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GAME INFORMATION
Game #26: Cornell at Harvard
Tip off: Friday, February 19, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Lavietes Pavilion (2,050), Cambridge, Mass.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (21-4, 7-1 Ivy League); Harvard (17-5, 6-2 Ivy League)
Series Record: Cornell leads 89-68
Last Meeting: Cornell won 86-50, Jan. 30, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y.

Game #27: Cornell at Dartmouth
Tip off: Saturday, February 20, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Leede Arena (2,100), Hanover, N.H.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (21-4, 7-1 Ivy League); Dartmouth (4-18, 0-8 Ivy League)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 101-98
Last Meeting: Cornell won 71-37, Jan. 29, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y.

Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
TV: None
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 (138-137, .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 complete a four-game Ivy League road swing when it meets Harvard on Friday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. and Dartmouth on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7 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.

More than halfway through the 14-game Ivy League tournament, Cornell stands in first place and will open the weekend with a key road contest against Harvard, who is just one game behind the Big Red in the standings. The Big Red closes out the two-game stretch at Dartmouth, where Cornell has won four straight contests at Leede Arena.

Cornell, which has won 19 of its last 21 contests, overcame a disappointing loss at Penn on Feb. 12 with a strong 48-45 showdown victory at Princeton the following night. Senior Ryan Wittman, Cornell's  leading scorer and one of the favorites for Ivy League Player of the Year, scored seven points in the final 2:14 of the contest in a showdown for first place. 

Wittman paces the team in scoring (17.0 ppg.), while Jeff Foote (12.6 ppg., 8.6 rpg., 2.0 bpg.) leads the way in both rebounding and blocks and leads the nation in field goal percentage (.611). Senior Louis Dale is averaging 11.0 ppg. and a team-high 4.9 apg.

With just six regular season games remaining, Cornell has plenty of work left to do, and wins this weekend would go a long way in establishing new records. A pair of victories would give Cornell a school-record 23 wins, while one victory would guarantee the Big Red a sixth straight winning Ancient Eight campaign for the first time.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Tommy Amaker (Duke '87), third season.
• Harvard brings a three-game win streak into Friday's matchup after sweeping Yale (82-79 in OT) and Brown (81-67) on the road lsat weekend.
• Senior Jeremy Lin ranks among the Ivy League leaders in scoring (16.7), assists (4.6) and steals (59) as one of the country's top mid-major players.
• Eight different players average at least 5.1 ppg. and 10 different players average double figure minutes.
• The Crimson is shooting 48 percent from the floor as a team and limiting foes to 40 percent from the field.
• Harvard has struggled shooting the basketball from beyond the arc (.334), but has limited foes to an even lower percentage (.302).

THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the series 89-68, dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• The Big Red is 10-5 in the last 15 contests and has won four of the last five meetings.
• This current senior class is 4-3 against the Crimson, including a home-and-home split last year.
• Cornell's 86-50 win earlier this season was the largest scoring margin in the series since the 1985-86 season when the Big Red topped Harvard 71-35 at Barton Hall.

ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Mark Graupe (North Dakota '87), First season.
• Dartmouth is 4-18 this season (0-8 Ivy) and enters Friday's game against Columbia on a seven-game losing skid.
• First-year coach Mark Graupe took over the team 10 games ago following the resignation of head coach Terry Dunn. He was in his first year as an assistant coach in Hanover, N.H.
• Dartmouth does not have a double figure scorer, but has nine players averaging between 3.9 and 8.4 points.
• The Big Green is shooting just .382 from the floor this season and .280 from 3-point range, but is limiting foes to .326 from beyond the arc.
• Dartmouth is being outrebounded by nearly seven boards per game (37.1-30.2).
• Ronnie Dixon leads the team at 8.4 ppg., while David Rufful is second in scoring (8.1 ppg.) and paces the team in steals (33).

THE SERIES
• Dartmouth leads 101-98 overall in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, winning nine straight and 12 of the last 13 meetings. Seven of those eight wins have come by double figures.
• The current Cornell seniors have never lost to the BigGreen (7-0).
• The Big Red's current win streak of nine games ties the longest for the Big Red in the series (1963-67).

THE STORY LINE
• With a 7-1 record in Ivy play, Cornell brings its first-place ranking in the conference standings into a big road weekend.
• No team is better off on the road than Cornell, which has claimed a national-best 12 road/neutral wins so far this season.
• Last season, Harvard was able to escape with a 71-70 victory at home after dropping a 21-point decision in the first meeting of the season in Ithaca. This season, Cornell had a 36-point win in the first meeting between the teams (86-50).
• The Big Red brings a nine-game win streak against Dartmouth into Saturday's contest, capturing those contests by an average of 15.2 points.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 22-4 overall.
• give Cornell an 8-1 Ivy League record.
• give Cornell 20 wins in its last 22 games.
• make the Big Red 33-4 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 42-9 over the last four.
• guarantee a winning Ivy season for the sixth straight year, the longest stretch in Cornell basketball history.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 32-4 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 41-9 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.
• Cornell is 80-32 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 17 of the last 20 halves.
• A weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth would set the school's single-season win record (22 in 2007-08).
• Senior Jeff Foote ranks No. 1 in the nation in field goal percentage (.611) and is the only player to shoot better than 60 percent (minimum five field goals made per game).
• The Big Red ranks among the top 25 nationally in 3-point field goals per game (fifth, 9.3), 3-point field goal percentage (fifth, .410), win-loss percentage (11th, .840), assists per game (12th, 16.6), assist:turnover ratio (19th, 1.32) and scoring margin (23rd, 11.5), while ranking in the top 100 in 15 of 18 ranked categories.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red men's basketball team will play its final regular season home games when it plays host to Princeton (Friday, Feb. 26) and Penn (Saturday, Feb. 27) at 7 p.m.
• Saturday's game will be the final one for Cornell's eight seniors, who will be honored in a pregame ceremony.