QUICK HITS
• The Cornell men's basketball team, coming off a quick break for Thanksgiving, return to the road to face UMass Lowell on Sunday, Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Costello Athletic Center.
• Barry Leonard will have the Cornell radio call on WHCU 870 AM.
• The Big Red is off to a 3-3 start that includes losses to ACC foes Georgia Tech and Pitt on the road.
• After a 93-49 defeat at the hands of the Panthers in its most recent game on Thursday night, the Big Red will attempt to answer in the same way it did after its loss to the Yellow Jackets earlier this season.
• After dropping a 35-point game at Georgia Tech, the Big Red topped 2015 Patriot League runner-up Colgate on the road in double overtime, 101-98.
• 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.
• Nearly every offensive number is significantly improved this year, including ranking among the top 150 nationally in scoring (74.2 ppg.) a year after sitting 291st in that category (62.3 ppg.).
• Against non-BCS opponents, Cornell is 3-1 and surrendering just 72.8 ppg. of .390 shooting overall and .317 from 3-point range while hitting on 46 percent of field goals on the other end and outrebounding foes by 2.0 per game.
• Hatter is averaging 16.8 points, 4.7 assists and 2.8 rebounds through six games.
• After shooting just 38 percent from the floor in his first two seasons, Hatter is hitting on 45 percent of his shots from the floor.
• Hatter ranks third in the Ancient Eight in scoring and is fourth in assists.
• Hatter has 28 assists through six contests after recording just 19 assists in 28 games a season ago while primarily playing off the ball.
• Junior David Onuorah has also been impressive in the early season with at least 14 rebounds in three of the team's six games.
• Onuorah ranks third in the Ancient Eight in rebounding (9.8 rpg.) and is second in blocked shots (2.2 bpg.).
 • Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his sixth season at Cornell (53-98, .351; 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 two teams met for the first time last December, with the Big Red taking a 71-60 victory over the River Hawks in Ithaca.
• Head coach Bill Courtney is 1-0 all-time against UMass Lowell.
 
ABOUT UMASS LOWELL
• The River Hawks enter the contest with a 2-2 record after a 104-76 triumph over Division III Wheelock on Tuesday evening.
• UML's two losses have come to power conference schools on the road, falling to Northwestern (79-57) and Notre Dame (83-57).
• Jahad Thomas (12.0 ppg., 8.5 rpg., 2.5 apg.) leads a balanced attack that sees eight players averaging between 6.3 and 12.0 points per night.
• Isaac White is the team's other double figure scorer (10.0 ppg.) and leads the way with 11 assists and six steals, while Ryan Jones isn't far behind at 9.5 ppg.
• The River Hawks are shooting 44 percent from the floor and an impressive 40 percent from 3-point range on its way to averaging 76.3 ppg., but are allowing opponents to hit 48 percent from the floor, being outrebounded by 6.5 per game and allowing opponents to score 80.5 ppg.
• Third year head coach Pat Duquette has helped UMass Lowell through its transition to Division I and has posted a 24-37 overall mark and a 14-18 record in the America East.

A WIN OVER UMASS LOWELL WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 4-3 on the season.
• make Cornell 2-0 all-time against UMass Lowell.
• even the Big Red's record at 23-23 against America East teams.
• be the 1,228th in program history (1,227-1,372 in 117 seasons, .472).

CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE
• Cornell is 22-23 all-time against current members of the America East, including 1-0 against UMass Lowell.
• The Big Red has also faced Albany (2-3), Binghamton (9-3), Hartford (0-3), Maine (0-1), UMass Lowell (1-0), New Hampshire (1-3), Stony Brook (4-4) and Vermont (5-6).
• Cornell has never played UMBC.
 
LAST TIME OUT
• Pittsburgh raced out to a 16-2 lead and never took its foot off the gas as the Panthers topped Cornell 93-49 at the Petersen Events Center.
• Junior JoJo Fallas had nine points and three assists and classmate Robert Hatter had eight points.
• Cornell shot just 30 percent from the floor overall and was outrebounded 47-31 by the Panthers, who had four double figure scorers.
• Jamel Artis scored 21 points, five rebounds and four assists in the win for Pitt.
• Chris Jones had 15, Michael Young had 12 points, eight rebounds and six assists and Damon Wilson scored 10 points with four helpers.
• The Panthers shot 52 percent from the floor and connected on 10-of-21 3-pointers (48 percent).
• Freshman Matt Morgan had his string of double figure scoring games come to an end at five to start his career.
• Junior JoJo Fallas tied a season high with his nine points and his three 3-pointers and three assists set new career highs.
• Cornell's starters shot just 6-of-35 (17 percent), including 1-of-21 in the first half.
• Despite the teams being even on the offensive glass (12-12), Pitt outscored Cornell 19-3 in second chance points.
 
