HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (9-24, .273; 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-TOLEDO SERIES
Overall: Toledo leads 5-1, first meeting in 1939-40
In Ithaca, N.Y: No previous games in Ithaca
Current Streak: Cornell, 1
Last Meeting: Cornell, 78-60 (11/27/2009 in Philadelphia, Pa.)
Earl vs. Toledo: 0-0 (0-0 at home)
Series Notes: The Big Red's only win in the series came on Nov. 27, 2009, a 78-60 victory in Philadelphia, Pa. as part of the Legends Classic • Toledo won the first five meetings between the teams, all coming in Ohio • Cornell is 36-35 all-time against current members of the Mid-American Conference, with a majority of the meetings coming against Buffalo (30-17)

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell couldn't overcome 22 turnovers, allowing UMass Lowell to shoot 51 percent from the floor in a 98-78 loss on Nov. 19 at the Tsongas Center. 
• Junior Matt Morgan had 25 points and added four rebounds and two assists, with Stone Gettings chipping in 13 points off the bench. 
• Wil Bathurst posted eight points, six assists and five rebounds, while Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof (eight points) and Steven Julian (seven points, 10 rebounds, three blocks, two steals) also contributed in the scoring column.
• The Big Red shot 56 percent for the game, but attempted 20 fewer shots as the home team won the battle of the boards (34-30) and turned it over just 11 times itself.
• Jahad Thomas had 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists to lead six double figure scorers, but it was Rinardo Perry's 26 points that pushed Lowell to the win.
• The sophomore, who entered the game with two points total in his first two games of the season, hit 11-of-19 shots, including four 3-pointers, and added six rebounds and three steals.
• Ryan Jones chipped in with 17 points.

LAST TIME VS. TOLEDO
• Senior guard Louis Dale fell just short of the first triple-double in Cornell men's basketball history, but the Big Red had plenty in its tank to knock off Toledo 78-60 on Nov. 27, 2009 at Drexel's Daskalakis Athletic Center.
• Dale ended the afternoon with 14 points, nine rebounds, nine assists and three steals while not turning the ball over in 33 outstanding minutes.
• He led four players in double figures, as senior Ryan Wittman had a game-high 20 points, Geoff Reeves had 14 and Alex Tyler scored 10 points.
• Senior Jeff Foote notched a 12-point, 12-rebound double-double to round out the five double figure scorers.
• The Big Red won despite hitting just 32 percent of its shots from 3-point range (7-of-22)  despite repeatedly getting open looks with its ball movement.
• Cornell assisted on 18 baskets in the win.
• Freshmen Stephen Albrecht (20) and Jake Barnett (13) were impressive in the loss.
• Toledo cut a 15-point second half deficit to three before the seasoned seniors took over the game for the Big Red.

NOTES VS. UMASS LOWELL
• Cornell hadn't lost when shooting .558 or better from the field since a 79-74 loss at Yale during the 2001-02 campaign (.560).
• Junior Matt Morgan had 25 points and is now averaging 24.7 points over his last three games.
• Morgan has reached double figures in scoring in 27 consecutive games.
• Junior Jack Gordon made his first collegiate start, ending the contest with five points and two assists.
• Junior Steven Julian had 10 rebounds to go along with three blocks and two steals, both highs in a Cornell uniform.
• Freshman Riley Voss made his first collegiate field goal.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Excluding the Syracuse game, Cornell is averaging 77.7 points on 46 percent shooting, hitting 8.0 3-pointers per game and registering 16.3 assists offensively.
• Cornell is also outrebounding its foes over that span, 37.0-35.3.
• 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 805 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 851 of 855 games (5,4973-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
• The Big Red will kick off a three-game road trip that will span a two-week exam break when it visits Duquesne on Monday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m.
• The Dukes have won the only two previous meetings between the programs, including a 70-69 Duquesne victory during the 2003-04 season, the last time the two teams met.