CORNELL-BROWN SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 78-52
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell leads 45-20
Current Streak: Cornell, 2 games
Last Meeting: Cornell won 78-60, 2/9/18 in Providence, R.I.
Earl vs. Brown: 2-1
Series Notes: Cornell holds a 78-52 lead in a series that dates back to the 1949-50 campaign • Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 20 of the last 27 meetings • the Bears ended Cornell's 13-game win streak in the series in March 2013 and has gone 6-4 since

A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD
• improve Cornell's record to 11-14 on the season
• push the Big Red's record to 5-7 in Ivy play (surpassing last season's league win total when it went 4-10).
• make the Big Red 5-4 in its last nine conference games.
• make Cornell 8-4 at Newman Arena this season (4-3 in Ivy League play).
• be the 1,253rd in program history (1,252-1,422 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. BROWN
  • 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 on Feb. 9, 2018 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.

LAST TIME OUT
 • Noah Yates hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 20 seconds left and Yale held off an improbable Cornell rally in the final four seconds to close out an 82-80 victory over the Big Red last night at Newman Arena.
• Matt Morgan led four double figure scorers for Cornell with 23 points, including a pair of free throws after being fouled on a 3-point attempt with 2.8 seconds remaining.
• He missed the third attempt on purpose and it went out of bounds off a Yale player.
• With one last chance trailing by two, the Big Red got the ball into Steven Julian, who missed a 16-footer on the baseline at the buzzer.
• Junior Stone Gettings chipped in 16 points and 10 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season, freshman Terrance McBride hit all five of his shots en route to 13 points, five rebounds and four assists and Joel Davis added 11 points.
• The Big Red shot 50 percent from the floor, matched Yale on the backboards (31-31) and turned it over just 11 times, but could not overcome Yale's reserves and a second half offensive explosion.
• The Bulldogs shot 67 percent from the floor after halftime and rang up 52 points in the final 20 minutes.
• Yale overcame a nine-point second half deficit thanks in large part to Trey Phills (17 second half points) and Yates (12 points).
• In a game that featured 20 lead changes, including 13 after halftime, Phills may have made the biggest play of the night with a steal and score seconds after Yates canned the go-ahead shot, turning it into a four-point Bulldog lead.

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Matt Morgan, the nation's ninth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 22.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 47 consecutive games, the sixth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 46 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 22.7 points per game, Morgan's scoring average would be the second-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 had his streak of 30 consecutive games with a made 3-pointer snapped at Yale (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 17.2 ppg., 6.9 rpg. and 2.7 apg. in 26.5 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 21 games, spanning 581 minutes, Gettings has scored 382 points, grabbed 150 rebounds, dished 63 assists and collected 17 steals and 11 blocks — 26.3 ppg., 10.3 rpg., 4.3 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Gettings had a streak of six straight 20-point games snapped against Penn, a mark that would have tied the school record entering the season — that was broken and extended to 12 by Morgan earlier this year.
• After having teammates score 30 points in the same game just once in the first 119 years of Cornell basketball, juniors Morgan and 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.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.4 bpg.), sixth in rebounding (5.7 rpg.) and is 11th in steals (1.1 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 triple overtime 107-101 win over Princeton was the longest game for Cornell since a 66-61 loss to the Tigers at home in five overtimes on Feb. 24, 1979 - a span of 1,108 games.
• It was the first time both Cornell and its opponent each scored at least 100 points in a game in school history.
• 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 825 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 871 of 875 games (5,645 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 41-50 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 7-9 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 30-19 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 closes out the regular season with road contests at Harvard (Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m.) and Dartmouth (Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m.) as the #RoadToIvyMadness concludes.