GAME INFORMATION
GAME #5: Cornell at Colorado State University
GAME TIME: Sunday, Nov. 25, at 2:00 p.m. EST
GAME SITE: Moby Arena (Fort Collins, Colo.)
SERIES RECORD: First Meeting
LAST MEETING: First Meeting
2018-19 RECORDS: Cornell (2-2, 0-0 Ivy); Colorado State (1-2 0-0 MW)
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Full Game Notes (PDF)
THE MATCHUP: In a homecoming game for
Halley Miklos, the Big Red women's basketball team travels to Colorado State University to take on the Rams at 2:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 25. Cornell enters the game with a record of 2-2 after falling to No. 23 Minnesota on Friday evening, while CSU slipped to 1-2 after a 53-47 loss to Norther Colorado on Tuesday evening.
QUICK HITS:
• The Big Red's game at Colorado State is a homecoming for Fort Collins native,
Halley Miklos.
• Miklos was Cornell's leading scorer on Friday at No. 23 Minnesota with 10 points.
• Cornell has four Minnesota natives on the roster and all four found their way into the boxscore vs. the Gophers.
• Every Big Red player got into the game at Minnesota, with
Samantha Will and
Annika Hoff scoring their first collegiate points.
• The game with Colorado State is the first against a Mountain West opponent since defeating San Jose State during the 1998-99 season.
• The Big Red has not won a road game yet this season and has lost five in a row away from Newman Arena.
THE SERIES VS. COLORADO STATE: First meeting.
A WIN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red's record at 3-2 on the season.
• snap a five-game losing streak on the road.
• make the Big Red 1-0 in the series.
• improved Cornell to 3-1 vs. the Mountain West.
• make Coach Smith 1-0 vs. the Mountain West.
CORNELL VS. THE MOUNTAIN WEST: Cornell is 2-1 all-time vs. the current members of the Mountain West, but all three meetings took place prior to this century.
• The Big Red has a winning record vs. New Mexico (1-0) who it played during the 1985-86 season.
• Cornell is 1-1 against San Jose State after a 75-54 victory in the 1998-99 season.
• The Big Red has never faced Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Nevada, UNLV, San Diego State, Utah State, or Wyoming.
• Coach Smith is 0-0 all-time vs. the Mountain West.
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.
•
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 178 career victories.
STARTING STATS: The Big Red has used two different starting line-ups through the first four games of the season.
•
Samantha Widmann and
Danielle Jorgenson lead the team with 31 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.
• Freshman
Annika Hoff saw her first collegiate action in her home state when she played six minutes vs. No. 23 Minnesota. She finished with six points and five rebounds.
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 continues its road trip as it heads to Lehigh State for a 6 p.m. contest on Thursday, Nov. 29.
