ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's and women's squash teams will return to action this weekend after a long hiatus, jumping right into the Ivy League schedule at Yale and Brown before taking on Trinity to wrap up a busy weekend. Both Big Red squads are 2-0 after opening the season with convincing victories over Middlebury and Williams back in November.
The Cornell women's team has actually dropped one spot to seventh in the College Squash Association rankings for the first time since the end of the 2011-12 season through no fault of its own. Stanford, the former No. 7, toppled then-No. 3 Trinity by a score of 5-4 on Nov. 22 to cause the shakeup in the national picture. Yale (2-0) ended up moving up to fourth and Trinity (3-1) slid to No. 6. Brown (1-2) is currently ranked 11th after early-season losses to Stanford and Yale, and a victory over Bates.
The Big Red is 10-12 all-time against Brown, though it has won the last seven meetings between the teams by 8-1 or 9-0 margins. Yale has won 22 of 23 meetings against Cornell, with the lone Big Red victory in the series coming on Jan. 20, 2001 in a 6-3 decision in Ithaca. Cornell has not defeated Trinity in 13 all-time meetings, including a 9-0 sweep in the Bantams' favor last February.
On the men's side, Cornell remains in the No. 12 team in the nation. There has been a ton of movement in the CSA's national rankings above the Big Red's standing, but none of it has directly effected No. 6 Yale (2-0) or No. 1 Trinity (4-0). Brown (2-1) is ranked 16th and started the year with victories over Bates and Stanford before suffering a 9-0 setback to Yale in December.
Cornell is 22-9 all-time against Brown, including an active 15-match winning streak in the series dating back to a clash in the 2002 National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association national tournament. The Big Red is 3-54 against Yale, narrowly dropping a 5-4 decision in its last match against the Bulldogs in New Haven back in 2014. The Big Red topped the Bulldogs, 8-1, in the quarterfinals of the CSA's Potter Cup in 2012, which eventually powered Cornell to a program-best fourth-place finish in the national rankings that season. Cornell is 4-25 all-time against perennial power Trinity with its last victory coming on Feb. 9, 1991.
