SUPER BOWL 2012

• Fans can see Jeff Foote (Cornell class of 2010) in action tonight in the NBA D-League via the league's free online video streaming on Futurecast. Foote and the Springfield Armor take on the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at 7 pm. Previewing tonight's game, The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette notes, "The Armor recently acquired 7-foot center Jeff Foote, who played on Cornell’s teams that won the Ivy League championship three straight seasons. Foote gives Springfield an inside presence it needed."
  

• Your News Now (YNN) of Time Warner Cable notes, " With a two week break for final exams looming, the Cornell men's basketball team is hoping to go into that stretch with a win and not a three-game losing streak. The Big Red hosts Lehigh Saturday starting at 7 p.m." Click here to see a video report on the Big Red.

• WBNG CBS News of Binghamton writes, "At Cornell, the men's basketball team is eager to get back on the court after a tough home loss to American on sunday. One bright spot in the loss was the return to form of senior point guard Chris Wroblewski. He scored 21 points, a game after being held to just 1 of 10 shooting. Wroblewski says, 'You know when some shots aren't falling my way, I don't want that to impact the other aspects of my game. My defense in to getting the other players involved, and rebounding. So, I know they're going to start to fall, one of these days, I'm not too worried about it.' His coach Bill Courtney agrees, 'You know, he's been getting great shots. He gets good looks, to keep shooting the ball and eventually to go back to shooting the ball as normal.' There is added motivation for the Big Red. Besides Saturday's game with Lehigh being at home, it is their only game for the next 2 weeks. Coach Courtney added he wouldn't be happy sitting on a loss for 14 days. "

• Spotlighting Randy Wittman, the Indiana Pacers Official Website writes:

"Son Ryan, however, has made quite a name for himself. He led Cornell to its first NCAA appearance in 20 years in 2008, returning in 2009 and then capping his career with upsets of Temple and Wisconsin to reach the Sweet 16 in 2010.

'I was really proud of him,' said the proud papa. 'As a high school kid, he developed slowly. He was a lot like I was growing up in terms of being a late-bloomer so he wasn't really recruited by a lot of high Division I teams. A lot of mid-major teams recruited him. He wanted to go somewhere he could get a great education but he also wanted to play Division I basketball and the situation at Cornell University arose. At that time nobody really thought of what might happen but it gave him an opportunity to play in a Division I program and get an Ivy League education on top of it. I was really proud of the decision'

'And then he just continued to develop. He grow from 6-4 to 6-7 in his four years at the university and I was really proud of how he continued to develop as a player. It gave them an opportunity to have a run. I went through it at the ultimate level in winning a national championship in 1981 and it brought back so many memories watching him go through it. They make the tournament three straight years and then as seniors to do what they did in beating Temple and Wisconsin to get to the Sweet 16 to play the No. 1 seed Kentucky and to have a chance to win the game, it brought back a lot of memories for me. Sitting there absorbing it as a dad and as a fan is a little bit different than as a player.'

While Ryan pursues a professional career in Europe (he has played in Italy and Poland), Randy is set for the next stage of his coaching life in Washington."

• Episode 2 of Inside Ivy League Basketball is now available as a podcast.

• VirginiaPreps.com notes that committed Cornell recruit, Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013), the youngest player to ever commit to an Ivy League program, is among more than a dozen Division I committed recruits that will be playing next week in the National High School Hoops Festival at DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Maryland between December 10-11. Higgins' team, Paul VI, faces West Charlotte (N.C.) on December 10 at 3:45 pm. On December 11, Paul VI faces Episcopal HS (VA) at 2:45 pm. Episcopal boasts player such as Arnaud Adala Moto (Wake Forest commit) and Kethan Savage (George Washington commit). West Charlotte features Kennedy Meeks, the No. 15 national recruit in the class of 2013.

• Previewing Plum High School and committed Cornell recruit, Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012), the Plum Advance Leader writes, "A big cog in the [Plum basketball] machine this season will be senior Nolan Cressler, a Cornell University recruit. Cressler enters this season 55 points shy of 1,000 for his varsity career. He was one of the top scorers in the WPIAL last year, with just over 27 points per game. 'There definitely is a buzz going around in practices,' Cressler said. 'We can make this a special season. We have to keep working hard in everything we do to prepare.'" Above, Cressler during his signing ceremony with Cornell.
  

• Below, highlights of committed Cornell recruit, Holt Harmon (Plano West HS), Plano, TX, 6-9, F and his Plano West High School team from their game against Frisco Centennial HS on November 18, 2011: