QUICK HITS
• The Cornell men's basketball team closes out what has traditionally been the toughest part of the yearly Ivy schedule when the Big Red hits the road to meet Penn and Princeton on its final road swing of the season.
• The Big Red will head to the hallowed halls of the Palestra on Friday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. to meet the Quakers, then visits Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. for a matchup with the Ivy co-leading Tigers.
• Both contests will be available on the Ivy League Digital Network and Barry Leonard will be on the radio call on 98.7 FM The Buzzer.
• The Big Red, like all Ivy opponents for the last 54 seasons, will have a tough task in trying to sweep the Penn-Princeton weekend.
• Only 11 teams, including Cornell in 2007-08, have swept the Penn-Princeton weekend since the conference went to the Friday-Saturday evening travel partner series in 1961-62 - though nine teams have done so in the last eight years after just two did over the first 46 campaigns. 
• The backcourt has been Cornell's strength, as freshman Matt Morgan (19.1 ppg., 3.1 rpg., 1.8 apg., 1.4 spg.) and junior Robert Hatter (17.3 ppg., 3.5 apg., 3.3 rpg., 1.2 spg.) are the league's top and third-leading scorers.
• Morgan, a four-time Ivy Rookie of the Week and one-time Ivy Player of the Week, is averaging 24.5 points in Ivy League play — the 11th highest scoring average in conference games in history and the highest average by a player in 38 years (Keven McDonald, Penn - 24.7 in 1977-78).
• At 19.1 ppg., Morgan is posting the highest scoring average for an Ivy rookie in history (current leader Earl Hunt of Brown at 17.0 ppg. in 1999-2000) after surpassing Ryan Wittman '10 as Cornell's all-time freshman scoring record (now at 439 points). He ranks sixth among all rookies across the country and 50th overall among all players.
• Juniors Darryl Smith (9.1 ppg., 3.4 rpg., 1.2 spg.) and JoJo Fallas (5.2 ppg., 1.3 rpg., 1.0 apg., 0.7 spg.) and freshman Troy Whiteside (5.2 ppg., 2.2 rpg., 0.8 spg.) have also made an impact in the backcourt, while senior Robert Mischler (1.3 ppg.) and junior Desmond Fleming (1.9 ppg.) have also been part of the rotation.
• Smith is shooting 64 percent from the floor for the season and has hit 53-of-76 field goals over his last 13 games (.697). He would rank 11th nationally in field goal percentage (.639) with enough attempts (would be only player 6-3 or shorter in the top 60).
• Smith's .639 field goal percentage currently ranks atop Cornell's single-season list, just ahead of James Maglisceau's .638 in 1963-64 - 52 years ago.
• Junior center David Onuorah (5.3 ppg., 7.3 rpg., 1.7 bpg.) has been one of the most improved players in the Ivy League, while sophomores Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof (4.1 ppg., 3.3 rpg.) and Wil Bathurst (3.8 ppg., 2.4 rpg.) and freshmen Stone Gettings (2.0 ppg., 1.8 rpg.) and Joel Davis (2.9 ppg., 1.9 rpg.) have been frontcourt staples.
• Cornell is looking to reverse a number of trends that have led to its six-game skid - opponents are shooting .450 from the floor (163-362) and .389 from 3-point range (51-131) and outrebounding the Big Red by 15.2 per game.
 • Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his sixth season at Cornell (59-110, .359; 26-54 Ivy, .325).
• Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.

A WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• make Cornell 10-15 on the season.
• push its Ivy League record to 3-7 on the year, including 3-3 on the road.
• snap a six-game losing skid.
• be the 1,234th in program history (1,233-1,384 in 117 seasons, .471).

ABOUT PENN
• Penn is 10-13 (4-5 Ivy) after a home split with Brown (W, 79-74) and Yale (L, 79-58) last weekend in Philadelphia.
• The Quakers have surpassed last season's win total overall (nine) and matched it in league play (four).
• Senior center Darien Nelson-Henry leads two double figure scorers at 12.8 ppg. to go along with 8.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.0 blocks per contest while shooting 57 percent from the floor.
• Matt Howard (12.6 ppg., 5.8 rpg., 1.1 apg.) is also hitting double figures, while Sam Jones (9.1 ppg., 3.8 rpg.) and Jackson Donahue (9.1 ppg., 2.0 rpg., 1.1 apg.) aren't far behind.
• Penn is hitting 7.4 3-pointers per game on 31 percent shooting, but have limited opponents behind the arc, allowing just 6.1 3-pointers per night.
• Former Big Red coach Steve Donahue, who won 146 games and led Cornell to three Ivy championships and the 2010 NCAA Sweet 16, brings a team to Ithaca for the first time as an opponent after taking over the Penn program this season.
• Donahue sports a 210-227 record in 15 seasons as a head coach.

