ITHACA, N.Y. – Due to tonight's weather forecast of 6-12 inches of snow, coupled with freezing temperatures, the Cornell women's basketball game at Colgate will be postponed. A make-up date has not been established at this time.
GAME INFORMATION
GAME #3: Cornell at Colgate
GAME TIME: Postponed
GAME SITE: Cotterell Court (Hamilton, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 22-16
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 74-70, Nov. 16, 2017 (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2018-19 RECORDS: Cornell (1-1, 0-0 Ivy); Colgate (0-2, 0-0 Patriot League)
LIVE STATS:
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LIVE VIDEO:
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Full Game Notes (PDF)
THE MATCHUP: Coming off its first win of the season, the Big Red women's basketball team will look to carry that momentum forward at is travels to in-state rival Colgate for a 6 p.m. contest on Thursday, Nov. 15 at Cotterell Court in Hamilton. Cornell enters the game with a record of 1-1, while the Raiders sit at 0-2 after early season losses to Yale and Dayton.
QUICK HITS:
• The Big Red picked up its first win of the season on Monday night with a 48-34 victory over UAlbany.
• The 34 points scored by the Great Danes were the fewest by an opponent during head coach
Dayna Smith's tenure, and the fewest by a Big Red opponent since Coppin State scored 33 in a Cornell victory during the 2001-02 season.
• Cornell will take on the first of three Patriot League opponents this season when it faces Colgate.
• The teams are meeting for the 39th time, the most for the Big Red against a non-conference opponent.
• Colgate snapped Cornell's six-game winning streak in the series with a 74-70 win in last season's home opener.
• The teams will have five common opponents this season – Columbia, Lafayette, Lehigh, UMass Lowell and Yale.
THE SERIES VS. COLGATE: Standing at 38 meetings all-time, Cornell's series with the Raiders is the longest in women's basketball history, excluding Ivy League games.
• The Big Red has won 10 of the last 12 games against the Raiders to take the lead in the all-time series, 22-16.
• The series began during the 1978-79 season, a 65-60 overtime victory for the Big Red, but Colgate won 10 of the first 14 overall before Cornell won five straight from 1992-93 to 1996-97.
• Since the 1992-93 season, the Big Red has gone 18-6 against Colgate.
• Head coach
Dayna Smith is 10-4 all-time in the series.
A WIN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red's record at 2-1 on the season.
• be the first road win of the season.
• snap a four-game road losing streak.
• make Cornell 23-16 in the series.
• improve Coach Smith to 11-4 all-time in the series.
• make Coach Smith 22-20 vs. the Patriot League.
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE: Cornell is 46-61 all-time vs. the current members of the Patriot League.
• The Big Red owns the advantage in the series with Colgate (22-16).
• Cornell is tied with Lafayette (8-8) and Loyola (Md.) (3-3).
• The Big Red holds a losing mark against American (1-2), Army (5-6), Bucknell (5-19), Lehigh (2-5), and Navy (0-2).
• Boston University and Holy Cross are the only members of the Patriot League that Cornell has never faced in women's basketball.
• Coach Smith's record vs. the conference stands at 21-20.
HEAD COACH DAYNA SMITH: In her 17th season at the helm of the Big Red program, head coach
Dayna Smith ranks fourth overall in Ivy League women's basketball history in years served as a head coach in the conference.
• Only one active coach, Harvard's Kathy Delaney-Smith (36th season), ranks ahead of Cornell's Smith.
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Smith is the winningest coach in Cornell history, and reached the 150-win mark for her career with the team's overtime victory vs. Dartmouth on Jan. 30, 2016.
• She currently stands at 177 career victories.
STARTING STATS: The Big Red has used two different starting line-ups through the first two games of the season.
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Samantha Widmann and
Danielle Jorgenson lead the team with 29 consecutive starts.
•
Laura Bagwell-Katalinich made her first career start in the season opener at Binghamton.
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Dylan Higgins made her first career start in the contest vs. UAlbany on Nov. 12.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Four new players saw their first action for the Big Red in the season opener at Binghamton –
Laura Bagwell-Katalinich,
Theresa Grace Mbanefo,
Caitlyn Smith and
Samantha Will.
WHAT WAS LOST: The Big Red graduated two seniors from the 2017-18 squad, and lost two other letter winners, as well as one non-letter winner.
• The five players accounted for just 25 percent of Cornell's points and rebounds.
WHAT REMAINS: Cornell returns three starters and 10 letter winners from a year ago.
• The team returns its top scorer and rebounder in
Samantha Widmann, as well as its second leading scorer,
Samantha Clement.
• Overall, the squad returns 75% of its scoring and rebounding
• All but one returning letter winner played in at least 20 contests.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: The Big Red added four players to the 2018-19 squad, three freshman and one junior college transfer.
• The group hails from three different states – Minnesota (2), Florida and New Hampshire.
• The group consists of two forwards (
Annika Hoff,
Theresa Grace Mbanefo), one guard (
Samantha Will) and one point guard (
Caitlyn Smith).
IVY PRESEASON RANKINGS: The Big Red was picked eighth overall in the 2018-19 Ivy League media preseason poll.
• Princeton was selected to repeat, as the Tigers garnered 133 points and 14 first-place votes.
• Penn and Harvard were neck-and-neck for second and third, respectively, with the Quakers earning two first-place votes and 107 points and the Crimson receiving one first-place vote and 104 points.
• Yale took fourth with 89 points, as the voters selected a repeat of last year's top-four teams.
• Brown was picked to place fifth with 66 points, followed by Dartmouth (55), Columbia (30) and Cornell (28).
LIVE AND ON THE AIR: The Big Red will have all 27 of its regular season games broadcast this season.
• 20 games, including 12 Ivy League contests, will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• Two Ivy League games will be broadcast on ESPN3.
• ESPN+ is available through the ESPN app and ESPN.com for $4.99 / month and $49.99 / year. The subscription includes over 175 Ivy League men's and women's basketball games as well as thousands of other live events from other collegiate conferences and professional sports leagues.
• Three games will be broadcast on the Patriot League Network (Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette).
• Cornell will have one game each on the Big Ten Network Plus (Minnesota) and the Mountain West Network (Colorado State).
DON'T I NOW YOU?:
Shelby Lyman '14 returned to Cornell as an assistant coach prior to the 2017-18 season.
• One of the most prolific 3-point shooters in Cornell history, Lyman returned to East Hill after a successful three-year stint as an assistant coach at Division III powerhouse St. John Fisher College, helping the Cardinals to an Empire 8 championship in 2015 and a pair of NCAA DIII Tournament appearances.
• Lyman still ranks among the top 20 in Cornell history in assists (14th – 219), steals (14th – 122), and minutes played (13th – 3096). She finished her career with 718 career points.
• A native of Snohomish, Wash., Lyman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government, before obtaining an MBA from St. John Fisher.
RECAPPING THE 2017-18 SEASON: The Big Red finished the season with a 7-20 record overall and a mark of 3-11 in the Ivy League.
UP NEXT: The Big Red returns to Newman Arena to take on its third America East opponent of the season when it plays host to UMass Lowell for a noon contest on Saturday, Nov. 17.
