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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
News and Notes: Friday Edition
(Photo Tina Chou, Cornell Daily Sun)Below, some news and notes for Friday...The NCAA released its official 2011 attendance figures. As we noted previously, after Cornell led the Ivy League in attendance for three consecutive seasons during the 2007-2008 through 2009-2010 seasons, the Big Red had the league's third highest attendance during 2010-2011, only behind Penn and Princeton. Behind Cornell, Columbia had the league's fourth highest attendance total in 2010-2011 with Harvard placing fifth.Above, far right No. 15, John McCord (Cornell '97) is still getting it done in the French premier league at age 38. Through April 29, the 6'6" forward is averaging 11.1 points and 6.0 rebounds per game and notched 17 points (on 7/10 FGs) and...
Thursday, April 28, 2011
George Mason to interview Jeff Jones today?
There have been a ton of names thrown out there for the head coaching job at George Mason lately. From names like Jeff Capel to guys like Stony Brook's Steve Pikiell. People who we may have thought were in the early running like Bill Courtney and Mike Lonergan seem to not be high on Tom O'Connor's list. Neither have been contacted by the university and Lonergan is already talking to GW about their vacancy. Meanwhile the local media near Cornell seems to think Courtney isn't going anywhere. One name that may or may not make the Mason fan base cringe is Jeff Jones, who is currently the head coach at American. Yesterday afternoon Greg Burton of ESPN950 radio in Richmond claimed that Jones will be interviewing at George Mason...
News and Notes: Thursday Edition
(Photo Tina Chou, Cornell Daily Sun)Below, some news and notes for Thursday...While many Cornell supporters feared that George Mason might attempt to lure Bill Courtney to fill its head coaching vacancy, The George Mason Basketball Blog reports that the Patriots have commenced interviewing. Multiple sources have reported that GMU appears to be targeting as its top candidates Mike Young (Wofford head coach), Jeff Jones (American U. head coach), Jeff Capel (former Oklahoma and Old Dominion head coach) and Mike Lonergan (Vermont head coach).A pair of new honors just came in for incoming Cornell recruit, Galal Cancer (Christian Bros. HS) Albany, NY, 6-3, G. Cancer was named 4th Team All State by the New York State Sportswriters Association (NYSSA)...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
News and Notes: Wednesday Edition
Louis Dale ('10) is shown on Tuesday on the main page of Germany's BBL (Budesliga) website. Dale and his Goettingen club open the BBL Playoffs on April 30 at the Deutsche Bank Skyliners. Below, some news and notes for Wednesday...AnnArboor.com writes, "How did these kids get so smart, with a the 'brain drain' and lack of 'cool cities' in Michigan? Four seniors have committed to play at Ivy League schools: Flint Powers point guard Patrick Lucas-Perry to Penn, Dexter's 6-8 David LaMore to Cornell, Novi's 6-8 Samer Ozier to Columbia and Okemos do-it-all guard Mack McKearney to Dartmouth. Another all-stater, 6-7 Jackson Lumen Christi senior Dan Chilcote visited the Air Force Academy last week, but continue to have Columbia under consideration....
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
George Mason will finally play VCU twice during the regular conference schedule
Since the 2006-2007 season George Mason and VCU have only met once annually during the CAA regular season schedule. The conference shifts the home and home series opponents every couple of years but the result has been the Patriots and Rams, two of the CAA's elite not facing each other more than once a year unless they got matched up in the conference tournament. The CAA just released today the men's basketball scheduling format for the next three seasons:"The new format features 18 conference games and is similar to the recently completed six-year schedule that was adopted prior to the 2005-06 campaign. Each team was assigned five “permanent partners” that they play home and away during all three seasons (10 games). The remaining six “non-permanent partners” rotate through a three-year...
News and Notes: Tuesday Edition
Above, a special 2010 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 Preview Issue published by the Daily Orange of Syracuse University which hosted the East Regional. Below, some news and notes for Tuesday...Some tweets of the day from the Cornell Basketball family...Colgate Athletics announced that Matt Langel accepted the head coaching position. Langel, an assistant coach and member of Fran Dunphy's Temple staff, coached against Cornell in the Big Red's first round victory over the Owls in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Just weeks later after Cornell defeated Temple, Langel was one of three finalists for the Cornell head coaching vacancy when Steve Donahue departed to Boston College. Bill Courtney ultimately received the job offer over Langel and Wisconsin...
Monday, April 25, 2011
No Conversation Between George Mason and Bill Courtney
Brian Delaney of the Ithaca Journal reports via Twitter that Bill Courtney has had no discussion with George Mason about becoming the Patriots' next head coa...
Are all the assistant coaches following Jim Larranaga to Miami?
