The 2023–24 Cornell Big Red men's basketball team represented

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in the

2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with th ...

. The Big Red, led by seventh-year head coach Brian Earl, played their home games at

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, as members of the

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Previous season

The Big Red finished the 2022–23 season 17–11, 7–7 in Ivy League play to finish in fourth place. They were defeated by

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

in the semifinals of the Ivy League tournament.

Roster

Per-Game Leaders

Source: * Points: Chris Manon (12.5) * Rebounds: Guy Ragland Jr. (5.2) * Assists: Nazir Williams (3.2) * Blocks: Guy Ragland Jr. (0.6) * Steals: Chris Manon (2.2)

Schedule and results

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Recap and Aftermath

Cornell was projected to finish third in the Ivy League, according to preseason polls, and they finished right in line with the projections. It was the best finish for Cornell since winning the Ivy League and reaching the NCAA Tournament in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, and their first ever NIT appearance. Due to the four-year athletic eligibility limit of the Ivy League, seniors are not allowed to play another year. This led to the departure of Isaiah Gray to Akron, Chris Manon to Vanderbilt, Sean Hansen to George Washington, and Keller Bootby following head coach Brian Earl to William & Mary. All of these players averaged at least 15 minutes a game for the Big Red in the 2023-24 college basketball season.

References

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Cornell Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since ...

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' ...