HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (11-25, .306; 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-LONGWOOD SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 1-0, first meeting in 2012-13
In Farmville, Va: No previous meetings
Current Streak: Cornell, 1
Last Meeting: Cornell, 84-78 (11/24/2012 in Las Vegas, Nev.)
Earl vs. Longwood: First-ever meeting
Series Notes: Cornell won the only other meeting between the programs in the championship game of the lower bracket of the 2012 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational • the Big Red is 5-3 all-time against current members of the Big South with meetings against Presbyterian (1-0), Radford (0-2), UNC Asheville (2-0), Winthrop (1-1)

LAST TIME OUT
• Northeastern pulled away in the second half thanks to a 25-4 run and cruised to an 84-66 victory over Cornell on Dec. 2 at Matthews Arena.
• Junior Matt Morgan scored a game-high 24 points, becoming the first Cornell player in modern history to register six straight 20-point games, but Northeastern had a pair of players score more than 20 points and had four in double figures in the win.
• Donnell Greshman scored 22, Vasa Pusica netted 20 and Northeastern shot 56 percent from the floor overall while hitting 12-of-25 3-pointers on the afternoon.
• Cornell held a 29-26 edge on the backboards, but 23 turnovers (leading to 23 Northeastern points) and a cols shooting stretch midway through the second half doomed the road team.
• The Big Red, which had shot 50 percent or better in seven straight halves of basketball after connecting on 52 percent in the first 20 minutes, made just 38 percent of its shots, including 1-of-6 from 3-point range, after halftime with 12 turnovers.
• Northeastern, meanwhile, hit 6-of-12 shots from beyond the arc and 57 percent overall after halftime.
• Wil Bathurst chipped in 10 points, while Steven Julian had eight points and five boards for the Big Red. .

LAST TIME VS. LONGWOOD
• Cornell raced out to a big lead early and held on late to win the 2012 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational lower bracket with an 84-78 win over Longwood on Nov. 24, 2012 at Orleans Arena.
• Senior Eitan Chemerinski led five Big Red double figure scorers with a career-high 19 points on 9-of-12 shooting and added six rebounds as Cornell held a 37-31 edge on the glass.
• Classmate Errick Peck posted his first double-double of the year with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Shonn Miller had 14 points and seven boards en route to earning all-tournament honors.
• Also in double figures was Nolan Cressler (12 points, four rebounds, three assists) and Devin Cherry (11 points, four rebounds, three assists), while Josh Figini scored seven points in 11 minutes.
• The Big Red posted a commanding 46-12 edge in bench scoring to partially overcome 20 turnovers and a decided defensive lapse, allowing 56 points in the game's final 22 minutes (22 points allowed in first 18).
• In the end, however, Cornell was able to grab its second straight win.
• Michael Kessens had 20 points and 14 rebounds, both game highs, to lead Longwood, which shot 46 percent overall and made 9-of-22 3-pointers, including 8-of-15 after halftime.
• Tristan Carey and Nik Brown each scored 19 and Karl Ziegler posted 10 off the bench to round out their double figure scorers.

NOTES VS. NORTHEASTERN
• Matt Morgan had his 30th consecutive game reaching double figures in scoring and moved into 15th on the school's career scoring list (1,176), surpassing Drew Martin (1,153) and Wallace Prather (1,171).
• Morgan also had his 17th consecutive game with a 3-pointer and his 12th straight game with multiple 3-point field goals.
• Freshman Bryan Knapp scored his first collegiate basket and had two points, two rebounds and an assists in a career-high 14 minutes.
• Junior Jack Gordon tied a career high with four assists.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Excluding the Syracuse game, Cornell is averaging 76.2 points on 49 percent shooting, hitting 8.2 3-pointers per game and registering 16.8 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 last year.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 808 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 854 of 858 games (5,522 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 for the first time in nearly a month when the Big Red welcomes Lafayette to Newman Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m.
• The Leopards lead the all-time series 11-9 dating back to the first meeting in 1929-30.
• Cornell has won the last two meetings, topping the Leopards at home in 2015 (85-67) and on the road last year (82-75) for head coach Brian Earl's first win as a collegiate head coach.