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Cornell Puts Its Best Foote CenterBt John WaltersFanHouse.comJanuary 31, 2010ITHACA, N.Y. -- There was a "Nerd Alert!" in college basketball Saturday night, as the top two titans in the Ivy League, Harvard and Cornell, met on the hardwood. Ordinarily such a contest would generate little outside interest beyond the campuses of the Ancient Eight, the hallways at Sports Illustrated (an inordinate number employees of which are Ivy-educated) and a niche cadre of Vegas gamblers.Not this weekend. When the Crimson (14-3) visited the Big Red (17-3), fans at sold-out Newman Arena were treated to a matchup of two potential NCAA Tournament teams that featured, as it was billed, two potential NBA players. The Ivy League has never sent two representatives...

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News and Notes: Afternoon Edition

Below, some afternoon news and notes...Time Warner's News 10 Now added some video highlights of Saturday's Cornell-Harvard game.Jameson Flemming of the Bleacher Report tweets, "Beating Harvard by 36 jumped Cornell 15 spots in Kenpom.com's rankings. That's unheard of this late in the season."The Hoops Report writes:Cornell Uses Foote to Kick Harvard's ButtITHACA, N.Y. – In 2006, when then-Cornell basketball player Khaliq Gant checked into a local hospital in nearby Elmira to rehab an injury, one of the nurses who attended to him was Wanda Foote.The two got to talking. Wanda informed Khaliq she had a son who played basketball. His name: Jeff Foote, a rail-thin 6-foot-9 product that wasn't on anyone's mind, much less Cornell's radar.After walking...

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News and Notes

Below, some news and notes...Our compilation of media recaps from Saturday's Cornell win over Harvard can viewed by clicking here.There are a lot of comments and observations in the media about the great crowd and band atmosphere at Saturday's game in Ithaca. We noticed that several former members of the 2008-2009 Cornell basketball team were in attendance, including Khaliq Gant, Conor Mullen, Adam Gore, Jason Battle and Marc Van Burck.More details further down below, but Cornell's RPI shot from No. 45 on Saturday to No. 33 today, following Cornell's "schooling" of Harvard in Ithaca. Cornell is No. 41 in the Pomeroy Ratings and No. 30 in the Sagarin Ratings.CollegeHoopsNet.com writes:Kentucky and Cornell make statements in their respective...

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Harvard Schooled in Basketball by Cornell, 86-50

Below, recaps of Cornell's win over Harvard on Saturday.<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=foxsports&from=sp&vid=45ebd07a-7645-4585-ac9d-110d0920753e" target="_new" title="The Goods: Ivy League contenders">Video:...

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