News and Notes: Around the Ivy League

Some news around the Ivy League...Penn head coach, Glen Miller was interviewed on Philly.com. Although there has been no confirmation from a reliable source, internet rumors are swelling that Penn freshman Garvin Hunt left the Penn basketball program last night. If true, Hunt would be the fourth Quaker to quit the program during 2008-2009. We will continue to monitor this story.The Daily Pennsylvanian recently wrote about the pressure on Glen Miller.MOSports.com looks back on the career of Dartmouth's Alex Barne...

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Recruiting News

In recruiting news around the Ivy League, Chicago Hoops.com reports that Josh Bartlestein, a former teammate of Cornell's Chris Wroblewski at Highland Park, Illinois, High School and a postgrad student at Phillips Exeter committed to attend the University of Michigan as a preferred walk-on. Bartlestein turned down scholarships from Wagner, San Diego, Elon, UIC, Detroit and Valparaiso.The following list consists of players from the high school class of 2010 that were identified by Rivals.com, Scout.com or other major recruiting websites as recruiting targets for Ivy League schools. Below each recruit's name is a sample list of schools recruiting these student-athletes.IVY LEAGUE RECRUITING TARGETS CLASS OF 2010 Julian Boatner (Bloomington...

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Columbia Lands Point Guard

Pictured above, Cornell's Geoff Reeves throws down a slam on Columbia last season in Ithaca. Below, some breaking recruiting news in the Ivy League.The Cornell Basketball Blog received news that Columbia received another late verbal commitment. The Lions welcome Dean Kowalski of St. Patrick's High School in Elizabeth, N.J. Kowalski is a 5'9" point guard.For a list of Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting Targets and Commitments click here.For our archived stories on Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting News just click here. Transfer list-Outgoing Players 2008-2...

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McMillan and Other Future Ivy Leaguers to Academic All American Classic

As we have previously reported, Cornell recruit, Peter McMillan (6'7" Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mass.) will participate in the Academic All-American Classic on May 9 in Ontario, California. Several future Ivy League players are expected to participate. Inside UCLA published extensive information about the event and the participan...

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Top Prospects to Attend Cornell Basketball Camp

The Cornell men’s basketball program and Head Coach Steve Donahue are offering The Cornell Basketball Prospect Camp from June 26-28 on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York. This camp is intended for high school students in grades 9-12 and is recommended for players who are serious about potentially playing collegiate basketball at Cornell or at other institutions.The Cornell Basketball Prospect Camp will provide basketball instruction by Cornell coaches and serves as an opportunity for high school prospects to gain invaluable exposure to the Cornell coaching staff.Check the Cornell Basketball Prospect Camp website for more information.Prospective high school players interested in playing basketball for Cornell should contact the Cornell coaching...

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Recruiting News

Pictured above, a promotional poster from the 2003-2004 season. Below, some recruiting news...A source informed The Cornell Basketball Blog that Dee Goens, a 6'0" guard from Marist High School in Atlanta, Georgia committed to Holy Cross last night. Goens received some recruitment attention from Cornell, but was reportedly heavily pursued by Harvard, as well as by Penn, Brown and Columbia. Goens turned down scholarships to Furman, Tulane, Murray State, and Georgia State during the winter in order to pursue an opportunity to play in either the Ivy Leauge or Patriot Leag...

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Schedule Update: Pirates!

The Pirates Plank Blog hosted on NJ.com has picked up the news that Cornell will host Seton Hall during 2009-2010. Here is what Pirates Plank writes:With next season's schedule months away from completion, the Ith[a]ca Journal is reporting Seton Hall will take to the road to play Cornell on November 20th. The game would be part of a home-and-home series with the Big Red, who have won the Ivy League for two consecutive years. The game gives the new core of Pirates the opportunity to play a decent opponent away from home, which is generally smiled upon by the NCAA Selection Committee, though the game does not give enough of an RPI benefit to make the risk worth it for most teams. We expect this to be part of a larger trend. Two years ago,...

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Is Cornell-Penn Basketball a Rivalry?

The Daily Pennsylvanian is asking its readers who is Penn's biggest rival in sports. We here at The Cornell Basketball Blog previously suggested that Cornell-Penn is a good basketball rivalry. But our friends from West Philly disagreed.Here is what the D.P. writes today:...Considering the men’s basketball hasn’t played a truly meaningful game against Princeton since 2004, that rivalry certainly isn’t at its height. Penn-Cornell has fast become a more important rivalry as Cornell has won the last two M. Hoops Ivy titles. In football, Penn-Cornell historically was a huge game, one that nearly rivaled (no pun intended) Harvard-Yale. So I ask you, which of the following rivalries is the biggest currently at Penn: Penn-Cornell FootballPenn-Cornell...

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Recruiting News

The Cleveland Plain Dealer published the news of Daylen Harrison's commitment to Wyoming over Cornell. An excellent student, Harrison carries a 4.0 grade-point average and a 30 on the ACT. He averaged 16 points and 7 rebounds per game this season for Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary.The Plain Dealer notes that Harrison only visited Cornell and Wyoming despite holding offers from Air Force, Butler, Ball State, and Columb...

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Recruiting News: High Rankings for Incoming Cornell Recruits

Rick Bolus' High Potential Basketball Recruiting Service recently published its final rankings of collegiate basketball prospects in Tennessee and Indiana for the class of 2009.In Bolus' Tennessee rankings, he placed Cornell recruit, 6'1" Miles Asafo-Adjei (pictured above) in the Top Twelve.In Bolus' Indiana rankings, he placed Cornell recruit, 6'6" Errick Peck in the Second Twel...

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Alumni News: ESPN's Doug Gotlieb Says Ka'ron Barnes ('04) is ESPN's Top Baller

The following is an excerpt from Doug Gotlieb's chat session on April 21, 2009 on ESPN:Allen (Lexington, KY): If there is an ESPN basketball pickup game draft (excluding former pros) - who goes first? Doug Gottlieb: I think Mike Bucklin -- Buck is Izzo's nephew. He's in great shape, great mid-range game, knows how to play. There's also a kid named Jason Roberts who went to KU -- he's another guy who's a pick-up game warrior. The best former D1 player who has a PA job here is Karon Barnes. He was Cornell's leading scorer a couple of years ago. He's pretty good. Charlie Villanueva's brother, Rob. Of the on air guys, I think Russillo might be my first pick. He's kind of a bruiser, can play inside and out, knows his limitations. Plus, he grew up...

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Schedule Update: Big Red to Ball with The Hall

In case you missed the news last weekend.... the Big Red have another opponent on the 2009-2010 schedu...

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Cornell Basketball Recruiting Video

SlopeTV, working in conjunction with Cornell Athletics, the Cornell Men's Basketball program and other supporters of Cornell Big Red Basketball, present the official 2008-2009 Season Highlights and Recruiting Vid...

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Peck Expands Game for Ivy League

Cornell recruit, Errick Peck, a 6'6" forward from Cathedral High School in Indianapolis may be the best incoming recruit in the Ivy League next season. But even more important, he may also have the biggest upside of any of the newcomers.While in high school, Peck played exclusively in the paint as a power forward or center. At 6'6'" -- high major college programs, notably Purdue, Indiana and Penn State, took notice and loved his athleticism and blue collar work ethic on defense and on the glass. Often referred to as a "tweener"-- these schools never made scholarship offers because they believed he was too short to play inside the paint in the Big 10 and had not yet proven he was capable of playing on the perimeter as a small forward.Nevertheless,...

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Recruiting News: Forward Chooses Wyoming Over Cornell

Several months ago Cornell offered Daylen Harrison, a 6'6" forward from Akron, Ohio's St. Vincent-St. Mary High School (SVSM), the alma mater of LeBron James. In addition to Cornell, Harrison also held early offers from Columbia and Air Force. After some impressive late season play, Butler and Ball State also jumped into the mix and made offers. Still, Harrison opted not to commit to a school and decided to wait out the process. But after some stellar play in the state playoffs he received a late scholarship offer just two weeks ago from the University of Wyoming. Harrison quickly arranged a flight to Laramie, visited the campus and subsequently committed.The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported his commitment today.Harrison's commitment to the...

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Ryan Wittman in Ithaca All Stars Finals

Ryan Wittman has advanced to WVBR Radio's Ithaca Area All-Stars Finals!Forget the fact that Wittman has a second bedroom just to find enough space for all of his honors and awards from his highly decorated career. This WVBR Ithaca All Star championship is the honor he really wants to w...

