With dominating first and second round victories in the 2010 NCAA Tournament over (5) Temple and (4) Wisconsin in Jacksonville, Florida, Cornell gets to go back home to play in the school first ever Sweet 16 game. Cornell will take on top seeded Kentucky on Thursday, March 25th at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY, [...]
With their school’s first ever NCAA Tournament victory, the Big Red need to keep their emotions in check and re-focus as a team as their biggest game of the year is less than 48 hours away. The 12th seeded Big Red will take on the 4th seeded Badgers from Wisconsin Sunday, in the 2nd round [...]
Cornell shot lights out from behind the arc at Pizzitola Pavilion Friday Night to defeat Brown 95-76. Cornell set a team record and tied Princeton’s Ivy League record with 20 three-point field goals in the game in route to the victory. Jon Jaques led the way for Cornell with 20 points and Louis Dale added [...]
On Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Cornell was able to avenge its only Ivy League loss of the season when they picked up a 20- point victory over the Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania behind 18 points from Ryan Wittman and 16 points from Louis Dale. To make the night even more special, Newman Nation [...]
February 14, 2010 “We’re a good basketball team, but we did not play well. And Penn played terrific.” Cornell head coach Steve Donahue kept it simple after dropping Friday night’s game. Once Cornell lost in the Palestra all of the frills that had been following the program for the last month were suddenly gone. No [...]
Check out Slope TV’s exclusive mid-season interview with Cornell Basketball Head Coach, Steve Donahue. Coach Donahue discusses his teams successful non-conference campaign, which included wins against Alabama, UMass, Vermont, St. Josephs, Davidson, and St. Johns as well as a near upset of the number 1 team in the country, Kansas. Coach D also discusses preparing [...]
January 7, 2010 “Don’t look up.” The age old sports adage is simple. Don’t think about the significance of the game you’re playing. For Cornell on Wednesday night it meant forget the 50 games in a row that Kansas had won at Phog Allen Field House, forget the NCAA Tournament implications, forget the fact that a [...]
Cornell picked up another signature win on the road when they traveled to the Worlds Most Famous Arena to take on St. Johns in the MSG Holiday Festival finals. Sr. co-captain Jon Jaques led the way with 20 and his classmate and fellow co-captain Jeff Foote added 16 while taking home tournament MVP honors.