SUPER BOWL 2012

• Saturday's game in Ithaca vs. Columbia is Newman Nation Jersey Night.

• In NBA D-League action last night, Jeff Foote (Cornell '10) finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Springfield Armor in a win over the Idaho Stampede. See a game recap on ESPN's Nets Are Scorching. Vote for Foote to appear in the NBA D-League All Star game by visiting the D-League Website.
  

• The Columbia Spectator writes, "This Saturday, the Columbia men’s basketball team will travel to Ithaca to face Cornell. Yet the basketball game is hardly the first competition that comes to mind when Columbia and Cornell are mentioned in the same sentence. If the city of New York could have had its way, the most important competition between Columbia and Cornell in the past months would have been the one over the city’s backing for a new engineering campus."
  

• Check out The Cornell Basketball Blog's updated profiles of Cornell's four committed recruits from the classes of 2012 and 2013, Braxston Bunce (Kelowna Secondary School) Kelowna, BC, Canada, 6-11, Holt Harmon (Plano West HS), Plano, TX, 6-9, F; Nolan Cressler (Plum HS) Plum, PA, 6-4, G (class of 2012); and Tim Higgins (Paul VI HS) Fairfax, VA, 6-10, C (class of 2013). In addition, a listing of the Ivy League's committed recruits in the class of 2012 is available by clicking here.

• Previewing the The 39th edition of the Interior Savings Western Canada Basketball Tournament the Kelowna Capital News notes, "Inside force Braxton Bunce gives the [Kelowna] Owls a bona fide big man with skills to match his size. At 6-foot-11, Bunce averages 20 points and 15 rebounds per game and can score from inside or outside."

• The Pittsburgh Post Gazette considers Nolan Cressler the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League's (WPIAL) second best player behind Penn State commit, Geno Thorpe. The Post Gazette also writes:

At Plum... the last few standout guards the school has produced have worn No. 24. It started with 2005 graduate Mike McKee, who went on to play for Kent State. When he graduated, the number went to then-freshman Andrew Cressler, who went on to score more than 1,000 points for the Mustangs.

Now, No. 24 for Plum is Nolan Cressler, Andrew's younger brother, who last week became the school's all-time leading scorer. Nolan played on the varsity with his older brother for one season, so he wore No. 34 his freshman year before switching to No. 24.

"It's been in the Plum program as kind of the guard's number," Nolan said. "Plus, 24 is just a good number. It's Kobe [that's Kobe Bryant's new number after switching from No. 8]."

• Game Recaps-Below are links to our game recap sections from each of Cornell's games this season.

November 11, 2011 at St. Bonaventure L 58-79


November 14, 2011 vs. Binghamton W 76-61

November 16, 2011 at Buffalo L 59-68

November 20, 2011 vs. Boston University W 71-66

November 22, 2011 at Delaware L 68-76

November 27, 2011 vs. American L 63-65

December 3, 2011 vs. Lehigh W 81-79 (OT)

December 17, 2011 vs. Albany W 85-82 (OT)

December 19, 2011 at Illinois L 60-64

December 21, 2011 at Penn State L 67-74

December 28, 2011 at Stony Brook L 58-69 (OT)

December 31, 2011 at Bucknell L 60-63

January 3, 2012 at Maryland L 62-70

January 7, 2012 vs. Albright W 78-60

January 13, 2012 vs. Princeton W 67-59

January 14, 2012 vs. Penn L 52-64

January 21, 2012 at Columbia L 56-61

• Cornell RPI Watch: The RPI (Rating Percentage Index) is a measure of strength of schedule and how a team does against that schedule. It does not consider the margin of victory, but only whether or not a team won and where the game was played (home/away/neutral court). The formula is 25% team winning percentage (WP), 50% opponents' average winning percentage (OWP), and 25% opponents' opponents' average winning percentage (OOWP). (See: CollegeRPI.com for a further explanation of the formula.) The RPI may be the most influential factor in NCAA Tournament seeding. Cornell's RPI rank as of January 27 is No. 233 out of 344 total Division I teams. While neither the Ken Pomeroy or Jeff Sagarin rankings are used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, the KenPom.com site ranks Cornell No. 196 in the nation, while the USA Today Sagarin rankings have Cornell at No. 208 Both sites are predominantly used by fans and the media.

• Here is a look at Ivy League results and upcoming games. A full Ivy composite schedule may viewed by clicking here.

Monday, January 23
Brown 67 Bryant 60 (Box Score - Recap)

Friday, January 27
*Dartmouth at Brown, 7 pm
*Harvard at Yale, 7 pm

Saturday, January 28
*Harvard at Brown, 6 pm
*Columbia at Cornell, 7 pm
*Dartmouth at Yale, 7 pm