Cornell basketball (18-3) made history yesterday by landing in the top 25 of the USA Today coach's poll for the first time in school history and proving their near upset of #1 Kansas on January 6 was no accident. The Big Red are the first Ivy League team to be ranked since Princeton during the 1997-98 season and the first Cornell team to be ranked in any poll in 60 years. Cornell has been absolutely dominating their competition this year and their ranking comes on the heels of a 36 point victory over Harvard which was likely their biggest challenge before postseason play begins. This team looks poised to run the table and head into the NCAA tournament hot in March. In their last five games alone (all wins) they have out scored their opponents by an average of 34.5 points a game.
It's refreshing to see the Ivy League representing itself in the national picture despite all the extra obstacles those schools face in the major NCAA sports. It will be interesting to see if Cornell can make any kind of splash in the Big Dance this year but regardless their success should at least let us crack a whole new bunch of Andy Bernard jokes.
Basketball, Cornell-Kansas, Slaughter
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