CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 93-80
In Cambridge, Mass.: Cornell leads 44-43
Current Streak: Harvard, 4 games
Last Meeting: Harvard won 76-73, 2/2/17 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Earl vs. Harvard: 0-3
Series Notes: Series dates back to the 1901-02 season • Harvard has won four of the last six contests between the teams overall • prior to that, the Crimson had won nine straight meeting • Harvard has won six of the last seven meetings between the teams at Lavietes, with five of those losses coming by double digits

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD
• improve Cornell's record to 12-14 on the season
• push the Big Red's record to 6-7 in Ivy play.
• make the Big Red 6-4 in its last 10 conference games.
• be the 1,254th in program history (1,253-1,422 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. HARVARD
• Seth Towns drained a go-ahead 3-pointer with under three minutes to play and preseason Ivy League favorite Harvard held on down the stretch with free throws to top Cornell 76-73 on Feb. 3 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell's Stone Gettings had his third 30-point game of the season and the fourth double-double of his career with a 32-point, 10-rebound effort in defeat, while Matt Morgan scored 16 points and dished off six assists without a turnover.
• Josh Warren scored eight points, Steven Julian had five points and five boards and Terrance McBride had four points, five helpers and two steals.
• The Big Red had 19 assists on the night and just 10 turnovers, but were done in at the free-throw line - hitting just 10-of-18, including missing the tying or go-ahead free throw twice in the final three minutes, and one that would have extended its lead to two possessions right before Harvard took a lead with 3:09 to play.
• Towns ended the night with 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists among four double figure scorers.
• Chris Lewis chipped in 17 points, six boards, two assists and three blocked shots, Christian Juzang had 12 points, six rebounds and three assists and Danilo Djuricic scored 11 off the bench.
• The Crimson made 15-of-16 free throws on the night, including all 10 second half charity tosses and six straight in the final 88 seconds for the win.

LAST TIME OUT
• Seniors Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof and Kyle Brown gave the Big Red a shot in the arm early and Cornell's poise late led it to a 73-68 victory over Brown on Feb. 24, 2018 at Newman Arena.
• Abdur-Ra'oof and Brown got senior day starts and keyed a 7-0 spurt out of the blocks with an alley-oop bucket by the former and a 3-pointer from the latter.
• Abdur-Ra'oof also provided key second half minutes and ended the evening with seven points, two assists, a rebound and two dunks that electrified the home crowd.
• Junior Matt Morgan added a game-high 17 points and a team-high eight boards for the Big Red, while Stone Gettings chipped in 12 points and five assists and Terrance McBride had 10 points, four assists and three rebounds without committing a turnover.
• Junior Steven Julian brought the energy with eight points, seven rebounds, four blocks, three steals and two assists in the win.
• Cornell turned the ball over just nine times, blocked 10 shots and limited the Bears to 34 percent shooting overall, including 4-of-20 from beyond the arc.
• The high-scoring Brown backcourt of Brandon Anderson and Desmond Cambridge, who rank 2-3 in the Ancient Eight in scoring, combined for just 20 points on 6-of-28 shooting in the loss.
• Tamenang Choh picked up the slack, scoring 17 points and ripping down 12 rebounds while also leading the team with four assists.
• Obi Okolie (15 points, eight rebounds) and Cambridge (11 points) were also in double figures.
• Brown kept itself in the game thanks to its work on the offensive glass, grabbing 17 boards and outscoring the Big Red 15-4 in second chance points.