We already knew that the assistant coaches were looking for work elsewhere after the news about Jim Larranaga's departure surfaced. Now it seems they may be headed to Miami as well. Josh Barr of the Washington Post, who covers recruiting and local high school sports, tweeted today that all the George Mason assistant coaches were following Larranaga to the ACC:Barr would be a reliable source as he has a long history of reporting on recruiting updates that have to do with the assistant coaches. If the entire coaching staff goes to Miami you really have to start worrying about certain players following them there as well. &nb...
News and Notes: Monday Edition
Below, some news and notes for Monday...Below, some tweets from the weekend.Incoming Cornell recruit, Dave LaMore (Dexter HS) Whitmore Lake, MI, 6-10, C, was named First Team All-Washtenaw County by AnnArbor.com. The site notes, "Dave LaMore (sr., C), Dexter: LaMore averaged 14.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game. Hacking the 6-9 LaMore -- a 48.8 percent shooter from the field -- wasn’t an effective strategy as he was 79 of 105 (75.2 percent) from the free-throw line. He had two of his best games of the year against Dexter’s toughest opponents with 29 points against Huron and 23 against Ypsilanti. LaMore will continue his playing career at Cornell."The Cornell Daily Sun writes, "Over the past three years, Cornell athletics...
Who will be the next head coach at George Mason?
Still weird to think I won't be seeing Jim Larranaga at the CAA media day this year but when you read about why he left George Mason, you almost can't blame him. If your a Mason fan your anger and blame really can't be placed on Larranaga but rather the University administration and AD Tom O'Connor. They have made it pretty clear they don't seem to care all that much about staying competitive in what has become a much improved CAA conference. Larranaga on 106.7 The Fan this morning completely dodged the question about his rumored rift with O'Connor, it's safe to say that was a big issue. Here is the audio from that exchange:player.render('fileUrl=http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d0/dX/dG/dU/dX/XGUX_4.MP3?authtok&name=4/25 Seg. 11- L.A. Lakers scout...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
News and Notes: Saturday Edition
Cornell's first game in Newman Arena was January 6, 1989, a 96-70 win over Army. At the time, Newman's home building was referred to as Alberding Field House. Above, some game programs from the 1989-1990 and 1990-1991 seasons referring to the building's original namesake. Also above, a screen shot of the center court circle in Newman Arena circa 1990. In October of 2000, former President Hunter R. Rawlings III announced a major new investment in Cornell's athletic programs by Hank and Nancy Bartels, both members of the Cornell Class of 1948. They provided $15 million in endowment funds, as a one-to-one challenge match, in support of the athletic programs. The gift is on behalf of their family, including their sons, Ken and...
Recruiting News
Below, some recruiting updates from around the Ivy League. Above, incoming Cornell recruit, Devin Cherry (Meridian HS) Meridian, MS, 6-3, G.For a list of committed players to attend Ivy League schools, including profiles of incoming Cornell recruits, and a listing of Cornell's prospective recruiting targets, click here. For a list of general Ivy League prospective recruiting targets, click here. Please note that we update these lists daily.Class of 2011 NewsThe Zanesville (OH) Times Recorder reports that Tanner Gibson (Zanesville HS) Zanesville, OH, 6-2, G, committed to the University of Albany after originally committing to Columbia. The Columbia staff reportedly requested that Gibson attend a year of prep school after he...
Roster Report: Offseason Ivy League Transactions
Below is an updated look at the projected roster sizes for the Ivy League teams for the 2011-2012 season. Roster figures include incoming freshman and account for players graduating or departing the program for other reasons.Harvard (updated roster) (21 projected players including 3 seniors, 6 freshman, and 1 returning red-shirt)Cornell (updated roster) (21 projected players including 4 seniors, 6 freshmen)Penn (updated roster) (19 projected players including 6 seniors, 7 freshmen)Columbia (updated roster) 19 projected players including 6 seniors, 7 freshmen) Dartmouth (updated roster) (18 projected players, including 3 seniors, 6 freshmen)Princeton (updated roster) (17 projected players including 3 seniors, 4 freshmen)Yale (updated roster)...
Friday, April 22, 2011
Update on the assistant coaches
Photo by John PowellWhile the search begins for next head coach in Fairfax I've learned that the George Mason assistant coaches all have interviewed for other coaching jobs. -Chris Caputo interviewed for assistant coach jobs with Kentucky and Florida-Mike Huger interviewed with Villanova-Eric Konkol interviewed at a Division III schoolAll three coaches were asked by Jim Larranaga to join him in Miami. It doesn't seem like any are being considered for a promotion to head coach at George Mason.Also regarding the 2011 incoming freshmen it seems that both Corey Edwards and Vaughn Gray are undecided about if they will still be coming to George Mason. They both are waiting to see who the new head coach is before making a final decision.[Source:...
Cornell 2010-2011 Season Highlights Video
The Season Highlights Video as Produced by SlopeTV.The Season Highlights Video as Produced by Slope...
