STORYLINE:
• Next up for the Cornell men's basketball team is the treacherous Princeton-Penn road trip beginning with a visit to Jadwin Gymnasium on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. before heading to the Palestra for a 1 p.m. Sunday contest.
• Live video of Friday's game at Princeton will be available on the Ivy League Digital Network and ESPN, while Sunday's contest will be televised by the American Sports Network and simulcast on ILDN.
• Barry Leonard will provide the radio play-by-play locally on 96.3 FM The Buzzer.
• In more than 56 seasons, only 11 teams have swept the Penn-Princeton weekend on the road in 332 attempts (3.3 percent), with the Quakers (283-49, .852) and Tigers (293-39, .883) both winning at better than 85 percent clips.
• First-year head coach Brian Earl, one of the greatest players in Princeton basketball history, returns to Jadwin Gymnasium on the other sideline for the first time on Friday.
• Earl, the 1999 Ivy League Player of the year and a three-time Ivy champion, graduated with an Ivy League-record 281 3-pointers, a mark that stood until Cornell's Ryan Wittman '10 surpassed him in 2010, and closed his career ranked fifth all-time at Princeton with 1,428 points.
• He served as assistant and associate head coach at his alma mater from 2007-16 and helped his program to a 143-69 overall mark, a 72-26 league mark and five postseason appearances.
• Cornell's only sweep of the series came in 2007-08 en route to a perfect 14-0 Ivy season.
• It will be the second straight weekend Cornell will suit up on a Sunday, a rarity during the Ancient Eight season.
• Prior to last weekend's Saturday postponement against defending Ivy League champ Yale that was resumed the following day after a power outage, Cornell last played an conference game on a Sunday when it lost to Princeton 83-56 on March 7, 1994.
• Cornell will close the year with six of its last eight contests on the road as it attempts to earn a spot in the #PathToThePalestra.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan leads the Ivy League in scoring (17.3 ppg.) and 3-pointers (59), while ranking in the top 20 in minutes played (fourth, 32.6 mpg.), free-throw percentage (fifth, .867), assists (12th, 2.4 apg.) and rebounding (16th, 5.1 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 assists (2.5 apg.), scoring (11.2 ppg.) and rebounding (4.2 rpg.) while shooting 58 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 13.0 ppg., 5.4 rpg. and 3.0 apg. while shooting 37 percent from 3-point range.
• Senior guard JoJo Fallas has started the last 20 games and ranks third on the team in 3-pointers (25), all the while posting a 2.00 assist:turnover.
• Sophomore Troy Whiteside rounds out three sophomore starters has blossomed in his new role, shooting 61 percent (51-of-83) in his last 14 outings while averaging 8.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists over his last 11 contests.
• Freshman Josh Warren has had a strong rookie campaign (6.2 ppg. and 4.2 rpg.), senior Darryl Smith (4.1 ppg., 2.7 rpg.) and junior Wil Bathurst (6.1 ppg., 3.5 rpg., 1.6 apg.) have both had explosive games and sophomore Jack Gordon (5.0 ppg., 2.5 rpg., 2.5 apg., 7-of-14 from 3-point range in Ivy League contests) has earned his way into the rotation over the last several weeks.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD:
• make Cornell 7-15 on the season and 3-4 in Ivy League play.
• snap a three-game losing streak against the Tigers.
• end a six-game skid at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• give the Big Red a 4-5 record in the 2017 calendar year.
• be the 1,241st in program history (1,240-1,401 in 117 seasons, .470).

