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GAME INFORMATION
Game #24: Dartmouth at Cornell
Tip off: Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2008-09 Records: Dartmouth (6-15, 4-3 Ivy League); Cornell (16-7, 6-1 Ivy League)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 101-95|
Last Meeting: Cornell won 75-59, Feb. 29, 2008 in Ithaca, N.Y.

HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his ninth season at Cornell (112-130, .463) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.

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ITHACA, N.Y. — After a dominating offensive performance in a win over Harvard on Friday, the Cornell men's basketball team will square off with Dartmouth in a Staff Appreciation Day Valentine's Day extravaganza on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena. The first-place Big Red (16-7, 6-1 Ivy) will face the third-place Big Green (6-15, 4-3 Ivy) in a key Ivy League showdown. The contest will have Barry Leonard providing the call locally on 1160 ESPN Radio as well as part of the RedCast subscription service. Live video of the game will also be available on RedCast. 

The Big Red had one of its sharpest offensive performances of the year last night, shooting 62 percent from the floor and assisting on a school record 31 baskets to roll past Harvard 96-75. Junior Ryan Wittman led five double figures scorers with 20 points and set the school's career record for 3-point field goals with four in the victory to give him 240, surpassing Cody Toppert '05, who hit 237 in four seasons. Freshman Chris Wroblewski (17 points, seven assists) and sophomore Adam Wire (14 points, four steals) also led the charge.

Cornell moved back into the top spot in the Ivy League standings with its win and a Princeton loss at Yale, pushing the Big Red a game ahead of the second-place Tigers (4-1). The home team improved to 10-0 at home this year and extended the program's longest win streak to 18 contests. All six of its Ivy League wins have come by double figures.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH: Despite being picked seventh in the Ivy League preseason poll, upstart Dartmouth has zoomed out to a 4-3 Ivy League mark after going 2-12 in non-conference play. Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Alex Barnett (19.3 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 1.3 steals, 1.2 blocks per game) leads the Big Green, which has started 11 of the 14 players on its roster at least once this season. Only Barnett and Jabari Trotter (7.4 ppg.) have opened all 21 contests. Dartmouth has been outrebounded by 3.7 boards per game and is shooting just 34 percent from beyond the arc. Fifth-year head coach Terry Dunn has a 42-88 record on the sidelines for the Big Green. 

WITTMAN GETS 3-POINT RECORD: Junior Ryan Wittman put his stamp on Cornell's career 3-point list with four treys in last night's 96-75 victory over Harvard, giving him a school record 240 in his three seasons. He passed Cody Toppert '05, who had 237 in his four-year career with his field goal with 14:10 left in the first half as part of a 20-point night. By the end of the night, Wittman had also jumped into the top five in Ivy League history. At his current pace of 3.0 per game this season, Wittman would close out his junior campaign in second place in Ancient Eight history.

MAY I ASSIST YOU?: The Big Red offense was at its best in last night's 96-75 win over Harvard. Cornell set a school record with 31 assists on 39 baskets, obliterating the previous mark of 28 assists against Alvernia on Jan. 10, 2008. It is the fourth time Cornell has had at least 20 assists in a game.

STREAK ACROSS THE SKY: With a win over Dartmouth on Saturday, Cornell would match its best season-opening home win streak mark of 11 games, matching the 1983-84 team that was a perfect 11-0 in Barton Hall under head coach Tom Miller.

WROBO RECORD: Freshman Chris Wroblewski hit on 5-of-6 shots from beyond the 3-point arc in the win over Harvard, setting a Cornell Newman Arena record for 3-point percentage in a game (.833). The previous record of .800 (4-of-5) had happened eight times previously.

WROBO HOT: Since the beginning of Ivy League play, freshman Chris Wroblewski has shown to be one of the Ancient Eight's top rookies, averaging 8.7 points, 3.0 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game while shooting 44 percent from the floor and a scorching 48 percent from 3-point range (13-of-27).

CAREER HIGHS: Sophomore Adam Wire set a career scoring record with his 14 points and matched his high in steals (four) in the victory over Harvard. Freshman Chris Wroblewski set highs in scoring (17 points), assists (seven) and 3-point field goals made (five).

KREEF PERFECT: Senior Brian Kreefer has made eight consecutive shots from the floor over his last two games to raise his field goal percentage to .552. He is shooting an insane 77 percent (13-of-17) from the floor against Ivy League opponents in 2009.

REACHING 90: With its 96-point effort in the win over Harvard last night, Cornell has now scored 90 points on three occasions, hitting for 99 against Ursinus (99-45, Jan. 3) and 90 against Brown (90-58, Jan. 30). It is the first time a Big Red team has reached 90 points three different times since the 2003-04 campaign (also three times). Besides those three games this season, Cornell has also posted games of 89 (Boston University, 89-59 on Dec. 29) and 88 points (Penn, 88-73 on Feb. 7).

CAREER HIGHS: Cornell has been dominant at home against Ivy League opponents over the last two seasons, sporting a perfect 11-0 record with nine of those victories coming by double figures and five coming by more than 20 points.

HOME RUN: Cornell has won 16 of its last 17 Ivy League home games overall and brings a run of 12 straight wins against Ancient EIght teams at Newman Arena.

MILESTONES:
• Junior Louis Dale enters the Dartmouth game 30 points shy of becoming the 23rd player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark
• Dale is also two assists from becomign the sixth Cornell player with 300 and the only player to end with 300 by the end of their junior campaign.
• Senior Adam Gore is one 3-point field goal from becoming the sixth Big Red player to hit 150 in a career.
• Senior Jeff Foote needs four rebounds to reach 300 and needs three blocked shots to join the school's career top five (85).
• Junior Alex Tyler needs a pair of blocked shots to become the ninth player with 50 in a career.

RARE COMPANY: Cornell enters Saturday with an 18-game home streak, ranking it tied for third-longest in Division I with Oklahoma (next home game vs. Texas Tech, Feb. 14). Utah State's streak is at 31 heading into a Feb. 18 contest against Cal. State-Bakersfield. The longest active home win streak in the country is Kansas, which has a 37-game stretch it will put to the test against Iowa State on Feb. 18.

TALL IVY: Over the last three seasons, Cornell's 29-6 record in the best among Ivy League teams in conference action. Penn, who claimed the 2006-07 title, is second at 24-9, followed by Yale (21-14). Columbia is next at 18-17), while Brown is 17-18. Other Ivy teams include Dartmouth (11-24), Harvard (10-25), and Princeton (9-24).

TREY BIEN: The Big Red has hit at least one 3-pointer in 556 straight games entering the Dartmouth contest. Cornell surpassed the 500-game plateau when the Big Red connected on six treys at Princeton on Feb. 16, 2007. The last time Cornell did not hit a 3-pointer was 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, Cornell has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 607 of 611 games, connecting on 3,562 treys, an average of 5.83 per game. The Big Red has hit a 3-pointer in all 242 games coached by Steve Donahue.

NEXT UP: The Big Red begin a four-game road trip starting with Yale on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.