March Madness: Cornell University Basketball Through the Years
In honor of the 2008 Ivy League men's and women's basketball champions, a new display by Cornell University Library's Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections offers a glimpse of the history of Cornell's basketball program.
Cornell students first formed a basketball club in 1898, and the men's team was officially recognized by the university in 1901. In that year, Cornell joined the first intercollegiate basketball league, along with Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. The Cornell record that season was 5-5 (2-4 in league games).
Since then, the men's team has had six championship seasons, competing in the NCAA tournament in 1954, 1988, and 2008, and the women's team earned its first championship title in 2008. A display featuring these highlights and more is on view in the Olin/Kroch libraries corridor during normal library operating hours through mid-April.