GAME INFORMATION
GAME #3: No. 13 Cornell vs. Binghamton
FACE OFF: Tuesday, February 24, at 3:00 p.m.
SITE: Greater Binghamton Sports Complex (Binghamton, N.Y.)
2015 Records: Cornell (1-1, 0-0 Ivy League); Binghamton (0-1, 0-0 AE)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 11-0
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 14-8, Feb. 25, 2014 in Binghamton, N.Y.
GAME NOTES: Cornell | Binghamton (To Come)

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THE MATCHUP: The No. 13 Cornell men's lacrosse team will return to the Greater Binghamton Sports Complex for the second time in five days as it takes on Binghamton University in a game that had originally been scheduled for Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y. The Big Red defeated Hobart, 16-8, on Feb. 20 to even its record at 1-1, while the Bearcats are coming off a 12-9 loss to Marist in its home opener on Feb. 22.

ON THE AIR: Fans in the Ithaca area can hear Barry Leonard's call live on WHCU 870 AM/95.9 FM. Out of town fans will be able to hear the call live on the Ivy League Digital Network. Due to limitations at the facility, the game will not be video streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network, but it will be recorded and put on the Ivy Digital Network as a free archive by Wednesday morning.
 
SERIES HISTORY VS. BINGHAMTON: Cornell holds an 11-0 lead in the all-time series with Binghamton, including a 14-8 victory last year at the Bearcat Sports Complex.

LOOKING AT THE BEARCATS (portions courtesy BinghamtonBearcats.com): Binghamton was selected to finish fourth overall in the 2015 America East men's lacrosse preseason poll. The Bearcats had a breakthrough season in 2014, finishing second in the regular season and qualifying for the four-team America East Tournament for the first time since 2011. Ten seniors graduated from last year's squad but the Bearcats still return 29 letter winners. Senior attack Tucker Nelson ranked second in the conference last year with 2.15 assists per game and was sixth with 3.23 points per contest. Junior attack Paul O'Donnell finished the 2014 season with 19 goals and 10 assists. He was also second in the conference with three game-winning goals. Head coach Scott Nelson, now in his fourth season at Binghamton, was named the America East Co-Coach of the Year in 2014 Binghamton opened its season with a 12-9 loss to Marist, despite four goals and an assist from freshman attackman Sean Gilroy. Zach Scaduto registered a hat trick against the Red Foxes, while Nelson dished out three assists. In his collegiate debut, freshman goalie Sam Sanko made seven saves.
 
LAST TIME VS. BINGHAMTON: Dan Lintner opened the game with a natural hat trick and finished the day with a career-high six goals as the No. 16 Big Red defeated Binghamton, 14-8. Senior face-off man Doug Tesoriero continued his solid play, winning 14-of-23 restarts, scooping nine ground balls and handing out one assist, while sophomore goalie Brennan Donville made eight saves, including five in the fourth quarter to hold off Binghamton's comeback bid. Matt Donovan tallied three goals and Joe Paoletta had a career day with three assists and his first collegiate goal. John Hogan also finished with four points (two goals, two assists). Cornell held the advantage in shots (44-26) and ground balls (33-22), while going 13-of-14 on clear attempts. The Big Red also went 4-of-5 in man-up situations and held the Bearcats to just 2-of-7. BU was led by Paul O'Donnell (two goals, one assist) and Michael Antinozzi (one goal, two assists) with three points apiece. In goal, Max Schefler made 11 saves, including several spectacular ones, to keep the Bearcats in the game.

CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST: The Big Red is 21-6 all-time vs. the current members of the America East. Cornell is 11-0 all-time vs. Binghamton, 5-0 vs. Stony Brook and 1-0 vs. Albany and Hartford. The Big Red has a losing record vs. UMBC (5-6) and has never faced Vermont ... Cornell has won its last 18 games vs. America East opponents.

