Youthful Rams open play with Nov. 3 exhibition at Northern Iowa

MOUNT VERNON – Cornell’s men’s basketball team showed significant progress throughout the 2025-26 campaign with the youngest squad Dave Schlabaugh has fielded on the Hilltop. The 10th-year head coach takes another young team into this season, although he believes the Rams are further along this time around, buoyed by the return of four sophomore starters. “We were a different team at the end of last season. We are a completely different than we were last October,” Schlabaugh said. “We’re still very young and trying to sort out what we’re good at along with lineup combinations. It will take time, but…