HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (15-31, .326; 5-13 Ivy, .278).|
• 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-DARTMOUTH SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 108-106
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell leads 64-43
Current Streak: Cornell, 2 games
Last Meeting: Cornell won 69-65, 2/17/17 in Hanover, N.H.
Earl vs. Dartmouth: 2-0
Series Notes: Cornell holds a razor-thin 108-106 lead in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign • Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 22 of the last 28 meetings • the Big Red's sweep a year ago was the first time in five years where the teams didn't split the season series

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD
• push Cornell's record to 8-10 on the season (2-3 Ivy).
• improve the Big Red to 6-1 on the year at Newman Arena.
• extend the team's win streak over Dartmouth to three games.
• give the Big Red its first Ivy win streak under head coach Brian Earl.
• extend Cornell's lead in the all-time series to 109-106, including 65-43 in Ithaca.
• be the 1,250th in program history (1,249-1,418 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
• The Cornell men's basketball team completed the season sweep of Dartmouth with a gritty 69-65 victory on Feb. 17, 2017 at Leede Arena.
• The Big Red improved to 7-17 (3-6 Ivy) and moved within a game of Columbia for the fourth and final spot in the Ivy League Tournament.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan had a game-high 28 points and classmate Stone Gettings had his first career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Big Red.
• Cornell limited the Big Green to 41 percent shooting, including 37 percent after halftime, and turned the ball over just seven times in the win.
• Troy Whiteside had five points and five rebounds, the biggest coming on the offensive glass with under a minute to play and Cornell leading by just two points.
• Whiteside's rebound forced the Big Green into fouling, where Morgan hit four charity shots in the final 22 seconds to lock up the win.
• Dartmouth's Evan Boudreaux had 27 points and eight boards, while Guilien Smith posted 15 points.
• The Big Green held a 34-33 edge on the glass and held Cornell to just 4-of-17 shooting from beyond the 3-point arc (27 percent).

LAST TIME OUT
• Juniors Matt Morgan (29) and Stone Gettings (25) combined for 54 points and Cornell picked up its first Ivy League win of the season thanks to a big second half to collect an 82-81 win over Columbia on Jan. 27 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell shot 63 percent in the second half and made 19-of-21 free throws, most down the stretch, to hold off the Lions and knot the season series.
• Morgan was an efficient 8-of-11 from the floor, made all four 3-pointers and hit 9-of-10 free throws to go along with five assists, while Gettings added seven rebounds and dished out five assists.
• Morgan reached double figures in scoring for the 40th straight contest and moved into fifth on the school's career scoring list (1,418 points) in the process.
• While the duo put together a big offensive effort, it was a total team win.
• The Big Red limited the Lions to 39 percent shooting in the second half, including 1-of-10 from beyond the 3-point arc before the visitors nailed a pair of long distance desperation shots in the final six seconds of play.
• Trailing 39-35 at the half, the Big Red stormed ahead, taking the lead for good on a Jimmy Boeheim corner 3-pointer with 7:20 left.
• The home team had 19 assists and went 8-of-19 from beyond the arc (42 percent), its 818th consecutive game with a made 3-pointer.



PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• After having teammates score 30 points in the same game just once in the first 119 years of Cornell basketball, juniors Matt Morgan and Stone Gettings reached that milestone in consecutive games against Niagara and Delaware.
• Prior to the Niagara contest, the only previous time two Cornellians scored more than 30 points in the same game was on March 2, 1956 at the famed Palestra in Philadelphia when Bo Roberson (32) and Chuck Rolles (30) did so against Penn.
• In between, Cornell played 1,611 games over those ensuing 61 seasons.
• Morgan, the nation's sixth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 23.6 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists this year, including twice claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 40 consecutive games, the sixth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 40 consecutive double figure scoring games surpassed John Sheehy's 34 straight (1953-55) for a school record that had held for 62 years.
• He is the only player in school history to put together two streaks of at least 20 consecutive games scoring in double figures (also a 21-game streak from 2015-16).
• Now averaging 23.6 points per game, Morgan's scoring average would be the highest ever by a Cornell player if maintained (Chuck Rolles '56 averaged 23.0 points in 1955-56).
• Morgan was the first Big Red player to post 12 consecutive 20-point games (previous Cornell record was six), a streak that ended with 13 at Penn.
• The junior has connected on at least one trey in 27 straight (third-longest streak at Cornell).
• Morgan became the first Cornell player to declare early for the NBA Draft during the spring of 2017, withdrawing before the early entry deadline to preserve his final two seasons of eligibility.
• After missing much of the preseason due to injury, junior Stone Gettings is averaging 15.6 ppg., 6.3 rpg. and 2.5 apg. in just 23.9 minutes per contest.
• The only games by a Cornellian with more than Gettings' 39 points against Delaware were 47 scored by George Farley against Princeton in 1960 and 42 by Chuck Rolles at Syracuse in 1956.
• In his last 14 games, spanning 351 minutes, Gettings has scored 234 points, grabbed 92 rebounds, dished 42 assists and collected 10 steals and five blocks — 26.7 ppg., 10.5 rpg., 4.8 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.6 bpg.), fifth in rebounding (6.1 rpg.) and is seventh in steals (1.1 spg.).
• Jack Gordon, a career 42 percent 3-point shooter, tied a single-game school record for 3-point percentage in a game, joining Ryan Wittman '10 (2010 vs. Bryant) as the lone Cornellians to hit five 3-pointers in a game without a miss when he did so against Central Penn.
• Gordon's career-best 10 rebounds against Niagara obliterated his previous career best of four.
• With Gordon and Gettings each registering double digit rebounds vs. Niagara, the juniors became the first Big Red teammates to accomplish that feat since Louis Dale '10 (11) and Jeff Foote '10 (10) did so against Dartmouth during the 2007-08 campaign.
• Eleven different Big Red players to have reached double digits in scoring in at least one game this season.
• Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 10 states and the District of Columbia.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red's streak of scoring 75 or more points ended after six games with 61 points against Penn, its longest stretch since stringing together six consecutive contests spanning the final three contests of 2006-07 and the first three of the 2007-08 seasons. (Last time with seven straight, 1/19/66-2/18/66).
• 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.
• 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 818 consecutive games (11th-longest streak in Division I) 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 864 of 868 games (5,604 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 40-50 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 10-28 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.
• Are Cornell Student-Athletes on Scholarship? The easy answer is no. Cornell student-athletes are awarded need-based financial aid, just as any other student who applies to the school. That package can come in the form of student loans and grants. The basic intent of the original Ivy League agreement of 1954 was to improve and foster intercollegiate athletics while keeping the emphasis on such competition in harmony with the educational purpose of the institutions. The Ivy League is nationally recognized for its level of success — absent of athletic scholarships — while rigorously maintaining its self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the current national pressures on intercollegiate success, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics.

#ROADTOIVYMADNESS RETURNS
• The Ivy League men's and women's basketball tournaments return to Philadelphia, where they will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, 2018.
• The top four teams will earn berths to the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday.
• All six games will be broadcast live on ESPN's networks.
• For tickets and more information please visit IvyMadness.com.

NEXT UP
• Cornell will host Harvard tomorrow at 7 p.m. in a game that will be televised by Eleven Sports and simulcasted on the Ivy League Network.
• The Big Red hits the road next weekend for contests at Brown (Friday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.) on ESPN3 and Yale (Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.).