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2007–08 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season
The 2007–08 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 54th season of basketball. Cornell University won the league title with a perfect 14-0 record in league play and was the Ivy League's representative at the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, snapping a 19-year streak of the Ivy League sending either University of Pennsylvania or Princeton University to the tournament. Louis Dale of Cornell was the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year The Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Ivy League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1974–75 season. There have been six players honored on two occasions: Craig Robinson, Kit .... All-Ivy Teams NCAA tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:2007-08 Ivy League men's basketball season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. It also organizes the Athletics (physical culture), athletic programs of colleges and helps over 500,000 college student athletes who compete annually in college sports. The headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Until the 1956–57 academic year, the NCAA was a single division for all schools. That year, the NCAA split into the NCAA University Division, University Division and the NCAA College Division, College Division. In August 1973, the current three-division system of NCAA Division I, Division I, NCAA Division II, Division II, and NCAA Division III, Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer athletic scholarships to students. Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Basketball
College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. In the Higher education in the United States, United States, colleges and universities are governed by collegiate athletic bodies, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA). Each of these various organizations is subdivided into one to three divisions, based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. Teams with more talent tend to win over teams with less talent. Each organization has different conferences to divide the teams into groups. Traditionally, the location of a school has been a significant factor in determining conference affiliation. The bulk of the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Dale
Louis Dale III (born May 20, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Cornell. High school career Dale attended the Altamont School in Birmingham, Alabama, where he played basketball and ran track. As a senior, he averaged 16 points, six rebounds, and five assists per game. He was a McDonald's All-American nominee. Dale committed to play college basketball at Cornell in April 2006. College career Dale averaged 13.3 points and 4.3 rebounds per game as a freshman. He was named Honorable Mention All-Ivy League. As a sophomore, Dale averaged 13.7 points, 4.9 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game. He was named Ivy League Player of the Year. Dale missed the first eight games of his junior season with a hamstring injury. He averaged 13 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. He went on a running program in the offseason to build stamina. As a senior, Dale averaged 12.8 points, 4.7 assists, and 2.9 rebounds per game, shooting 47 percent from the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006–07 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season
The 2006–07 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 53rd season of basketball. The Ivy league doesn't have a tournament to determine the league champion; Instead the team with the best record is the champion. Ibrahim Jaaber, who played for the Penn Quakers, won the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year The Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Ivy League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1974–75 season. There have been six players honored on two occasions: Craig Robinson, Kit ... for the second straight year. All-Ivy Teams NCAA Tournament References {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 Ivy League men's basketball season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008–09 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season
The 2008–09 Ivy League men's basketball season was the Ivy League's 55th season of basketball. Cornell University won the league title for the second year in a row and was the recipient of the Ivy League's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Alex Barnett of Dartmouth College was the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. During the 2008–09 season, Harvard's Jeremy Lin was the only NCAA Division I men's college basketball player who ranked in the top ten in his conference for scoring (17.8), rebounding (5.5), assists (4.3), steals (2.4), blocked shots (0.6), field goal percentage (0.502), free throw percentage (0.744), and 3 point shot percentage (0.400). Results NCAA tournament See also *Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference of eight Private university, private Research university, research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference of eight Private university, private Research university, research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I, and in College football, football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The term ''Ivy League'' is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally renowned as elite colleges associated with Academic achievement, academic excellence, College admissions in the United States#Selectivity, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference. At times, they have also been referred to as the "Ancient Eight". The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell Big Red Men's Basketball
The Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represents Cornell University (one of eight members of the Ivy League), located in Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, New York (state), New York, in NCAA Division I men's competition. The Cornell Big Red, Big Red's appearance in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 2008 NCAA Tournament was their first trip to NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, "The Big Dance" since 1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, 1988, ending a 20 year absence from the tournament. The team has reached the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament five times, in 1954 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1954, 1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1988, 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2008, 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2009, and 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2010. Cornell’s best finish in the NCAA tournament occurred in 1954 and 2010 when they advanced to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2007–08 season. The 70th annual edition of the tournament began on March 18, 2008, and concluded with the championship game on April 7, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. For the first time (and the only time until the 2025 tournament) since seeding began in 1979, all four of the top seeds advanced to the Final Four. These were Memphis, the winner of the South region, UCLA, the winner of the West region making their third consecutive Final Four appearance, Kansas, the winner of the Midwest region, and overall number one seed and East region winner North Carolina, back in the Final Four for the first time since their 2005 national championship. Memphis and Kansas advanced to the national championship game, with Memphis's victory in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of founder and first president Benjamin Franklin, who had advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service. The university has four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, School of Nursing. Among its graduate schools are its University of Pennsylvania Law School, law school, whose first professor, James Wilson (Founding Father), James Wilson, helped write the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747 and then to its Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County campus in Princeton nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate instruction in the hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League Men's Basketball Player Of The Year
The Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Ivy League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1974–75 season. There have been six players honored on two occasions: Craig Robinson, Kit Mueller, Jerome Allen, Ugonna Onyekwe, Ibrahim Jaaber and Justin Sears. No player has ever won the award three times. There have been three ties for player of the year in the award's history: in 1981–82 ( Paul Little of Penn and Craig Robinson of Princeton); in 1992–93 (Jerome Allen of Penn and Buck Jenkins of Columbia); and in 2019–20 ( Paul Atkinson of Yale and A. J. Brodeur of Penn). There was no 2021 award because the Ivy League canceled all winter sports for the 2020–21 season, including men's basketball, due to COVID-19 concerns. Key Winners Winners by school References {{Men's college basketball award navbox NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year Player of the Year Several s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Wittman
Ryan Scott Wittman (born October 26, 1987) is an American former basketball player, best known for his college career at Cornell University. As of 2024, he holds the record for the most three-point field goals in men's Ivy League history. Early life Wittman was born on October 26, 1987, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the son of Kathy and Randy Wittman and he has one sister, Lauren. Randy Wittman was formerly the head coach of the Washington Wizards and was previously head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers (1999–2001) and Minnesota Timberwolves (2007–2008). The elder Wittman was a player on the 1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team which won a championship under Bob Knight. Drafted 22nd overall in the 1983 NBA draft, Wittman played for NBA teams Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, and Indiana Pacers for nine seasons. Ryan was born when his father was a member of the Atlanta Hawks, but grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and occasionally played pick-up games with Kevin Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
