ITHACA, N.Y. – The lone remaining team without a loss or tie in the country, the No. 10 Cornell men's soccer team is in for its biggest challenge of the year this weekend when it travels to No. 18 Brown. Besides the Ivy League title implications – Brown is second in the conference standings – Saturday's game could swing NCAA Tournament hopes for both teams.

MATCH INFORMATION
MATCH #13: No. 10 Cornell at No. 18 Brown
MATCH TIME: Saturday, Oct. 20, 3:30 p.m.
MATCH SITE: Stevenson Field (Providence, R.I.)
SERIES RECORD: Brown leads 35-19-5
LAST MEETING: Teams tied 1-1 on Oct. 22, 2011
2012 RECORDS | LEAGUE STANDING: Cornell (12-0, 3-0 Ivy | 1st), Brown  (10-1-2, 2-0-1 Ivy | 2nd)
LIVE STATS: Brown Stats
LIVE AUDIO: Brown Audio
LIVE VIDEO: Brown Video

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell picked up its 12th consecutive victory – breaking a school record – against Yale last weekend, downing the visiting Bulldogs by a 3-0 margin. Tyler Regan, Atticus DeProspo and Daniel Haber all scored for the Big Red and Rick Pflasterer got his third shutout this year by making three saves. Cornell is in first place in the Ivy League with nine points for the second consecutive year. With its toughest matches still to play, Cornell will look to finish off the season better than it did in 2011 when it went 0-1-3 through the final four weekends.

HEAD COACH JARO ZAWISLAN
Now in his fourth year with the Big Red program, Jaro Zawislan has unquestionably put his stamp on the team. With a stifling defense and an aggressive offense, Zawislan has transformed what was a 1-15 team before his arrival into an 8-2-6 team in 2011 and a potential contender for the Ivy League title in 2012. Zawislan, a native of Poland, holds a 30-16-15 record during his time in Ithaca. He played soccer for four years at Clemson and then spent time professionally in the United States and Poland.

ABOUT BROWN
The Bears, based in Providence, R.I. have had a terrific season this year and are currently the country's No. 18 team. They are the first team with a winning record Cornell has faced since its fifth game of the year against Wofford. The second-place team in the Ivy League, Brown is coming off a 2-1 overtime victory against Harvard last weekend and a 1-0 win against Boston College on Tuesday. The Bears have a very spread out offense as Thomas McNamara and Bobby Belair each have three goals to lead the team. Four different players have scored two goals each and four different players have scored one goal each. Goaltender Sam Kernan-Schloss has a 0.56 goals against average this year, lowest in the Ancient Eight. He has allowed just seven goals in 12 appearances and has a .800 save percentage.
Brown is coached by Patrick Laughlin, now in his third year with the Bears.

THE SERIES WITH BROWN
Brown has a solid advantage in the lifetime series against Cornell, claiming 35 victories in 59 contests with only five ties between the teams. Saturday's meeting will be the teams' 60th. Cornell has not defeated the Bears since 1999, and last year's tie was the Big Red's first point taken from the Brown game since 2001. Brown had previously been on an eight-game winning streak against Cornell. Last year on Berman Field, the Big Red took a lead early in the second half on a goal by Stephen Reisert. But Ben Maurey tied the game three minutes later, and neither team could score in overtime.

A WIN AGAINST BROWN WOULD…
…be the team's first since 1999…increase the 2012 team's school record for consecutive victories to 13…be the most total victories in a season (13) since the 1995 campaign (15)… increase the school record for consecutive games with a goal to 29…give Cornell four conference victories for the first time since 1999…start Ivy League play 4-0-0 for the first time since 1985….be Cornell's 20th all-time against Brown…be Cornell's first win against a ranked team this year.

BERMAN BROKEN
Cornell saw a new program record on Saturday as 1,121 fans came out to Berman Field watch its game against Yale. The previous attendance record, 983, was shattered by 138 people. The fans were rewarded with a 3-0 shutout victory against the Bulldogs.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
For the fourth time this season, men's soccer forward Daniel Haber has been named the Ivy League Player of the Week. Haber, who earned the honor after weeks one, two and four this year, won this week thanks to a combined six points against Colgate on Tuesday and Yale on Saturday. Haber is the first player in Ivy League men's soccer history to win the award four times in a season.

DECISIVE VICTORIES
Cornell finished the 2011 season with six ties. Not only has the Big Red not had a tie game this season, but the team has not even been to overtime. Cornell's 12 victories have all come in regulation.

