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GENERAL INFORMATION
Game #24: No. 22 Cornell at Penn
Tip off: Friday, February 12, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: The Palestra (8,722), Philadelphia, Pa.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (20-3, 6-0 Ivy League); Penn (3-15, 2-2 Ivy League)
Series Record: Penn leads 142-70
Last Meeting: Cornell won 60-51, March 7, 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y.

Game #25: No. 22 Cornell at Princeton
Tip off: Saturday, February 13, at 6:00 p.m.
Site: Jadwin Gymnasium (6,854), Princeton, N.J.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (20-3, 6-0 Ivy League); Princeton (13-5, 4-0 Ivy League)
Series Record: Princeton leads 134-76
Last Meeting: Cornell won 83-59, March 6, 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y.

Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
TV: Penn: The Comcast Network; Princeton: Verizon Fios 1
Live Stats: available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Live Video: available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Tickets: available by calling (607) 254-BEAR

HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (137-136, .502) ... 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. — The Cornell men's basketball team will have a chance to take a firm grip on the 2009-10 Ivy League race at the season's midpoint and do something only five other teams have done in conference history when it meets Penn on Friday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. and Princeton on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. Barry Leonard and Matt Grassie will provide the calls on 93.5 WVBR-FM, while live audio of both games will be available as part of the RedCast subscription service.

The Big Red will look to make history in the process, looking to become the sixth team to knock off both teams on the road in the same season since  they were paired as travel partners in 1957-58.  Cornell pulled it off during the undefeated 2007-08 conference campaign. 

Cornell, which has won 18 of its last 19 contests, including eight straight, moved up to No. 22 in the latest ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll this week. It will look to defend that ranking against two schools that have plenty of experience as the standard-bearers in the Ivy League. The Quakers and the Tigers had won or shared 46 titles in 52 years before the Big Red won the last two conference crowns.  

The Big Red begin a stretch where it will play six of its final eight conference games on the road. Cornell welcomes that stretch, however, as its 11 road/neutral wins still is tied for the national lead among Division I schools despite only playing one road game in the last month. Among the team's road victims this season are Alabama, Massachusetts, Drexel, St. John's and La Salle.

ABOUT PENN
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Jerome Allen (Penn '09), first season.
• Penn's record stands at just 3-15 (2-2 Ivy), but the Quakers have played much better basketball under head coach Jerome Allen, winning two of its last three contests.
• The Quakers split a weekend series last weekend on the road, knocking off Dartmouth (53-51) before falling at Harvard (80-66) on Saturday night.
• Penn is being outscored by 14.7 points per game and has dropped 11 games by double figures.
• Sophomore Zack Rosen averages a team-best 16.7 points on 42 percent shooting from the floor and averages 4.0 assists and 3.6 rebounds each night.
• Jack Eggleston is the only other double figure scorer, posting 12.3 points and 6.6 rebounds per night.
• As a team, Penn is shooting 39 percent overall (29 percent from 3-point range) while surrendering 48 percent shooting (39 percent from 3-point range).  
• Since taking over as head coach, Jerome Allen has registered a 3-8 record after the Quakers began the season with seven straight losses.

THE SERIES
• Penn leads 142-70 overall in a series that dates back to the 1903-04 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, four straight by an average of 13.5 points after losing 18 consecutive contests to the Quakers.
• The current group of seniors has a 4-2 record against Penn.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (Princeton '97), third season.
• Princeton is off to a 4-0 start in Ivy League play and is 13-5 overall heading into Friday night's game against Columbia at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• The Tigers rank among the national leaders in scoring defense (52.9 ppg.) and field goal percentage defense (.398).
• Sophomore Douglas Davis leads the Tigers in scoring (13.4 ppg.), while Dan Mavraides (11.6 ppg.) is also in double figures.
• Princeton shoots just 43 percent from the floor itself and 36 percent from 3-point range.
• In conference play, Princeton's opponents are shooting just .345 from the floor and are averaging just 7.8 assists per game.
• The Tigers have won 11 of their last 12 contests, with the lone loss coming to Maine (52-50) on Jan. 4.

THE SERIES
• Princeton leads the series 134-76 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Cornell has won eight of the last 10 meetings between the teams, including four of the last five games at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• This current senior class is 5-1 against the Tigers.
• The Big Red is just 26-79 all-time in Princeton, N.J.

