Take a look inside Cornell Basketball as Cornell Head Coach Bill Courtney takes you behind the scenes of the program.
Produced and edited by Sam Aleinikoff and Jake Mastbaum of Slope TV
The fourth segment of Tim’s Take on Sports aired March 29, and featured an exclusive interview with Cornell men’s basketball head coach Bill Courtney. I sat down with him one-on-one to talk about his first year at Cornell, along with the expectations and what to look forward to this upcoming season. Courtney replaced former coach [...]
Men’s Basketball Tops Yale, Sends Seniors Out With Win
Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Sam Aleinikoff
Senior Mark Coury contributed eight points and six rebounds and classmate Adam Wire put in seven points, six boards and a pair of blocks as the Red outlasted Yale 68-55 on Senior Night.
Osgood, Wire, Coury Leave Red on High Note
Posted on March 6th, 2011 by Sam Aleinikoff
“It was fun,” Adam Wire finally concluded, struggling to find the appropriate words to summarize his four years in a Big Red uniform.
2/27/11 – Despite 23 points from Freshman Miles Cartwright, Mark Coury and Anthony Gatlin power the Big Red past Penn in the final seconds. After two nail biters against the Quakers, the Big Red able to come out on top in both, earning the season sweep.
SEC to IVY: From Starts to Finishing
Posted on March 1st, 2011 by Sam Aleinikoff
Southeastern Conference starters don’t transfer to the Ivy League. It just doesn’t happen. So when Mark Coury recruited Cornell after his sophomore season at Kentucky, the Red coaching staff was understandably surprised. The fans were stunned. The media was enthralled. The expectations were inflated.
Mark Coury has always been, and will always be, an energy guy. [...]
From Manager to Marksman
Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by Sam Aleinikoff
He played all of five minutes against Division I opponents last season, recording two rebounds and a pair of turnovers as his only official statistics. Forget away games, on the rare occasion that he actually traveled with the team it was purely in a practice squad capacity. Scrub minutes might even be a stretch; Johnny [...]
Hot shooting propels Cornell to victory over Dartmouth
Posted on February 20th, 2011 by Tim Weisberg
Photo by Patrick Shanahan
To live and die by the three was the best place for the Cornell men’s basketball team to be, shooting 55 percent from behind the arc en route to a 96-76 victory over Dartmouth Saturday night at Newman Arena.
Errick Peck led the way for the Big Red (7-17, 3-7 Ivy League) with [...]
Red Fall to Harvard as Crimson Sweep Season Series
Posted on February 19th, 2011 by Sam Aleinikoff
Cornell dropped their seventh league game of the season on Friday night, falling to Harvard at home 73-60.