• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (295-91-5, .761; 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.

A WIN OVER NORTHERN IOWA WOULD ...
• start Cornell off 3-0 in dual meets in 2018-19.
• extend the Big Red's dual meet win streak to 12 matches dating back to last year.
• give Cornell wins in 12 consecutive true road duals dating back to the 2016-17 season.
• extend the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 5-0.
• make the Big Red 29-4 in dual meets over the last three years (.879).
• be the 296th career victory for head coach Rob Koll (295-91-5, .761).
• give the Big Red an 813-400-20 (.667) all-time dual meet record.

ABOUT NORTHERN IOWA
• Northern Iowa is off to a 1-1 dual meet start and placed a best-ever fourth at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in the team's last outing.
• Six different Panthers enter the week ranked in the top 12 at their weight classes — No. 3 Jacob Holschlag (197), No. 7 Drew Foster (184), No. 8 Taylor Lujan (174), No. 10 Josh Alber (141) and Max Thomsen (149) and No. 12 Bryce Steiert (165).
• Holschlag took fifth at NCAAs a season ago, while Thomsen and Foster have previously been All-Americans.
• Northern Iowa is beginning its second season as an affiliate member of the Big XII after winning a Mid-American Conference regular season title in 2017.
• Ninth-year head coach Doug Schwab guided the team to its best NCAA finish since 2005 (15th in 2013) and has coached nine All-Americans and 41 NCAA qualifiers while posting a 72-48 dual meet record.

THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series with UNI 4-0, including winning the only previous meeting between the teams in Cedar Falls (2006).
• Besides last season's win in Ithaca (30-10), Cornell's previous victories have come at the Virginia Duals, at UNI in the NWCA Cliff Keen National Duals (19-15 in 2006) and at the Grapple at the Garden (35-4 in 2014).
• The two teams first met during the 1996-97 season, a 19-14 Cornell win at the Virginia Duals.

CORNELL VS. THE BIG XII
• Cornell sports a 15-18 record against current members of the Big XII wrestling conference, including 4-0 against Northern Iowa.
• Cornell has wrestled matches against Iowa State (4-4), North Dakota State (0-1), Oklahoma (6-8), Oklahoma State (0-5), West Virginia (1-0)
• The Big Red has never wrestled a dual against Air Force, Fresno State, Northern Colorado, South Dakota State, Utah Valley or Wyoming.

LAST TIME VS. NORTHERN IOWA
• The Big Red won seven matches, including three over ranked wrestlers, as the home team won its ninth consecutive dual meet with a 30-10 victory over No. 13 Northern Iowa on Nov. 17, 2017 at Newman Arena.
• Six of the Big Red victories came courtesy of wrestlers who had combined to compete in one varsity dual. 
• Sophomore Chas Tucker got the party started with a second period fall, the first of three pins by Big Red wrestlers that set the tone for the team's largest margin of victory against a ranked team since a 34-0 sweep of No. 16 Virginia Tech in 2014.
• Freshman Max Dean had the biggest win of the day, holding on late after building a solid lead to top returning All-American and fourth-ranked Drew Foster at 184 pounds. 
• Sophomore Mike Russo also earned a win over a ranked opponent, using a pair of four-point turns to claim a 10-4 win over No. 19 Jay Schwarm at 125.
• Freshman Yianni Diakomihalis earned his stripes with a 5-2 triumph over No. 14 Josh Alber. 
• The Panthers won at 149 and 157 to get back within 9-7, but the Big Red won five of the final six matches of the dual, including the final four.
• Junior Jon Jay Chavez and freshman Ben Darmstadt also racked up six points with falls, with Chavez winning a wild one of Dan Kelly with a pin in the final seconds of the second period in a match he was well on the way to winning by bonus points. 
• Darmstadt finished Izaak Shedenhelm at 197 midway through the first period after jumping out to a decisive lead.
• In the headline match of the day, eighth-ranked Taylor Lujan was able to hold off Cornell's returning All-American Brandon Womack by a 5-3 score.
• Ben Honis, an NCAA qualifier a year ago at 197, stepped up to heavyweight and was able to control his match with Carter Isley, eventually winning 8-4 to improve to 5-1 on the season.

LAST TIME OUT
• Sophomore Max Dean (sixth at 184 pounds) and junior Chas Tucker (seventh at 133) both finished on the podium as Cornell placed 21st as a team at the 2018 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
• Dean dropped three matches on day two, each coming against top 20 competition — top-ranked Myles Martin earned a win in the quarters, with Zack Zavatsky of Virginia Tech and Lou DePrez of Binghamton also holding him off to send him to sixth place. 
• Tucker took seventh at 133 pounds after opening the final day with a 5-3 blood round win over Dylan Duncan of Illinois. 
• He dropped a 7-0 contest to Minnesota's Ethan Lizak in the consolation semifinals before collecting a medical forfeit in the seventh place match.
• Brandon Womack lost in the blood round at 174 pounds, falling to Purdue's Dylan Lydy 7-5 to just miss the podium.

THE STREAKS
• The Big Red has won 11 consecutive dual meets (longest since 12 straight from 11/23/2013 until 2/17/2014) and 11 straight road dual meets (longest since 20 consecutive from 2/5/2011 until 2/21/2015). 
• 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 66-1 (.985) in its last 66 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 105-4-1 (.959) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 93-0 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 121-24-1 (.832) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 49-6 (.891) in its last 55 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Big Red wrestling is 86-1 in dual meets (.989) 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 35 straight meets against New York state opponents.

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 295-91-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red holds a 35-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 258-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (8-0), 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).

WORK IN CLASSROOM HONORED BY NWCA
• Cornell joined Minnesota as the lone NCAA wrestling schools to rank in the top 10 at both the national championships and the NWCA
All-Academic team list.
• Cornell ranked eighth nationally with its team 3.368 grade point average.
• Seniors Gabe Dean, Brian Realbuto and Dylan Palacio and freshman Noah Baughman were honored individually for their outstanding achievements in the classroom.
• Cornell ranked second among all schools with three All-Americans listed individually, behind only Ohio State's four.
• The Big Red moved up from last season's No. 17 ranking on the All-Academic list among 30 schools that posted a 3.1 GPA or better as a team.
• All six Ivy League schools were listed, with Harvard taking the top spot for the second straight year (3.586).
• Of the 30 teams, 22 were repeat selections from last year.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will take a holiday break before heading to Florida for the South Beach Duals.
• Cornell will wrestle off against nationally-ranked opponents North Dakota State, Wyoming and Missouri, as well as Indiana out of the Big Ten.
• Cornell is 2-0 all-time against the Hoosiers, will attempt to snap a five-match losing skid against Missouri (2-8 all-time) and even its record with North Dakota State (0-1), while competing in its first-ever dual matchup against Wyoming.