BIG Red Come up BIG

With apologies to Jeremy Lin and the Crimson of Harvard, the Ivy is not going to be a two bid league.  I'm not sure that it ever was, but in the off-chance the conference snagged a modern-era unprecedented at-large bid it would only have been remotely possible by Cornell.

The Big Red don't appear they'll be needing it.  Cornell grabbed control of the league and their NCAA destiny by throttling Harvard 86-50 in one of the most anticipated Ivy League tilts in years.  The Red were never challenged by what appeared to be their only challenger in conference. Cornell has garnered some national interest after grabbing wins over BCS schools Alabama and St. John's, and nearly shocking the world by hanging with #1 Kansas in Phog until the final seconds.  The "12 seed no one wants to see" is doing their best to be seeded even higher.

It is safe to say that winning Ivy League games doesn't add a ton of strength to the RPI, but running the table in league, coupled with only a narrow loss to Kansas, a loss to Seton Hall and a road loss to Syracuse, certainly adds some validity to your name.  28-3 with only the aforementioned losses seems to wander the Red into the eight to eleven seed range.

While we spend the next month or so debating who falls on what side of the dreaded "bubble", Cornell, barring a bizarre letdown loss, will be safely waiting for their turn to dance with a nervous, nervous partner.

They may not look like great dancers...but I wouldn't want to see them in March

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