Running 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament thread

The big question is, will all the eco-friendlies in Hippietown think the gas used on the 75-minute trip is justified?

 

Texas Western/Kentucky, Penn/Michigan State and Georgetown/Princeton are also in the conversation, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

 

Well, Texas Western-Kentucky was more important socially, but face it, both schools were your basic basketball factories. Penn and Princeton are Ivies, but they also ruled the roost in basketball in that league for decades, with your Bill Bradleys and whatnot. As far as student bodies go, Georgetown and Princeton aren't much different. I'll bet there are a bunch of kids at each school who applied to and were maybe accepted at the other
I can't think of a single thing Cornell and Kentucky have in common. Unless maybe there's a missing Judd sister out there who's heavy into the Big Red.

 

You're right. That's why I'm still not sold on Kentucky. I couldn't have been happier when South Carolina beat them, but those guys had no business being within 15 points of the Wildcats. The key for UK will be Patrick Patterson. If he shows up, they're the favorite. If he disappears, like he did against SC in Columbia, and others don't step in for him, I could easily see them blowing it against Cornell or really anybody in the field.

 

I think that Cornell might be on spring break this week, which could hinder their ability to travel as well as they could otherwise. All I know is that if this was a year ago, I'd be purchasing a ticket and heading up to that game in a heartbeat. I hope that the Cornellians here will allow a South Hill grad to jump on the bandwagon.

 

Both are land-grant universities. Now you know.

Interesting fact for us Morrill Act geeks: Cornell is one of only two land-, sea-, sun- and space-grant universities in the U.S.

 

Cornell Backup Mark Coury played at Kentucky. So there's that.

Wynona Judd is a big red, does that count?

 

Isn't Cornell supposed to be the least prestigious Ivy? I have a friend who went there and the other day I said something about attending an Ivy League school and she responded by rolling her eyes and saying something along the lines of, "Just Cornell."

 

There are as many layers of snobbery within the Ivies as there are schools in it. But basically, Harvard and Yale don't even think Princeton measures up, let alone those other schools. It's all crap. They're all great colleges.

 

Cornell's had a tough time of late. And apparently, there have been three more suicides since this was written: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/education/17cornell.html?scp=2&sq=Cornell&st=cse.