Get schooled.
Wednesday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Wayzata (MN) junior Chris Taylor has attracted the recruiting attention of Yale, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The 6-7, 200-pound Taylor is the son of former Minnesota player Corky Taylor and is projected as a small forward at the college level.
After trying out Internet video broadcasts for several different sports last season, Cornell is offering fans the opportunity to watch all seven home Ivy League men’s basketball games this year. The broadcasts are exceptional quality and even feature Barry Leonard’s radio call on WNYY as the audio. And past games are archived, so you can go back and watch the thrilling finish of the first Columbia-Cornell game from January 21.
Game of the Week: Yale at Penn – Saturday, February 4
With Yale’s resurrection this past weekend, the Saturday showdown in Philly is easily the biggest game of the Ivy League season to date. The Bulldogs come in fresh off a dominating sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth and knowing that they smoked Penn the last time these two teams got together. However, each of the last three seasons Yale has fallen early in league play, then crawled back into borderline contention only to suffer a season-wrecking letdown. And most of these lapses have come on the road.
Tony Lane of the Valley News reported Tuesday that Dartmouth wings Leon Pattman and Johnathan Ball both will be game-time decisions on Friday night at Cornell due to injuries. Pattman hurt his ankle this weekend and played just nine minutes on Saturday. Ball suffered a fractured nose in the loss at Yale on Saturday and was fitted for a protective face mask.
In an interview with The Ithaca Journal, Dean Gant, the father of injured Cornell player Khaliq Gant, stated that his son “has exhibited no physical movements yet, but that doctors were encouraged by signs of sensations in his extremities.” The younger Gant underwent surgery on Friday to fuse together two dislocated vertebrae in his neck and the procedure reportedly went well.