Game Notes Supplement

GAME INFORMATION
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 (20-4, 6-1 Ivy League); Princeton (14-5, 5-0 Ivy League)
Series Record: Princeton leads 134-76
Last Meeting: Cornell won 83-59, March 6, 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y.

HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (137-137, .500) ... 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 suffering its first Ivy league loss of the 2009-10 season, the Cornell men's basketball team will have to bounce back against a talented Princeton squad that carries an unbeaten conference record into Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. The game will be televised locally by Verizon Fios 1. Barry Leonard and Matt Grassie will provide the calls on 93.5 WVBR-FM, while live video of the game will be available as part of the RedCast subscription service. 

The Big Red watched as Penn made shot after shot en route to a 15-0 run to open the second half, extending a one-point halftime lead to 16. The Quakers were able to hold off Cornell after its lead was cut to five with seven minutes to play and notched its biggest win of the year.

The senior trio of Louis Dale, Jeff Foote and Ryan Wittman scored a combined 42 points, but it was Penn's season-best .563 shooting that led the Quakers to victory. Cornell is now in a familiar position after a conference road loss — bounce back or risk falling behind the conference-leading Tigers even more. Last year, Cornell dropped three Ivy League road games and responded by winning its next contest by an average of 26.3 points.

Princeton is one of the hottest teams in the country coming in, having won 12 of their last 13 contests. Included was last night's 55-45 win over Columbia at home, rallying from a consistent deficit throughout the night to allow the Lions just two points in the final nine minutes of the contest. Princeton's 5-0 Ivy start has it a half game ahead of the Big Red in the conference race.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (Princeton '97), third season.
• Princeton is off to a 5-0 start in Ivy League play and is 14-5 overall after rallying to top Columbia 55-45 last night at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• The Tigers rank among the national leaders in scoring defense (52.5 ppg.) and field goal percentage defense (.395).
• Sophomore Douglas Davis leads the Tigers in scoring (13.5 ppg.), while Dan Mavraides (11.4 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 .344 from the floor and are averaging just 8.0 assists per game.
• The Tigers have won 12 of their last 13 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
• Cornell will attempt to rebound from its first Ivy League loss of the season when it visits Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium tonight.
• The Big Red fell at Penn79-64 as the home team opened the season half on a 15-0 run, and had several comeback runs thwarted.
• Cornell can keep its time in second place short with a win over Princeton, who enters the night as the league's lone unbeaten squad in conference play (5-0).
• 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).