GAME INFORMATION
GAME #7: Cornell at Stony Brook
GAME TIME: Saturday, Dec. 1, at 5:00 p.m.
GAME SITE: IFCU Arena (Stony Brook, N.Y.)
SERIES RECORD: Stony Brook leads, 3-2
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 48-40 (12/1/17 in Ithaca)
2018-19 RECORDS: Cornell (2-4, 0-0 Ivy); Stony Brook (5-1 0-0 America East)
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Full Game Notes (PDF)
 
THE MATCHUP: The Big Red women's basketball team wraps up a four-game road trip when it travels to Stony Brook for a 5:00 p.m. contest on Saturday, Dec. 1. Cornell enters the game with a record of 2-4 after three consecutive losses to No. 23 Minnesota, Colorado State and Lehigh. Stony Brook has won five in a row after a season-opening loss at Rutgers.
 
QUICK HITS:
• The Big Red's game vs Stony Brook concludes a four-game road trip that began on Nov. 23 at No. 23 Minnesota.
• After winning two in a row, Cornell has dropped three straight to No. 23 Minnesota (65-45), Colorado State (56-53) and Lehigh (67-54).
• Laura Bagwell-Katalinich posted a team-high 12 points at Lehigh, while Theresa Grace Mbanefo tallied a career-high 10 points.  
• Bagwell-Katalinich has been Cornell's leading scorer four times this season.
• Stony Brook is the fourth and final America East team the Big Red will face this season. Cornell lost to Binghamton in the season opener but defeated UAlbany and UMass Lowell. 
• The Big Red has not won a road game yet this season and has lost seven in a row away from Newman Arena.
 
THE SERIES VS. STONY BROOK: The teams have met just five times in women's basketball, including each of the past three seasons.
• The Big Red won the first meeting (65-51) during the 1999-
2000 campaign.
• Stony Brook responded with three consecutive wins, the first coming in 2000-01.
• The first overtime game in the series came in 2016-17, as the Seawolves earned a double-OT victory on its home court.
• Cornell snapped a three-game losing streak in the series with a 48-40 victory a year ago in Ithaca.
 
A WIN WOULD:
• be the third in a row against the America East.
• end a three-game skid and improve the Big Red to 3-4 on the season.
• snap a seven-game losing streak on the road.
• even Cornell's record in the series with Stony Brook at 3-3.  
• make Coach Smith 16-18 vs. the America East.
• give Coach Smith a 2-2 record against the Seawolves.
 
CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST: Cornell improved to 25-28 all-time vs. the current members of the America East Conference after a 63-54 win over UMass-Lowell on Nov. 17.
• The Big Red holds a winning record vs. Albany (6-1), UMass Lowell (2-0), and UMBC (2-0).
• Cornell has a losing record vs. Binghamton (8-10), Hartford (0-2), Maine (0-1), New Hampshire (1-5), Stony Brook (2-3) and Vermont (4-6).
• Coach Smith is 15-18 all-time vs. the America East.
 
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 (36 yrs), 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.
 
WINNING OPPONENTS: Stony Brook will be the fifth opponent that the Big Red has faced this season that owns a .500 or better record entering the contest.  
 
NCAA STATS:
• Cornell ranks inside the top 100 in 3-point field goal defense (50th – .252) and scoring defense (83rd – 58.0).
• Laura Bagwell-Katalinich ranks 95th in rebounds per game (8.7).
• Danielle Jorgenson (1.38) and Samantha Widmann (1.29) rank 223rd and 247th, respectively, n assist/turnover ratio.
 
STARTING STATS: The Big Red has used two different starting line-ups this season.
• Samantha Widmann and Danielle Jorgenson lead the team with 33 consecutive starts.
• Laura Bagwell-Katalinich made her first career start in the season opener at Binghamton.
• Dylan Higgins made her first career start in the contest vs. UAlbany on Nov. 12.
 
GET A GRIP: Cornell turned the ball over just four times at Colorado State, matching the school record of four turnovers vs. Yale on Feb. 6, 2016.
 
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Four new players saw their first action for the Big Red in the season opener at Binghamton – Laura Bagwell-Katalanich, 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 will take a two-week hiatus during the University's study break before returning to action at Newman Arena for a 7p.m. contest against Delaware State on Saturday, Dec. 15.