Harvard’s Jeremy Lin Went Virtually Unrecruited, Now is Wooden Award Finalist
College Basketball, Race January 28th. 2010, 4:15pm
Highly-recommended reading on Harvard basketball star Jeremy Lin. “He sent his CV (4.2 GPA, perfect score on his SAT II Math 2C in the ninth grade) and a DVD of highlights … to all eight Ivies, Stanford, Cal and his dream school, UCLA. Only four schools responded. Out of the Pac-10, Lin recalls, UCLA ‘wasn’t interested,’ Stanford was ‘fake interested,’ and during a visit to Cal a staffer ‘called me Ron.’” [SI]
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January 28th, 2010 at 4:18 PM
averaging 17 points in the ivy league = 3 points in the pac 10?
January 28th, 2010 at 4:23 PM
I bet he would look awesome going against a folding chair.
/Yi Jianlian
//Nets suuuuuck
January 28th, 2010 at 4:24 PM
6′3″ and he averages 31% from 3. Not sure why the big schools passed on him.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:26 PM
This kid is a great college player. He abused the Connecticut guards time after time in Storrs. It was unreal. He got into the lane at will and UConn’s guards are pretty damn quick.
I don’t think he has an NBA future because he’s a scrawny 6′3 but Cornell-Harvard on Saturday is appointment viewing
January 28th, 2010 at 4:26 PM
This is ‘Merica. Round here we call that a resume.
/spits
January 28th, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Overachiever!
January 28th, 2010 at 4:28 PM
It must have been difficult to type this while holding your pinky up in a snooty fashion.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:28 PM
But those Ivy defenses are fierce. Context, people.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:28 PM
He’s the best baller in the yard … Hahhhhhh-vahd yard.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:28 PM
I watched his highlights from the UConn game on youtube. He’s pretty fun to watch. He does, however, look like the guy from Ping Pong Playa.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:30 PM
I’ll be there! Hopefully there will be big heads in the crowd
January 28th, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Don’t try to tell me Ryan Wittman isn’t ballerific
January 28th, 2010 at 4:32 PM
The only way I’d watch an Ivy League game is it Serena van der Woodsen would have ended up at Yale and been a cheerleader.
/Gossip Girl’d
January 28th, 2010 at 4:32 PM
30 points vs UConn
25 points vs BC
14 points vs Georgetown
January 28th, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Cursed- Don’t try telling these clowns about Cornell-Harvard. they would rather watch Illinois or Texas A&M shoot 500 bricks than watch a fun basketball game.
Also I love how people use shooting percentage as a barometer. Never mind the fact that Lin always has a guy draped all over him at the 3pt line and he has to shoot because Harvard has no one else to go to with the shot clock running down. Gotta love the Internet. Everyone’s an expert but no one has seen the games.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:35 PM
this kid controls his blocks better than anyone in the country
January 28th, 2010 at 4:35 PM
I’m considering trying to attend–it’s a rare Ivy League game that matters. How often does that happen?
January 28th, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Anyone else getting the Trojan Vibrtating Mini ad on the right hand side? I just thought it was funny because it was a mini and, you know, the post is about… well, nevermind.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Even if LeBron blocked a Jeremy Lin shot, the ball would still go out of bounds. Advantage: Lin.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:38 PM
very good
January 28th, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Wow, my Boeheim question just made it on Rome is Burning. It’s a huge year for Cursedcleveland!
January 28th, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Not this year. Probably means he would average 20 points in the Pac-10.
/actual Pac-10 fan, not someone east of the mississippi
January 28th, 2010 at 4:42 PM
That’s because he knows you’re the only one that’s watching.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:44 PM
The 1996 playoff between Penn-Princeton is the only one I can remember. That game was fantastic. OT then Princeton goes on to beat UCLA in the tournament.
The best case for the Ivy is that Harvard and Cornell split two close games and Harvard wins the playoff. I think Cornell can squeeze in an at large bid. Harvard can’t.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:44 PM
its beyond gay that the server almost crashed the other days because of greg oden’s dong
January 28th, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Cornell/Harvard is the biggest Ivy League game in years…it is starting to look like there is a very legitimate chance that the Ivy gets 2 teams in the tourney this year, a statement that I find impossible to believe even as I type it.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:45 PM
FTA, “The bigoted jeers he regularly hears at games (everything from “wonton soup” to “Open your eyes!”"
Thats why those kids are in the Ivy League, brilliant.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Poor guy. He got turned down by a few of the top 15 academic schools in the country and had to settle for a school that’s arguably top 3 (depending on your major).
January 28th, 2010 at 4:49 PM
they should be yelling general tso if anything. damn i’m hungry for that.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
yeah it must suck having a six figure job most likely waiting for you when you graduate and the NBA doesn’t work out.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Cornell is absolutely this year’s team nobody will want to play. Unlike past mid-majors that have good shooters, this team has one with a 7 footer who actually played very well against Syracuse’s bigs. They did play poorly against Syracuse and Seton Hall, but trust me, the Orange know they’re pretty fortunate Cornell didn’t shoot well, I’ve heard them speak to that countless times since that game.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Lin could one day become Princeton legend, Brian Earl.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:53 PM
RS,
Was that Penn team led by Michael Jordan? I remember that dude being the tits.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:54 PM
I second that.
/glad I’m on this thread and not the Tebow one. That one has to be getting nasty.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
/fixed
January 28th, 2010 at 5:00 PM
No.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:10 PM
No. Jordan came after that, like 98-00. Not sure who the star on the 96 Penn team was, that was the year after Matt Maloney & Jerome Allen graduated, the 94 and 95 Penn teams were probably the best Ivy League teams in the last 20 years. The 94 team won a game in the tourney as an 11 seed, and the 95 team was an 8 seed I think.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:30 PM
someone say general tso’s?
January 28th, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Ira Bowman
January 28th, 2010 at 5:41 PM
0 chance the Ivy gets two teams in unless the committee has some type of guilt about never letting the smart kids in.
I also say neither Ivy wins a game in the NCAAs
January 28th, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Well that’s not going on much of a ledge considering both teams will be in the 12-13 seed range.
I thought Cornell was an upset alert team last year but they got matched up with the one top team that could run them down in Missouri. The worst possible match up for them. When that came out I knew they didn’t catch a break.
Also the Cornell game is probably one of the top 3 games SU has played this year. They shot 50 percent from 3 and they really shut off Whitman from getting good looks. I would love to see Cornell draw Purdue, WVU or K State. They can beat all of those squads.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:58 PM
I love the fact that the Crimson are the only Ivy squad not to have at least one Ivy League b-ball title (geez, even Brown and Columbia have one a piece in ‘85 and ‘67 respectively)
http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/ivy-champs.asp?intSID=6
I hope they get shut out again. Go Big Red!