THREE GOALS IN SEVEN STRAIGHT
The win against Yale on Saturday was Cornell's seventh consecutive game scoring at least three goals in game. Before this year, the Big Red had never scored three goals in more than five consecutive games. Cornell scored three goals in five straight games in 1980 and 1958.

AMAZING GOAL TOTAL
Junior forward Daniel Haber has scored 16 goals this season, a number that is better than Yale (5), Harvard (8), Columbia (9) and Princeton (13) have scored as a team. That number is just one behind Dartmouth's season total (17) and two behind Brown's (18). Haber is not a one-man show, though, as his 16 goals account for less than half of the Big Red's 35 on the year.

FLAWLESS NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
With its victory against Colgate on Oct. 9, the Big Red finished its non-conference slate with a perfect 9-0-0 record. The Big Red had not been undefeated in non-conference competition since the 1983 season when it went 6-0-2. Cornell had not gone unblemished in non-conference games since 1965, when the team was just 4-0-0. In 1957, Cornell was also 3-0-0 in non-Ivy games.

OFFENSIVE SEASON
The Big Red is up to 35 goals on the year, a number that surpassed 2011's total of 25 goals two weeks ago. Cornell has not scored this many goals in a season since the 1996 campaign when it totaled 37 goals. The Big Red would equal that mark with two more goals on the year. The school record for goals in a year belongs to the 1972 squad's 43. The Big Red would need to average 2.00 goals per game to reach that total by the end of the regular season.

The Big Red have also tallied 31 assists this year, a number that is one shy of the team record of 32 set in 1995 and 1996. The Big Red eclipsed 100 points on the season last week and is 14 shy of the program record (115) set in 1971.

LAST WEEK IN THE IVY LEAGUE
The Big Red was equaled in its goal total last weekend by Dartmouth, which netted three goals in its victory over Penn. Brown moved to second in the league standings with a 2-1 win against Harvard while Columbia and Princeton played to a scoreless draw.

NATIONALLY RANKED
The Big Red men's soccer team is now in the top 10. Cornell jumped up to No. 10 in the NSCAA Coaches' Poll, up from No. 16 last week. This is the Big Red's highest ranking since 1995, when it finished the season as No. 9. Soccer America has Cornell the country's No. 13 team one week after it was No. 16. Cornell had a huge leap in College Soccer News' rankings, up to No. 7 from way down at No. 18. SoccerTimes.com has Cornell in the rankings again as well, moving up to No. 14 from its No. 19 place last week. The Big Red also moved up in Top Drawer Soccer's projected 48 teams for the NCAA Tournament to No. 24 after spending last week at No. 30.

LAST OF THE UNBLEMISHED
With Marquette's loss to Georgetown last weekend, Cornell is now the only team in the entire country to have only wins on its schedule. Every other team has at least one loss or one tie.

NATIONAL STATISTICS
Cornell is still high up in the country in multiple statistical categories as of Monday. Cornell is now the top scoring team in the country (2.92 goals per game), tied with Maryland. Cornell is also second in total goals (35), 22nd in goals against average (0.75), fifth in total assists (31) and second in total points (101).

Individually, Daniel Haber remains on top of the nation in points per game (3.25), and he re-gained the top spot in total points (39) and goals per game (1.33) this week. He remains second in the nation in total goals (16). Nico Nissl is seventh in the nation with 0.67 assists per game, while Haber is right behind him in 12th with 0.58. Tyler Regan is 23rd in that category with 0.5. Goalie Rick Pflasterer has the 25th-best goals against average (0.759) in the country.

CAREER NUMBERS WATCH

On Saturday:
• Tyler Regan earned his 20th point.
• Rick Pflasterer played in his 50th game.
• Daniel Haber moved into a tie for fifth place in school history with career points (65) and eighth all-time in team history for assists (13). He also moved up to third-all time in school history for points in a season (39).
• Nico Nissl scored his 15 point.

Coming soon:
• Daniel Haber is two goals away (28) from a fourth-place tie in team history for career goals, and his next goal will be his 27th. His next point will put him all alone in fifth in team history (66) and he is two points away from a tie for second in Cornell history (41). He will be tied for fifth in team history with his next assist (14).
• Conor Goepel is one goal away from 10. He is six goals away (22) from the Cornell single-season mark.
• Tyler Regan and Nico Nissl's next assist will be their 10th.
• Rick Pflasterer needs four more saves for 150.
• Zach Zagorski is one save shy of 10.

UP NEXT
Cornell returns to Ithaca for a two-game homestand. The Big Red will host Princeton at 3 p.m. on Oct. 27 and Dartmouth on Nov. 3 before finishing the year at Columbia on Nov. 10.