THE STORY LINE
• WIth a 6-0 record in Ivy play, Cornell will begin the stretch run in conference action that will include six of its last eight league games on the road. It will head on the Penn/Princeton trip, a roadtrip Cornell has swept the trip just once (2007-08).
• Amazingly, only five teams have swept the road trip since the 1957-58 season.
• The Big Red returns to the scene of a 20-point loss last season at Princeton (61-41), the worst loss by the Big Red in Ivy play since the 2003-04 campaign and the second-biggest margin of defeat for the current group of the Cornell seniors (Stanford, 77-54 at the 2007-08 NCAA tournament).
• Cornell is 31-3 in conference play over the last three seasons, 40-8 in the last four and 46-14 in its last 60 overall league contests.
• Cornell's three losses this season have been to a pair of top four three (Kansas, Syracuse) and Big East foe Seton Hall, squads that have combined for a 58-11 record as of Feb. 9.

A CORNELL WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 21-3 overall.
• give Cornell a 7-0 Ivy League record for the second time in three seasons.
• give Cornell 19 wins in its last 20 games.
• make the Big Red 32-3 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 41-8 over the last four.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 31-3 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 40-8 over the last four.
• The Big Red has won 20 straight conference contests at home and is 24-2 over the last four seasons. Cornell has won nine straight games at home overall.
• Cornell is 35-2 in its last 37 games at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red has won 18 of its last 19 contests overall, with the only loss coming at No. 1 Kansas.
• Cornell is 79-31 over the last four years, making the Big Red seniors the winningest class in school history.

IT'S ALL ACADEMIC
• Guards Geoff Reeves and Chris Wroblewski have been named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District I team and will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America honors.
• The two joined Brown's Matt Mullery and Columbia's Patrick Foley as Ivy League players who earned all-district honors.
• Reeves has posted a 3.54 grade point average in agricultural sciences, while Wroblewski has a 3.58 GPA in applied economics and management.
• As a team, the Big Red has a 3.2 cumulative GPA and had two players earn 4.0 semester grade point averages in the fall.
• Cornell has had two Academic All-Americans in the last five years, with Lenny Collins earning third-team accolades in 2006 and Graham Dow becoming the first Cornellian to earn first-team honors in 2007.

SOME INTERESTING NOTES
• Cornell has outscored its opponent in each of the last 16 halves.
• The current starting lineup of guards Louis Dale and Chris Wroblewski, center Jeff Foote and forwards Jon Jaques and Ryan Wittman are a perfect 10-0 this season.
• Cornell is in search of its third 7-0 start in Ivy League play in school history when it meets Penn (1964-65, 2007-08).
• A weekend sweep of Penn and Princeton would tie the school's single-season win record (22 in 2007-08).
• The Big Red has posted two win streaks of at least eight games in the same season for the first time in school history.

HELLO TOP 25
• The Cornell men's basketball team earned its first national ranking in 59 seasons when it jumped into the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 poll at No. 25 on Feb. 1.
• The Big Red moved up to No. 22 on Feb. 8, going from 53 votes to 112 in one week.
• Cornell is the second team out of the top 25 in the Associated Press poll, receiving 114 votes.
•  It was Cornell's first-ever appearance in the coaches' poll.
• Since 1948, Cornell has spent three weeks in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. During the 1950-51 season, the Big Red climbed as high as No. 14 on Jan. 3,1951. The two previous weeks the team was ranked No. 19 (12/19/1950) and No. 18 (12/26/1950).
• The Big Red most recently received votes in the AP poll in 2007-08 campaign, peaking with three votes heading into the NCAA tournament loss to Stanford.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
• Cornell is 11-2 away from home so far this season, tied for the most road/neutral wins in the country despite only playing one road game in the last month.
• Its 10 wins away from home were the most by any Division I team in non-league play.
• Only eight other schools have as many as 10 road/neutral wins as of Feb. 9. (Morgan State (11), Vermont (11), Villanova (11), Butler (10), Louisiana Tech (10), Murray State (10), Northern Colorado (10), Northern Iowa (10).
• Included among Cornell's road wins are victories over teams from the SEC (Alabama), the Big East (St. John's), the Atlantic 10 (Massachusetts and La Salle), as well as perennial mid-major powers Bucknell, Davidson and Vermont.
• Cornell's 11 road/neutral wins is already a new school record, surpassing the 10 of  the 2007-08 Ivy League championship squad.

NEXT UP
• Cornell remains on the road to visit Harvard (Friday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.) and Dartmouth (Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m.).