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Friday News:

January 15, 2010 at 10:07 am
Filed under Basketball, David Blatt, Denver, Georgetown, Oregon State, Princeton, Recruiting, Today's News

Brown vs. Yale - 7:00 pm ET

Georgetown (13-2) shot a season high 68.2% from the floor and defeated Seton Hall, 85-73. HoyaHoops has postgame audio from John Thompson III, Chris Wright, Austin Freeman and Jason Clark.

Denver (12-6) nearly dug themselves out of a 21 point second half hole, but ultimately fell to Louisiana-Lafayette, 55-49.

Lathen Wallace hit a three point shot with a second to go gave Oregon State (2-2) a 67-64 win over Arizona.

The Daily Princetonian already has their Goucher preview ready.

Verbally Committed interviews Good Counsel coach Blair Mills about Princeton recruit Ben Hazel (.mp3).

Dave Blatt is taking over as head coach of Greek squad Aris Thessaloniki.

Dartmouth has named Mark Graupe interim men's basketball head coach.

Interesting stuff - The first NCAA mock selection bracket has both Cornell and Harvard in the field of 64. Richmond is also in as an 11 seed.

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Gregg Lange said,

January 15, 2010 @ 12:14 pm

Looks like time for the Get-a-Grip Patrol. No way both Cornell and hahvahd make the tourney unless they jointly sweep the league, which based on history is wildly unlikely -- even with decades of P/P domination, it's happened only three times. Even then, this bracket shows CORNELL (12) being one of the last at-larges in, thus H (11) as the league champ, leading to a suspicion Amaker's PR guy is firmly in charge.

I look forward to the Crimson/Princeton rerematch in the NIT.

Stuart Schulman said,

January 15, 2010 @ 12:23 pm

Both Cornell and Harvard have to play Penn twice. And Dartmouth (Cornell twice more). With the 25%-50%-25% RPI formula, this will be a mortal wound to their joint Top 50 status.

Offsetting that, they do play each other twice and that will improve their SOS. But if the teams split, each team adds a loss to their W-L. Playing each other (and Princeton) won't help as much as facing Penn twice (and Dartmouth) will hurt.

Lunardi does not have them both going in and I expect he is right.

Jon Solomon said,

January 15, 2010 @ 12:41 pm

Greg,

You might want to read this:

http://ivy.basketball-u.com/?p=988

Adds some interesting insights to the bracket coming out of the NCAA Convention. There are a couple rule changes that could potentially help "mid major" profiles.

Stuart,

Lunardi does have Cornell in his "First Four Out" (with Harvard winning the league because they have a better current conference record) so the differences between his bracket and the bracket I linked too are not that great.

Jon

Stuart Schulman said,

January 15, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

Jon--

Seems to me that Cornell being "First Four Out" represents a best-case scenario if the season ended today. Either H or C could strengthen their case for a stronger seed over the rest of the season. But almost surely not both.

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