QUICK HITS
• A Central New York rivalry will be renewed when Cornell visits Colgate on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. at Cotterell Court.
• Barry Leonard and former 1,000-point scorer Eric Taylor '05 will be on the radio call on 98.7 FM The Buzzer, while live video of the contest will be available on the Patriot League Network.
• The two teams are coming off totally different season openers,
• Cornell allowed its highest point total in 50 years and surrendered Georgia Tech to hit 60 percent of its shots, but flashed an exciting up-tempo offense that hit 13 3-pointers and scored 81 points themselves - the most by a Cornell team in an opener since 2007.
• Colgate, meanwhile, allowed just 33 percent shooting to pick up a win at George Mason, 66-53.
• After being selected to finish eighth a season ago, the Big Red was one of the most improved teams in the country, finishing tied for fifth in the Ivy standings.
• The Big Red improved its win total by 11 games en route to a 13-18 season.
• This time, uncertainty with a roster that includes eight freshmen and the loss of three of last season's top four scorers had the 17-member voting panel doubting Cornell in a loaded Ivy League.
• Two starters and five of the team's top eight scorers, none of whom will be seniors, return to essentially make for a two-year team.
• Junior guard Robert Hatter scored 19 points, dished five assists and grabbed three rebounds during the Big Red's 116-81 loss at Georgia Tech in the opener, while freshman backcourt mate Matt Morgan scored 20 points and grabbed four rebounds.
• Freshmen Morgan and Stone Gettings combined for 34 points and eight 3-pointers, with freshmen accounting for 38 total points.
• Gettings had 14 points and four rebounds in just 15 minutes of action.  
• With eight freshmen on its roster for the 2015-16 opener, only Bradley (10) have more rookies and only UTEP and Wisconsin can equal the Big Red's total.
• Junior center David Onuorah, making a return to his hometown of Atlanta, hit 4-of-5 shots to finish with eight points and three rebounds.
• Junior JoJo Fallas scored nine points, two off his career high, and connected on 3-of-4 3-pointers. He was the leading scorer for Team USA at the 14th European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany this past summer.
 • Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his sixth season at Cornell (50-96, .342; 24-46 Ivy, .343).
• Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.

THE SERIES
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 72-54 dating back to the first meeting in the 1901-02 campaign.
• Cornell won 16 straight contests between 1961-69 and 11 more in a row from 1981-91.
• The Raiders have a narrow lead in the recent series, winning six of the last 10 meetings.
• A year ago, Cornell rallied from a 17-point deficit behind 21 points from Devin Cherry in a 58-52 victory over the Raiders.
 
ABOUT COLGATE
• Central New York rival Colgate, like the Big Red last year, got its season off to a great start in Fairfax, Va.
• Colgate opened the season on Friday night with a 66-53 victory at George Mason behind 23 points from Tom Rivard.
• The Raiders were outstanding defensively, limiting the Patriots to 33 percent shooting overall and 17 percent from beyond the arc.
• Also in double figures for the Raiders was Jordan Robertson (14 points) and Jordan Swopshire (13 points).
• Colgate won 16 games a season ago and went 12-6 in Patriot League play, good for second overall.
• Only one starter from that team returns, while nine newcomers dot the roster.
• Fifth-year head coach Matt Langel will be looking for his 50th career coaching win and enters Monday with a 49-78 mark.

A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD ...
• even Cornell's record at 1-1 on the season.
• extend the Big Red's series lead over Colgate to 73-54.
• be the second straight over the Raiders for the Big Red.
• give Cornell a 144-121 all-time record against Patriot League teams.
• snap a six-game road losing streak.
• be the 1,225th in program history (1,224-1,1370 in 117 seasons, .472).
 
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell is 143-121 all-time against current members of the Patriot League, including 72-54 against Colgate.
• The Big Red has also played American (1-1), Army (20-13), Boston University (2-2), Bucknell (23-25), Holy Cross (2-3), Lafayette (7-11), Lehigh (13-9), Loyola (MD) (1-2) and Navy (2-1).
• This is the first of two scheduled contests with Patriot League opponents this season.
• The Big Red will host defending Patriot champion Lafayette on Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena.