ABOUT PRINCETON:
• Princeton is 12-6 (5-0 Ivy) and riding an eight-game win streak heading into Friday's contest against the Big Red.
• Four Tiger players are averaging double figures in scoring, led by Steven Cook (14.3 ppg., 5.6 rpg., 1.7 spg., 1.6 apg.), who used a putback on a missed free throw in the final seconds for a 57-567 win at Harvard last weekend.
• Devin Cannady (13.0 ppg., 3.1 rpg., 2.1 apg., 0.8 spg.), Spencer Weisz (10.8 ppg., 5.7 rpg., 3.8 apg., 1.4 spg.) and Myles Stephens (10.3 ppg., 4.2 rpg., 1.1 apg.) are all averaging at least 25 minutes per game.
• Weisz is the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week after 19.5 ppg. in wins at Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend.
• The Tigers lead the league in scoring margin (+8.5 ppg.), turnover margin (+2.78) and 3-point field goals (9.9) and is second in scoring defense (64.8 ppg.) and 3-point percentage defense (.322).
• Sixth-year head coach Mitch Henderson has a 108-59 record while guiding the Tigers, including 60-12 at home.

THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES:
• Princeton leads the series 144-80 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• The teams have split the last 24 meetings.
• Princeton swept the series a year ago, cruising to an 85-56 win in Ithaca before capturing a 74-60 win at Jadwin Gymnasium.

LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON:
• Matt Morgan scored 20 points on his way to breaking the Ivy League freshman scoring record, but a Princeton run to start the second half silenced Cornell in a 74-60 Tiger victory on Feb. 27 at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• Needing eight points on the night to surpass the record of 460 points by Earl Hunt on Brown in 1999-2000, Morgan netted 20 - 14 after halftime - to end the night with 473 points on the year with two games remaining.
• The record-breaking basket came on a driving layup with 7:24 remaining in the second half.
• He added two rebounds and an assist while hitting three 3-pointers, all coming within a two-minute stretch late in the contest.
• Junior Robert Hatter had 18 points, two rebounds and two assists and almost singlehandedly kept the Big Red in the game in the first half, including nailing a halfcourt buzzer-beater to get the visitors back within 37-34 at halftime.
• Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof chipped in four points and tied a career high with seven rebounds and Stone Gettings and Darryl Smith each netted six points for the Big Red.
• Princeton shot 58 percent from the floor after the break and opened the second half on a 20-3 run that gave the Tigers enough separation to avoid a late Big Red run.
• Spencer Weisz led Princeton with 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists and Amir Bell (16 points), Devin Cannady (15 points) and Steven Cook (11 points) all reached double figures in the scoring column.
• Princeton assisted on 20 baskets, turned the ball over just eight times and blocked seven shots in the win.



ABOUT PENN:
• The Quakers enter Friday's home game against Columbia with a 7-11 mark and an 0-5 Ivy League record with losses in six of their last seven games.
• Out of conference, Penn earned wins over UCF, Drexel and La Salle.
• Freshman AJ Brodeur ranks among the league's scoring leaders at 14.5 ppg. to go along with 6.6 rpg., 1.8 apg., 2.3 bpg. and 0.8 spg., while Matt Howard is averaging 12.4 ppg., 6.7 rpg., 1.5 apg. and  1.3 spg.
• Four other players are averaging 6.6 points per contest, including Darnell Foreman (8.5 ppg., 4.0 rpg., 2.8 apg.).
• Penn is limiting opponents to 42 percent shooting overall and is forcing 13.7 turnovers per night.
• Former Big Red coach Steve Donahue, who won 146 games and led Cornell to three Ivy championships and the 2010 NCAA Sweet 16, sports a 218-242 record in 16 seasons as a head coach.

THE CORNELL-PENN SERIES:
• Penn leads 152-74 overall in a series that dates back to the 1903-04 campaign.
• Penn holds a narrow 10-8 lead in the series over the last nine years after the Big Red had lost 18 straight contests to the Quakers over the previous nine seasons.
• Penn swept the season series last year, including a 79-67 Quaker win last season at the Palestra after a 92-84 victory in Newman Arena earlier in the year.