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Recruiting News

We've received some correspondence recently from readers seeking information about Cornell's incoming recruits.Bios of each of Cornell's incoming 2009-2010 recruits (and a list of recruiting targets for the future) can be found by clicking here or taking the link on the right column of the Blog.Unofficially, Cornell has seven new players joining the active roster for 2009-2010. The include the following:Mark Coury 6-9 red-shirt senior (transfer from Kentucky)Max Groebe 6-4 red-shirt junior (transfer from UMass)Errick Peck 6-6 freshman Indianapolis, IndianaMiles Asafo-Adjei 6-1 Nashville, TennesseeJosh Figini 6-8 freshman Chisago Lakes, MinnesotaEitan Chemerinski 6-8 freshman Rockville, MarylandPeter McMillan 6-7 freshman Los Angeles, CaliforniaIncluding...

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News and Notes: Around the Ivy League, More on Penn's Town Hall Meeting

The Daily Pennsylvanian has extensive coverage today of Penn's town hall meeting.Frankly speaking, there was absolutely nothing shared with the audience by the Penn coaching staff or the athletic department that most insiders in the Ivy League already knew about Penn basketba...

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News and Notes: Around the Ivy League, Meet Glen Miller Day (UPDATED 3:27 P.M.)

Penn is hosting its emergency town hall meeting today with Quakers' head basketball coach, Glen Miller (pictured above). Miller will likely address (at least indiretly) Cornell's back-to-back Ivy League championships and Penn's inability to play competitively within the league in recent seasons.We personally have nothing against Glen Miller. Others do. However, it should be noted that Miller never won an Ivy League title with players that he recruited. Sure, during his first season with Penn in 2006-2007, his Quaker team rolled to an Ivy title, but Penn did so entirely with an inherited roster of players recruited entirely by Fran Dunphy, Miller's predecessor.During Miller's second season with Penn, Cornell turned the Ivy League upside down...

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Peck Showcases Perimeter Skills in City-County All-Star Game

On Saturday at the Eric Gordon Super Shootout City-County All-Star Game, Cornell recruit, 6'6" Errick Peck teamed up with two of his high school teammates from Cathedral High School, Kelsey Barlow (Purdue commitment) and Jordan Hamilton (uncommitted) to lead the City All Stars to a dominating 128-77 win. Peck told the Indianapolis Star, "I'm going to miss playing with them a lot. I've been playing with them the last eight or nine years, so it was a lot of fun to get out there again."The Indy Star noted that Peck, who was selected to the Indianapolis Star Indiana All-Star team, showed a much different game than during the high school season, when he played primarily around the basket. Most of his points Saturday in the All-Star game came...

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Newman Arena Hosts Seton Hall, St. Joseph's...

(click picture for larger image)The last time Cornell hosted a school from a BCS conference was Georgia Tech on November 23, 2003, when 4,762 fans packed Newman Arena. The wait is now over.During 2008-2009, an improved home schedule will feature Cornell hosting Seton Hall of the Big East Conference as well as St. Joseph's of the Atlantic 10. Cornell is also expected to have road games this season with Kansas (the likely preseason #1 team in the nation), Syracuse, Alabama and La Salle among others. The Big Red will also face Bryant, South Dakota and Boston University aga...

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All Star Game Today for Errick Peck, NBA's Eric Gordon to Attend

According to the Indianapolis Star, Cornell recruit, Errick Peck will participate today in the Eric Gordon Super Shootout City-County All-Star Game. Gordon, the former Indiana Hoosier who recently completed his rookie season with the Los Angeles Clippers, will be in attendan...

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Recruiting News

In recruiting news, according to the Indianapolis Star, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Western Michigan, Army, Navy and Air Force, are all recruiting Chris Welker, a 6'5" class of 2010 forward from Zionsville High School in Indiana.Additionally, we've added some information to our transfer list and as always...For a list of Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting Targets and Commitments click here.For our archived stories on Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting News just click he...

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Schedule Update: The Big East Comes to Newman Arena!

