Cornell Big Red NCAA Basketball News

At summer camps and tournaments, there often is a lot of fancy dribbling and quick shots.

Many coaches in many prep sports firmly believe that you are only as good as your seniors.

The Bemidji State men's hockey team is doing something it has never done before: going to the Frozen Four.

While the rumor machine in the upper tier of college basketball was tossing out minute-by-minute updates on John Calipari's impending move to Kentucky and Rick Pitino's continuing flirtation with Arizona, Boston University officials were working quietly to find a new coach.

The Cornell University center wears No. 23 and skates on the fourth line. But as far as his name is concerned, he's a top-line specialist.

I have some exciting news. For the first time in my life, I am winning the office NCAA basketball pool, which is a relief, because the cost to enter is a rather steep $1,000. In fact, I'm pretty much a lock to take the pot, even though I have picked Cornell - Go Big Red! - to win the whole schamoozle.

Just more than 3 minutes into Missouri’s NCAA Tournament opener, Leo Lyons headed for the bench.

Missouri forward DeMarre Carroll swung by the bench for a high-five during the University of Missouri and Cornell University first round game of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship in Taco Bell Arena on Friday, March 20, 2009, in Boise, Idaho.

DeMarre Carroll scored all but two of his 13 points in the second half to help the third-seeded Tigers pull away from the plucky Big Red.

As the thrilling final moments of the Marquette -Utah State game were winding down Friday afternoon, Kim English couldn't take his eyes off the court.

Three years ago, Missouri was merely hoping Mike Anderson would lift its basketball program back to respectability.

Once the University of Missouri started moving, the buckets started falling for DeMarre Carroll and the rest of the Tigers.

Louis Dale does not think anymore about how all the colleges, including those in Alabama, didn't recruit him out of The Altamont School three years ago.

The night before the first NCAA Tournament game of their careers, Mizzou guard Matt Lawrence was babbling so much about the day ahead that junior roommate J.T. Tiller pretended he was out.

On the surface, anyway, No. 14 seed Cornell seems to have one clear advantage over No.

Graham Rihn recalled attending his first Cornell University football team banquet four years ago while he was still in high school.

Only Ohio, with five, has more teams in the tournament. New York, California, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are tied with four, while Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, Utah, and Kentucky have three each.

In hindsight, maybe it wouldn't have mattered all that much if one of Cornell's brilliant minds had cloned 7-foot center Jeff Foote in time for the Big Red's NCAA first-round game against Stanford last March.

Last week, before Cornell found out its NCAA Tournament opponent, Big Red coach Steve Donahue revealed a key characteristic of the team he hoped to face.“The best matchup is not physical or anything,” Donahue told his team, and the local newspaper, The Ithaca Journal.

After it was announced Sunday afternoon that Missouri would play Cornell in the first round of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament, one thing quickly became clear.