LAST TIME VS. PENN:
• Penn raced out to a 12-0 start and Cornell couldn't rally all the way back despite junior Robert Hatter's third 30-point game of the season as the Quakers topped the Big Red 79-67 at the Palestra last night.
• Hatter scored 31 points, one off his career high, for his fourth career game of 30 or more points, and freshman Matt Morgan chipped in 14, but Penn's balance (five double figure scorers) and 26-of-31 effort from the free-throw line allowed Penn to complete the season sweep.
• Hatter hit 12-of-21 shots from the floor, including 4-of-8 from 3-point range, and added four rebounds, four assists and a steal.
• The Big Red cut a 19-point first half deficit to five after a JoJo Fallas 3-pointer with 8:24 left, but Jack Silpe hit a 3-pointer for Penn on the ensuing possession late in the shot clock and Cornell never got back within six the rest of the way.
• Darien Nelson-Henry had 16 points and 10 rebounds, reaching the 1,000-point mark along the way, while Sam Jones had 15 points and six rebounds.
• Both Darnell Foreman and Jackson Donahue each had 13 points and Silpe notched 12.
• Foreman added seven rebounds, five assists and three steals off the bench.



LAST TIME OUT:
• Sophomore Stone Gettings scored a career-high 28 points, but Yale made all the plays over the final 10 minutes and earned a 78-71 victory over Cornell on Feb. 4 and 5 at Newman Arena.
• The contest picked up 89 seconds into the first half after being suspended due to a power outage on Saturday night.
• Gettings blew by his previous high of 23 points and added eight rebounds and four steals.
• He connected on 10-of-18 shots from the floor and had 16 of his points in a first half that ended knotted at 36-36.
• Against a big and tough Yale frontcourt, Gettings and freshman Josh Warren (12 points, seven rebounds) more than held their own.
• In all, the Big Red held a 36-29 rebounding edge against the Ancient Eight's best rebounding team.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan rounded out three Cornell scorers in double figures with 11 points along with five rebounds and three assists.
• Morgan's three-point play with 1:57 remaining brought the home team within one (70-69), but Alex Copeland and Anthony Dallier hit consecutive shots for the Bulldogs and Yale hit all four free throws in the final 23 seconds to take home the victory.
• Freshmen Miye Oni (19 points, eight rebounds, four assists, three steals) and Jordan Bruner (15 points, eight rebounds) led four double figure scorers for the Bulldogs.
• Dallier (11 points, four rebounds, three assists, three steals) and Sam Downey (10 points) were also in double figures.
• Yale shot 47 percent from the floor and turned the ball over just 11 times while outscoring the Big Red 24-11 off turnovers.
• The Bulldogs limited Cornell to 37 percent shooting after halftime and to just 17 percent (4-of-24) from beyond the 3-point arc for the game.

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 36 of his last 37 games.
• Morgan is averaging 5.1 rebounds per game -  mark that if maintained would be the most by a Cornell guard over a full season since Gerry Newby '73 averaged 5.3 rpg. as a senior in 1972-73.
• 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 16 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 .614 (51-of-83) from the floor over his last 14 games, averaging 8.8 points over that span.
• Senior JoJo Fallas has 34 assists and just 13 turnovers over his last 15 games (354 minutes).
• After shooting .423 from the field over his first two seasons (83-of-196), senior Darryl Smith is shooting .618 (126-of-204) over the last two years.
• 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. 66.2 ppg., 41 percent shooting and 13.9 apg. in true road games.
• The Big Red has a positive assist:turnover ratio (329 assists, 302 turnovers) for the first time since posting a positive mark (380:377) in 2011-12 and is +37 over its last 14 games (245:208).
• The Big Red has had at least three double figure scorers in 19 of the season's first 21 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 vs. Yale on Jan. 4, 2017, its 793rd 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 839 of 843 games, connecting on 5,410 treys, an average of 6.4 per game.

NEXT UP:
• The Big Red remains on the road for a swing through New England next weekend.
• Cornell will eye a season sweep of Dartmouth when it heads to Hanover, N.H. on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.
• The Big Red will visit Harvard with a season split on its mind for the third year in a row when the teams meet on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.