Ryan Wittman
After be upset by his former team, Coach Donahue was able to regroup and get his team set for a battle of the unbeatens in the Ivy League. The Big Red rallied behind 7 points from Ryan Wittman in the final 2:15 of play to pick up their 7th conference win of the season and move back in sole possession of first place in the league.
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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 perfect league record. No top 25. No high RPI. No l...
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Four players scored in double figures as Cornell won their seventh in a row, beating Yale 90-71.
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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 for the I...
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On Saturday, January 30, 2010, Cornell toped Harvard 86-50 in what was the most anticipated Ivy League matchup in recent history. Cornell was lead by the performance of their Senior Center, Jeff Foote, who poured in 16 points and grabbed 9 boards. Tune in to see highlights from Newman Arena and post game reaction from both Cornell and Harvard.
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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 win could catapult you into the Top 25 for the first time...
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December 30, 2009
There is no such thing as a "bad win." A road win over a top 100 RPI team without your starting point guard (Louis Dale) or power forward (Alex Tyler) is certainly not a "bad win." But Cornell's win on Tuesday night was no doubt an ugly win.
Jeff Foote's two-rebound, foul-plagued performance was surely not pretty. And a week after looking almo...
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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.
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Seton Hall, marked the first BCS team to march into Newman Arena since Georgia Tech in 2003. Check out highlights, quotes, and analysis with Jake Mastbaum of SlopeTV in Cornell's first home game of the 2009-2010 season against the Pirates.
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