Binghamton (1-0, 0-0 America East) at Cornell (0-1, 0-0 Ivy)
November 13, 2017 • 7:00 pm
Ivy League Network (Barry Leonard, Eric Taylor '06)
Ithaca, N.Y. • Newman Arena (4,473)
QUICK HITS
• The Cornell men's basketball team will open its home schedule when Binghamton visits Newman Arena on Monday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
• The game will be broadcast on the Ivy League Network, with Barry Leonard and Eric Taylor '06 providing the call.
• The Big Red opened the season with a 77-45 loss at Syracuse on Friday evening, a game that saw Cornell shoot just 25 percent from the field — its lowest mark in a single game in three years.
• Junior
Matt Morgan opened his season with 14 points, three rebounds and two assists against the Orange.
• Morgan, a two-time all-conference selection, has been the Ivy League's leading scorer in each of his first two seasons en route to becoming the first Big Red basketball player to reach 1,000 points in two seasons.
• Morgan is joined by all-conference candidate
Stone Gettings, who may have been the most improved player in the league a year ago.
• The introduction of six newcomers into the mix will help cover the graduation loss of
Robert Hatter, a top 10 scorer in school history, and experienced guards
JoJo Fallas and
Desmond Fleming.
• Freshman Jimmy Boeheim, in the spotlight after playing his first collegiate game on the court named for his Hall of Fame father who paced the other sideline, became the 18th rookie to earn a start in his collegiate debut and answered the bell with 11 points and five rebounds.
• The Big Red, picked to finish sixth in the preseason Ivy League media poll, returns 72 percent of its scoring, 74 percent of its rebounding and 71 percent of its assists from last season — one of just 16 Division I teams nationwide to bring back 70 percent of its scoring, rebounding and assists from a year ago.
• Cornell is in the midst of games against its three closest Division I foes — Syracuse (53 miles), Binghamton (46 miles) and Colgate (66 miles) — over the span of six days.
• The Bearcats are 1-0 on the year after a 76-59 home win over Morgan State on Friday evening and are looking for a second straight win over the Big Red.
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HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
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Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (8-22, .267; 4-10 Ivy, .286).
• He became Cornell's 22nd head coach in April of 2016.
• Earl helped his alma mater, Princeton, return to national prominence during nine seasons as an assistant and associate head coach.
• The Tigers had posted a 143-69 overall record and a 72-26 record in Ancient Eight games since 2009-10, never finishing lower than third place and winning 20 or more games five times.
• His Ivy League peers voted him as the league's top assistant coach in a November 2010 FoxSports.com poll, earning the recognition prior to a 2011 season in which Princeton won the Ivy League title and returned to the NCAA Tournament.
CORNELL-BINGHAMTON SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 8-4, first meeting in 1988-89
In Ithaca: 6-1
Current Streak: Binghamton, 1
Last Meeting: Binghamton, 68-62 (11/11/2016 in Vestal, N.Y.)
Earl vs. Binghamton: 0-1 (0-1 on the road)
Series Notes: The Big Red's last win in the series came on Nov. 18, 2015, a 76-59 victory in Ithaca • The two teams first met in 1988 and have squared off every season since 2010-11 • Cornell is 6-1 in games played in Ithaca and 2-2 on the road, including consecutive wins (2012, 2014) at the Events Center • the Big Red has won four of the last six meetings between the programs • Cornell is 22-27 all-time against current members of the America East
NOTES VS. SYRACUSE
• Morgan reached double figures in scoring for the 52nd career time and for the 24th consecutive game.
• Jimmy Boeheim hit a 3-pointer on the Big Red's first possession of the season and on the first shot of his career, directly in front of the bench occupied by his father.
• Besides Boeheim's 11 points, junior transfer Steven Julian (four points) and freshmen Riley Voss (one point) and Jake Kuhn (one point) also scored in their first game in a Big Red uniform.
• Senior
Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof saw his first minutes of the season after missing 2016-17 with an injury, getting a dunk to go along with a rebound and an assist in four minutes.
• With his five rebounds, Julian now has 500 in his collegiate career.
NOTES TO KNOW
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Brian Earl and his brother Dan (VMI) one of five active sets of brothers directing Division I programs, joining Scott (Baylor) and Bryce (Vanderbilt) Drew; Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny (Rhode Island) Hurley; Joe (Yale) and James (Boston University) Jones; and Sean (Arizona) and Archie (Dayton) Miller.
• Fifth-year assistant coach Jon Jaques was a starter and senior captain on the 2009-10 Cornell team that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
• Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 10 states and the District of Columbia.
• Cornell has played in 47 different states, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia, France and Spain. The only states the Big Red has not played in are Alaska, North Dakota and Mississippi after crossing Wyoming off the list late last week.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 802 consecutive games dating back to a contest 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, the Big Red has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 848 of 852 games (5,473 3-pointers over that span).
• Dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 40-49 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 29-19 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 10-27 in road games.
• The Big Red ranks among the best according to the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report (APR) for 2015-16 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. Cornell has been recognized nine times in the 12 years since the APR began, including seven consecutive.
NEXT UP
• The Big Red visits Central New York rival Colgate on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Hamilton, N.Y.
• Cornell leads the all-time series 73-55 dating back to the first meeting between the programs during the 1901-02 season.
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