HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (17-32, .347; 7-14 Ivy, .333).|
• He became Cornell's 22nd head coach in April of 2016.
• Earl helped his alma mater, Princeton, return to national prominence during nine seasons as an assistant and associate head coach.
• The Tigers had posted a 143-69 overall record and a 72-26 record in Ancient Eight games since 2009-10, never finishing lower than third place and winning 20 or more games five times.
• His Ivy League peers voted him as the league's top assistant coach in a November 2010 FoxSports.com poll, earning the recognition prior to a 2011 season in which Princeton won the Ivy League title and returned to the NCAA Tournament.

CORNELL-YALE SERIES
Overall: Yale leads 112-110
In New Haven, Conn.: Yale leads 64-45
Current Streak: Yale, 9 games
Last Meeting: Yale won 90-63, 3/3/17 in New Haven, Conn.
Earl vs. Yale: 0-2
Series Notes: Yale was Cornell's first intercollegiate opponent when the two teams met on Feb. 25, 1899 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Yale won 49-7) • the two teams have played the last 12 seasons much the way they have the entire series - nearly right down the middle, with Yale holding a slim 13-11 lead • Yale has had the better of it recently, winning 10 of the last 11 meetings between the squads, including nine straight • the Big Red last won in New Haven during the 2012-13 season (69-61) and has lost four consecutive meetings since

A WIN OVER YALE WOULD
 • push Cornell's record to 10-11 on the season, including 4-4 in Ivy play (matching last season's league win total - 4-10).
• make the Big Red 4-1 in its last five conference games.
• snap a nine-game losing streak against Yale and a four-game skid in New Haven, Conn.
• be the 1,252nd in program history (1,251-1,419 in 118 seasons, .469).

LAST TIME VS. YALE
• Matt Morgan scored a game-high 28 points to become the first Cornell men's basketball player to hit 1,000 career points as a sophomore, but Yale clinched a spot in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament with a 90-63 win on March 3, 2017 at John J. Lee Amphitheater. 
• Morgan's deep 3-pointer with 5:29 remaining was his 28th and final point of the night and put him squarely at the century mark after 54 career games, making him the second-fastest player in school history to reach 1,000 points (Mike Davis '80 in 49 games). 
• He is the 27th Cornellian to hit the milestone and the second this year, joining teammate Robert Hatter, who now ranks 11th all-time in scoring with 1,221 points. 
• He hit five 3-pointers on the night, becoming the 10th player in school history to surpass 150 career treys, including 83 this year - tied for the fifth-most in a season in school history. 
• With 490 points on the year, he needs 10 in the season finale to reach 500, making him the second player ever at Cornell to have two seasons with at least 500 points (Ryan Wittman '10).
• The Bulldogs shot 57 percent from the floor and assisted on 25 baskets with four double figure scorers and four more scoring between seven and nine points. 
• Anthony Dallier led the way with 18 points, five rebounds and four assists and Miye Oni had 12 points, six assists and five boards. 
• Sam Downey just missed out on a double-double (11 points, nine rebounds) and Alex Copeland rounded out the double figure scorers with 10. 
• The Bulldogs shot 66 percent after halftime and dominated the boards throughout with a 36-23 edge.
• Yale connected on 10 3-pointers in the win.

LAST TIME OUT
 • Cornell ran off the game's first 13 points and led wire-to-wire behind its best defensive effort of the Ivy League season, picking off Brown 78-60 last night at the Pizzitola Sports Center. 
• Junior Stone Gettings had 23 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots and Matt Morgan scored 19 with seven rebounds and three assists, but it was Cornell's defense that snapped a five-game road losing streak. 
• The Big Red limited a high-scoring Bears' offense to 31 percent shooting, including 28 percent in the second half, and never saw the lead dip below double figures in the game's final 33:43. 
• Steven Julian chipped in 10 points and Joel Davis had three steals and two blocks.
• Jack Gordon posted eight points, five rebounds and four assists in 21 steady minutes off the bench. 
• Freshman Jimmy Boeheim had seven points and four rebounds, all coming as part of a spark in the first half. 
• The visitors were as efficient on offense as they were on defense, shooting 55 percent from the floor, including 61 percent in the decisive first half.
• Desmond Cambridge had a game-high 26 points for the home team, though it came on 24 shots. 
• He was the lone double figure scorer for Brown. 
• Obi Okolie had eight points, eight rebounds and three assists in the loss..