Coach Courtney on the Twittersphere
Above, a sample of some of the chatter from the Twittersphere about George Mason University's potential pursuit of Cornell's Bill Courtney as a head coach. As a word of caution, all of the above "tweets" are mere speculation. George Mason has not publicly identified a list of candidates, nor are there any reports that Cornell has been contacted for permission to speak to Courtney. On the same topic, the Daily Pennsylvanian writes, "First-year Cornell coach Bill Courtney may not be long for Ithaca. This one's very preliminary, but here's the theory, as per the Washington Post: George Mason coach Jim Larranaga is bound for Miami to take over the Canes' opening (You know, the one that Harvard coach Tommy Amaker was in talks for, but turned...
George Mason University to Target Bill Courtney?
The Washington Post is reporting that Cornell's Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Men's Basketball, Bill Courtney is a potential target replacement for George Mason University after its coach, Jim Larranaga left his head coaching position at George Mason today for the University of Miami. The Washington Post writes, "One candidate to replace Larranaga could be Cornell Coach Bill Courtney, who was an assistant to Larranaga at George Mason for eight seasons from 1997 to 2005. He helped recruit a number of the players who led George Mason to the Final Four in 2006. Courtney also has been an assistant at Virginia, Virginia Tech and Providence."The Blog, GMU Hoops, endorses Courtney's hire by George Mason. GMU Hoops writes:Early favorite...
Early favorite to replace Jim Larranaga could be Bill Courtney
With Jim Larranaga now officially leaving for Miami who will be the next George Mason head coach? One name your going to hear a lot about is former Larranaga assistant Bill Courtney. Courtney practically built the 2006 Final Four team and still has ties to the school. Boosters have told me he paid money out of his own pocket to travel to Cleveland to watch this year's team in the NCAA tournament. Courtney left the program right before the 2005-2006 season to go to Providence and watched the team he had a large hand in recruiting reach the Final Four. The university paid for him to be there during that year at the NCAA tournament. He then moved on to be an assistant at Virginia, Virginia Tech and brief stint at...
Jim Larranaga to leave George Mason, accept Miami head coaching job
Gary Parrish of the CBSSports.com and Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports have confirmed that Jim Larranaga is taking the Miami job.The news came as a bit of a shock to the Mason nation yesterday. I certainly didn't see this coming, especially after Larranaga turned down the Providence job for the 2nd time. The move is a little puzzling to the college basketball community because the University of Miami isn't exactly a better coaching job despite being an ACC opportunity. Larranaga is leaving behind a potential Top 30 team in next year's Patriots and at 61 is taking on the task of rebuilding a struggling ACC program.Almost every member of the seems to be scratching their head as to why now and why Miami. He's had opportunities...
Roundup of the Larranaga to Miami news
Confused about what is going on with all this Jim Larranaga to University of Miami news? Your not alone. The news broke yesterday afternoon and the latest is that he is expected to meet with Miami officials today. As of late Thursday he has not accepted the job. Here is what we know at this point:- Gary Parrish broke the news yesterday that Coach L was in serious discussion with Miami about their coaching vacancy- Steven Goff of the Washington Post confirmed that Miami asked for and was given permission to talk to Larranaga- Local DC radio station 106.7 The Fan reported that George Mason assistant coaches were looking for other jobs. They also insinuated that one of Larranaga's reasons for leaving could be the University not paying to keep his assistants. Some...
News and Notes: Friday Edition
Above, Cornell's postseason NCAA Tournament Media Guides from 2008, 2009, and 2010. Below, some news and notes for Friday...Tonight is Cornell's season awards banquet. The season highlights video produced by SlopeSports will be premiered during the awards banquet. The video will be made available later during the weekend (and possibly as early as tonight) on The Cornell Basketball Blog.Numerous sources, including Jeff Goodman of FoxSportscom, are reporting that Jim Larranaga, head coach of George Mason has accepted the head coaching position at Miami (Fl). Cornell head coach, Bill Courtney and Cornell assistant coach, Ricky Yahn, are both former George Mason staff members. Several George Mason beat writers and bloggers have already speculated...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Jim Larranaga in discussion with Miami officials about the school's coaching vacancy
Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com just posted this interesting little tidbid about Coach Larranaga:"George Mason's Jim Larranaga has had serious discussions with Miami officials about the ACC school's coaching vacancy, multiple sources told CBSSports.com on Thursday. Whether Larranaga is leveraging for a better deal from George Mason or on the verge of actually moving to Miami is unclear, both sources said. But the talks are advanced and ongoing, and the 61-year-old New York native has developed into Miami's top target."More to come as this story develops. Hopefully it's just some smoke and perhaps Larranaga is trying to get another raise from George Mason. Keep in mind that Larranaga is widely viewed as the ambassador of the CAA (and mid-majors...
