HARTFORD, Conn. — The men's squash team will attempt to win the fourth Hoehn Cup in program history, when it competes at the College Squash Association's 'B' Division national championship this weekend at Trinity College.
 
The Hoehn Cup features the nation's ninth- through 16th-ranked teams, and Cornell (7-8) enters the weekend ranked second in the bracket and 10th overall in the country. That lands the Big Red a quarterfinal match against No. 15 George Washington at 11:30 a.m. Friday.
 
After finishing the 2013-14 season ranked sixth in the country, the Big Red started this season as the No. 8 team in the country. After moving up the seventh, Cornell ultimately dropped below the 8/9 cutoff between the Potter Cup and Hoehn Cup with an upset loss to Dartmouth on Feb. 1. This will be the Big Red's first appearance in the Hoehn Cup since 2008, when it finished third and 11th overall in the country. Cornell has won the Hoehn Cup in 1993, 2006 and 2007.
 
Senior Aditya Jagtap, a two-time All-Ivy League selection, has buoyed the Big red lineup with a sparkling 11-2 record from the No. 1 position. Another one of the team's three captains, junior Graham Dietz, ranks second on the team with a 9-4 record from the bottom half of the order. Freshman Jordan Brail is 8-5 from positions 4 through 8 and enters the weekend on a team-best three-match winning streak.
 
George Washington (9-8) actually wrapped up its regular season ranked 17th — which would have placed the Colonials in the 'C' Division Summers Cup — but results from the NESCAC Championships shuffled some positions and boosted GW to its current standing. Cornell and GW have only met twice in program history, with one of those meetings coming in the form of an 8-1 Big Red victory on Nov. 22, 2014 at the Cornell Round Robin at Belkin International Squash Courts.
 
Simultaneous to action between Cornell and GW, two other quarterfinal matches will take place — No. 9 Princeton (the bracket's top seed) vs. No. 16 Bates and No. 11 Dartmouth vs. No. 14 Navy. Friday's final quarterfinal will pit No. 12 Drexel vs. No. 13 Williams. The winner of the Cornell-GW match will then take on the winner of the Dartmouth-Navy match at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, while the losers will meet in a consolation semifinal at 9 a.m. Saturday. All four placement matches will take place Sunday, with some of those matches moving to nearby Wesleyan University or Loomis Chaffee.
 
Live brackets that will updated throughout the weekend will be availabile here.