The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/sports/page/2/)
The award is bittersweet for a coach who was just recently looking to skipper one of the best Cornell teams in recent memory deep into the NCAA Tournament. But with the national tourney’s cancellation last Thursday, the top-ranked team’s promising season came to a screeching halt.
“This team wrestled far over anyone’s expectations, and to qualify eight for the NCAA Tournament — and only two of those wrestlers had ever qualified — to get six new qualifiers was really a remarkable achievement,” said head coach Rob Koll.
Junior Alex Green played in all 29 games and posted a plus-19 rating.
Barron led Cornell in scoring, with 32 points on 14 goals and 18 assists.
Morgan Barron and Yanni Kaldis were named to the first team while Matt Galajda and Alex Green earned third-team honors.
The sudden shift from pre-March Madness excitement to a sports-less spring — heartbreaking for players and fans around the country — is nobody’s top concern right now. The NCAA and pro sports leagues are 100 percent right to shut down.
With the cancellation of classes and any remaining athletics seasons, the Red’s squash team was able to finish out its 2019-2020 schedule relatively unscathed.
“It was very difficult to speak to our team and watch young men cry as their chance of achieving their dreams had disappeared,” Schafer wrote.
Cornell’s hockey teams were both ranked No. 1 in the country.
Cornell men’s hockey was initially scheduled to take on Princeton in the ECAC quarterfinals, but received a bid to Lake Placid after Harvard and Yale pulled out of the tournament.