HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (292-91-5, .759; 117-8-1 Ivy, .932).
• Koll 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 15 straight Ivy League titles (18 overall), 11 consecutive 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 14 national titles with 59 All-Americans and 59 individual EIWA champions.

ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA
• North Carolina enters the week with an 8-10 dual meet record prior to a midweek conference battle with Duke.
• The Tar Heels own wins at Nebraska, a neutral site victory over Minnesota and one-point losses to nationally ranked Rutgers and Northern Iowa.
• UNC features seven nationally-ranked wrestlers in the latest Intermat poll, led by eighth-ranked Troy Heilmann at 149 pounds.
• Both 157-pounder Kennedy Monday and 197-pounder Daniel Chaid sit at No. 15, Ethan Ramo at 174 and heavyweight Cory Daniel are ranked No. 16, 184-pounder Chip Ness is No. 17 and 141-pounder A.C. Headlee is No. 19.
• Third-year head coach Coleman Scott, a 2008 NCAA champion and four-time All-American at Oklahoma State, has a 29-21 overall record since taking over the program.

CORNELL-NORTH CAROLINA SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 4-1 in a series that began in the 1992-93 season.
• It will be the first-ever meeting between the teams in Ithaca, with the Big Red visiting Chapel Hill once (18-16 Cornell win in 1995-96) and four other times at neutral sites.
• The last time the two squads met was during the 1998-99 season when the squared off on consecutive days at the Virginia Duals in Charlottesville, Va., with Cornell coming out on top 22-15 and 19-15.
• Cornell has won three straight since the Tar Heels' only win in the series, a 28-12 victory on Jan. 7, 1995 in Providence, R.I. as part of the EIWA/ACC Challenge.

LAST TIME VS. NORTH CAROLINA
• Cornell, ranked 21st in the country, knocked off North Carolina for the second straight day at the Virginia Duals on Jan. 9, 1999 by a 19-15 margin.
• The Big Red rallied from a 9-0 deficit and closed the dual with consecutive wins, a major decision win by Bob Greenleaf at 197 to give Cornell the lead, followed by a 5-3 win at heavyweight by Seth Charles to clinch the victory.
• The Big Red won three consecutive matches three different times and overcame a North Carolina pin at 133 by winning six of the 10 matches.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Cornell wrestling team swept a pair of dual meets on Feb. 10 to capture a record 16th consecutive Ivy League title, topping Penn 32-9 and Princeton 34-6 on the road, its 82nd and 83rd straight conference win.
• The Big Red improved to 12-2 overall and capped yet another undefeated conference season in the process.
• The Big Red won six of the seven contested bouts in a dominant 32-9 win at Penn.
• Aided by forfeits at 125 and 141, Cornell built a 22-0 lead in the team score and was never threatened in picking up its 82nd straight Ivy win.
• The 16 consecutive league titles builds on its own record - no school in any sport has won more Ivy League titles in consecutive years.
• The win was the 16th straight over the Quakers, who handed Cornell its last Ivy loss back in 2002.
• It was 15-0 after three matches and the Tigers never recovered as Cornell had an answer for everything Princeton threw its way.
• Noah Baughman and Yianni Diakomihalis had second period pinfalls sandwiched around a workmanlike 5-2 win for Chaz Tucker at 133 to get things rolling, then won all five matches after intermission after the Tigers crawled back within 15-6 with a pair of hard fought decisions that went in their direction.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell has won 11 consecutive EIWA team titles, the longest streak in conference history.
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 16 seasons and in 26 of the last 27 years.
• The Big Red is 65-1 (.985) in its last 66 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 104-4-1 (.959) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 92-0 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 118-24-1 (.829) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 47-6 (.887) in its last 53 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last nine seasons and in the top 10 in 13 of the last 15 years (10 straight).
• Big Red wrestling is 84-1 in dual meets (.988) 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 34 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• The Big Red has claimed a record six consecutive New York State team titles.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 72-14-1 in dual matches (.833) there.
• Cornell went 40-10 in 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 292-91-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red's coaching staff has combined for 15 All-America accolades and five individual NCAA titles as collegiate athletes.
• The Big Red holds a 34-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 257-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (7-0), 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).
• Cornell registered its sixth consecutive New York state intercollegiate title in 2017-18, surpassing Buffalo's run from 1974-78 as the longest in tournament history.

NEXT UP
• Cornell will attempt to win its 12th straight EIWA title and qualify all 10 starters for nationals when the two-day league championship commences on Saturday, March 3 at Hofstra.
• It will be the first time for the Pride hosting the event, which will be held at the David Mack Sports Complex.
• A year ago, the Big Red crowned four individual champions and qualified six for the NCAA Championships while taking home its 25th title in school history.