ITHACA, N.Y. – No. 3 Cornell has a homecoming of sorts on Tuesday night when it hosts intrastate rival Colgate at 7 p.m. The Big Red has not played a home game in more than a month, and it will look to sweep the season series from the Raiders with a win.

GAME INFORMATION
Game 15: No. 3 Cornell vs. Colgate
GAME TIME: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7 p.m.
GAME SITE: Lynah Rink (Ithaca, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 26-11-3
LAST MEETING: Cornell won 6-0 on Oct. 25, 2011
2011 RECORDS: Cornell (12-2, 8-1 ECAC Hockey), Colgate (8-11-1, 3-5-1 ECAC Hockey)
LIVE STATS: sidearmstats.com/cornell/whockey/index.htm
LIVE VIDEO:  cornellbigred.com/showcase

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell emerged from its winter break with a huge conference sweep over the weekend at Union and Rensselaer, knocking off the Dutchwomen 9-1 and blanking the Engineers 3-0. The Big Red remains No. 3 in the country with a 12-2 record, has outscored opponents 81-26 and outshot them 576-284, a greater than two-to-one margin.

HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH
Now in his seventh season directing the Cornell women's hockey program, Doug Derraugh has quickly brought the Big Red women to their place among the nation's elite. Taking a program that won just four games in the season prior to his arrival, Derraugh guided the Big Red to the national title game in his fifth season and back-to-back NCAA Frozen Four appearances in 2010 and 2011, completely turning around the culture of the women's hockey program at Cornell. Derraugh, a 1991 graduate of Cornell, was the last Big Red men's hockey player to score 30 goals in a season. He earned the 100th win in his career on Friday against Union and his 101st Saturday.

ABOUT COLGATE
The Raiders, based in Hamilton, enter Tuesday night's game with on an eight-game streak of alternating wins and losses. A win to open the new year against Syracuse was followed by a 4-1 loss to  Rensselaer on Friday and then a 2-1 overtime win against Union on Saturday. Colgate sits at ninth in the ECAC Hockey standings with seven points.  Junior Brittany Phillips is tied for the team lead with 10 goals and has a team-high 13 assists. Goalie Kimberly Sass has a save percentage of .913 and has claimed all eight of Colgate's wins.
Colgate is coached by Scott Wiley, a 1993 graduate of St. Lawrence, who is now in his 10th year of leading the Raiders.

THE SERIES WITH COLGATE
Cornell and Colgate have clashed 40 times over the years, with the first meeting coming in the 1973-74 season. Cornell holds a 26-11-3 edge in the series and won both games last year by a combined 11-1 margin. Cornell has won the last six meetings between the teams, including a 6-2 victory in its season opener this year. In that game, freshman Jillian Saulnier started her career with a four-goal effort while senior Rebecca Johnston had four assists.

A WIN AGAINST COLGATE WOULD…
…extend Cornell's streak against Colgate to seven wins…sweep the regular season matchup against the Raiders…bring Cornell within two points of the ECAC Hockey lead and tie the Big Red with first-place Quinnipiac on nine wins…put Cornell at 13 wins on the season for the third consecutive year and just the third year since 1999.

LONG TIME (HOME)COMING
The Big Red will be playing its first game in Lynah Rink since the weekend after Thanksgiving when it swept then-No. 5 Boston University by a combined 10-2 margin. Cornell is 6-1 at home this season and will look to improve to 7-1 Tuesday night.

CONSISTENT SCORERS
The Big Red has four players who have scored a point in all but two of their games this season. Rebecca Johnston, Brianne Jenner and Chelsea Karpenko have all scored in 10 of their 12 contests this year. Catherine White has earned a point in 11 of her 12 games and currently leads the team with a three-game point-scoring streak.

HELPING HAND
With her three assists over the weekend, sophomore forward Brianne Jenner brought her career average up to one assist per game. She has tallied 44 helpers in 44 career contests. Jenner is one point away from the 75th in her Cornell career.

MAKING A POINT
Six current members of the Cornell roster are averaging more than a point per game over their career. Freshman Jillian Saulnier, with the smallest sample size, has a points-per-game average of 2.08. Brianne Jenner (1.75), Rebecca Johnston (1.57), Catherin White (1.39), Laura Fortino (1.14) and Chelsea Karpenko (1.07) are also on that list.

