April 28, 2008 - 12:00am
By Keenan Weatherford
Just four days after suffering a rough loss to Syracuse in its final home regular-season game, the Red rebounded with a hard-fought, 12-9, victory over Ivy rival Harvard that gave Cornell second place in the Ivy League and kept its postseason hopes alive.
The Red closes out the Ivy season with a 5-2 conference record (10-5 overall), which is good for second place to Ivy champ Penn. The Quakers, incidentally, defeated No. 1 and three-time defending national champion Northwestern, 11-7, over the weekend. Although Cornell won’t be awarded the Ivy champion’s automatic berth into the NCAA tournament, Cornell’s victory over Harvard coupled with a win next weekend at Notre Dame could greatly improve the program’s chances of receiving an at-large berth into the tournament.