Cornell clinched the Ivy League championship with its win over Dartmouth tonight. More importantly — from a national perspective, anyway — the Big Red earned the conference’s automatic berth in the 2008 NCAA tournament by improving to 11-0 in the Ivy League, which does not hold a post-season conference tournament.
It will be Cornell’s first appearance in the tournament since 1988, when it was defeated by #1 seed Arizona by a 90-50 count in the round of 64. After the jump, a brief look at Cornell’s season to this point.
CORNELL BIG RED (19-5, 11-0 Ivy League)
Team RPI: 69 (Conf. RPI: 24)
Best Win: 11/25/07 – 83-77 vs. Siena (17-10, RPI 86)
Worst Loss: 12/19/07 – 75-88 at Bucknell (11-17, RPI 212)
vs. Top 25: 0-1
Last Tournament Appearance: 1988 (lost to #1 Arizona in first round)
“Amateur Bracketologist” Projected Seed: 14
| School | Score | W/L | RPI/Notes |
| Lehigh | 87-83 | W | 234 |
| at Ohio | 89-102 | L | 58 |
| Army | 93-78 | W | 237 |
| Siena | 83-77 | W | 86 |
| Binghamton | 73-68 | W | 240 |
| Colgate | 73-76 | L | 185 |
| at Bucknell | 75-88 | L | 212 |
| at Syracuse | 64-80 | L | 50 |
| at Stony Brook | 66-50 | W | 327 |
| at Quinnipiac | 86-84 | W | 197 |
| at Duke | 67-81 | L | 5 |
| Alvernia | 91-46 | W | D3 |
| at N.J.I.T. | 64-33 | W | 341 |
| Columbia | 70-64 | W | 187 |
| at Columbia | 72-54 | W | 187 |
| at Brown | 75-64 | W | 112 |
| at Yale | 66-45 | W | 179 |
| Princeton | 72-61 | W | 330 |
| Pennsylvania | 87-74 | W | 285 |
| at Harvard | 72-71 | W | 307 |
| at Dartmouth | 73-63 | W | 318 |
| Yale | 85-65 | W | 179 |
| Brown | 74-65 | W | 112 |
| Dartmouth | 75-59 | W | 318 |
