QUICK HITS
• With its home-and-home series with Columbia in the rearview window, the Cornell men's basketball team hits the road for its first full Ivy League weekend beginning when it visits defending league champion Harvard on Friday, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. at Lavietes Pavilion.
• Barry Leonard will be on the call on 98.7 FM The Buzzer, while the game will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Digital Network.
• 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.
• Against non-BCS opponents, Cornell is 7-6 while scoring 75.7 ppg. and shooting 44 percent from the floor and 33 percent from 3-point range.
• The Big Red is surrendering 74.4 ppg. on .412 shooting overall and .357 from 3-point range while blocking 4.7 shots and collecting 8.6 steals per contest in those 13 games.
• Among its non-BCS opponents, only two teams have shot better than 46 percent from the floor, with two posting fewe than 15 turnovers against the Big Red.
• The Big Red backcourt has been its strength, as junior Robert Hatter (19.9 ppg., 4.1 apg., 3.4 rpg., 1.4 spg.) and freshman Matt Morgan (16.6 ppg., 3.3 rpg., 2.0 apg., 1.5 spg.) are the league's top two leading scorers.
• Hatter, the Ivy League's leading scorer, is averaging 23.3 points over his last seven games before missing the Ivy opener against Columbia and ranks among the conference's top 10 in assists (second, 4.1), steals (fourth, 1.4) and 3-pointers made (ninth, 1.9).
• Morgan, a three-time Ivy Rookie of the Week, exploded for a career-high 29 points against the Lions to establish a freshman scoring record for the Big Red in league contests and is averaging 27.5 points in two games without Hatter.
• Juniors Darryl Smith (8.8 ppg., 2.7 rpg.) and JoJo Fallas (4.4 ppg.) and freshman Troy Whiteside (5.3 ppg., 2.0 rpg.) have also made an impact in the backcourt.
• Smith is shooting 65 percent from the floor for the season and has made 13 consecutive field goals over his last four games.
• Junior center David Onuorah (5.9 ppg., 7.9 rpg., 1.8 bpg.) has been one of the most improved players in the Ivy League, while sophomores Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof (4.3 ppg., 3.5 rpg.) and Wil Bathurst (5.3 ppg., 2.9 rpg.) and freshmen Stone Gettings (2.3 ppg., 2.3 rpg.) and Joel Davis (2.9 ppg., 1.9 rpg.) have been frontcourt staples.
 • Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his sixth season at Cornell (57-104, .354; 24-48 Ivy, .333).
• Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard enters the weekend with an 8-8 record (1-1 Ivy) after a travel partner series split with Dartmouth.
• After opening the season 2-6, the Crimson are 6-2 since with victories over BYU and Auburn, and are 5-2 at home this season.
• Junior Zeno Edosomwan is averaging 13.9 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.1 blocks per game and ranks among the nation's most improved players.
• Six other players are averaging between 7.3 and 9.3 points per game, including Agunwa Okolie (9.2 ppg.), who is averaging 21.0 points and 7.5 rebounds in two Ivy contests.
• The Crimson is allowing opponents to shoot just .392 from the floor and .278 from 3-point range while connecting on 41 percent from beyond the arc itself.
• Harvard has posted a 148-52 (.740) overall record since the start of the 2009-10 season and 66-7 (.904) at home since the 2010-11 campaign.
• Head coach Tommy Amaker is approaching becoming Harvard's all-time winningest men's hoops coach with his 170 victories, just eight behind Frank Sullivan. He has guided the Crimson to five straight Ivy titles and four consecutive NCAA tournaments.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD ...
• make Cornell 8-9 on the season, including 4-6 in road contests (3-1 in its last four road games).
• snap a two-game losing streak and win its first Ivy game of the year (0-2).
• extend the Big Red's lead in the all-time series against the Crimson to 92-77.
• be the second straight for the Big Red over the Crimson.
• be the first victory for Cornell in Cambridge since a 79-70 win on Feb. 19, 2010 (five-game losing streak).
• be the 1,232nd in program history (1,231-1,378 in 117 seasons, .472).

THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the series 91-77 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Harvard has a narrow is 14-12 in the last 26 contests thanks to nine consecutive wins, a streak that was snapped in the last meeting, a 57-49 Big Red win in Ithaca on Feb. 27, 2015.
 • Senior Shonn Miller was the individual dominant force, but it was a Cornell team defensive effort that lifted the Big Red to a 57-49 victory over Harvard on Feb. 27, 2015 at Newman Arena.
• The forward had 24 points, including the 1,000th of his career, and matched a career high with 15 rebounds in knocking the Crimson from alone on its first place perch thanks to an effort that limited the visitors to 25 percent shooting.
• Miller hit on 7-of-16 shots from the floor and all eight free throws, becoming the 25th Cornell player to hit the century mark when he drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 10:49 left in regulation, putting the home team up 40-28 to match its biggest lead of the night.
• His 15 rebounds matched a career high set three other times, including twice this season, and he added three blocks and zero turnovers in 38 minutes of action.
• While Miller was the focal point, everyone that hit the floor contributed in a defensive effort that helped limit Ivy League Player of the Year candidate Wesley Saunders to 6-of-21 shooting and two-time first-team all-league pick Siyani Chambers to 3-of-10.
• The Crimson stayed in the game with 21 offensive rebounds and a 43-33 edge on the glass overall, but Cornell hit 20-of-21 free throws for the 10th best single-game effort in school history from the line.
• Cornell also blocked 10 shots, the fourth-best total in a single game in Big Red history.
• Devin Cherry had 15 points and Galal Cancer notched nine points and four assists.
• Saunders, despite his tough shooting night, still ended the night with 19 points, 11 rebounds and two assists and Steve Moundou-Missi had 13 points and seven boards.
• After shooting just 22 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, the Big Red limited the Crimson to 28 percent after halftime.



ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Dartmouth enters Friday's home game against Columbia with a 7-9 overall record and a 1-1 Ivy League mark after a travel partner series split with Harvard, including a 63-50 victory over the Crimson at home on Jan. 23.
• The Big Green have won three straight games by an average margin of 29.7 points.
• Dartmouth is 6-2 at home this season.
• Freshman forward Evan Boudreaux leads Dartmouth by averaging 15.9 points and 8.6 rebounds to lead three double figure scorers.
• Miles Wright (12.4 ppg., 4.8 rpg., 1.3 spg.) and Connor Boehm (10.7 ppg., 5.3 rpg., 2.1 apg.) are also scoring in double figures.
• Opponents are shooting 45 percent from the floor against Dartmouth, but the Big Green are outrebounding opponents by 2.4 per game and are forcing better than 15 turnovers per game.
• In his second stint as head coach of the Big Green, Paul Cormier has a 139-202 record and is looking for his fourth straight season increasing the team's win totals.
• Dartmouth finished fourth in the Ancient Eight a year ago and earned a big to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

THE SERIES
• The all-time series is tied 105-105 after 210 games in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 19 of the last 24 meetings.
• The two teams have split the season series each of the last three years.
 • In a season where Cornell's defense could be relied on virtually every night, Dartmouth cracked the code for one night and topped the Big Red 56-45 on Feb. 28, 2015 at Newman Arena, spoiling Senior Day ceremonies for a group whose perseverance showed despite the tough loss.
• Less than 24 hours after pulling an upset of first place Harvard on national television, the Big Red dug itself a 20-point hole it could never get out of.
• A night after shooting better than 60 percent in a win at Columbia, Dartmouth connected on 49 percent of its shots from the floor overall and 47 percent from the 3-point arc to pick up the win.
• Robert Hatter scored 23 points and Shonn Miller, playing his final game in front of the Newman Nation fans, had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
• The Big Red went on a 14-2 run to get back within eight and stole the ensuing inbounds pass, but a turnover and layup on the other end put it back to double figures and effectively ended the comeback attempt.
• The furious comeback over four minutes to give the Big Red a final chance was again indicitive of what the group of six seniors brought every day for four seasons.
• Dartmouth's Alex Mitola and Malik Gill each had 14 points and Gabas Maldunas notched 13 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots in the win.
• The Big Green dominated the glass, outrebounding the Big Red 34-19 to overcome 20 turnovers.