THE SERIES
• Penn leads 151-74 overall in a series that dates back to the 1903-04 campaign.
• Penn holds a narrow 9-8 lead in the series over the last nine years after the Big Red had lost 18 straight contests to the Quakers over the previous nine seasons.
• Penn swept the season series last year, including a 79-72 Quaker win in last year's season finale, and topped the Big Red 92-84 earlier in February in Ithaca.

LAST TIME VS. PENN
• Jackson Donahue scored 25 points, Matt Howard had 20 and Darien Nelson-Henry had 15 points, 16 rebounds and six assists and Penn used a 56-point second half to hold off Cornell 92-84 on Feb. 13 at Newman Arena.
• The Quakers shot 63 percent after halftime and connected on 5-of-9 3-pointers after the break, outrebounded Cornell 45-32 for the game and was +15 at the free-throw line.
• Freshman Matt Morgan continued his torrid scoring pace with a game-high 28 points to go along with four assists and three rebounds, while Robert Hatter chipped in 21 points, four rebounds and four assists.
• JoJo Fallas nailed all four of his 3-point attempts on his way to a 16-point, four-assist night.
• Troy Whiteside had nine points and five rebounds and David Onuorah ripped down nine rebounds.
• The Big Red connected on 12 3-pointers, including 10 after halftime, and had 16 assists to just 11 turnovers in the contest.
• The game featured the return to the sidelines of Quakers coach Steve Donahue, who directed the Big Red for 10 seasons (2000-10) and guided the program to three Ivy titles and the 2010 NCAA Sweet 16.



ABOUT PRINCETON
• The Tigers are in a virtual tie for first in Ivy League play entering Friday's game with third-place Columbia with an 18-5 overall record and an 8-1 conference mark (a half-game behind Yale).
• Princeton is 11-1 in its last 12 contests, with its only loss coming in a four-point game at Yale on Jan. 30.
• Henry Caruso (16.0 ppg., 6.5 rpg., 1.7 apg., 1.2 spg.) leads a balanced offense that includes four players averaging double figures and five that are at 9.1 ppg. or better.
• Devin Cannady (11.7 ppg., 267 rpg., 1.2 apg., 1.1 spg.), Spencer Weisz (10.4 ppg., 5.4 rpg., 3.4 apg.) and Steven Cook (10.0 ppg., 4.1 rpg., 1.6 apg., 1.0 spg., 0.7 bpg.)  are also in double figures, while Amir Bell (9.1 ppg., 2.4 rpg., 2.5 apg., 1.1 spg.) isn't far off.
• The Tigers are outscoring opponents by 11.9 ppg. and outrebounding foes by 3.8 per night.
• Princeton's only losses are to NCAA tournament caliber squads away from home — Stony Brook, Saint Joseph's, Maryland, Miami (Fla.) and Yale.
• Fifth-year head coach Mitch Henderson has a 92-51 record while guiding the Tigers, including 51-11 at home.

THE SERIES
• Princeton leads the series 143-80 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Cornell has won 12 of the last 23 meetings between the teams overall.
• The teams split the season series in 2015-16 with each team winning at home, and Princeton won this year's meeting 85-56 earlier in February in Ithaca.
 • Princeton hit nine of 11 3-pointers in the game's first 15 minutes and led by as many as 25 points in the first half on its way to an 85-56 victory over Cornell on Friday evening at Newman Arena.
• Freshman Matt Morgan scored 15 points, including several of the breathtaking variety, to move into third on the school's freshman scoring list (368), but was the lone double figure scorer for the Big Red.
• Senior captain Robert Mischler scored nine points and Robert Hatter notched seven points for the home team, which shot just 36 percent from the field and was outrebounded 38-26.
• David Onuorah had six points, six rebounds and two blocked shots in the loss.
• The Tigers blistered the nets in the first half, ending the 20 minute stanza shooting 58 percent from the field and 64 percent from the line to take a 52-29 edge in the locker room.
• Princeton cooled off some in the second half, but still ended the night shooting 50 percent overall and 44 percent from the 3-point line.
• The balanced Tigers had four reach double figures in the scoring column, led by Henry Caruso and Amir Bell with 13 points apiece.
• Devin Cannady chipped in with 11 points and Myles Stephens tallied 10.
• Caruso added seven rebounds and Pete Miller had a game-high nine to go along with six points.



LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell freshman Matt Morgan became the school's freshman scoring leader as part of a 27-part performance, but Harvard rallied from a 21-point second half deficit to stun the Big Red 76-74 on Feb. 20 at Newman Arena.
• Morgan scored 22 points in a head-turning first half and set the record with a game-tying 3-pointer with 25 seconds remaining.
• Not to be denied, Harvard regained the lead as Tommy McCarthy hit a floater with 5.5 seconds remaining.
• With one last chance, Morgan had the ball knocked away momentarily by Corey Johnson and couldn't recover in time to get off a game-tying effort.
• McCarthy ended the evening with 21 points, eight assists and five rebounds to lead the charge.
• Morgan was the lone Cornell player in double figures with his 27 points, surpassing Ryan Wittman's 436 points from the 2006-07 campaign to top the charts.
• He finished the contest with 439 points.
• Morgan hit 5-of-10 3-pointers and Cornell hit 11 as a team, including an 8-of-13 effort in the first half in building a 46-31 lead at the break.
• After shooting 63 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, Cornell was limited to 28 percent after the break, including just seven field goals.
• Joel Davis had a career-high nine points, JoJo Fallas and Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof each had eight and Robert Hatter had seven points, seven rebounds and six assists.
• The Big Red had 10 team steals, but committed 17 turnovers themselves.
• Besides McCarthy, Agunwa Okolie had 16 points and seven rebounds, Zena Edosomwan had 13 points and a game-high 10 boards and Corey Johnson scored 10 to round out four double figure scorers.



PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Freshman Matt Morgan has scored at least 15 points in 13 straight contests.
• The four-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week is averaging 24.5 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.4 blocks while shooting 44/37/82 in Ivy League play.
• Morgan's 29 points against Columbia were the most by a Big Red player in an Ivy opener and the most by a Cornell freshman in an Ivy League debut.
• His 33-point night at Harvard bested the school's freshman single-game scoring record.
• Over his last 13 contests, Morgan is averaging 23.1 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.6 steals while connecting on 43-of-118 3-pointers.
• Morgan has led the Big Red in scoring in nine of the last 10 contests, while David Onuorah has paced the team in rebounding in seven of the last nine games.
• Morgan set a Big Red freshman season scoring record with his 27-point effort against Harvard, surpassing Ryan Wittman '10 (436) with 439 total points, a mark that also ranks 19th on the school's season list.
• Morgan has hit four or more 3-pointers in a game nine times so far this season.
• 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).
• Over his last seven contests before his injury, junior Robert Hatter was averaging 23.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.1 steals per game while hitting 16 3-pointers.
• Hatter has 69 assists this season and has more than 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).
• Darryl Smith had a span of 14 consecutive field goals to start Ivy League play and has connected on 53-of-76 shots (.697) in his last 13 games.
• David Onuorah became the sixth player in school history to reach 100 career blocks with one in the win at Howard and now has 113 for his career.
• In the nine games that he has played at least 28 minutes, Onuorah is averaging 10.3 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game, while he is averaging 5.6 rebounds and has 17 total blocks in the other 15 contests.
• 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.
• Three different players (JoJo Fallas, Robert Hatter, Darryl Smith) have had games where they hit 4-of-4 3-pointers, tied for the second-most makes from beyond the arc in a game without a miss in Cornell history.
• Junior Desmond Fleming is shooting .706 from the floor for the season (12-of-17).
• After scoring eight or more points just twice in the team's first 14 games, freshman Troy Whiteside has hit that mark five times in 10 league games.
• 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
• During Cornell's six-game losing streak, opponents are shooting .450 from the floor (163-362) and .389 from 3-point range (51-131) and outrebounding the Big Red by 15.2 per game.
• The sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth on the road was the first for a Big Red team since knocking off Brown and Yale during the 2012-13 campaign.
• With 93 blocked shots, Cornell needs three more to join the top 10 in a season in school history.
• Cornell has hit 206 3-pointers this season as a team, good for the seventh-highest total in school history and the fourth time in Bill Courtney's six seasons as head coach the Big Red has hit 200 in a season.
• Cornell is averaging 4.5 blocks over its last 15 games.
• The Big Red has forced 283 turnovers (15.7 per game) over its last 18 games.
• Cornell has scored at least 76 points in regulation in 12 of its 24 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 half of its 24 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 (19-8) in 2015-16 (13.1 ppg., 5.5 rpg., 1.0 bpg., 1.0 spg.), while Galal Cancer '15 (5.6 ppg., 2.7 rpg., 1.4 apg., 1.0 spg.) is suiting up for Kent State (18-9). Miller has started every game and is the leading scorer and second-leading rebounder for UConn, while Cancer has been in the Golden Flashes' lineup in 16 of its 27 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's eight freshman is the second-most of any Division I program (Bradley - 10).

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 11 3-pointers vs. Harvard on Feb. 20, 2016, its 768th 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 814 of 818 games, connecting on 5,198 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 out the season at home with Senior Weekend, beginning with Ivy League leader Yale on Friday, March 4 at 6 p.m. in a game that will be televised on the American Sports Network and the Ivy League Digital Network, before concluding the season with a matchup against Brown on Saturday, March 5 at 6 p.m. in Newman Arena.
• The Big Red will honor senior Robert Mischler prior to Saturday's contest.