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Robert Hatter ranked 70th nationally in free-throw percentage a year ago (.833) after making just 46 percent from the line as a freshman (19-of-41).
• Hatter reached 500 points for his career during a 19-point effort at Georgia Tech in the opener.
• Junior David Onuorah is two blocked shots from becoming the eighth player in school history to reach 75.
• Freshman Matt Morgan scored 20 points against Georgia Tech, the most by a Cornell freshman in a season opener since Nolan Cressler put in 20 in a win over Western Michigan to kick off the 2012-13 campaign.
• Morgan is also the first Big Red freshman to start a season opener since - current Big Red juniors Robert Hatter and David Onuorah were out for the tip at Syracuse in 2013-14.
• Junior JoJo Fallas competed for Team USA at the 14th European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany from July 27-August 5. Fallas was one of the leaders on a team that won a silver medal, going 4-0 before dropping the gold medal game to Russia 98-87 despite a game-high 28 points. The event was the largest gathering of Jewish people in Berlin since World War II, as more than 2,000 Jewish athletes from 36 countries attended.
• Senior center Braxston Bunce was a two-year member of Team Canada's Under-18 national team, including competing at the 2012 FIBA Americas Championship in Brazil. Canada went 4-1, with Bunce averaging 1.5 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists in two contests.
• The Big Red lost 47 percent of the team's scoring, 59 percent of its rebounding, 73 percent of its assists, 51 percent of its steals and 49 percent of its blocked shots to graduation.
• Cornell's roster features eight freshmen, the most on a Big Red roster since the 2001-02 season when there were also eight rookies, including future 1,000-point scorers Eric Taylor'05 and Cody Toppert '05.
 
TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The rally from a 17-point deficit against Colgate last season was the largest overcome by a Big Red team this century. It is the largest overcome by a Bill Courtney-coached team, besting the 14-point first half deficit it rallied from in an 85-84 win over Yale on Feb. 10, 2012.
• The Big Red made 13 3-pointers in the opener against Georgia Tech, a mark that ranks 13th in a single game in Cornell history.
• When Cornell knocked off George Mason to open the 2014-15 campaign, the Big Red defeated its 35th program that has advanced to an NCAA Final Four. The Patriots reached the national semifinals in 2006.
• Cornell won 11 more games a year ago than the entire 2013-14 campaign when it went 2-26.  The Big Red's 11-win improvement was a school record.
• The Big Red limited opponents to .389 shooting a season ago (18th nationally), the first time Cornell held opponents under 40 percent shooting in a season since the 1963-64 campaign.
• The Big Red blocked a single-season school record 143 shots last season.
• In 2014-15, the Big Red ranked 18th in free throw percentage, 34th nationally in fewest turnovers, 39th in blocked shots per game and 47th in total defense (among 345 Division I teams).
• Third-year assistant coach Jon Jaques was a starter and senior captain on the 2009-10 Cornell team that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
• For the third straight year a Big Red men's basketball player will use his fifth and final year of eligibility at a BCS school.
• Errick Peck '13 spent the 2013-14 campaign at Purdue. He served as a captain and part-time starter for the Boilermakers while averaging 4.6 points and 4.4 rebounds and shooting 48 percent from the floor in 32 contests (10 starts).
• Dwight Tarwater '14 played his final season as a graduate student at California in 2014-15. Tarwater averaged 3.4 points and 2.9 rebounds while playing 18.8 minutes per game as a key reserve and spot starter in 33 games (13 starts). He hit a game-winning 3-pointer with 20 seconds to play to lift Cal over UCLA.
• Shonn Miller '15 will play as a graduate student at Connecticut in 2015-16, while Galal Cancer '15 will suit up for Kent State.
• Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 11 states and one Canadian province.
• Cornell has played in 46 different states, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia and France. The only states the Big Red has not played in are Alaska, North Dakota, Mississippi and Wyoming.
 
CORNELL EIGHTH IN IVY PRESEASON POLL
• The Cornell men's basketball team was picked to finish eighth when the 2015-16 Ivy League preseason media poll was announced during the annual conference call with the league's eight head coaches.
• Yale, which shared last season's conference title with Harvard and lost in a one-game playoff with the Crimson, took five first place votes and 117 points overall to take the preseason poll.
• Columbia (114) and Princeton (108) weren't far behind, and each actually had more first place votes than the Bulldogs with six apiece.
• Harvard rounded out the top half with 96 points.
• The Big Red received 25 points, finishing behind Brown (54), Dartmouth (50) and Penn (48).
• Two media members from each school and one national representative voted in the poll.
 
