IvyBballFan
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01-04-14 10:29 PM - Post#160919
In response to H78
It's a month later and little has changed. The Big Red is still looking for its first W. Mountainred's post at the top of this thread holds true.
One thing that has changed is that a different Ivy coach now holds the record for most consecutive losses by a head coach in the modern history of the league. With today's loss at St. Bonaventure, Bill Courtney's 19th consecutive loss eclipsed Armond Hill's 18-loss run that closed both that fateful 2002-03 season and his Ivy coaching career.
Coach Hill has had a solid career as an NBA assistant under Doc Rivers over the past eleven years. One must wonder whether something similar awaits Courtney. Things went off the rails for him in mid-February last year and nothing has gone even vaguely right since.
At this point, Cornell is in trouble. As they have been for some time, they are the only D-1 team with no wins of any type, and one of only a dozen with no wins over D-1 opponents. The Big Red richly deserve to be ranked in the bottom ten teams in D-1. They are Pomeroy's worst defensive team. People who have watched the Big Red play know that the reason their offensive ranking is not similarly putrid is because of the efforts of Nolan Cressler. Moreover, they actually score many of their points in the extended garbage time created by their defensive ineptness.
They host D-III Oberlin next weekend, but the way Cornell is playing, Oberlin has to be licking their chops and Big Red fans have to be holding their collective breaths. Cornell is now the team to whom no coach wants his team to lose. They will get everyone's best shot from here on out. It will be interesting to see how this level of extreme ineptness affects the Ivy League race during the back-to-backs. They remain on course to be the worst team in modern Ivy history.
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