HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (9-23, .281; 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-UMASS LOWELL SERIES
Overall: UMass Lowell leads 2-1, first meeting in 2014-15
In Lowell, Mass.: UMass Lowell leads 1-0
Current Streak: UMass Lowell, 2
Last Meeting: UMass Lowell, 98-96 in OT (12/29/2016 in Ithaca, N.Y.)
Earl vs. UMass Lowell: 0-1 (0-0 on the road)
Series Notes: The Big Red's only win in the series came on Dec. 6, 2014, a 71-60 victory in Ithaca • UMass Lowell has won the last two meetings between the teams, including last year's 98-96 overtime thriller • Cornell is in search of its first-ever win in Lowell after dropping the first meeting there, 80-77, on Nov. 29, 2015  • Cornell is 23-27 all-time against current members of the America East, including a 94-84 win over Binghamton earlier this season

LAST TIME OUT
• Colgate limited Cornell to 36 percent shooting and used a 21-6 second half run to knock off the Big Red 72-61 on Thursday evening at Cotterell Court.
• The Raiders evened their record at 1-1 by winning its home opener, while the Big Red slipped to 1-2.
• Junior Matt Morgan scored a game-high 23 points and added five rebounds and five assists to pace three double figure scorers.
• Junior Jack Gordon had 11 points and senior Wil Bathurst notched 10 to go along with five rebounds, while junior Stone Gettings scored nine points with six boards.
• Junior Steven Julian had seven rebounds to lead the Big Red.
• Cornell turned the ball over 16 times and struggled from beyond the arc, hitting just 5-of-27 3-pointers (19 percent).
• Jordan Burns had 14 points to lead a balanced Colgate attack that had four in double figures.
• Jack Ferguson and Jordan Swopshire had 12 points apiece and Sean O'Brien had 11 to go along with eight rebounds and three steals.
• The Raiders shot 42 percent from the floor after halftime and outrebounded the visitors 45-43 for the game to claim their second straight win in the series. .

LAST TIME VS. UMASS LOWELL
• In a game that featured 27 lead changes and 19 ties, UMass Lowell overcame its leading scorer and rebounder fouling out to outlast Cornell 98-96 in overtime on Dec. 29, 2016 at Newman Arena.
• Three Cornell players at least 20 points, the first time that had happened since prior to the 1977-78 season.
• Robert Hatter scored a game-high 28 points, including the game-tying layup at the buzzer in regulation to send the game in overtime, and added three rebounds, two assists and two steals.
• Matt Morgan scored 21 points and grabbed six boards with two steals and Wil Bathurst chipped in 20 points, seven rebounds and three assists off the bench.
• Josh Warren also had 10 points, six rebounds, five assists and three blocks after entering the game as a reserve and JoJo Fallas just missed being the fifth double figure scorer with nine points and five assists without a turnover.
• As a team, the Big Red had 20 assists and just 10 turnovers and shot 48 percent from the floor. 
• UMass Lowell got 27 points, seven rebounds and four assists from Jahad Thomas and 22 more from Logan Primerano off the bench.
• Primerano added nine rebounds, six assists and two steals in the win for the Riverhawks, who shot 52 percent overall and connected on 10-of-20 3-pointers.
• Ryan Jones chipped in 17 points, Tyler Livingston had 13 and Matt Harris scored 12.
• Neither team led by more than six points the entire game, though the visitors quickly grabbed a six-point edge in the extra period after Hatter got the crowd going with his last-second basket, helping erase a four-point deficit with 65 seconds remaining and a Matt Harris bucket with 4.8 seconds to put the visitors ahead. .



NOTES VS. COLGATE
 • Junior Matt Morgan's 23 points vaulted him from 23rd to 20th on the school's career scoring list, ending the game with 1,079 points.
• Morgan also jumped from eighth to sixth on the school's career 3-point field goal list, ending the contest with 164.
• Morgan posted the first game of at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists by a Big Red player since Stone Gettings last season against Penn.
• Junior Jack Gordon was into double figures in scoring for the second consecutive game.
• Senior Wil Bathurst registered a season-best 10 points and five rebounds.
• Freshman Terrance McBride was pinned with his first collegiate turnover, but also had two assists to run his assist:turnover ratio to 7:1 through his first three games.

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 804 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 850 of 854 games (5,488 3-pointers over that span).
• The Big Red 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 2016-17.
• 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
• Cornell returns home post-Thanksgiving for a matchup with Toledo on Friday, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. at Newman Arena.
• The two teams have met six times previously, with Toledo holding a 5-1 edge.
• The Big Red won the last meeting against the Rockets, taking a 78-60 win during the 2009-10 season in Philadelphia, Pa. as part of the Legends Classic.