RED-WHITE GAME
• Junior Robert Hatter hit a runner in the lane just before the buzzer to cap a 25-point night as Cornell's White team topped the Red squad 75-73 at the annual Red-White Game on Oct. 24 at Newman Arena.
• Hatter added eight assists, five rebounds and five steals in the win.
• Freshman Matt Morgan chipped in 22 points, six rebounds and four assists in his first appearance as Hatter's backcourt mate, while sophomore Wil Bathurst had seven points and six rebounds.
• Four players went for double figures for the Red team, including junior David Onuorah's 20 points and 12 rebounds.
• Freshmen Donovan Wright (14 points, 10 rebounds, four steals) and Troy Whiteside (14 points) and junior Darryl Smith (10 points, six rebounds) also hit for double figures.
• The Red team led by 12 (69-57) with five minutes to play before the White team ended on a 18-4 run.
• Hatter had eight points and Morgan had six during the game-ending run, including consecutive 3-pointers to knot the score at 73-73.

HOW TO FOLLOW CORNELL
• There are numerous way to follow the Big Red through the 2015-16 basketball season.
• Men's basketball games will be broadcast on 98.7 FM The Buzzer for the 2015-16 season. Longtime voice of the Big Red Barry Leonard returns on the call with the play-by-play, while former All-Ivy center Eric Taylor '05 is on board to do color analysis.
• A half-hour pregame show and postgame analysis will enable Big Red fans to follow Coach Bill Courtney's team throughout the season.
• The audio of all games will also be available as part of the IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork subscription service.
• The Big Red's home contests will all be broadcast live with streaming video as part of the IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork subscription service. Visit www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com for all the latest information on Cornell broadcasts.
• Cornell will use SIDEARM Live Stats for each of the Big Red's home games in 2015-16. Visit www.CornellBigRed.com for all of the official statistics.
• You can follow the team on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Highlights, interviews and features on all 37 of Cornell's varsity sports can be found at www.youtube.com/cornellathletics, www.facebook.com/cornellathletics or www.twitter.com/cornellsports.
 
CORNELL BASKETBALL HONORED BY NCAA ... AGAIN
• Cornell University ranks among the best according to the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report (APR) for 2013-14 that was released this past May.
• The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members' continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation.
• The NCAA "commends" teams that have APR scores in the top 10 percent within their sport, with the minimum necessary score ranging from 975 to a perfect mark of 1000 depending on the range of team scores within that sport.
• Men's basketball has been recognized seven times in the 10 years since the APR began, including five consecutive years.
 
CORNELL BEYOND THE ARC - 700 AND COUNTING
• Cornell hit 13 3-pointers at Georgia Tech on Nov. 13, 2015 its 745th straight game with at least one made 3-point field goal.
• With six 3-pointers against Oberlin on Jan. 11, 2014, Cornell extended its streak of games with at least one 3-pointer to 700.
• Matt Morgan hit the program's 5,000th 3-pointer when he hit a long 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer at Georgia Tech on Nov. 13, 2015.
• The last time Cornell did not hit a 3-pointer was against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2).
• Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, Cornell has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 791 of 795 games, connecting on 5,005 treys, an average of 6.3 per game.
 
CORNELL IN OVERTIME
• Head coach Bill Courtney's record is 5-4 in overtime games during his six seasons, including 1-1 last year.
• Cornell went 3-1 in overtime in 2011-12, matching a school record for most overtime games in a season.
• All-time, dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 39-48 in games that go an extra period.
• Cornell is 5-9 in multiple overtime games, with the longest game for the Big Red being a five overtime contest against Princeton, won by the Tigers 66-61 on Feb. 24, 1979 at Barton Hall.
• Cornell is 29-18 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 9-27 in road games.
 
60TH SEASON OF IVY LEAGUE ATHLETICS
• Throughout the 2015-16 season, the Ivy League will be celebrating its 60th season with impactful content across IvyLeagueSports.com, The Ivy League Digital Network and the League's social media outlets.
• Be on the lookout for the #IvyAt60 hashtag to keep up the coverage of the League's 60th season.
 
NEXT UP
• The Big Red open the home schedule when Binghamton visits Newman Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. as part of a doubleheader with the women's team.
• The Cornell women will meet Colgate at 8:30 p.m.
• The Big Red defeated Binghamton last season on the road, 68-54.