HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (10-24, .417; 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-DUQUESNE SERIES
Overall: Duquesne leads 2-0, first meeting in 1952-53
In Pittsburgh, Pa: Duquesne leads 2-0
Current Streak: Duquesne, 2
Last Meeting: Duquesne, 70-69 (12/31/2003 in Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Earl vs. Duquesne: 0-0 (0-0 on the road)
Series Notes: Duquesne has won both previous meetings, the first coming in 1952 (77-59) and the last coming in 2003 (70-69) • on New Year's eve 2003, hitting two 3-pointers in the final 15 seconds to knock off the Big Red despite eight 3-pointers and 31 points from Cody Toppert '04 • Cornell is 19-23 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10 Conference, with most of the meetings coming against St. Bonaventure (Cornell leads 8-7)

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell put together a complete team effort for 30 minutes, and when Toledo made its expected run, the Big Red held off the Rockets long enough to snap a two-game skid.
• Cornell improved to 2-0 at home thanks to an 80-77 victory on Friday, Nov. 24 at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red saw a 21-point second half lead knocked down to one in the final minute, but junior Matt Morgan hit a pair of free throws, fouled the Rockets before they could get off a game-tying attempt, then rebounded a missed free throw to run out the clock. 
• Morgan scored 24 points, his fourth straight game over 20, and added four assists and three rebounds.
• Classmate Stone Gettings knocked down a career high five 3-pointers as part of a 21-point, five-rebound, five-assist effort.
• Josh Warren was the third player in double figures with 11, including a pair of key putbacks on consecutive possessions during Toledo's run, hitting 5-of-6 field goals along the way.
• Cornell shot 56 percent from the floor and connected on 12 3-pointers in the win. 
• Wil Bathurst ended the night with eight points, four assists and three rebounds.
• Nate Navigato had 22 points, Tre'Shaun Fletcher had a double-double with 20 points, 12 rebounds to go along with five assists and Luke Knapke had 13 points.
• Jaelan Sanford, who entered the game averaging 20 points per game, was held to 10 on 3-of-9 shooting.
• Toledo shot 44 percent from the floor and turned the ball over just nine times, allowing them to keep pace with the hot-shooting Big Red.

LAST TIME VS. DUQUESNE
• Jimmy Tricco hit a 3-pointer from the corner with 12.9 seconds to play as Duquesne rallied for a 70-69 victory on Dec. 31, 2003 at the Palumbo Center.
The loss ruined a career-best 31-point effort by junior Cody Toppert.
The Big Red thoroughly outplayed the Dukes the entire game, but some late heroics by Jack Higgins, who recorded 14 of his team-high 17 points after intermission, extended Cornell's losing skid to three games.
Toppert connected on 8-of-15 3-pointers and added six rebounds in the loss.
Senior Ka'Ron Barnes was the only other Big Red player to reach double figures with 16 points and eight assists.
Junior Eric Taylor posted seven points, eight rebounds and four assists and classmate Gabe Stephenson had eight points and a game-high 11 rebounds.
Higgins led three double figure scorers for Duquesne with 17 points, while Tricco and Bryant McAllister tallied 15 points each.
Ron Dokes had eight points and 11 rebounds in the win.
Cornell outrebounded Duquesne 41-36 on the afternoon and turned the ball over a season-low 11 times, but shot just 37 percent from the floor and squandered a five-point lead with 48 seconds left.

NOTES VS. TOLEDO
• Junior Stone Gettings tied a career high with five 3-point field goals.
• Junior Matt Morgan scored 24 points, his fourth straight game with at least 23.
• Morgan moved from 20th to 17th on the school's career scoring list, ending with 1,128.
• The Big Red's 12 3-pointers were a season high.
• It was Cornell's second straight win over Toledo after losing the first five meetings between the teams.
• The Big Red's .561 shooting percentage was its highest in a single game since closing last season by hitting .588 from the floor in a 92-78 win at Brown.
• Junior Jack Gordon posted a career-high two steals.
• Sophomore Josh Warren hit his first career 3-point shot.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Excluding the Syracuse game, Cornell is averaging 78.2 points on 49 percent shooting, hitting 9.0 3-pointers per game and registering 16.3 assists offensively.
• 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 806 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 852 of 856 games (5,509 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 will play its final game prior to exams when the Big Red visits Northeastern on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m.
• Northeastern leads the all-time series 4-2, though Cornell won last season's meeting in Ithaca  by an 80-77 score thanks to 34 points from Matt Morgan, including the go-ahead basket with 19 seconds remaining.