Matt Morgan, Cornell’s star junior guard, is used to being overlooked. Even after he scored 760 points as a high school junior, no Division I program outside of Cornell showed any interest in the 6-2 guard. As a freshman he led the Ivy League in scoring, yet he was passed over for league Rookie of the Year honors. Last year he again was the top scorer in the Ivy, but he wasn’t named to the all-conference first team. Through 19 games this season, he’s averaging 23.5 points per game, good for eighth in the country. Nobody is ever catching former Princeton star Bill Bradley, but Morgan, if he returns for his senior year, has a good chance to become the second-most prolific scorer in Ivy League history. Perhaps then he will finally get noticed. But he’s not holding his breath.



“I’ve always played with a chip on my shoulder because a lot of teams passed up on me,” Morgan says. “I use it all as motivation now. But I haven’t...