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The Cornell men’s basketball team will return to the “World’s Most Famous Arena” and attempt to win one of the most historic college basketball tournaments in the country, the Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival, on Sunday and Monday, December 20-21. The nation’s longest running holiday college basketball tournament will also feature host St. John’s, Hofstra, and Davidson.  In the tournament’s first game, the two-time defending Ivy League champion Big Red will face Davidson, an NCAA quarterfinalist two years ago.
 
Don’t miss your chance to watch what may be the best Cornell Basketball team ever!  Led by seniors Louis Dale (Ivy Player of the Year as a sophomore), Ryan Whittman (two-time 1st team All-Ivy), and big-man Jeff Foote (arguably the best seven-footer to ever play in the league), the Big Red have already claimed road victories over the Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeast Conference and the UMass Minutemen and of the Atlantic 10 conference.  Fresh off its thrilling OT win over Bucknell, the Big Red currently sport a 6-2 record.  Come on out and enjoy the pageantry of college hoops at the Garden and root your alma mater to victory!
 
Event Details
Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. versus Davidson and
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m. versus St. John’s or Hofstra
 
Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
 
Tickets: Tickets are available through Cornell’s Athletic Ticket Office online: Big Red Tickets or by phone at (607) 254-2327.  All tickets are $54 per day for reserved seats (lower bowl and 100 level) and offer admission to both of that day’s games.
 
Post-game: Following the game, Cornellians are invited to meet the Cornell men’s basketball team and Coach Steve Donahue at Lugo Caffe, located at 1 Penn Plaza, 33rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.  Lugo Caffe owers Johnny Heil ’90 and John Meadow ’01 will provide a little bit of  “la dolce vita” along with half price Peroni and Blue Moon beer and half price “Big Red Martinis.”