Basketball

By mutantmoobunny

  • Cornell win vs. S. Dakota

    Cornell win vs. S. Dakota
    Cornell Sun Coverage
    Cornell unveiled its Ivy League Championship banner before its first game of the season, then got back to work on defending its title with a 79-69 win over South Dakota. Junior Ryan Wittman had a hot start to the year with career-highs of 25 points and five assists, and classmate Geoff Reeves scored a career-high 21 points.

  • Cornell vs. Syracuse

    Cornell vs. Syracuse
    Cornell Sun Coverage The Red almost pulled off an upset for the ages when it traveled to the Carrier Dome to take on No. 16 Syracuse. Junior Ryan Wittman had an incredible night, scoring 33 points and making a school-record nine 3-pointers, but Syracuse rallied for the 88-78 win.

  • Cornell vs. Minnesota

    Cornell vs. Minnesota
    Cornell Sun Coverage Cornell nearly toppled Minnesota in junior Ryan Wittman's return to his home state, but the Gopher defense tightened up and Minnesota rallied to overcome the Red's 13-point second-half lead and take the win, 71-54. The game was also the 2008-09 debut of junior guard Louis Dale, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, who had been out with a hamstring injury.

  • Cornell win vs. La Salle

    Cornell win vs. La Salle
    Cornell Sun Coverage Center Jeff Foote scored 16 in the second half en route to a career-high 25 points to lead Cornell over La Salle, 79-70. The Red overcame a 14-point second-half deficit in the win %u2014 its most impressive victory of the season according to the RPI rankings.

  • Cornell thrashes Yale

    Cornell thrashes Yale
    Cornell Sun Coverage Cornell continued its run through the Ivy League with a 64-36 thrashing of Yale at Newman Arena. With the dominant weekend, kicked off by a 90-58 win over Brown, Cornell's Ancient Eight record sat at a perfect 4-0.

  • Cornell vs. Princeton

    Cornell vs. Princeton
    Cornell Sun Coverage Princeton handed Cornell its first Ancient Eight loss in 19 games, 61-41. The Tiger defense played hard all game long and held the Red to 32 percent shooting and just 12 percent from 3-point range. Bracketologists and other college basketball pundits revised their predictions to include Princeton in the NCAA Tournament with the Ivy League's automatic berth.

  • Cornell win vs. Harvard

    Cornell win vs. Harvard
    Cornell Sun Coverage Cornell put on a circus on offense and downed Harvard, 96-75, to temporarily quiet concerns about its offense a week after the 20-point loss to Princeton. Junior Ryan Wittman hit 4-of-7 from long range to break the school record for career 3-pointers made. The Red also set a new school record for most assists in a game (31).

  • Cornell vs. Yale

    Cornell vs. Yale
    Cornell Sun Coverage Yale handed the men's basketball team arguably its most humbling loss of the season, 72-60. The Bulldogs, who were thoroughly outplayed in a 64-36 loss at Newman Arena, held the Red to 38.3 percent shooting from the field and connected on 50 percent of its own shots.

  • Cornell vs. Harvard

    Cornell vs. Harvard
    Cornell Sun Coverage The game in Cambridge, Mass., came down to the last seconds for the second year in a row. Unlike 2008, however, Harvard came away with the 71-70 win to put on hold the Red's hopes at wrapping up a share of the Ivy title.

  • Cornell win vs. Penn

    Cornell win vs. Penn
    Cornell Sun Coverage Cornell clinched its second consecutive Ivy League Championship with a resounding 83-59 win over Penn at home. Junior Ryan Wittman added to his case for Ivy League Player of the Year with a game-high 25 points. Cornell's win combined with Princeton's 58-44 loss at Columbia handed the Red sole possession of the Ivy League title.