cornell Athletics website to order your copy today! Or pick up a copy sold in the Cornell Store on campus.

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About How Dwight Howard Is

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Notes from the Marquette scrimmage/practice

George Mason practiced with Marquette yesterday and since it was closed to the public and media I don't have much to report. However I did hear that Marquette got the better of Mason in the situational drills and that Paris Bennett left in the morning session due to an ankle injury. He did not return to the session, hopefully it is nothing serious.

UPDATE: A commenter below mentioned Bennett was seen on crutches yesterday.

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Ed Steitz (Cornell '43), an Architect of the Three-Ball

ESPN published a piece on Ed Steitz and his role in the creation of the three-point shot. He is a graduate of Cornell in the Class of '43 . Steitz is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Big Red Photo Shoot

From Cornell Athletics, the basketball team had their preseason photo shoot at Newman Arena on Wednesday night. Here are some outtakes, a preview of the images from the shoot.

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