MORGAN NAMED IVY LEAGUE ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
• Big Red freshman Matt Morgan was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Nov. 23 after helping Cornell to a 2-1 mark.
• Morgan averaged 17.3 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.0 assists in three contests, including wins at Colgate and at home against Binghamton.
• Morgan opened the week with 16 points in a double overtime victory at 2015 Patriot League runner-up Colgate, including scoring 12 points in the two extra sessions.
• He scored a career-high 24 points with four rebounds and two steals against Binghamton, hitting five 3-pointers.
• Morgan scored a team-high 12 points with two assists and a blocked shot at Canisius.
 
PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• After averaging 22.3 points in his first three games, Robert Hatter is scoring 11.3 points over his last three.
• Hatter's 11 assists against Binghamton nearly doubled up his previous career high of six set against Western Michigan as a freshman.
• The last time a Cornell player had double figure assists in a game was when Devin Cherry had 10 against Brown in the 2013-14 campaign.
• Hatter has 28 assists this season and has already surpassed his total of 19 assists during the entire 2014-15 season when he played off the ball.
• 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).
• 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 84.
• Onuorah is averaging 11.2 rebounds over his last five games, including a career-high 15 wins over Binghamton and Penn State-Harrisburg.
• 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.
• Onuorah's 15-rebound games tie for 12th in a single game in school history.
• The junior center has shot at least 50 percent in five of his six games this season.
• Onuorah is averaging 3.0 blocks over his last three games after blocking four shots total in his first three contests of the year.
• After going scoreless in the opener against Georgia Tech, Darryl Smith has reached double figures in three of his five games and has averaged 10.6 points over those five contests, including hitting 6-of-8 from 3-point range.
• Smith is shooting 75 percent from 3-point range (6-of-8) and 85 percent from the free-throw line (11-of-13) so far this season.
• Over his last four contests, Smith has made 14-of-21 shots from the floor (67 percent).
• 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 was the first Big Red freshman to hit for double figures in each of his first five collegiate games since Adam Gore '09 during the 2005-06 campaign (most this century - Ka'Ron Barnes '04 with 7 in 2000-01).
• After averaging 20.0 points in his first three collegiate contests, Morgan is averaging 8.0 per game in his last three.
• In his last three games, rookie Joel Davis is averaging 5.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, 1.0 steals and 0.7 blocks in 15.3 minutes per contest.
• Over that same span, Jordan Abdur'Ra'oof is posting 5.3 points and 5.0 rebounds.
• Freshman Stone Gettings is averaging 9.1 rebounds per 40 minutes, second on the team to only David Onuorah (13.7).
• Over the last two contests, JoJo Fallas is averaging 8.5 points, 2.5 assists, 1.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 21.0 minutes per game while hitting 4-of-8 3-pointers.
• 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
• Since allowing Georgia Tech to score 116 points and being outrebound it 48-24 in the opener, the Big Red is limiting opponents to 72.8 ppg. on 39 percent shooting and has outrebounded opponents by 2.0 per game.
• Cornell has scored at least 76 points in regulation in four of six games this season, something the Big Red did just once all last year — that coming against Division III Alfred State.
• After shooting .427 from 3-point range and averaging 11.7 makes per game in its first three contests, Cornell has shot just 20-of-66 from beyond the arc over the last two (.303) - 6.7 makes per game.
• Over its last four contests, the Big Red has averaged 5.0 blocks per game.
• Penn State-Harrisburg's .299 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 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.
• 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 is playing as a graduate student at Connecticut in 2015-16 (12.5 ppg., 5.3 rpg., 1.0 bpg., 1.0 spg.), while Galal Cancer '15 (5.8 ppg., 3.3 apg., 2.5 rpg., 1.0 spg.) is suiting up for Kent State. Both are starting.
• 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 six 3-pointers at Pittsburgh on Nov. 23, 2015 its 750th 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 796 of 800 games, connecting on 5,047 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
• Cornell returns home for a two-game homestand beginning on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. when Siena visits Newman Arena.
• The Big Red will also host defending Patriot League champion Lafayette on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m.