HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (293-91-5, .760; 117-8-1 Ivy, .932)
• He 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 16 straight Ivy League titles (19 overall), 11 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 15 national titles with 67 All-Americans and 61 individual EIWA champions.

ABOUT BINGHAMTON
• Binghamton opens its dual meet season against the Big Red on Friday evening.
• The Bearcats feature No. 15 Lou DePrez at 184, where he will match up with Cornell's returning All-American Max Dean in the feature match.
• Frankie Garcia, a returning NCAA qualifier at 149, and the older DePrez twins (Anthony at 197, Vincent at 174) will also factor into the team's success, as will 2018 Bearcat Open champ Audey Ashkar at 125. 
• The Bearcats are coming off of one of their best seasons to date, finishing in seventh place overall at the 2018 Eastern's, marking the highest finish in program history. 
• Binghamton had five place winners in the tournament, sending two wrestlers to nationals — Garcia and Steven Schneider. 
• The Bearcats went 12-5 overall with a 6-1 EIWA mark for the regular season.
• Second-year head coach Kyle Borshoff was a two-time All-American at American and a three-time World Team Trials qualifier.

CORNELL-BINGHAMTON SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series with Binghamton 7-0.
• The series began in 1971-72, when the two teams met in a quad meet in Cortland with the Big Red outscoring the Bearcatas 97.5-53.5.
• The closest meet in series history came in Cornell's 22-21 win on Jan. 5, 2012 in Vestal, N.Y. The Big Red won on criteria after ending the meet tied 21-21 having had scored more points in the individual matches. 
• The Big Red won the last meeting between the teams 33-6 on Nov. 23, 2013 at Newman Arena.

LAST TIME VS. BINGHAMTON
• The No. 7 Cornell wrestling team earned its first dual meet win of the season, downing Binghamton 33-6 in front of 2,012 fans in Newman Arena. 
• It was the Big Red's 750th dual meet victory in program history and kept Cornell unbeaten all-time against the Bearcats (7-0).
• Heading into overtime with his team trailing 6-5, 13th-ranked Chris Villalonga pulled out an 8-6 victory over Joe Bonaldi at 149 pounds to wrest momentum back from the Bearcats and Cornell swept through the rest of the lineup. 
• Freshmen Brian Realbuto (157 pounds) and Gabe Dean (184 pounds) each earned falls, while Mark Grey won by tech fall at 133 pounds. 
• Owen Scott also won by major decision at 174 pounds to round out the scoring.
• In addition, 2013 NCAA qualifiers Jace Bennett (197) and Stryker Lane (HWT) each earned hard-fought decisions, while rookie Dylan Palacio (165) earned a 10-6 win over Vincent Grella for his first collegiate dual meet victory.

ABOUT WEST VIRGINIA
• The Mountaineers are off to a 1-0 start after a 22-14 home win over Big XII associate member Northern Colorado.
• WVU features returning national qualifier and 20th-ranked Matthew Schmitt at 133.
• Nine of the Mountaineers' 10 starters enter the weekend with winning records, including Schmitt at 6-0 and Zachary Moore (157), Nick Kiussis (165) and David Smith (285) all at 5-1.  
• First-year head coach Tim Flynn spent the previous 21 seasons at Edinboro, helping produce 150 national qualifiers, 38 All-Americans, 64 EWL and 97 PSAC champions.
• He sports a 224-95-5 career record as a head coach.

CORNELL-WEST VIRGINIA SERIES
• Cornell won the only previous meeting between the programs with a 26-9 triumph in Troy, N.Y. as part of the Northeast Journeymen Duals during the 2014-15 campaign.

LAST TIME VS. WEST VIRGINIA
• The Cornell wrestling team has quality from top to bottom a number of times over, and that depth was on full display as the Big Red ripped through the Journeymen/ASICS Northeast Duals with three wins at Hudson Valley Community College, including a 26-9 victory over West Virginia. 
• The middle weights also provided key results against the Mountaineers, as the Big Red rallied from an early 6-4 deficit through three bouts to run away with the victory. 
• Nahshon Garrett got the match started right with a dominant 19-8 major over No. 19 Zeke Moisey thanks to a huge third period, but it was five straight wins from 149 to 184, including a pair of one-point decisions, that proved to be the difference. 
• Jacob Aiken-Phillips wasted little time ending the dual, pinning his opponent just 39 seconds into the match to end the weekend on a high note.

CORNELL AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell won a record 13th New York State Intercollegiate Championship on Nov. 19, 2017 at Barton Hall, crowning 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).

LAST TIME AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell won its record-breaking sixth straight New York State Intercollegiate Championship and crowned six individual champions on Nov. 19 at Barton Hall.
• The Big Red won titles at 133 (Chas Tucker), 141 (Yianni Diakomihalis), 149 (Jonathan Furnas), 157 (Adam Santoro), 184 (Max Dean) and 197 (Ben Darmstadt) to record 183.5 team points, easily outdistancing United States Military Academy Prep School (121) and Ithaca College (119). 
• Cornell had five of its starters in the lineup, with three freshmen, a sophomore who had never wrestled a dual meet for the Big Red prior to Friday night and a junior in his first full year in the lineup.
• The six champions tied a single tournament record for the Big Red set previously in 1991 and matched in 2001. 
• It is also the 13th time Cornell has claimed the team title overall, matching Army West Point for the most in state history.
• In all, 17 Cornell wrestlers reached the podium, with a pair of Cornell vs. Cornell finals.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last 10 seasons and in the top 10 in 14 of the last 16 years (11 straight).
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 17 seasons and in 27 of the last 28 years.
• The Big Red is 65-1 (.985) in its last 66 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 104-4-1 (.959) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 92-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 16 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 83 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell is 119-24-1 (.830) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 48-6 (.889) in its last 53 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Big Red wrestling is 84-1 in dual meets (.988) 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
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 74-14-1 in dual matches (.837) there.
• Cornell went 40-10 in individual Ivy League matches, its best mark since going 42-8 during the 2013-14 dual meet seasons.
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive Ivy crowns and 83 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 16 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 four 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.
• 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 293-91-5 record in dual meets.
• 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).

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will head off to the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational beginning on Friday, Nov. 30.
• Cornell has 10 straight top eight finishes at the national event and has crowned champions each of those years, including nine over the last five tournaments.
• Cornell won the 2010-11 title and has placed in the top three five times in the last nine years.