14850 Sports: Cornell hoops the team to watch as season wraps up

Cornell hoops the team to watch as season wraps up

by Mark H. Anbinder, WVBR Sports

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Ithaca, 7 March 08 -- For the first time since 1988, a team other than Penn and Princeton has won the Ivy League men's basketball title, and that team -- the Big Red -- is off to Penn and Princeton for the final regular season games of the year.

Cornell plays at the Palestra tonight, trying to snap its eighteen-year winless streak at Penn, before heading to Princeton's Jadwin Gym for tomorrow night's contest. If they win both games, it would give the Big Red their first-ever perfect Ivy League season. (A win tonight would make the team 13-0 in Ivy play for the first time, and give the team its first 15-game winning streak since the 1964-65 season.)

Last Saturday's decisive win over Harvard gave Cornell the Ivy title and the first berth of the season in the upcoming NCAA tournament. John Henderson of the Denver Post called Cornell one of five "faceless but fabulous" mid-majors that "could be darlings of [the] NCAA tournament."

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