Below, some news and notes for Friday...- The Yale Daily News published an article on some of the challenges facing student-athletes at Yale and in the Ivy League.
- The Harvard Crimson published an article about a group of prospects visiting Cambridge this weekend.
- In our continuing series, A Date in Cornell Basketball History, we look back at the last time that Cornell played a nonconference game after the Ivy League season concluded. Heading into the 1988-1989 season, Cornell was scheduled to face Southern Methodist University (SMU) on December 27, 1988 in Dallas. During that 1988-1989 school year, the SMU athletic department was without a football team as their Mustangs' program was the recipient of the infamous NCAA "death penalty" for committing egregious recruiting violations. Nevertheless, SMU's basketball team was flourishing and was coming off a 1987-1988 Southwest Conference championship. But a massive snow storm forced the teams to cancel the December 27 game as the Big Red were stranded in a Chicago airport when their flight to Dallas was grounded. But Cornell did not return to Ithaca. The team continued it southern road trip and made its way to Duke where the Big Red were hammered, 94-59 on December 29, 1988 in freshman Christian Laettner's first collegiate start. A rescheduled SMU game was later played on March 6, 1989 after Cornell finished its entire Ivy League slate. The Mustangs won the game in Dallas, 67-59, and Cornell ended its season 10-16 overall and 7-7 in the Ivy League. Below, a clipping of the Cornell Chronicle shows the scheduled December 27 game with SMU. Also an A.P. article recaps the Duke game and Cornell's travel woes. Also below, the cover of Cornell's 1988-1989 media guide.
Below, our Tweets of the Day from the world of Cornell Basketball...
Below, some news and notes for Friday...
Below, our Tweets of the Day from the world of Cornell Basketball...
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