LAST TIME OUT
• Freshman Matt Morgan continued his torrid scoring pace with 26 points, but Columbia drained 13 3-pointers and held off Cornell 79-68 on Jan. 23, 2016 at Newman Arena.
• In addition to his 26 points, Morgan handed out four assists, grabbed three rebounds, had one steal and blocked one shot.
• David Onuorah was the only other Big Red player to reach double-digits with 10 points on a 5-of-7 performance, to go along with eight rebounds, one block, one steal, and one assist.
• Freshman Troy Whiteside also scored eight points.
• The Lions connected on 13-of-24 shots from beyond the arc, with both Maodo Lo and Luke Petrasek going 4-of-6 from deep.
• Columbia got 18 points from Lo, 16 points and eight rebounds from Petrasek and 11 each from Grant Mullins and CJ Davis.
• The Lions shot 50 percent overall and 54 percent from 3-point range while assisting on 16 of its 25 baskets.



PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Over his last seven contests, junior Robert Hatter is averaging 23.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.1 steals per game while hitting 16 3-pointers.
• Hatter has 57 assists this season and has tripled his total of 19 assists during the entire 2014-15 season when he played off the ball.
• 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 before Hatter was when Devin Cherry had 10 against Brown in the 2013-14 campaign.
• 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).
• No Cornell player is averaging 30 minutes per game, with Hatter averaging a team-high 29.9.
• Freshman Matt Morgan's 29 points against Columbia are the most by a Big Red player in an Ivy opener and the most by a Cornell freshman in an Ivy League debut.
• Over his last five contests, Morgan is averaging 22.0 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 2.2 steals while connecting on 18-of-51 3-pointers.
• 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).
• Morgan has 26 assists and 18 turnovers over his last 11 games, spanning 313 minutes of action.
• Darryl Smith enters the game having hit 13 consecutive field goals over four games and has connected on 50-of-75 shots (.667) in his last 10 games.
• After going scoreless in the opener against Georgia Tech, Smith has reached double figures in eight of his 15 games and has averaged 9.5 points over that span, including hitting 11-of-20 from 3-point range (50 percent).
• David Onuorah became the sixth player in school history to reach 100 career blocks with one in the win at Howard.
• In the seven games that he has played at least 28 minutes, Onuorah is averaging 10.4 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game, while he is averaging 5.9 rebounds and has six total blocks in the other nine contests.
• Onuorah is averaging 8.3 rebounds over his last 15 games, including a career-high 15 wins over Binghamton and Penn State-Harrisburg after averaging 3.6 per game entering the season.
• 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 12 of his 16 games this season.
• Onuorah is averaging 1.8 blocks over his last 13 games after blocking four shots total in his first three contests of the year.
• In his last three games, junior Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof is averaging 5.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals per contest to go along with 3.7 points and 1.7 assists.
• 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
• Over the team's last nine contests, the Big Red is averaging 9.3 steals per contest.
• Cornell is averaging 4.8 blocks over its last six games.
• The Big Red has forced 169 turnovers (16.9 per game) over its last 10 games.
• Cornell has scored at least 76 points in regulation in half of its 16 games this season, something the Big Red did just once all last year — that coming against Division III Alfred State.
• 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.
• In all, Cornell has hit double figure 3-pointers in nine of its 16 games.
• 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 (14-5) in 2015-16 (13.6 ppg., 5.6 rpg., 1.0 bpg.), while Galal Cancer '15 (3.4 ppg., 2.3 rpg., 1.4 apg., 0.7 spg.) is suiting up for Kent State (14-5). Miller has started every game for UConn, while Cancer has been in the Golden Flashes' lineup in 11 of its 19 contests.
• 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 five 3-pointers at Columbia on Jan. 23, 2016, its 760th 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 806 of 810 games, connecting on 5,128 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 closes a four-game road trip with games at Brown (Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.) and Yale (Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.).
• The Big Red leads the all-time series against both the bears (74-49) and the Bulldogs (110-108).