STORYLINE:
• The Big Red men's basketball team will head to New England for matchups with Dartmouth (Friday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.) and Harvard (Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.) this weekend.
• Live video of both contests will be available on the Ivy League Digital Network.
• Cornell continues its stretch of six of its final eight contests on the road as it attempts to earn a spot in the #PathToThePalestra.
• The Big Red will be looking to snap a four-game losing skid when it attempts to complete a series sweep of Dartmouth on Friday night in Hanover.
• Cornell topped the Big Green 75-62 on Jan. 28 behind 22 points from sophomore Matt Morgan.
• The Big Red will attempt to split the season series with Harvard for the third straight year and claim its second consecutive win in Cambridge when the teams meet Saturday for the second time this year.
• The Crimson overcame a double-digit second half deficit on its way to a 77-71 triumph at Newman Arena on Jan. 27.
• Morgan leads the Ivy League in scoring (17.3 ppg.) and 3-pointers (64), while ranking in the top 20 in minutes played (third, 32.6 mpg.), free-throw percentage (sixth, .841), assists (12th, 2.4 apg.) and rebounding (17th, 4.8 rpg.).
• Senior Robert Hatter became the 26th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point plateau earlier this season and ranks third on the team in scoring (12.0 ppg.), assists (2.0 apg.) and rebounding (4.1 rpg.) while shooting 57 percent from inside the 3-point arc.
• Sophomore Stone Gettings continues to emerge as one of the top post players in the Ivy League and is averaging 12.9 ppg., 5.8 rpg. and 3.1 apg. while shooting 39 percent from 3-point range.
• Senior guard JoJo Fallas has started the last 22 games and ranks third on the team in 3-pointers (25), all the while posting a 1.61 assist:turnover.
• Sophomore Troy Whiteside rounds out three sophomore starters has blossomed in his new role, shooting 59 percent (57-of-97) in his last 16 outings.
• Freshman Josh Warren has had a strong rookie campaign (5.7 ppg. and 4.0 rpg.), junior Wil Bathurst (5.9 ppg., 3.7 rpg., 1.7 apg.) has had a number of explosive games and sophomore Jack Gordon (3.8 ppg., 2.5 rpg., 2.0 apg., 7-of-17 from 3-point range in Ivy League contests) has earned his way into the rotation over the last several weeks.

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD:
• make Cornell 7-17 on the season and 3-6 in Ivy League play.
• give the Big Red a 93-79 lead in the all-time series.
• complete a season split of the series for the third straight year.
• snap a four-game losing skid.
• be the 1,241st in program history (1,240-1,403 in 117 seasons, .469).

ABOUT HARVARD:
• Harvard enters the weekend with a 14-7 record (6-2 Ivy) after sweeping road games at Brown (87-74) and Yale (75-67) last weekend.
• Since the beginning of December, the Crimson are 13-3 with wins over Boston College, Houston and the defending Ivy champion Bulldogs.
• Two players are averaging double figures in scoring, led by freshmen Bryce Aiken (14.3 ppg., 2.9 apg., 2.4 rpg.) and Seth Towns (10.7 ppg., 3.8 rpg., 1.4 apg., 1.0 spg.).
• Four others are scoring between 6.0 and 9.7 points each night.
• After missing last season with an injury, senior Siyani Chambers is averaging 9.7 ppg., 5.9 apg., 2.8 rpg. and 1.4 spg.
• The Crimson is allowing opponents to shoot just .406 from the floor and .324 from 3-point range while connecting on 35 percent from beyond the arc itself.
• Harvard has posted a 167-66 (.717) overall record since the start of the 2009-10 season.
• Head coach Tommy Amaker is Harvard's all-time winningest men's hoops coach and has a 189-102 record with the Crimson.
• He has guided the Crimson to five Ivy titles and four NCAA tournaments.

THE CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES:
• Cornell leads the series 92-79 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Harvard has a narrow is 16-13 in the last 29 contests, with the teams splitting the last four contests.