A WIN OVER BINGHAMTON WOULD:
• make Cornell 12-0 all-time in the series.
• make the Big Red 2-0 all-time at the Greater Binghamton Sports Complex.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's career record to 122-107 and to 4-1 vs. Binghamton.
• be the 727th win in program history.
• be the 19th straight victory for Cornell against an America East opponent.
 
RECORD SETTER: Last season vs. Binghamton, Dan Lintner scored a pair of goals just four seconds apart to set the school record and match the NCAA mark for the fastest consecutive goals scored by the same team.

THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick was named the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse at Cornell University on June 11, 2014. Kerwick, who served in the position on an interim basis during the 2014 season, became the 11th head coach in the programs' 122-year history ... Kerwick has 16 years of head coaching experience (121-107) with stints at Jacksonville University, Hobart, Alfred and Randolph-Macon. 
 
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND:  Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 279-161-7 (.632) … The Big Red will face seven teams from New York in 2015.

RANKED OPPONENTS:  The Big Red's 2015 season currently features eight opponents ranked in the USILA Coaches Poll – Syracuse (second) Virginia, (fifth), Yale (seventh), Albany (eighth), Harvard (10th), Penn (16th), Princeton (16th) and Colgate (20th).

ELITE COMPANY:  Over the past 10 seasons (2005-2014) only eight schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (151), UVA (127), Cornell (121), Syracuse (118), Notre Dame (114), Denver (113), Maryland (112), Hopkins (111) … During that span, only six have won at least 70 percent of its games – Duke (.803), Cornell (.766), Virginia (.760), Notre Dame (.735), Syracuse (.728) and Hopkins (.715).
 
MOVING ON UP:
•Matt Donovan ranks 17th in Cornell history for career points (130) and needs just two more to move into a tie with Chris Danler in 16th place.
•Matt Donovan ranks 23rd in Cornell history for career assists (45) and needs just one more to move into a five-way tie for 19th place.
•Matt Donovan ranks 22nd in Cornell history for career goals (85) and needs just one more to move into a tie with Bob Shaw, Pat Dutton and Tom Quaranto in 19th place.
•Dan Lintner ranks 45th in Cornell history for career goals (58) and needs just two more to move into a tie with David Key in 44th place.
 
BIG IN THE MIDFIELD: With two points vs. Penn on May 2, 2014 Connor Buczek became just the 14th midfielder in Cornell history to reach 100 career points … He currently ranks 10th all-time among midfielders with 109 career points and needs just four more to surpass Bob Henrickson (1976-78) and move into ninth place overall.
 
FACE-OFF FRENZY: In his first season as a starter, sophomore Domenic Massimilian enters the game with Binghamton ranked ninth in the nation with a .700 winning percentage. He is also third in the country with 9.00 ground balls.
 
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS:  Cornell had three players named to the 2015 Face-Off Magazine Preseason All-American list. Connor Buczek was a first-team selection, while Jordan Stevens and Matt Donovan were named to the second- and third-team, respectively.
 
EARLIEST START: The Feb. 15 start to the season was the earliest in Cornell program history. Previously, the earliest the Big Red had ever started a season came in an 18-6 victory at Binghamton on Feb. 21, 2009 ... By comparison, in1892, Cornell's first-ever season, the team played its first contest on May 28. 

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red will have four captains this season – seniors Connor Buczek, Matt Donovan, Dan Lintner, and Jordan Stevens.

HARD HAT: Brennan Donville has been selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2015 season. The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.
 