STARTING A NEW STREAK
Cornell won its first game after winter break last season – a 5-0 rout of Yale – for the first time since 2002. After dropping its first contest of January from 2003-2010, the Big Red have started a new winning streak after winter break, winning its first January game for the second consecutive season.

GOALS, PERIOD.
Cornell has played 42 periods of hockey this season and has scored in 39. The only three periods where the Big Red came up short was the first 20 minutes against Princeton on Nov. 18, the final frame against then-No. 6 Mercyhurst on Dec. 3 and the third period against RPI on Saturday.

OUTRANKING THE COMPETITION
In its last 15 games against ranked opponents from the start of the 2009-10 season until now, the Big Red holds a 10-5 record. The team won two games against then-No. 5 Boston University last weekend and took one of two from then-No. 6 Mercyhurst in December and beat then-No. 10 Harvard in November.

NATIONAL PRIDE
Cornell saw six players participate in the Meco Cup in Germany last week, playing for Canada's under-22 national team. All five Cornell skaters scored at least one point in the five-game tournament. Jillian Saulnier led the way with two goals and four assists, while Catherine White and Jessica Campbell notched three points each. Chelsea Karpenko had a goal and an assist, Hayleigh Cudmore earned an assist, and goalie Amanda Mazzotta got two wins and a shutout. Canada won the bronze.

GOALTENDER OF THE WEEK
For her two wins against then-No. 5 Boston University in November, senior netminder Amanda Mazzotta was named ECAC Hockey's Goaltender of the Week for the eighth time in her career on Nov. 29. Mazzotta saved 40 of 42 shots she faced against a team that was averaging three goals per game entering the weekend.

This award is nothing new for the senior, who won it four different times last season. The weeks of Nov. 2, Nov. 9, Nov. 23 and March 8 all saw Mazzotta named ECAC Hockey's Goaltender of the Week. Mazzotta also took home this prize three times during her sophomore year.

ROOKIE OF THE MONTH
Freshman Jillian Saulnier won the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week Award the first two weeks of Cornell's season after starting her career with a terrific 15 points in four games, and she has also now won the league's Rookie of the Month Award for October and November. Through early December, Saulnier led Cornell and the ECAC in goals (14), points (25) and shooting percentage (.412).

NATIONAL POLLS
Cornell remains at No. 3 in this week's USCHO.com national poll, though the team picked up two first-place votes. The Big Red last earned a first-place vote in the Nov. 7 poll. No. 1 Minnesota leapfrogged No. 2 Wisconsin after the Gophers tied and beat the Badgers in a weekend series.

LOFTY NUMBERS
Forward Brianne Jenner currently sits at fourth in the nation in points per game (2.25), with Rebecca Johnston and Jillian Saulnier not far behind tied for sixth (2.08). Saulnier, who had topped that category nationally for the first three weeks for Cornell's season, still leads the country in goals per game (1.17) and points per game among freshmen. Jenner is tops in the nation at assists per game (1.67), while Laura Fortino is No. 1 points per game for defensemen (1.33). Goalkeeper Lauren Slebodnick's 1.30 goals against average puts her at third in the country, and her 6-0 record has her leading in winning percentage.

As a team, Cornell has the country's best offense (5.79 goals per game) and scoring margin (3.93 goals) to go along with the second-best power play (32.1 percent) and eighth-best scoring defense (1.86 goals per game).

LAST TIME OUT
Cornell handled its league opponents Union and RPI by a combined 12-1, shutting out the Engineers in their home building 3-0 and beating Union in Troy by a 9-1 margin. Six different players scored against Union, and the Big Red looked strong despite missing six players to Canada's under-22 national team.

CAREER NUMBERS WATCH
Against Union and RPI:
• Head coach Doug Derraugh earned his 100th career victory.
• Brianne Jenner got her 30th goal.
• Laura Fortino earned her 25th goal and 90th point.
• Rebecca Johnston notched her 75th career assist and 150th point.
• Erin Barley-Maloney scored her first and second goals at Cornell.
• Monika Leck scored her 10th point.

Approaching career numbers:
• Jessica Campbell is one shy of her 20th assist.
• Alyssa Gagliardi needs two points for her 30th.
• Kendice Ogilvie is one point away from 40 in her career.
• Lauriane Rougeau needs one more point for her 75th.

UP NEXT
The Big Red continues its home stretch with a weekend series against Quinnipiac and Princeton on Friday and Saturday in Lynah Rink. Cornell beat the Bobcats and Tigers by a combined 10-2 score earlier in the season.