Havoc in Hanover

Dartmouth men's basketball head coach Terry Dunn became the second Ivy coach to leave midseason when he resigned Jan. 8 — the afternoon before the Green's first Ivy League game. First-year assistants Mark Guape, Michael Brown and Tim Lane coached the team to a 76-47 loss to Harvard on Jan. 9, and will continue to lead the team until an interim coach is announced by interim athletic director Bob Ceplikas.

Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports reported that a player revolt forced out Dunn, but players have since refuted that claim.

Search for football coach continues

After Jim Knowles '87 left Ithaca to reunite with Duke head coach David Sutcliffe, under whom Knowles worked at Ole Miss in 2003, the national search for a new football coach began.

Athletic director Andy Noel was initially said to be interested in six names: Harvard offensive coordinator Joel Lamb; Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore; Lafayette offensive coordinator Mickey Fein; former Kansas State head coach and Cornell assistant Ron Prince; Kansas State tight ends coach and former Cornell player and assistant Ricky Rahne '02; and Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks coach and former Cornell player Bill Lazor '94.

At the moment, the particularly interesting, although unconfirmed, of those names is Lazor's: With Pete Carroll leaving USC for the Seattle Seahawks, much of the current Seahawks staff could be shaken up. Carroll has already announced he is bringing along Jeremy Bates, his quarterbacks coach at USC, to the Pacific Northwest.

Since the initial reports, the Cornell vacancy has been linked to Florida tight ends coach Brian White, Nebraska volunteer assistant Joe Moglia (who was a football coach for 16 years ending in 1983 before joining TD Ameritrade and eventually becoming CEO and chairman) and, most recently, Terry Shea, who formerly held head coach positions at San Jose State and Rutgers and also served as Chicago Bears offensive coordinator.

Players said that the first candidate was on campus to be interviewed at the end of last week.

Video: Jayhawks can shoot

Plenty has been written praising the Red for its near-upset of then-No. 1 Kansas, which has since fallen to Tennessee and out of the top spot in the coaches' poll, but just to reiterate exactly how talented the Jayhawks are, check out rel="nofollow">this video of four consecutive half-court shots at a Kansas practice. "That pesky Cornell team," as they've been called frequently since the Kansas game, received 16 points in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Top-25 Poll and 12 in the A.P. Top-25 Poll.