<p>So--the basketball team is 7-0 so far in the conference, and its looking really good for us to get into the NCAA tournament. In the Ivy League conference the team with the best overall record gets to go to the NCAA tournament. Its been since 1988 since any team in the Ivy League except for Penn or Princeton has gotten to go, and we've already beaten both of them. </p>
<p>If you are also a current Cornellian, please go to the home games and help support the team, they are really good this year.</p>
<p>Man I wish I was there this year, i hope they follow the same path next year. Do students have to pay to attend games ? Are there season passes?</p>
<p>Not really true, norcalguy - for this year, either you get a Big Red Sports pass, which isn't that expensive but gets you into all games except Hockey, or you pay a small fee per game. Basketball tickets for last week's game against Princeton were $3, for example.</p>
<p>I think next year the student activities fee will cover a free big red sports pass for anyone who asks for one, which means that what you're saying will be true.</p>
<p>basketball is $3 a game, and they've been selling out. Students stand the entire game and get really into it--which I really didn't expect. Its really nice to have support for the teams : )</p>
<p>the student activities fee is going to pay for a pass next year? Is that for everyone, not just incoming freshman?</p>
<p>camping out for hockey tickets isn't all that it's cracked up to be.....it's a very long day....but I would do it over again if I wasn't graduating this year :-)</p>
<p>February 18, 2008 48 Hours on the Big Red Bus</p>
<p>By PETE THAMEL
HANOVER, N.H. — After victories at Harvard and at Dartmouth pushed his team’s record to 8-0 in the Ivy League, the Cornell men’s basketball coach, Steve Donahue, decided to indulge himself and his team.</p>
<p>He allowed his players to watch a movie, “Blow,” on the bus ride home from Dartmouth. A six-hour trip got them back to Ithaca, N.Y., at 3:45 a.m. Sunday. He allowed himself to change out of his suit and into a pair of baggy gray sweat pants.</p>
<p>“If we lose, sometimes I’ll just sit there and suffer,” Donahue said.</p>
<p>But after beating Harvard, 72-71, on Friday and Dartmouth, 73-63, on Saturday, there was no suffering. Just a bit of nervous sweating. In pulling off the challenge of defeating two conference opponents on consecutive days on the road, Cornell is poised to break one of the most persistent monopolies in college sports.</p>
<p>No program other than Penn or Princeton has won the league’s automatic N.C.A.A. tournament bid since the Big Red did it in 1988. The road to the tournament is especially difficult for Cornell, which is most distant from the other Ivy universities and must endure grueling travel to play in the conference’s traditional back-to-back weekend road games. And because the Ivy League is the only conference in the country without a postseason tournament to determine its automatic bid, the stakes are high during these matchups. Seasons can be lost, careers defined and dreams crushed — all in 48 hours.
<p>Cornell will probably be a #13, 14ish seed (if they win their final two games) so they'll be matched against a #3, 4 seed (someone of Stanford or Xavier's caliber).</p>