The men’s basketball team will open the 2011-2012 season ranked sixth in the Ivy League Conference.
According to a preseason media poll released this morning, Harvard University is the overwhelming favorite to win the Ivy League crown. The Crimson team is coming off a program-record 23 victories last season and returns reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Keith Wright, named one of CBS Sports’ top 100 players in the country. Princeton and Yale tied for second place in the poll.
Cornell is 12-8 head-to-head against the Crimson in the past decade, but dropped both contests last season.
In their second season under coach Bill Courtney, Cornell returns four starters from last season’s squad that finished fifth in the Ivy League with a 10-18 record. The Big Red tips off its season on November 11 at St. Bonaventure before returning to Ithaca for its home opener on Monday, November 14 at 7:00pm against Binghamton University.
