Game 1: Cornell University, Fri Nov 14, 7:30 PM, NO TV

[JimP]

Cornell's key returning players who missed all of last season are 1st Team All-Ivy League forward Shonn Miller (offseason shoulder surgery) and PG Galal Cancer (who evidently didn't play for personal reasons). The key departure is last season's leading scorer guard Nolan Cressler who transferred to Vanderbilt.

Forgot about Cressler transferring. Glad we don't have to deal with him.

 

[MasonCrew]

One more day, one more day!

I'm starting to get that funny feeling that I also get when a particularly promising porn vid is buffering. CANNOT WAIT!

I'm hoping the excitement lasts longer though....

 

[Pablo]

Projected Cornell starters - see

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IbjmbTEEtOU/VGN5W2rY6cI/AAAAAAAAnwc/6iue9t-T158/s1600/SeasonOpener.jpg

 

[psyclone]

Las Vegas Insider: Mason opens as a 17 pt favorite.

 

[gmutom]

Las Vegas Insider: Mason opens as a 17 pt favorite.

That's ridiculous. Did we cover at home at all last year?

 

[Walter]

That's ridiculous. Did we cover at home at all last year?

Thinking about cashing out my 401k, my kids college fund, all my parents savings, get a second mortgage and head to Vegas.

 

[mason2k1]

Thinking about cashing out my 401k, my kids college fund, all my parents savings, get a second mortgage and head to Vegas.

Mason for the W, right??

 

[psyclone]

Thinking about cashing out my 401k, my kids college fund, all my parents savings, get a second mortgage and head to Vegas.

Must have been a quick flight! Mason down to being a 13.5 favorite (assuming you were taking Cornell and the points)!

Meanwhile vcu which opened as a 1.5 favorite on the road at Tennessee, is now a 7 pt favorite.

 

[GreenLantern]

Us 78
Them 56
OT

 

[Washingtonian]

Must have been a quick flight! Mason down to being a 13.5 favorite (assuming you were taking Cornell and the points)!

Meanwhile vcu which opened as a 1.5 favorite on the road at Tennessee, is now a 7 pt favorite.

The vcu game is in Annapolis.

 

[Walter]

We will win by 12. vcu will win by 20. Too many distractions for the Vols to deal with.

 

[Washingtonian]

Vegas Insider has a line of 13 1/2 fav for Mason. No over/under yet.

 

[Pablo]

See comments on the Cornell basketball blog:

Anonymous said...
Losing Cressler was a huge, huge blow. It could be a struggle for this squad to score. We don't have an established outside shooter, unless Hatter becomes consistent and stays healthy. We can't bank on Pat Smith until we see him on a college court.

I also have heard (admittedly unconfirmed hearsay) that Cornell got beaten badly by Marist in the closed scrimmage and generally looked like a bunch of headless chickens running around. While I would normally take that with a grain of salt, we've heard the program described as such too often over the last few years to simply dismiss it.

This is now indisputably Bill's program. There are his kids. He owns it...no excuses.

I hope we shock some people this year, but I'm skeptical.

November 13, 2014 at 12:47 PM

The Cornell Basketball Blog said...
Would agree this is Bill's program and this is 110% his team. Not a single kid on the roster that he did not recruit.

And I don't think he can use injuries as an excuse again because you only get to use it so much.

This is Bill's team, he knows it, Cornell admin knows it, and as Bill told the Sun, he is ready to see how everything unfolds.

Everyone is skeptical, how can you not be given the disaster of last year?

November 13, 2014 at 1:04 PM

Anonymous said...
Don't know anything about the Cornell v Marist scrimmage but I do know that Marist new head coach Mike Maker can flat out coach. Good luck to CU this year.

November 13, 2014 at 3:27 PM

Anonymous said...
The blog definitely did not deny any upsets or disasters in the scrimmage, so I'd be one to think that the original poster is correct.

And, if I am correct in that assumption, and they are correct in that assertion, then that is sad and hurts.

I'll leave it like that and let the factual and substantial game tomorrow play out what we are to see.

November 14, 2014 at 12:09 AM

 

[Haxormax]

lol "these are his kids, he owns the program."

sounds too familiar

 

[Pablo]

Is it fair to call this game the Coaches on the Hot Seat Tip-off?

 

[Pablo]

http://www.gomason.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=25200&ATCLID=209765790:

“I think we have a chance to be good,” says Hewitt, 57-45 in his three seasons with the Patriots. “But right now we are trying to bring some things together.”

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

So which poster bet the farm on Cornell to move the line by 3.5?

 

[PoorManProfit]

I got 16. I don't care if I lose or not. G Mas shouldn't be favored by double digits against anybody.

 

[MASONscott]

Cornell is real bad, but I say we don't cover.

Mason 81
Cornell 68

My son's basketball team is the half-time entertainment. Looking forward to the Mason game and youth exhibition!

 

[Washingtonian]

Line moved to 12 1/2.