Entering the 2009-10 season, the vaunted senior class had one goal it hadn't reached and desperately wanted to secure its place among the all-time Ivy League dynasties - advance in the NCAA tournament.
After Cornell's 78-65 victory over No. 5 seed Temple on Friday afternoon in the East Regional first round at Jacksonville veterans Memorial Arena, now all that remains is advancing as far as it possibly can.
Cornell dominated the backboards (30-20), shot 56 percent from the field and scored at a season-high clip against the Owls in capturing the program's first-ever postseason basketball win and first NCAA tourney victory by an Ivy school since Princeton defeated UNLV during the 1997-98 campaign.
The Big Red's big three of Louis Dale (21 points, seven assists), Ryan Wittman (20 points, five rebounds) and Jeff Foote (16 points, seven rebounds) controlled the game and the 12th-seeded Big Red took advantage of 11 turnovers by Temple to score 18 points off of them.
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