HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (9-22, .290; 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-COLGATE SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 73-55, first meeting in 1901-02
In Hamilton: Colgate leads 28-27
Current Streak: Colgate, 1
Last Meeting: Colgate, 67-63 (11/16/2016 in Ithaca, N.Y.)
Earl vs. Colgate: 0-1 (0-0 on the road)
Series Notes: The Big Red's last win in the series came on Nov. 16, 2015, a 101-98 double overtime victory in Hamilton • The two teams first met in March of 1902 and have squared off every season since 2012-13 • Cornell is 27-28 in games played on the road, including wins (2007, 2015) at Cotterell Court in two of the last three meetings • the Big Red has won five of the last eight meetings between the programs • Cornell is 146-122 all-time against current members of the Patriot League

LAST TIME OUT
• The Cornell men's basketball team jumped out to a 20-point lead, staved off a Binghamton rally and then put the Bearcats away for a 94-84 victory on Nov. 13 in the 2017-18 home opener at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red's 94 points were the program's most against a Division I team in a regulation game since posting a 96-76 victory over Dartmouth during the 2010-11 season.
• Cornell shot 49 percent from the floor, 48 percent from the 3-point arc (10-of-21) and 88 percent (30-of-34) from the free-throw line while assisting on 19 of the team's 27 field goals.
• Four players reached double figures, led by junior Matt Morgan's 26 points.
• Morgan added eight rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots in the win.
• Classmate Steven Julian had his first double-double in a Cornell uniform with 10 points and 11 rebounds, Stone Gettings scored 16 points with six rebounds in 16 minutes off the bench and Jack Gordon had 11 points.
• It was a full team win, as the Big Red got seven points, three rebounds and three assists from Wil Bathurst, six points, four rebounds and four assists from freshman Terrance McBride, six points from Joel Davis and five more from Jimmy Boeheim.
• Cornell all but squandered a 22-point second half lead (51-29), allowing the Bearcats to get back within two (54-52) with a 23-2 run over the span of 5:38, but the home team steadied the ship and calmly and methodically built the edge back to double figures.
• The Bearcats shot 61 percent and scored 55 points after halftime, but its 20-point halftime deficit was too much to overcome.
• Thomas Bruce scored 28 points and had 11 rebounds to lead four double figure scorers.
• Fard Muhammad chipped in 18 points, four assists and three rebounds, Timmy Rose had 11 points and six assists and J.C. Show netted 12 points and four boards.
• The Bearcats led 5-4 after a three-point play by Bruce, but a minute later Wil Bathurst canned a 3-pointer on a nice find from Boeheim and the Big Red never trailed again.



NOTES VS. BINGHAMTON
 • Terrance McBride scored his first six collegiate points and added four rebounds and four assists without a turnover in 25 minutes of action.
• Matt Morgan tied a career high with eight rebounds and two blocked shots in the win.
• Morgan moved into eighth place on the school's career list for made 3-pointers with 162, matching Ray Mercedes.
• He also reached double figures in scoring for the 25th consecutive time, posting his 24th career game of 20 or more points.
• Junior Stone Gettings was 10-of-10 from the free-throw line, the eighth-most free throws made in a game without a miss in school history.
• The 10 free throws were also more than he made in 28 games his freshman season.  
• The team's 30 made free throws is tied for the 16th-most in a single game and is the most since also connecting on 30 against Columbia during the 2008-09 season.

NOTES TO KNOW
• 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 803 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 849 of 853 games (5,483 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 UMass Lowell on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. in Lowell, Mass.
• After winning each of the last two contests between the programs, the River Hawks lead the all-time series 2-1.
• UMass Lowell won last year's meeting, 98-96, in overtime despite 28 points and a game-tying basket at the regulation buzzer by Robert Hatter.