QUICK HITS
• The Cornell men's basketball team will attempt to get back to its winning ways when Division III Penn State-Harrisburg visits Newman Arena on Monday, Nov. 23 at 8:30 p.m.
• The contest will be the second game of a doubleheader, as the Big Red women's team meets Saint Francis (Pa.) at 6 p.m.
• Barry Leonard will be on the call on 98.7 FM The Buzzer, while live video will be available on the Ivy League Digital Network.
• After dropping an 87-62 decision at Canisius on Saturday, Cornell will be looking for its second straight victory to open its home season.
• To do so, and to move to 3-2 on the year, the Big Red will have to get past a Penn State-Harrisburg team that is off to a 4-0 start thanks to a defense surrendering just 56.3 points per game on 34 percent shooting.
• Something will have to give, as Cornell brings an offense averaging 80.0 points per game on 45 percent shooting and 39 percent from beyond the arc, where the Big Red is making more than 10 treys each time out.
• After dropping the season opener at Georgia Tech, the Big Red won a thrilling double overtime contest at Colgate (101-98) before handling Binghamton in its home opener, 76-59.
• After being one of the most improved teams in the country both in the win column and by nearly all defensive metrics, the Big Red's improvement on the offensive end has been especially impressive so far in 2015-16.
• Junior Robert Hatter is averaging 19.8 points, 5.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game through four contests.
• After shooting just 38 percent from the floor in his first two seasons, Hatter is hitting on 52 percent of his shots from the floor.
• Hatter has 20 assists through four contests after recording just 19 assists in 28 games a season ago while primarily playing off the ball.
• Freshman Matt Morgan has been a revelation as well, averaging 18.0 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first four collegiate contests, including a career-high 24 points against Binghamton.
• He has drained 12 3-pointers in the four games (3.0 per game).
• Morgan is the first Big Red freshman to reach double figures in the scoring column in his first four games since Adam Gore in 2005-06.
• Since allowing Georgia Tech to score 116 points in the opener, the Big Red is limiting opponents to 81.3 ppg. on 42 percent shooting and has been virtually even on the backboards.
 • Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his sixth season at Cornell (52-97, .349; 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
• This will be the first-ever meeting between the programs.
 
ABOUT PENN STATE-HARRISBURG
• The Nittany Lions are off to a 4-0 start after a 59-47 win over Albright College.
• Penn State-Harrisburg had opened the year with an 82-64 triumph over Rutgers Camden, then hit a 3-pointer in the final seconds to clinch a tournament title at the Tip-Off Tournament over Lebanon Valley.
• The Nittany Lions also won at Haverford, 57-54.
• Junior guards Jazmon Harris (15.5 ppg., 3.0 rpg.) and Jourdon Wilson (11.8 ppg., 2.8 apg.) are the lone double figure scorers through four games, with Arick Sodini (8.8 ppg., 3.3 rpg.) isn't far behind.
• Freshman center Gbolahan Alliyu anchors the defense, averaging 3.3 blocks and 8.0 rebounds per contest.
• The Nittany Lions have made defense its calling card, allowing opponents to hit just 34 percent of its shots and 28 percent from 3-point range, outrebounding teams 42.0-32.8 and limiting teams to 56.3 points per game.
• Third year head coach Don Friday, who formerly was head coach at Saint Francis (Pa.) and Lycoming, has posted a 15-39 record since joining the PSU-Harrisburg staff.

A WIN OVER PENN STATE-HARRISBURG WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 3-2 on the season.
• give Cornell a 2-0 start at home.
• be the 23rd over a non-Division I team without a loss in the last 23 years.
• be the 1,227th in program history (1,226-1,138 in 117 seasons, .472).

CORNELL VS. NON-DIVISION I SCHOOLS
• Cornell has almost annually played and beaten a non-Division I team, going 22-0 with an average margin of victory of more than 30 points per game in the last 23 seasons.
• The 2010-11 season was the only year in the last 23 years where the schedule was made up completely of Division I teams.
• Each of the team's 22 wins came by double figures except for in 2004-05, when Ithaca College made a 10-point run against Cornell reserves in the final minute in a 69-67 Big Red victory.
• The Big Red is 157-61 against teams that are non-Division I foes after last year's 107-29 win over Alfred State.