LAST TIME VS. HARVARD:
• Harvard scored the game's final seven points and overcame a double-digit deficit in the second half for the second straight season at Newman Arena to rally for a 77-71 victory over Cornell on Jan. 27.
• Cornell shot 55 percent from the floor and spent most of the game north of 60 percent, but it scored just two points in the final five minutes as Harvard closed the contest on a 13-2 run to escape Ithaca with the victory.
• Junior Wil Bathurst scored 13 points, grabbed five rebounds, dished four assists and collected four steals for Cornell to lead four double figure scorers, while senior Robert Hatter and sophomore Stone Gettings each had 11 points.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan rounded out the group with 10 points and six boards.
• The Big Red held a 30-27 edge on the backboards and assisted on 18 of its 29 baskets, but turned the ball over 19 times and and hit just 6-of-13 free throws (46 percent).
• Bryce Aiken had a game-high 21 points, while Corey Johnson (17 points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals) and Justin Bassey (16 points, four rebounds, three steals) led the Crimson.
• Harvard shot 51 percent from the floor, including 54 percent after halftime.
• The Crimson turned Cornell's 19 turnovers into 22 points..

ABOUT DARTMOUTH:
• Dartmouth is 5-16 on the season after splitting a road series with Yale (L, 73-64) and Brown (W, 77-74).
• Three Big Green players are averaging double figures, with Evan Boudreaux leading the way at 16.7 ppg. and 9.3 rpg.
• Guilien Smith (11.9 ppg., 3.8 rpg.) and Miles Wright (10.7 ppg., 4.9 rpg.) join Boudreaux in double figures.
• Dartmouth is shooting 43 percent overall and 34 percent from beyond the arc, as well as 72 percent of its free throws.
• First-year head coach David McLaughlin previously won 189 games in 10 seasons at Stonehill before becoming associate head coach at Northeastern in three years.

THE CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES:
• Cornell holds a razor-thin 107-106 lead in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 21 of the last 27 meetings.
• The two teams have split the season series in each of the previous the last four years, with each team winning on the road last year.
• The Big Red broke the deadlock with a 75-62 victory over the Big Green on Jan. 28.

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH:
• Sophomore Matt Morgan led four double figure scorers with 22 points and Cornell evened its Ivy record with a 75-62 victory over Dartmouth on Jan. 28 at Newman Arena.
• Morgan added a team-high seven rebounds to the cause, matching classmate Stone Gettings' total.
• Gettings added 15 points and four assists.
• Junior Wil Bathurst notched 16 points, four rebounds and three assists, while sophomore Troy Whiteside had 11 points and six boards.
• Senior Darryl Smith had four points and five rebounds off the bench.
• Cornell shot 46 percent from the floor and limited the Big Green to 41 percent shooting overall and just 4-of-21 from the 3-point arc.
• Dartmouth's Evan Boudreaux had 23 points and 14 rebounds to lead Dartmouth, but was the lone double figure scorer.
• Guilien Smith had nine points, both Brendan Barry and Taylor Johnson scored six and Miles Wright scored seven to go along with his six rebounds.
• The Big Green shot 48 percent in the second half after hitting on just 32 percent of its shots in the first 20 minutes.

LAST TIME OUT:
• The Cornell men's basketball team dug itself a hole it couldn't shovel out of, dropping an 82-63 decision to Penn on Feb. 12 at the Palestra.
• Senior Robert Hatter had a game-high 22 points and sophomore Stone Gettings had 21 points, seven rebounds and five assists, but 22 turnovers overall and 22 percent shooting in the first half doomed the visitors, who trailed 42-14 at halftime.
• The Big Red came alive in the second half, shooting 52 percent and scoring 49 points, but it wasn't enough.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan scored 12 second half points and junior Wil Bathurst chipped in a career-best nine rebounds in the loss.
• Penn got great balance, with the freshman tandem of AJ Brodeur (15 points, four rebounds, five blocked shots, three assists and three steals) and Ryan Betley (22 points, eight rebounds, two steals) leading four double figure scorers.
• Devon Goodman had 13 points, four assists, three rebounds and three steals and Matt Howard posted a double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds.
• Penn had 14 steals and seven blocked shots to overcome 18 turnovers of its own.

