HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (284-91-5, .754; 111-8-1 Ivy, .929).
• Koll is the David R. Dunlop '59 Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell.
• The all-time winningest wrestling coach in program history, Koll has guided the Big Red to 15 straight Ivy League titles (18 overall), 11 consecutive EIWA crowns and eight top five NCAA team finishes, including second twice (2010, 2011).
• He was the 2005 NWCA Division I Coach of the Year and the Dan Gable Coach of the Year.
• His wrestlers have won 14 national titles with 59 All-Americans and 59 individual EIWA champions.

ABOUT LEHIGH
• The Mountain Hawks are 8-1 and ranked seventh in the nation in the latest NWCA coaches rankings with four straight wins since its only loss of the year, a 23-19 loss to Penn State.
• With eight nationally-ranked wrestlers, including four ranked among the top eight at their weights, the Mountain Hawks are looking to end Cornell's 11-year grasp on the EIWA championship.
• Leading the way is defending NCAA champion and third-ranked Darian Cruz at 125 and fourth-ranked Ryan Preisch at 184.
• Also ranked in the top five is Jordan Kutler at 174, with Scott Parker in All-America territory at No. 8 at 133.
• Also among the top 20 at 11th-ranked Jordan Wood at heavyweight, 13th-ranked Luke Karam at 141, No. 18 Gordon Wolf at 165 and No. 19 Cortland Schuyler at 149.
• Head coach Pat Santoro, in his 10th season at Lehigh, is a three-time EIWA Coach of the Year and has compiled a 131-42-1 record.
• Santoro has guided 20 All-Americans and two NCAA champions.

CORNELL-LEHIGH SERIES
• Lehigh leads the all-time series 60-32-3, though Cornell has had the better of it recently.
• Cornell has won six of the last seven duals against its EIWA rival.
• The series began in 1910, a 5-2 Big Red victory in Ithaca.
• Lehigh snapped a five-match Cornell win streak in the series in 2016 with a convincing 25-13 victory over the shorthanded Big Red, but Cornell rallied from an 17-3 halftime deficit last year in Bethlehem for a 21-20 win behind pins by Brian Realbuto (174) and Gabe Dean (184).

LAST TIME VS. LEHIGH
• Consecutive pins by seniors Brian Realbuto and Gabe Dean allowed Cornell to rally from a 17-3 halftime deficit for a 21-20 victory over No. 7 Lehigh on Jan. 21, 2017 at Leeman-Turner Arena.
• Cornell dominated the second half of the dual, winning the first four matches, including a neutral fall for fourth-ranked Realbuto against sixth-ranked Ryan Preisch.
• The senior had Preisch in a dangerous position during a scramble and the Mountain Hawk's shoulders squared off for the fall.
• Moments later, Dean stuck his 14th opponent in 20 starts, thoroughly dominating against Andrew Price before putting him away 22 seconds into the second period.
• Ben Honis used an escape and a stalling point on Ben Haas to win at 197 to extend the team lead to 21-17 before Jeramy Sweany was taken down in sudden victory by 18th-ranked Doug Vollaro of Lehigh, though that result wasn't enough for the home team in front of a sold-out crowd.
• Cornell's lone win in the first half of the match was Mark Grey's 6-4 win over Joe Lobeck at 133, though Will Koll gave 11th-ranked Randy Cruz all he could handle in a 1-0 loss at 141.

