2009–10 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team
The 2009–10 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented Cornell University in the 2009–10 college basketball season. This was coach Steve Donahue's tenth season at Cornell. The Big Red compete in the Ivy League and played their home games at Newman Arena. They went 13–1 in Ivy League play to win the championship for the third year in a row and received the league's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. They earned a 12 seed in the East Region. They upset 5 seed and AP #12 Temple in the first round for the first tournament win in school history. They continued their success by upsetting 4 seed and AP #16 Wisconsin to advance to their first Sweet Sixteen where they lost to 1 seed and AP #2 Kentucky to finish their season at 29–5.
2009–10 Cornell Big Red men's basketball | |
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Ivy League Champions | |
NCAA Tournament, Sweet Sixteen | |
Conference | Ivy League |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 17 |
2009–10 record | 29–5 (13–1 Ivy) |
Head coach | |
Assistant coaches |
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Home arena | Newman Arena |
2009–10 Ivy League men's basketball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 13 | – | 1 | .929 | 29 | – | 5 | .853 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 22 | – | 9 | .710 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 10 | – | 4 | .714 | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | 6 | – | 8 | .429 | 12 | – | 19 | .387 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 11 | – | 20 | .355 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 5 | – | 9 | .357 | 6 | – | 22 | .214 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 1 | – | 13 | .071 | 5 | – | 23 | .179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As of March 21, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll |
Roster
Source[1]
Schedule and results
Source[2]
- All times are Eastern
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Regular Season | |||||||||||
11/14/2009* 2:00pm |
at Alabama | W 71–67 | 1–0 |
Coleman Coliseum (10,135) Tuscaloosa, AL | |||||||
11/18/2009* 7:30pm |
at Massachusetts Legends Classic |
W 74–61 | 2–0 |
Mullins Center (3,482) Amherst, MA | |||||||
11/20/2009* 7:00pm, TWCSN |
Seton Hall | L 79-89 | 2–1 |
Newman Arena (4,473) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
11/24/2009* 7:00pm, ESPN360 |
at No. 10 Syracuse | L 73-88 | 2–2 |
Carrier Dome (18,238) Syracuse, NY | |||||||
11/27/2009* 2:00pm |
vs. Toledo Legends Classic |
W 78–60 | 3–2 |
Daskalakis Athletic Center (NA) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
11/28/2009* 2:00pm |
vs. Vermont Legends Classic |
W 67–59 | 4–2 |
Daskalakis Athletic Center (NA) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
11/29/2009* 2:30pm |
at Drexel Legends Classic |
W 61–54 | 5–2 |
Daskalakis Athletic Center (1,033) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
12/2/2009* 7:00pm |
at Bucknell | W 104–98 OT | 6–2 |
Sojka Pavilion (2,105) Lewisburg, PA | |||||||
12/6/2009* 2:00pm |
Saint Joseph's | W 78–66 | 7–2 |
Newman Arena (3,132) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
12/20/2009* 12:00pm |
vs. Davidson Holiday Festival |
W 91–88 OT | 8–2 |
Madison Square Garden (5,780) New York, NY | |||||||
12/21/2009* 9:00pm |
at St. John's Holiday Festival |
W 71–66 | 9–2 |
Madison Square Garden (5,210) New York, NY | |||||||
12/29/2009* 4:00pm |
at La Salle | W 78–75 | 10–2 |
Tom Gola Arena (2,553) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
12/31/2009* 2:00pm |
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College | W 73–49 | 11–2 |
Newman Arena (2,218) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
1/2/2010* 2:00pm |
Bryant | W 75–49 | 12–2 |
Newman Arena (1,962) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
1/6/2010* 8:00pm, ESPN360 |
at No. 1 Kansas | L 66-71 | 12–3 |
Allen Fieldhouse (16,300) Lawrence, KS | |||||||
1/8/2010* 8:30pm |
at South Dakota | W 71–65 | 13–3 |
Vermillion, SD (2,116) DakotaDome | |||||||
1/11/2010* 7:00pm |
Clarkson | W 82–37 | 14–3 |
Newman Arena (2,421) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
1/16/2010 4:00pm, TWCSN |
Columbia | W 77–67 | 15–3 (1–0) |
Newman Arena (4,132) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
1/23/2010 7:00pm |
at Columbia | W 77–51 | 16–3 (2–0) |
Levien Gymnasium (2,974) New York, NY | |||||||
1/29/2010 7:00pm |
Dartmouth | W 71–37 | 17–3 (3–0) |
Newman Arena (3,871) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
1/30/2010 7:00pm |
Harvard | W 86–50 | 18–3 (4–0) |
Newman Arena (4,473) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
2/5/2010 7:00pm |
Yale | W 90–71 | 19–3 (5–0) |
Newman Arena (4,255) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
2/6/2010 7:00pm |
Brown | W 74–60 | 20–3 (6–0) |
Newman Arena (4,014) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
2/12/2010 7:00pm |
at Pennsylvania | L 64-79 | 20–4 (6–1) |
Palestra (4,332) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
2/13/2010 6:00pm |
at Princeton | W 48–45 | 21–4 (7–1) |
Jadwin Gymnasium (5,775) Princeton, NJ | |||||||
2/19/2010 7:00pm |
at Harvard | W 79–70 | 22–4 (8–1) |
Lavietes Pavilion (2,195) Cambridge, MA | |||||||
2/20/2010 7:00pm |
at Dartmouth | W 88–70 | 23–4 (9–1) |
Leede Arena (877) Hanover, NH | |||||||
2/26/2010 7:00pm |
Princeton | W 50–47 | 24–4 (10–1) |
Newman Arena (4,473) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
2/27/2010 7:00pm |
Pennsylvania | W 68–48 | 25–4 (11–1) |
Newman Arena (4,473) Ithaca, NY | |||||||
3/5/2010 7:00pm |
at Brown | W 95–76 | 26–4 (12–1) |
Pizzitola Sports Center (1,976) Providence, RI | |||||||
3/6/2010 7:00pm |
at Yale | W 79–59 | 27–4 (13–1) |
Payne Whitney Gymnasium (2,381) New Haven, CT | |||||||
2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament | |||||||||||
3/19/2010* 12:30pm, CBS |
vs. No. 5 Temple First Round |
W 78–63 | 28–4 |
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena (10,657) Jacksonville, FL | |||||||
3/21/2010* 2:50pm, CBS |
vs. No. 4 Wisconsin Second Round |
W 87–69 | 29–4 |
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena (12,547) Jacksonville, FL | |||||||
3/25/2010* 9:57pm, CBS |
vs. No. 2 Kentucky Sweet Sixteen |
L 45-62 | 29–5 |
Carrier Dome (22,271) Syracuse, NY | |||||||
Rankings
Week | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
AP | NR | RV | NR | NR | RV | RV | NR | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | Not released | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coaches | RV | RV | NR | RV | NR | NR | NR | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | 25 | 22 | RV | RV | RV | RV | 17 |
*AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings
^Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll.
References
- http://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball&
- "2009–10 Schedule". Retrieved 2010-01-26.