HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (285-91-5, .755; 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 BROWN
• The Bears are 2-4 on the season with wins over EIWA opponents Franklin & Marshall and Bucknell.
• Three of its four losses came by five points or less to Stanford (18-13), American (18-17) and Maryland (19-16).
• CJ Fragola, a 2017 NCAA qualifier and second-team All-Ivy selection, is 10-6 on the year and is ranked No. 16 at 184 pounds.
• Brown's other leaders thus far are 157-pounder Justin Staudenmayer (17-8), a two-time NCAA qualifier, and 165-pounder Jon Viruet (15-9), while Tucker Ziegler (12-8) is 5-1 in dual meets at 197 pounds.
• Head coach Todd Beckerman, in his fifth season directing the Bears' program, has mentored six NCAA participants and one All-American since arriving in Providence.

CORNELL-BROWN SERIES
• Cornell has a decisive 54-2 edge in the all-time dual meet series with Brown and has won 20 consecutive matchups.
• The Bears last defeated the Big Red 19-16 on Feb. 15, 1997.

ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard is out to a 3-1 start on the year with nailbiting dual meet wins over Stanford (21-20) and Maryland (22-21), as well as a 30-6 triumph at Franklin & Marshall.
• Leading the Crimson in wins thus far is 174-pounder Josef Johnson (18-8), a two-time NCAA qualifier, and 184-pounder Kanon Dean (18-10) — cousin of Big Red assistant coach and two-time NCAA champion Gabe Dean and his brother, 11th-ranked Big Red 184-pounder Max Dean.
• A.J. Jaffe (16-8 at 141), Nolan Hellickson (13-5 at 125), Hunter Ladnier (10-8 at 149) and Brock Wilson (12-10 at 157) are also among the EWIA's top-ranked wrestlers.
• Head coach Jay Weiss, in his 24th season coaching the Crimson, is a two-time EIWA Coach of the Year who has mentored two national champions, 17 EIWA champs and 19 All-Americans during his tenure.

CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 55-9 dating back to their first meeting in 1946-47.
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive dual meets between the teams, posting an average margin of 31-9 (492-143) in those meets.
• Harvard's last win came during the 2000-01 season, a 28-13 victory in Cambridge, Mass.

LAST TIME VS. BROWN, HARVARD
• The Cornell wrestling team extended its Ivy league win streak to 75 matches with a pair of dominant performances on the road on Jan. 28, sweeping through Brown (35-8) and Harvard (33-11).
• Bonus points came aplenty from Big Red seniors against the Bears.
• Cornell earned first period falls from Taylor Simaz at 157 and Gabe Dean at 184 and technical fall triumphs from Brian Realbuto at 174 and Owen Scott at 197 to extend its Ancient Eight win streak to 74 matches.
•  The Big Red trailed 5-4 heading into 141 pounds, but Will Koll started a stretch that saw seven wins in eight matches, with the only loss coming in a wild 14-13 decision for Jon Viruet over Dylan Palacio at 165 pounds.
• Dean again earned a fall in the nightcap, a second period stick of his cousin, Kanon.
• Noah Baughman also won by fall at 125, as did Ben Honis at 197.
• Simaz also swept the day with a pair of bonus wins, including his 18-5 major over Coby Knight at 157 against the Crimson to give the visitors a lead it would never relinquish.
• Both Dylan Palacio (165) and Realbuto (174) shook off early Crimson takedowns to claim major decision wins and Dean dominated his cousin before putting him away for his 140th collegiate victory and his 17th win by fall of the season, one off Kyle Dake's 2013 school record.

LAST TIME OUT
• Bonus points and three Big Red wins over ranked Mountain Hawk wrestlers led Cornell to a 23-14 win over EIWA archrival Lehigh on Jan. 19 at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• Will Koll (149) and Jon Jay Chavez (165) each knocked off ranked wrestlers and freshman Yianni Diakomihalis earned a major decision shutout of No. 13 Luke Karam at 141 pounds in the feature match.
• Koll was in control throughout in knocking off No. 19 Cortlandt Schuyler 4-1, followed by Chavez taking out No. 18 Gordon Wolf on the strength of a six-point first-period move en route to a 12-6 victory.
• Diakomihalis was never threatened in an 8-0 victory over Karam, his fifth win over a ranked opponent this season.
• Cornell's other two freshman hammers, Max Dean at 184 and Ben Darmstadt at 197, each added bonus points in wins.
• Dean earned a dominant 10-1 major over Andrew Price before Darmstadt clinched the win heading into the final match with a first period fall over Jake Jakobsen.
• In front of a sold-out crowd, the 11-time defending EIWA champion Big Red won its second straight dual over the Mountain Hawks.

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 59-1 (.983) in its last 60 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 98-4-1 (.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 111-24-1 (.820) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 44-6 (.880) in its last 50 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 71-14-1 in dual matches (.831) 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 285-91-5 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
• The Big Red closes its four-game homestand when Columbia visits Ithaca on Saturday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m.
• Cornell then heads back on the road for a non-conference matchup with Lock Haven on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 1 p.m.
• Cornell leads the all-time series 89-13 dating back to the 1907-08 season when the teams first met and have won 31 consecutive matchups.
• The Big Red leads the all-time series against the Eagles 10-4-1 in a series that dates back to the 1951-52 season, including four consecutive dual meet victories.