CORNELL, LEHIGH DOMINATE EIWA
• Cornell and Lehigh have been the dominant programs in the EIWA for the last two decades, winning 18 of the last 19 championships.
• The Big Red has won 11 consecutive championship titles after the Mountain Hawks had won six of the previous seven crowns.
• The Big Red's 25 team titles ranks behind only Lehigh's 34, while its 155 individual titles is second only to the Mountain Hawks' 209.
• Head coach Rob Koll's team had its 47-match win streak against EIWA opponents snapped in a 2016 home loss to Lehigh, but sports a 97-4-1 record against league opponents dating back to 2004-05, including 86-0 against opponents other than the Mountain Hawks.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell freshman Ben Darmstadt earned a technical fall win over the No. 2 wrestler at 197 pounds and the Big Red split a pair of afternoon dual meets at the South Beach Duals on Dec. 30.
• The Big Red topped Kent State 27-7 in the opener before falling to No. 4 Missouri, 27-11.
• Darmstadt used a 10-point third period to rally from a deficit to knock off Kent State's Kyle Conel 13-6 in his first match, then dominated from start to finish against Missouri's second-ranked Willie Miklus for a 9-0 bonus point win in the nightcap.
• Forfeits at 125 opened both duals and put Cornell behind the eight ball early.
• It was able to recover against Kent State, but never got back to level against the fourth-ranked Tigers.
• The Big Red won eight straight matches after falling behind 9-0 and earned bonus points on a tech tall victory by Yianni Diakomihalis at 141 and a major decision by Kyle Simaz at 157 that put the team into the lead for good.
• Comeback wins by freshmen Max Dean and Darmstadt late sealed the win and improved the Big Red to 4-1 on the season.
• Big Red freshman Yianni Diakomihalis suffered his first collegiate loss in a 9-6 decision against No. 5 Jaydin Eierman.
• Cornell freshman Max Dean won both of his matches at 197 and heavyweight Jeramy Sweany was 2-0 at heavyweight.

CORNELL AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell won a record 13th New York State Intercollegiate Championship on Nov. 19 at Barton Hall, crowing six individual champions.
• It was the sixth consecutive title for the Big Red.
• Cornell first competed at the championships in 1979, sending a B team to compete and finishing ninth overall.
• The Big Red won its first title in 1992, claiming six champions in the 10 weight classes.
• Cornell has won 93 individual titles over the years and 13 team titles, tied with Army West Point (13) and four ahead of Buffalo (nine).
• Other teams to have won NYS titles are Syracuse (5), Brockport (3), Binghamton (2), Hofstra (2), Columbia (1) and St. Lawrence (1).

THE STREAKS
• Cornell has won 11 consecutive EIWA team titles, the longest streak in conference history.
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 16 seasons and in 26 of the last 27 years.
• The Big Red is 58-1 (.983) in its last 59 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 97-4-1 (.956) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 86-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 15 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 78 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell is 110-24-1 (.819) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 43-6 (.878) in its last 49 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last nine seasons and in the top 10 in 13 of the last 15 years (10 straight).
• Big Red wrestling is 78-1 in dual meets (.987) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season - the lone loss coming this season in a 20-16 loss to North Dakota State at the south Beach Duals that snapped a 77-match win streak against unranked opponents.
• Cornell has won 34 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• The Big Red has claimed a record six consecutive New York State team titles.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red holds a 34-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 257-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (7-0), Brooklyn Poly (2-0), Buffalo (8-4), Clarkson (2-0), Colgate (29-2), Columbia (89-13), Cortland (17-1), Geneseo (1-0), Hofstra (19-4), Ithaca (12-3), Long Island (1-0), Manhattan (1-0), NYU (2-0), Queens (1-0), RPI (2-0), RIT (7-0-1), St. Lawrence (0-1), Syracuse (42-35-1), Union (2-1) and Wagner (2-0).
• Cornell registered its sixth consecutive New York state intercollegiate title in 2017-18, surpassing Buffalo's run from 1974-78 as the longest in tournament history.
• The Big Red has won 15 consecutive Ivy crowns and 78 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 15 straight Ivy League titles build on the Big Red's record of consecutive Ivy titles by the same team in a sport. The wrestling team has won three more than Cornell had in men's gymnastics (from 1967-68 to 1976-77) and men's lacrosse (1973-74 to 1982-83), as well as Princeton in men's lacrosse (1994-95 to 2003-04).  
• Every four-year member of the Cornell wrestling team who has enrolled since 1980 has won at least one Ivy League title during their career.
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 70-14-1 in dual matches (.829) there.
• Head coach Rob Koll became the ninth Big Red coach in any sport to reach 250 career victories with a sweep at the Grapple at the Garden in 2014 and now sports a 284-91-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red's coaching staff has combined for 15 All-America accolades and five individual NCAA titles as collegiate athletes.

NEXT UP
• Cornell continues its four-game homestand when it opens Ivy League season at with matches against Brown (1 p.m.) and Harvard (3 p.m.) on Saturday, Jan. 27 at the Friedman Wrestling Center.
• The Big Red enters the contests looking to continue a number of streaks — 78 consecutive Ivy League dual wins, 20 straight victories over Brown and 16 straight victories over Harvard — as Cornell eyes its 16th straight league title.