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW:
• Sophomore Matt Morgan, a four-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, averaged 22.6 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.3 blocks while shooting 43/34/81 in Ivy League play last season.
• Morgan's 34 points in the win over Northeastern tied a Cornell record at Newman Arena, matching a 34-point effort by Nolan Cressler in an overtime loss to Brown in 2014 (record is Brown's Jason Forte with 36 points during the 2004-05 season.
• The sophomore has reached double figures in scoring in 38 of his last 39 games.
• Sophomore Stone Gettings has already set career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, field goals, 3-point field goals and free throws.
• Gettings has 17 double figure scoring efforts after hitting that mark just once as a freshman.
• Getting's eight assists at Lafayette and at home against Columbia are the most by a non-guard since Adam Wire had eight at Albany in the 2010-11 season at Albany.
• His 12 points, eight rebounds and eight assists made Gettings just the fourth player to have at least 10 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in the same game (Zeke Marshall vs. Cortland in 1993, 12-10-8; Louis Dale vs. Toledo in 2009, 14-9-9; Chris Wroblewski vs. Yale in 2012, 18-8-10).
• Sophomore Troy Whiteside is shooting .588 (57-of-97) from the floor over his last 16 games, averaging 8.6 points over that span.
• Junior Wil Bathurst is just the second player since 1978 to post a line score of at least 14-5-7 off the bench for the Big Red when he did so against Fisher (Mass.) - Chris Wroblewski posted 21-5-12 in a 2010 win over Wofford.
• Senior JoJo Fallas competed for Team USA at the 14th European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany from July 27-August 5, 2015. Fallas was one of the leaders on a team that won a silver medal, going 4-0 before dropping the gold medal game to Russia 98-87 despite his game-high 28 points. The event was the largest gathering of Jewish people in Berlin since World War II, as more than 2,000 Jewish athletes from 36 countries attended.
• Fifth-year senior center Braxston Bunce was a two-year member of Team Canada's Under-18 national team, including competing at the 2012 FIBA Americas Championship in Brazil. Canada went 4-1, with Bunce averaging 1.5 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists in two contests.
• The Big Red returns better than 97 percent of its minutes, points, rebounds and assists from last season.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW:
• Cornell has posted four of the school's top 11 single game 3-point field goal contests, including games of 16 against both Troy and Fisher (Mass.) (No. 3 all-time).
• For the season, the Big Red is scoring 77.9 points on 48 percent shooting at home while averaging 17.8 assists per game vs. 65.5 ppg., 42 percent shooting and 12.9 apg. in true road games.
• The Big Red has a positive assist:turnover ratio (352 assists, 335 turnovers) for the first time since posting a positive mark (380:377) in 2011-12 and is +27 over its last 14 games (268:241).
• The Big Red has had at least three double figure scorers in 20 of the season's first 23 contests.
• 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.
• Fourth-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 nine states and one Canadian province.
• 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.
• This year's schedule features 17 games away from home and more than 12,700 miles of travel —more than halfway around the earth (circumference of 24,901 miles).
• Including the Big Red's August trip to Spain and Cornell basketball will log more than 21,000 miles of travel in just eight months.
• You could travel back and forth between New York City and Los Angeles three times and still have enough mileage left over to cycle to entire Tour de France course – twice.
• Cornell hit 233 3-pointers as a team last season, good for fourth in a single season — nine of the last 10 seasons rank in the top 10.

CORNELL BEYOND THE ARC — 700 AND COUNTING:
• Cornell hit four 3-pointers at Penn on Feb. 12, 2017, its 795th straight game with at least one made 3-point field goal.
• With six 3-pointers against Oberlin on Jan. 11, 2014, Cornell extended its streak of games with at least one 3-pointer to 700.
• Matt Morgan hit the program's 5,000th 3-pointer when he hit a long 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer at Georgia Tech on Nov. 13, 2015.
• The last time Cornell did not hit a 3-pointer was 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, Cornell has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 841 of 845 games, connecting on 5,423 treys, an average of 6.4 per game.

NEXT UP:
• Cornell will close out its home season when the Big Red welcomes Penn (Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.) and Princeton (Saturday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m.) to Newman Arena.
• The Big Red will be looking for season splits with both squads.
• Prior to Saturday's game with Ivy League leader Princeton, Cornell will honor its senior class of Braxston Bunce, JoJo Fallas, Desmond Fleming and Robert Hatter.