GAME INFORMATION
GAME #3: Cornell at No. 1 Albany
FACE OFF: Sunday, March 4, at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Tom & Mary Casey Stadium (Albany, N.Y.)
2018 Records: Cornell (1-1, 0-0 Ivy League); Albany (2-0, 0-0 AE)
SERIES RECORD: Albany leads, 3-2
LAST MEETING: Albany, 17-6 (3/5/2017 in Ithaca, N.Y.)
 
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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red men's lacrosse team will face its toughest test of the season when it travels to Albany to take on the No. 1 Great Danes on Sunday, March 4 at 1 p.m. Cornell evened its record at 1-1 with a 15-8 victory over Hobart in its home opener, while Albany is off to a 2-0 start after commanding victories over No. 8 Syracuse and Drexel.  The game can be viewed on America East TV, or heard at www.WHCUradio.com or locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Howie Borkan on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. ALBANY: Albany leads the all-time series, 3-2, thanks to the Great Danes current three-game winning streak.
• The two teams first met in the 2007 NCAA tournament quarterfinals where the Big Red defeated UAlbany in overtime in Princeton, N.J.
• Cornell won the first-ever regular season meeting in 2015 in the seventh annual Patriot Cup held in Dallas, Texas.
• The Great Danes earned its first in in the 2015 NCAA tournament.
• Albany won the first-ever regular season match-up played in Albany during the 2016 season. 
 
A WIN OVER ALBANY WOULD:
• tie the series vs. the Great Danes at 3-3.
• snap Albany's three-game winning streak vs. the Big Red.
• end a three-game road losing streak.
• be the 747th win in program history.
• make Cornell 1-0 vs. nationally ranked opponents this season.
• make Cornell 73-74 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 6-23 all-time vs. the No. 1 ranked team in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• be the Big Red's first against the No. 1 team in the nation since defeating No. 1 Syracuse (11-6) on April 12, 2011.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• A trio of sophomores – Cornell's Ryan Maloney and UAlbany's Pat Barrow and TD Ierlan – led Victor High School over their final two seasons to a 44-0 record, back-to-back NYS Championships, and a top five national ranking.
 
CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST: The Big Red is 23-9 all-time vs. the current members of the America East.
• Cornell is 12-0 all-time vs. Binghamton, 5-0 vs. Stony Brook, and 1-0 vs. Hartford.
• The Big Red has a losing record vs. Albany (2-3) and UMBC (5-6).
• Cornell  has never faced Vermont.
  
THE HEAD COACH: Peter Milliman (1-1, .500) was named the interim head coach of the Cornell men's lacrosse program on May 8, 2017. For the past four seasons, Milliman has served the program, first as an assistant coach and then as the program's Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse. He begins his fifth season as a head coach (38-27).
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team having registered one point in each of the last 13 games.
• Jeff Teat has registered one point in 12 consecutive games.
• Jeff Teat has tallied at least five points in eight consecutive games.
• Christian Knight has double-digit saves in six consecutive games.
 
FASTEST TO 100: With 89 points in 15 career games, Jeff Teat is on pace to reach 100 career points faster than any other four-year player in Cornell history.
• Rob Pannell tallied his 100th career point in his 25th career game with the Big Red during his sophomore season in 2010.
• Michael French '76 (16 games) and Eamon McEneaney '77 (19 games) registered their 100th career point in fewer games, but due NCAA rules that prohibited freshmen from playing varsity sports, both accomplished the feat in their junior season.
• The only Cornell player to register 100 points faster than French and McEneaney is Tim Goldstein, a junior college transfer, who tallied 100 points in his 14th game during his first season with the Big Red as a junior in 1987.
 
WEEKLY HONORS
• Jeff Teat was named to the USILA Team of the Week on Feb. 27 after tallying 10 points (four goals, six assists) vs. Hobart.
 
THE PETTERSON-TEAT CONNECTION:
• Clarke Petterson and Jeff Teat both attended The Hill Academy.
• Of Petterson's 40 points since the 2017 season, more than half (25) have involved Teat.
• Teat has assisted on 12 of Petterson's 21 goals since 2017.
• Of Petterson's 19 assists since 2017, 12 have come on goals by Teat
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Christian Knight ranks seventh in career saves (470) … He needs 19 more to move into sixth place.
• Christian Knight ranks seventh in career wins (23) … He needs seven more to move into sixth place.
 
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND:  Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 288-166-7 (.632) … The Big Red has five New York teams on its schedule this season – Colgate, Hobart, Albany, Binghamton, and Syracuse – and is 1-1 so far.
 
ROSTER SUPERLATIVES: Cornell's 50-man roster is the largest since the program carried a jayvee team in the mid-1980s, surpassing the 47-man roster of the 2008 season. 
 
THROWBACK NUMBERS:
• The 2018 roster features five unique numbers on it - #51, #61, #77, #78, and #93.
• Jeff Teat is the first player to wear #51 since Jerome Dolins wore it in 1966.
• Selden Leonard is the first player to wear #78 since Marshall Grode in 1959
• Parker Henderer (#61), Tom Reilly (#77) and Kiernan Coles (#93) are the first. Big Red men's lacrosse player to ever wear their numbers. 
 
ELITE COMPANY:  Over the past 10 seasons (2008-2017) only 10 schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (147), Syracuse (134), Denver (122), Maryland (128), Notre Dame (118), UVA (112), North Carolina (110), Loyola (108), Cornell (105), and Hopkins (100) … During that span, only nine teams have won at least 65 percent of its games – Syracuse (.788), Duke (.754), Notre Dame (.742), Maryland (.736), Denver (.728), Loyola (.692), UVA (.683), Cornell (.673), and  UNC (.671).
 