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Matt Morgan, the nation's ninth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 22.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 48 consecutive games, the fifth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 48 consecutive double figure scoring games surpassed John Sheehy's 34 straight (1953-55) for a school record that had held for 62 years.
• He is the only player in school history to put together two streaks of at least 20 consecutive games scoring in double figures (also a 21-game streak from 2015-16).
• Now averaging 22.4 points per game, Morgan's scoring average would be the second-highest ever by a Cornell player if maintained (Chuck Rolles '56 averaged 23.0 points in 1955-56).
• Morgan was the first Big Red player to post 12 consecutive 20-point games (previous Cornell record was six), a streak that ended with 13 at Penn.
• The junior had his streak of 30 consecutive games with a made 3-pointer snapped at Yale (third-longest streak at Cornell).
• Morgan became the first Cornell player to declare early for the NBA Draft during the spring of 2017, withdrawing before the early entry deadline to preserve his final two seasons of eligibility.
• After missing much of the preseason due to injury, junior Stone Gettings is averaging 17.0 ppg., 6.8 rpg. and 2.8 apg. in 26.4 minutes per contest.
• The only games by a Cornellian with more than Gettings' 39 points against Delaware were 47 scored by George Farley against Princeton in 1960 and 42 by Chuck Rolles at Syracuse in 1956.
• In his last 22 games, spanning 604 minutes, Gettings has scored 394 points, grabbed 154 rebounds, dished 68 assists and collected 17 steals and 12 blocks — 26.1 ppg., 10.2 rpg., 4.5 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Gettings had a streak of six straight 20-point games snapped against Penn, a mark that would have tied the school record entering the season — that was broken and extended to 12 by Morgan earlier this year.
• After having teammates score 30 points in the same game just once in the first 119 years of Cornell basketball, juniors Morgan and Gettings reached that milestone in consecutive games against Niagara and Delaware.
• Prior to the Niagara contest, the only previous time two Cornellians scored more than 30 points in the same game was on March 2, 1956 at the famed Palestra in Philadelphia when Bo Roberson (32) and Chuck Rolles (30) did so against Penn.
• In between, Cornell played 1,611 games over those ensuing 61 seasons.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.5 bpg.), fifth in steals (1.2 spg.) and eighth in rebounding (5.7 rpg.).
• Jack Gordon, a career 43 percent 3-point shooter, tied a single-game school record for 3-point percentage in a game, joining Ryan Wittman '10 (2010 vs. Bryant) as the lone Cornellians to hit five 3-pointers in a game without a miss when he did so against Central Penn.
• Gordon's career-best 10 rebounds against Niagara obliterated his previous career best of four.
• With Gordon and Gettings each registering double digit rebounds vs. Niagara, the juniors became the first Big Red teammates to accomplish that feat since Louis Dale '10 (11) and Jeff Foote '10 (10) did so against Dartmouth during the 2007-08 campaign.
• Eleven different Big Red players to have reached double digits in scoring in at least one game this season.
• Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 10 states and the District of Columbia.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red's triple overtime 107-101 win over Princeton was the longest game for Cornell since a 66-61 loss to the Tigers at home in five overtimes on Feb. 24, 1979 - a span of 1,108 games.
• It was the first time both Cornell and its opponent each scored at least 100 points in a game in school history.
• The Big Red's streak of scoring 75 or more points ended after six games with 61 points against Penn, its longest stretch since stringing together six consecutive contests spanning the final three contests of 2006-07 and the first three of the 2007-08 seasons. (Last time with seven straight, 1/19/66-2/18/66).
• Brian Earl and his brother Dan (VMI) one of five active sets of brothers directing Division I programs, joining Scott (Baylor) and Bryce (Vanderbilt) Drew; Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny (Rhode Island) Hurley; Joe (Yale) and James (Boston University) Jones; and Sean (Arizona) and Archie (Dayton) Miller.
• Fifth-year assistant coach Jon Jaques was a starter and senior captain on the 2009-10 Cornell team that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
• Cornell has played in 47 different states, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia, France and Spain. The only states the Big Red has not played in are Alaska, North Dakota and Mississippi after crossing Wyoming off the list last year.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 826 consecutive games (11th-longest streak in Division I) dating back to a contest against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2). Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, the Big Red has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 872 of 876 games (5,654 3-pointers over that span).
• The Big Red returns 72 percent of its scoring, 74 percent of its rebounding and 71 percent of its assists from last season — one of just 16 Division I teams nationwide to bring back 70 percent of its scoring, rebounding and assists from 2016-17.
• Dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 41-50 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 7-9 in multiple overtime games, with the longest game for the Big Red being a five overtime contest against Princeton, won by the Tigers 66-61 on Feb. 24, 1979 at Barton Hall. Cornell is 30-19 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 10-28 in road games.
• The Big Red ranks among the best according to the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report (APR) for 2015-16 that was released this past May. The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members' continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation. The NCAA "commends" teams that have APR scores in the top 10 percent within their sport. Cornell has been recognized nine times in the 12 years since the APR began, including seven consecutive.
• Are Cornell Student-Athletes on Scholarship? The easy answer is no. Cornell student-athletes are awarded need-based financial aid, just as any other student who applies to the school. That package can come in the form of student loans and grants. The basic intent of the original Ivy League agreement of 1954 was to improve and foster intercollegiate athletics while keeping the emphasis on such competition in harmony with the educational purpose of the institutions. The Ivy League is nationally recognized for its level of success — absent of athletic scholarships — while rigorously maintaining its self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the current national pressures on intercollegiate success, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics.

#ROADTOIVYMADNESS RETURNS
• The Ivy League men's and women's basketball tournaments return to Philadelphia, where they will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, 2018.
• The top four teams will earn berths to the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday.
• All six games will be broadcast live on ESPN's networks.
• For tickets and more information please visit IvyMadness.com.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red closes out the regular season at Dartmouth (Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m.) as the #RoadToIvyMadness concludes.
• Cornell will be out for the season sweep after taking an 86-85 victory on Feb. 2 at Newman Arena.