May 12, 2007 - 8:37pm
By Michael Mix
Pregame Thoughts:
Here we go. It is a great day, and Cornell is going to make the final push. It has won all 13 games this season, but it needs to win four more to get the grand prize. Standing in its way in the first round is Towson, a team that lost to Delaware in its conference final. The Red somehow earned the No. 4 seed in this tournament, despite going undefeated during the regular season. Frankly, I do not know what else it could have done, except a harder schedule. However, with six Ivy games, this is not an easy task. Cornell played Duke, Princeton, Notre Dame and Syracuse. It is not the Red’s fault that Syracuse had a down year. Despite Cornell’s low strength of schedule, it had a very high RPI (second in the nation). At the very worst, the Red should have gotten a two or three seed. A four is just absurd.