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
 • After having teammates score 30 points in the same game just once in the first 119 years of Cornell basketball, juniors Matt Morgan and Stone Gettings reached that milestone in consecutive games against Niagara and Delaware.
• Prior to the Niagara contest, the only previous time two Cornellians scored more than 30 points in the same game was on March 2, 1956 at the famed Palestra in Philadelphia when Bo Roberson (32) and Chuck Rolles (30) did so against Penn.
• In between, Cornell played 1,611 games over those ensuing 61 seasons.
• Morgan, the nation's eighth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 23.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 43 consecutive games, the sixth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 43 consecutive double figure scoring games surpassed John Sheehy's 34 straight (1953-55) for a school record that had held for 62 years.
• He is the only player in school history to put together two streaks of at least 20 consecutive games scoring in double figures (also a 21-game streak from 2015-16).
• Now averaging 23.3 points per game, Morgan's scoring average would be the highest ever by a Cornell player if maintained (Chuck Rolles '56 averaged 23.0 points in 1955-56).
• Morgan was the first Big Red player to post 12 consecutive 20-point games (previous Cornell record was six), a streak that ended with 13 at Penn.
• The junior has connected on at least one trey in 30 straight (third-longest streak at Cornell).
• Morgan became the first Cornell player to declare early for the NBA Draft during the spring of 2017, withdrawing before the early entry deadline to preserve his final two seasons of eligibility.
• After missing much of the preseason due to injury, junior Stone Gettings is averaging 17.0 ppg., 6.3 rpg. and 2.7 apg. in 25.1 minutes per contest.
• The only games by a Cornellian with more than Gettings' 39 points against Delaware were 47 scored by George Farley against Princeton in 1960 and 42 by Chuck Rolles at Syracuse in 1956.
• In his last 17 games, spanning 447 minutes, Gettings has scored 309 points, grabbed 117 rebounds, dished 52 assists and collected 13 steals and eight blocks — 27.7 ppg., 10.5 rpg., 4.7 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.5 bpg.), sixth in rebounding (6.1 rpg.) and is 11th in steals (1.0 spg.).
• Jack Gordon, a career 42 percent 3-point shooter, tied a single-game school record for 3-point percentage in a game, joining Ryan Wittman '10 (2010 vs. Bryant) as the lone Cornellians to hit five 3-pointers in a game without a miss when he did so against Central Penn.
• Gordon's career-best 10 rebounds against Niagara obliterated his previous career best of four.
• With Gordon and Gettings each registering double digit rebounds vs. Niagara, the juniors became the first Big Red teammates to accomplish that feat since Louis Dale '10 (11) and Jeff Foote '10 (10) did so against Dartmouth during the 2007-08 campaign.
• Eleven different Big Red players to have reached double digits in scoring in at least one game this season.
• Members of the Cornell basketball team represent 10 states and the District of Columbia.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
 • The Big Red's streak of scoring 75 or more points ended after six games with 61 points against Penn, its longest stretch since stringing together six consecutive contests spanning the final three contests of 2006-07 and the first three of the 2007-08 seasons. (Last time with seven straight, 1/19/66-2/18/66).
• Brian Earl and his brother Dan (VMI) one of five active sets of brothers directing Division I programs, joining Scott (Baylor) and Bryce (Vanderbilt) Drew; Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny (Rhode Island) Hurley; Joe (Yale) and James (Boston University) Jones; and Sean (Arizona) and Archie (Dayton) Miller.
• Fifth-year assistant coach Jon Jaques was a starter and senior captain on the 2009-10 Cornell team that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
• Cornell has played in 47 different states, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia, France and Spain. The only states the Big Red has not played in are Alaska, North Dakota and Mississippi after crossing Wyoming off the list last year.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 821 consecutive games (11th-longest streak in Division I) dating back to a contest against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2). Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, the Big Red has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 867 of 871 games (5,619 3-pointers over that span).
• The Big Red returns 72 percent of its scoring, 74 percent of its rebounding and 71 percent of its assists from last season — one of just 16 Division I teams nationwide to bring back 70 percent of its scoring, rebounding and assists from 2016-17.
• Dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 40-50 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 6-9 in multiple overtime games, with the longest game for the Big Red being a five overtime contest against Princeton, won by the Tigers 66-61 on Feb. 24, 1979 at Barton Hall. Cornell is 29-19 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 10-28 in road games.
• The Big Red ranks among the best according to the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report (APR) for 2015-16 that was released this past May. The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members' continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation. The NCAA "commends" teams that have APR scores in the top 10 percent within their sport. Cornell has been recognized nine times in the 12 years since the APR began, including seven consecutive.
• Are Cornell Student-Athletes on Scholarship? The easy answer is no. Cornell student-athletes are awarded need-based financial aid, just as any other student who applies to the school. That package can come in the form of student loans and grants. The basic intent of the original Ivy League agreement of 1954 was to improve and foster intercollegiate athletics while keeping the emphasis on such competition in harmony with the educational purpose of the institutions. The Ivy League is nationally recognized for its level of success — absent of athletic scholarships — while rigorously maintaining its self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the current national pressures on intercollegiate success, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics.

#ROADTOIVYMADNESS RETURNS
• The Ivy League men's and women's basketball tournaments return to Philadelphia, where they will take place Saturday and Sunday, March 10-11, 2018.
• The top four teams will earn berths to the tournament, with the semifinals on Saturday and the championships on Sunday.
• All six games will be broadcast live on ESPN's networks.
• For tickets and more information please visit IvyMadness.com.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red returns home for a four-game homestand beginning on Friday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. against defending Ivy champion Princeton.