LAST TIME VS. A DIVISION III OPPONENT
• The Cornell men's basketball team rewrote the record book, closing its non-conference record at 8-8 after a thoroughly dominant 107-29 victory over Division III foe Alfred State on Jan. 10, 2015 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell's 107 point total was the seventh-highest total in school history and the most in 22 years.
• Its field goals made (36), 3-point field goals made (14), assists (27) and steals (16) totals all ranked among the top 20 single-game marks in more than 100 years of Big Red basketball.
• Shonn Miller and Devin Cherry each led the way with 18 points, with Miller adding four rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block and Cherry dishing six assists, grabbing five boards and collecting a steal.
• Robert Hatter was also in double figures (13 points) and chipped in four steals and three assists.
• Cornell shot 49 percent from the floor and 50 percent from 3-point range (14-of-28), outrebounded the Pioneers 47-31 and had 27 assists and just four turnovers.
• Cornell held the Pioneers to 29 points, the fewest surrendered in a contest since Sampson Naval Hospital scored 29 in a 68-29 Big Red victory on Dec. 1, 1945.
• It allowed Alfred State to shoot just 21 percent overall, 17 percent from beyond the arc and forced 29 turnovers - scoring an amazing 46 points off those miscues.
• The 78-point margin of victory was the largest for the Big Red in any game in school history, besting an 82-11 victory over Rome Air Force Base to open the 1943-44 season.

LAST TIME OUT
• Canisius head coach Jim Baron his 450th career win with an 87-62 victory over Cornell on Nov. 21, 2015 at the Koessler Center.
• The Big Red backcort of Matt Morgan and Robert Hatter each had 12 points and two assists but combined for just 8-of-21 shooting.
• Darryl Smith added eight points and David Onuorah had five points, seven rebounds and four blocked shots.
• The home team outscored the Big Red 51-29 after halftime and had decided edges in scoring in the paint (40-18) and off turnovers (26-8).
• In a battle between two of the nation's highest scoring teams, it was the Canisius defense that made the difference, limiting the Big Red to 35 percent shooting for the game and 31 percent from the floor after halftime.
• A 14-3 Canisius run after Cornell got within 43-40 three minutes into the second half sunk the Big Red.
• Canisius put five players in double figures, including 16 points from Malcolm McMillan, who entered the game second nationally in scoring at 32.0 ppg.
• Phil Valenti added 15 points and five rebounds, Kevin Bleeker had 14 points and eight rebounds, Kassius Robertson scored 11 and Chris Atkinson had 10.
 
PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Robert Hatter has been credited with 20 assists in just four games this season after posting 19 during the entire 2014-15 season when he played off the ball.
• David Onuorah became the eighth player in school history to reach 75 career blocks with three in the win over Colgate and is now up to 79.
• Onuorah is averaging 12.0 rebounds over his last three games, including a career-high 15 in his last contest against Binghamton.
• Onuorah is just the fourth Big Red player since 1977 to have consecutive games with at least 14 rebounds (Bernard Jackson in 1988-89; Greg Barratt in 2000-01 and Shonn Miller is 2012-13) after he had 14 at Colgate and 15 vs. Binghamton.
• 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 was 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.
• He is the first Big Red freshman to hit for double figures in each of his first four collegiate games since Adam Gore '09 during the 2005-06 campaign.
 
TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell has scored at least 76 points in regulation in three of four games this season, something the Big Red did just once all last year — that coming against Division III Alfred State.
• Binghamton's .367 field goal percentage is the lowest by an opponent since Cornell upset eventual Ivy champion Harvard by limiting the Crimson to .254 shooting on Feb. 27, 2015.
• Cornell's 51 rebounds against Colgate were the most by a Cornell team since piling up 56 in a win over Clarkson in 2010.
• The Big Red hit the 100-point mark against a Division I team for the first time since scoring 104 in a 104-98 overtime win at Bucknell during the 2009-10 season when it scored 101 in a double overtime win at Colgate.
• The Big Red had last played a multiple overtime game in a 79-76 double overtime victory at home over Dartmouth during the 2008-09 campaign.
• 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.
• Cornell reached double figures in 3-point field goal makes in each of its first three games, the first time it had reached that mark three games in a row since it hit the mark four straight times in non-league matchups with Lehigh, Albany, Illinois and Penn State during the 2011-12 campaign.
 
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 four 3-pointers at Canisius on Nov. 21, 2015 its 748th 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 794 of 798 games, connecting on 5,031 treys, an average of 6.3 per game.
 
CORNELL IN OVERTIME
• Head coach Bill Courtney's record is 6-4 in overtime games during his six seasons, including 1-0 this year after its 101-98 double overtime victory at Colgate.
• 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 40-48 in games that go an extra period.
• Cornell is 6-9 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 10-27 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 will visit Pittsburgh (Wednesday, Nov. 25) and UMass-Lowell (Saturday, Nov. 29) before returning home to meet Siena on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena.
• Cornell will play a pair of home games before the final exam break, meeting Siena and reigning Patriot League champion Lafayette on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m.