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Username Post: Do we root for Cornell or Yale?        (Topic#19880)
Columbia 37P6 
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02-05-17 02:12 PM - Post#220605    

Cornell and Yale are tied at 51-51 with about 11 minutes left in the game that had to be rescheduled due to the blackout fiasco in the Ithaca area last night. I'm watching on the hotly contested game on the IDN and wondering who I should root for as a Columbia fan. Any ideas?

 
Columbia 37P6 
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02-05-17 03:08 PM - Post#220609    
    In response to Columbia 37P6

Yale squeaks by Cornell 78-71 in a game that Cornell lost at the end due to some sloppy ball handling. Cornell's center, Stone Gettings exposed Yale's vulnerability on interior defense. With hindsight, Columbia should have tried to penetrate more with their guards, Hickman, Smith, Davis and Adlesh, while keeping their big men underneath the basket. In other words, Columbia needs to duplicate what Yale did so successfully last year by placing Sherrod under the basket.

 
SomeGuy 
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02-05-17 05:46 PM - Post#220624    
    In response to Columbia 37P6

Perhaps, although the 4 guard set that Cornell plays makes it a little more complicated. I think Yale defends differently against a team like Columbia with more interior size. Cornell by definition spreads out the bigs.

 
Columbia 37P6 
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02-06-17 06:30 PM - Post#220714    
    In response to SomeGuy

Yes, we're on the same page, but whatever defense you use, the fact is Columbia's big men should have a significant height and size advantage up front against all their Ivy League opponents for the rest of this year except, possibly Harvard and Princeton; therefore it makes sense, in my humble opinion, to try exploit that edge in some manner. Last year, Coach Jones did just that at Yale, by stationing Sherrod under the basket, on offense, for seemingly the whole game. His plan worked very nicely with Sherrod getting a record breaking number of consecutive easy lay-ups. Columbia could do the same thing with Luke and Lukas.

 
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