ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's tennis team will conclude its regular season this weekend when it plays host to Princeton at 2 p.m. Friday before hitting the road for a Sunday matinee at Penn.
 
Cornell (13-7, 2-3 Ivy) is ranked ranked 51st in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association after splitting Ivy League matches for a second straight weekend. The Big Red dropped a nailbiter against No. 57 Yale, 4-3, on Saturday before rebounding with a 5-2 victory over Brown in which it was in control from start to finish.
 
Sophomore Jason Luu won both of his singles matches, improving to 5-0 in Ivy play heading into the final weekend. He is attempting to become Cornell's first 7-0 singles competitor within the Ancient Eight since Jeremy Feldman went 7-0 from the No. 4 position in 2010-11. The sophomore doubles tandem of Sam Fleck and Kyle Berman are also undefeated in Ivy play, sporting a 4-0 record to go along with an unfinished match against Harvard.
 
Penn (9-9, 1-4 Ivy) is coached by David Geatz, who served as the Big Red's head coach from 2009-10. The Quakers have won one of their last five matches, a 4-3 victory over then-No. 70 Dartmouth on Saturday. Penn then put a scare into Harvard the next day, suffering a narrow 4-3 loss. Junior Nikola Kocovic is the team's primary competitor at No. 1 singles, posting a 4-8 record from that spot. Freshman Blaine Willenborg and sophomore Ismael Lahlou, who are typically in the middle of the order, both have a team-best 3-2 record in Ivy play.
 
The Quakers lead the all-time series, 44-36-1, dating back to the teams' first meeting in 1906. But Cornell has won the last five Ivy League meetings and 13 of the last 15 dating back to 1997. Last year, the Big Red won the doubles portion of the match before taking four of six singles matches — from sophomores Fleck (No. 2), Luu (No. 4), Alex Sidney (No. 5) and Quoc-Daniel Nguyen (No. 6) — to win, 5-2.
 
No. 48 Princeton (15-5, 4-1 Ivy) split last weekend's matches, defeating Dartmouth after losing to league-leading Harvard by identical 5-2 scores. Matija Pecotic, ranked seventh in the country, has won 20 consecutive Ivy League matches and is the two-time defending Ivy League Player of the Year. Zack McCourt is also 9-8 from the No. 2 spot, but he has dropped all five of his Ivy matches, and Matt Spindler is 7-8 from the No. 3 spot. Pecotic and McCourt also comprise the No. 1 doubles team, which is ranked 85th in the country and has won 25 of its 30 matches over the fall and spring.
 
Princeton holds a dominating 86-9-1 record against Cornell since the squads first met in 1906, but the Big Red has won the last six meetings — including last year's 4-3 decision in New Jersey.