Thanks to Arthur for posting the tentative 92 Cornell schedule.  Some
thoughts related thereto:
 
Are the pair of games on Jan. 24-25 a tournament at the Air Force
campus, or a pair of games against the Academy?
 
A trip to Providence and BC rounds out the non-league schedule. Is
there a story behind Cornell not going to a Christmas tourny?
 
The atypical placement of one of the Colgate games on a weekend date
(Saturday, Jan. 18) means that I might actually see a regular season
game against 'Gate for the first time since '86. The Raiders will
certainly be up for Cornell after last year's QF massacre.
 
Kudos to the league for keeping the first Harvard game around the first
week of December (Dec. 7).  That week usually corresponds with the end
of the Fall semester at Cornell, and the scheduling of the team's
principal rival for that slot has made for a nice tradition.  Now if we
could just beat them.
 
The 92 schedule is very convenient for Cornell fans living in Boston.
Along with the two New England non-league games, the schedule puts the
game at Yale on a Saturday, and splits up the trip to Dartmouth-Vermont
the right way (Dartmouth on Friday).  And Union is a huge logisitical
improvement over Army, not only because it's closer, but because the
pairing with RPI makes both games cost effective.
 
Maybe it's my imagination, but in looking over the schedule it seemed
to be less "streaky" as far as successions of good teams or bad teams.
This could be because the two most consistently mediocre teams,
Princeton and Yale, are now paired, while the RPI-UVM pair (always a
killer for the Red, witness last year) has been mercifully broken up.
Or it could be because of the overall balance of the league -- I doubt
that Union will be as consistently uncompetitive as Army proved to be,
or that -- especially with the two sets of Winter games on the horizon
-- anyone will achieve the consistent regular season dominance enjoyed
by Harvard in the 80's (although Clarkson has reason to hope for a fruitful
 reign).
 
When will the Eastern Regional NCAA site be awarded?  I think that the
pool of potential sites for this and future years is actually quite
small: Knickerbocker Arena (Albany), Lake Placid, Boston Garden, Conte
Forum (Chestnut Hill), Providence Civic Centre, Hartford Civic Centre,
Houston Field House (Troy), Onondaga Co. Memorial (Syracuse) - and some
of those are a stretch.  Am I forgetting any contenders?  I assume the
Aud, Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum, and the Byrne Arena are
all too far afield.
 
-- Greg