Let's Go Red!
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This was possibly the funniest moment of the entire trip.
Show Some Love
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The Cornell cheerleaders pose with the men’s basketball team in Bartels Hall before departing for the airport on Tues morning.
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Wednesday's Schedule
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For Coverage of the entire men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament run, direct from Anaheim, click here.
Tonight, Cornell got to practice in Anaheim for the first time.
Tomorrow, the teams that will play on Thursday have their press conferences. Cornell is scheduled to have it’s media session at Noon and an open practice around 12:45 p.m.
Just talking with some players and others in the media, although a heavy underdog, it seems to Harrison and me that Cornell CAN DEFINITELY WIN this game. Harrison will deal with the keys for Cornell much more in-depth, but here are a few we see for now:
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Traveling With Royalty
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Editor’s Note: Sun Senior Writers Josh Perlin and Harrison D. Sanford are traveling with the men’s basketball team to Anaheim. This is their story:
9:58 a.m. — We Better Hurry
After picking up Harrison in my car, we park at my house, forget to lock the car doors (or at least I don’t recall doing it), and speedily drag our luggage to Bartels. This is a microcosm of how the last 24 hours have been: disorganized and rushed. Only 15 hours ago, Harrison and I learned we would be seated on the plane to Anaheim with the team, at which time I made a four-hour drive to Ithaca to cut my Spring Break short. Harrison was already in Ithaca, lucky him.
10:10 a.m. — March Madness
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M. Hoops Scheduling Indiana, NIT Preseason Tourney in 2008-09
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Numerous sources with knowledge of the men’s basketball team’s scheduling have confirmed that the team is close to playing in the Preseason NIT and against Indiana next season. The sources asked to remain anonymous because Cornell’s schedule has not been formally announced yet. None of the sources knew if a contract had been signed for either event, which would make them officially part of the Red’s schedule, but they did confirm that, in both cases, negotiations are ongoing or had been completed.
Cornell Director of Athletic Communications Jeremy Hartigan declined to comment. Cornell coaches could not be contacted because the team was traveling to Anaheim, Calif., for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
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A Cornell Sports Weekend King Leonidas Would Be Proud Of
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Madness? THIS IS SPARTA … I mean ITHACA!
I am not even kidding: if there has ever been a time to show your school spirit and attend a Cornell sports event, this is it. Cornell sports are absolutely amazing this Friday through Sunday.
You have a chance to see three teams with projected NCAA entrants: that’s three teams with some of our nation’s best athletes, right here, at Cornell!
THIS IS BLASPHEMY!
Cornell sports … advancing on a national level?
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Questions Remain With C.U. Financial Aid Packages
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This is the final part of a three-part series in which The Sun explores Cornell’s difficulties in athletic recruiting because of non-competitive financial aid packages.
The question Cornell coaches and Director of Athletics Andy Noel want answered is simple: how can other Ivy League schools attempt to catch up with Harvard, Princeton and Yale’s financial aid packages, but Cornell cannot?
This week, The Sun reported that Cornell is losing Ivy recruits to the other seven schools because of non-competitive financial aid packages. Schools around the league fear a competitive imbalance is developing, in violation of the Ivy League Statement of Principles, as a consequence of the superior financial aid packages offered by Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Meanwhile, other Ivies are attempting to catch up by improving their packages, but Cornell is not.
Aid and Packaging
When asked why other Ivy schools have been able to come up with better packages, Noel had a simple response.
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Financial Aid, Principles Should Be Priority
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I discovered the “crisis” in Cornell athletics at the beginning of the semester, when I started asking questions for a story about Cornell recruiting. Naturally, I went to some Cornell Athletics staff and coaches (the people with direct knowledge of recruiting). Instead, I discovered an enormous and mounting sense of fear: the recruits were committing elsewhere across the board for Cornell sports, and financial aid was a significant factor. (I can only imagine the same being true for non student-athletes, though I have no information to support this).
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Financial Aid Threatens Ivy Competition
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This is the second part of a three-part series in which The Sun explores Cornell’s difficulties in athletic recruiting because of non-competitive financial aid packages.
On Tuesday, The Sun reported that Cornell is losing athletic recruits to the other seven Ivy League schools because of better financial aid packages. The Sun also reported a fear around the conference that a gap is widening between certain Ivy schools’ abilities to attract recruits because of differences in financial aid packages, resulting in a competitive imbalance among the schools that is in violation of the Ivy League’s Statement of Principles.