RANKED OPPONENTS:  Of the Big Red's 14 opponents this season, four are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Albany (first), Yale (11th), Syracuse (12th), and Penn (13th).
• Another five opponents – Colgate, Penn State, Brown, Princeton, and Lehigh – are all receiving votes.
 
CLOSE CALLS: Since the beginning of the 2003 season, Cornell is 37-22 in games that have been decided by a single goal, a mark that was raised when the Big Red defeated No. 13 Princeton, 18-17, on April 29, 2017. Of the 22 losses, 17 have come against ranked opponents, including 11 against squads ranked in the top-10, five of which were ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in the nation.
 
BIG RED INTERNATIONAL:
• Three former Big Red players – Rob Pannell (USA), Max Seibald (Israel), and Mat Martinez (Puerto Rico) – have already been selected to participate in the 2018 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) Men's Lacrosse World Championship, scheduled for this July in Netanya, Israel.
• Two other alumni – Brennan Donville and Jason Noble – and current player Jeff Teat are still on the training roster for Team Canada.
• Cornell senior Kason Tarbell is on the training team for the Iroquois Nationals.
 
MILLIMAN TABBED TO ASSIST TEAM USA: Interim Head Coach Peter Milliman has been named an assistant coach for the 2019 U.S. men's national indoor team. The team will be led by Regy Thorpe (Syracuse University), who will guide the team in pursuit of a gold medal at the 2019 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), Sept. 19-28, 2019, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
 
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN:  Sophomore attackman Jeff Teat was named a preseason second-team All-American by Inside Lacrosse Magazine.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has four captains this season – seniors Jordan Dowiak, Christian Knight, Jake Pulver, and junior Clarke Petterson.
 
HARD HAT: Clarke Petterson was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2018 season. The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.
 
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK:  The 13-member Class of 2021 features three US Lacrosse All-Americans, and consists of six midfielders, three attackmen, three defenders, and one goalie. The group hails from six different states, including a class-high six New Yorkers, as well as one player coming from Ontario.
 
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN: Jeff Teat was named an honorable mention All-American by both the USILA and Inside Lacrosse following the 2017 season.
 
TICKLE THE ALL-IVY: The Big Red returns four All-Ivy selections from a year ago –Jake Pulver (second-team), Jeff Teat (second-team), Christian Knight (honorable mention) and Clarke Petterson (honorable mention).
 
WHAT WAS LOST: The Big Red lost one All-Ivy selection from a year ago – Marshall Peters (honorable mention) – as well as seven other letter winners.

WHAT REMAINS: Cornell returns 21 letter winners and nine starters, including All-American scoring sensation Jeff Teat, who finished his rookie season as the Ivy League leader in both points (5.54) and assists per game (3.00).
• Teat is joined by returning All-Ivy selections Clarke Petterson '19 on attack, Jake Pulver '18 on defense, and Christian Knight '18 in goal.
• Cornell returns 141-of-152 goals (.927), 99-of-103 assists (.961) and 240-of-255 points (.941) from a year ago.
 
CLASS OF 2019 NOTES:
• The Big Red's 2017 freshman class amassed 112 points from seven players – Jeff Teat (72), Connor Fletcher (32), Austin Fingar (3), Paul Rasimowicz (2), Sam Duggan (1), Ryan Maloney (1), and Brandon Salvatore (1).
• The Class of 2020's 112 points are the most in program history for a rookie class ahead of the 2009 freshmen (86) and the 2016 freshmen (82).
• During the 2009 season, the 86 freshmen points came from three players – Rob Pannell (67 points), Roy Lang (11 points), and Mitch McMichael (eight points).
• The 2016 season's freshmen class is now the third highest scoring rookie class in program history with 82 points coming from seven players – Colton Rupp (24 points), Ryan Bray (22 points), Clarke Petterson (15 points), Anthony Teixeira (nine points), Zach Ward (seven points), Jake McCulloch (four points) and Conor O'Brien (one point).
• There are just four rookie classes in program history that have amassed more than 75 points, with the fourth class coming from the 2002 freshmen that had 76 points from three players – Sean Greenhalgh (42 points), Justin Redd (31 points) and J.D. Nelson (eight points).
• In the 42 seasons since freshmen became eligible to participate in varsity athletics, Cornell has had a freshman class register at least 40 points just eight times (2017, 2016, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2003, 2000, 1995).
• There have been 17 seasons in which the Big Red received just single-digit points from its freshmen (2015, 2014, 2008, 2007, 2005, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1981, 1978, 1977).
• Cornell has had three seasons in which a freshman did not register a single point (2007, 1986, 1978).
 
RECAPPING 2017: After opening the season with five consecutive losses, the Big Red rebounded to go 5-3 down the stretch, including an upset of No. 13 Princeton in the season finale to finish with a mark of 5-8 overall and a fourth place finish in the Ivy League (3-3). Following the season, Jake Pulver and Jeff Teat were named second-team All-Ivy, while Christian Knight, Marshall Peters, and Clarke Petterson were all named honorable mention. Teat finished the regular season ranked first in the Ivy League in both points (5.54) and assists per game (3.00) and broke Rob Pannell's Cornell freshman scoring record with 72 points. Teat was named an honorable mention USILA All-America, as well as an Inside Lacrosse All-American, while Marshall Peters was named a USILA Scholar All-American.

UP NEXT: Cornell returns to Schoellkopf Field on Tuesday, March 6 when it welcomes Binghamton for a contest at 5 p.m.