FAMILY TIES:
• Head Coach Matt Kerwick's parents Thomas and the late Patricia Kerwick, as well as his sister Ann, all graduated from Cornell.
• Russell Scott has a total of 14 family members that attended Cornell, while his grandfather, Thomas W. Scott, is a retired Cornell professor of Agronomy … His father, Tom (football), his uncles John Dentes (football), George Dentes (football/sprint football/baseball), Terry Scott (sprint football), and Sam Happel (lacrosse) and his cousins Scott Dentes (sprint football) and Zak Dentes (sprint football) all played sports at Cornell … Happel played on the Big Red's national semifinal team in 1982.
• Chris Cook's father, Kevin '84, and uncle, Ed Cook '86, were All-American lacrosse players for Cornell.
• Ryan Matthew's cousin Matt Sutherland played lacrosse at Cornell.
• Tim LaBeau's father Tim '77 played football for the Big Red from 1973-77, while his mother, Nancy '78, and two sisters, Kristi '09 and Kate '10, all graduated from Cornell.
• Matt Schattner's uncle, Mark Major, played hockey at Cornell from 1984-87, while his aunt, Martha Manilla Major, played soccer for the Big Red from 1986-87.
• Dan Nemirov's mother, Jamie, as well as one aunt and his maternal grandfather all graduated from Cornell. 
• Scott Flynn's grandfather Norman Penney attended Cornell Law School and later served as both a professor in the law school and Dean of University Faculty. 
•Charlie Estill's grandfather Frederick Siefke graduated from Cornell in 1948.
•Troy Revello's older sister Grace attends Cornell.
 
IVY KINGS:
• Since Ivy League play began in 1956, Cornell has won a conference-high 28 titles, including 17 undefeated crowns.
• Cornell has won a share of 11 of the last 12 Ivy League titles.
• The Big Red also has the best Ivy League record of any team in the conference at 247-98-1 (.715).
 
MLL DRAFT FACTS:
•Senior midfielder Connor Buczek was selected second overall by the Florida Launch in the 2015 Major League Lacrosse Draft becoming the Big Red's highest ranked draft pick since Rob Pannell was taken first overall by the New York Lizards in 2012.
•Cornell had a pair of third round selections in senior attackman Matt Donovan (18th – Chesapeake Bayhawks) and senior defensemen Jordan Stevens. (21st – Rochester Rattlers).
•Cornell was one of eight schools with three or more players drafted, but of those eight schools, only Notre Dame also featured a first round draft pick (Jack Near – seventh overall).  
•Since having a program-high five players selected in the 2007 MLL Draft, the Big Red has had multiple picks in five of the last nine drafts. In that same time frame, Cornell has had five first round draft picks, including one selection at No. 1 (Pannell), and two at No. 2 (Buczek and Max Seibald).  
 
ON THE WORLD STAGE:  The Big Red had 10 former or current players suit up on the field at this past summer's 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, including junior Brennan Donville, Jesse Gamble '11 and Jason Noble '13, who took home the gold medal with Team Canada. Additionally, Mitch Belisle '07, Max Seibald '09, and Rob Pannell '13 earned silver with Team USA, while Myan Adams '13 won the bronze with the Iroquois Nation. Cornell also had two players with Israel Lacrosse (Coldy Levine '13 and Cole McCormack '14) and one with Team Sweden (Sten Jernudd '14).
 
HI, MY NAME IS:  The Big Red has a new faces on the sideline, as Chris Kivlen has joined the staff as an assistant coach. Kivlen came to East Hill following three extremely successful seasons as the head coach at Montclair State where he registered an overall record of 41-13, including a perfect conference record (18-0), three league championships and three NCAA Tournament appearances. For his efforts, he was named the Skyline Conference Coach of the Year each season and turned Montclair State into one of the top programs in the region. A standout defenseman during his playing career for Albany, Kivlen was part of three conference championship teams. 

FRESH FACES:  The Big Red added 14 newcomers to the 2015 roster, two of whom are transfer students. The group features seven high school All-Americans and is comprised of seven midfielders, three defenders, three attackmen, and one long stick midfielder. Additionally, the players represent six states with seven players hailing from New York, three from New Jersey and one each from Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

NEXT UP:  The Big Red travel to the Lone Star State to take on No. 8 Albany at SMU's Ford Field in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 12 p.m. CST. The game is part of the seventh annual Patriots Cup and is expected to attract more than 8,000 spectators with the goal of raising awareness and funds to support the HEADstrong Foundation and Wounded Warrior Project.