Add Seton Hall to the 2009-2010 schedule. Brian Delaney of the Ithaca Journal broke the news that Cornell will host Seton Hall during November and visit the Pirates the following season. Other likely opponents for 2009-2010 include@ Kansas, St. Joseph's (Home), @ La Salle, @ Boston U., Bryant (Home), @ South Dakota, @ Syracuse and @ Alabama.Cornell to host Seton Hall in NovemberBy Brian DelaneyThe Ithaca JournalApril 24, 2009ITHACA -- For the second time this decade, Steve Donahue has scheduled a home game with a major nonconference opponent.On Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, the two-time defending Ivy League men's basketball champion Big Red will host Big East Conference member Seton Hall at Newman Arena. Cornell will make a return trip to South...

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Columbia Secures Another Late Commitment

After struggling to land recruits throughout much of the year, Columbia has made a very late push for verbal commitments. Last week, Columbia received a late commitment from forward John Daniels and also made another pick-up today with the verbal of 6'3" California guard, Brian Barbour after he visited the campus last weekend. Columbia's recruiting class now consists of six players, including four high school seniors and two Division I transfers.For a list of Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting Targets and Commitments click here.For our archived stories on Cornell and Ivy League Recruiting News just click he...

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2009 Senior Highlight Video (HD)

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Celebration in Downtown Ithaca Saturday for Cornell Basketball

From the Ithaca Journal:At 1 p.m., the City of Ithaca will celebrate the accomplishments of the Cornell men's varsity and Ithaca High School boys junior varsity basketball teams with a proclamation from Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson. The Cornell team went to the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row, while the IHS team won the Southern Tier Athletic Conference Championship. The Cornell team will also shoot hoops and play basketball skill games with children. A basketball hoop will be set up on The Commons and all kids are invited to participate.The Cornell Big Red Marching Band will make its annual visit to downtown and parade on The Commons from 3-3:30 p...

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Cornell Men's Basketball To Be Honored By City Of Ithaca On Saturday

Men's Basketball To Be Honored By City Of Ithaca On Saturday CornellBigRed.comITHACA, N.Y. -- After a second straight Ivy League title and NCAA tournament appearance, the Cornell men's basketball team will be honored by the City of Ithaca on Saturday, April 25 at 1 p.m. on the Downtown Ithaca Commons. A proclamation from Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson will be presented and the Cornell team will also shoot hoops and play basketball skill games with area children. A basketball hoop will be set up on the Commons and all kids are invited to participate. Along with the Cornell team, the Ithaca High School junior varsity team will also be honored after winning the Southern Tier Athletic Conference Championsh...

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Recruiting News: One that Got Away from Us....

Although his name was not splashed around here on The Cornell Basketball Blog (yes, we sometimes keep recruiting names off the Blog), make no mistake about it, Cornell really wanted San Antonio's Ned Cox. Unfortunately, the explosive 6'1" guard opted to take a scholarship to Evansville. Below is an excerpt from an article appearing in the Evansville Courier Press, the first public announcement of Cox's recruitment by Cornell and commitment to Evansville.Small but spectacularGo to youtube.com, the popular Internet site with video on any and everything. Type in the name of Ned Cox, the latest recruit for the University of Evansville men's basketball team. Next, click on the picture next to the tagline that reads: "Judson senior Ned Cox dunks...

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Highlights from the 2008-09 season

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News and Notes: Around the Ivy League

Both The Dartmouth and the Brown Daily Herald have articles recapping their respective basketball seaso...

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A Date in Cornell Basketball History: Boys to Men, A Glance Back at Preseason '06-'07

Pictured above, Cornell's freshmen class of the 2006-2007 season (with the '06-'07 media guide insert). The once baby-faced rookies are now Cornell's senior leaders of the '09-'10 season. Below, we go back in time yet again. Blue Ribbon Yearbook's preview of the Big Red heading into the 2006-2007 season.Blue Ribbon Yearbook (2006-2007) Cornell COACH AND PROGRAMOne man who averaged just more than a basket per game was responsible for Cornell's greatest victory of the 2005-06 season. No box score of the win exists, but everyone in Ithaca knows what happened. Last Jan. 24, during a rebounding drill in practice, Big Red sophomore Khaliq Gant collided awkwardly with two other teammates and lay paralyzed on the Newman Arena floor. Gant suffered...

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