HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (16-31, .340; 6-13 Ivy, .316).|
• 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-HARVARD SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 93-79
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell leads 49-36
Current Streak: Harvard, 3 games
Last Meeting: Harvard won 87-75, 2/18/17 in Cambridge, Mass.
Earl vs. Harvard: 0-2
Series Notes: Series dates back to the 1901-02 season • Harvard has won three of the last five contests between the teams • prior to that, the Crimson had won nine straight meeting • Harvard has won six of the last seven meetings between the teams, with four of those losses coming by two possessions or less

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD
• push Cornell's record to 9-10 on the season, surpassing last season's overall win total.
• give the Big Red its first three-game Ivy League win streak since the 2012-13 season when it defeated Dartmouth at home and then both Yale and Brown on the road.
• even its Ivy record at 3-3 and keep Cornell in the top four of the Ivy standings.
• improve the Big Red to 7-1 on the year at Newman Arena while capturing the program's 199th victory all-time at Newman Arena (198-150).
• be the 1,251st in program history (1,250-1,418 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. HARVARD
• Harvard shot 60 percent from the floor overall and from beyond the 3-point arc to take a 20-point halftime lead and held off a Cornell surge for an 87-75 win on Feb. 18 at Lavietes Pavilion.
• Four Cornell players reached double figures, including sophomore Jack Gordon who matched his career high with 13 points.
• Classmate Matt Morgan added 13 as well, while Stone Gettings and Josh Warren had 11 points apiece.
• The Big Red set a single-game school record by making all 20 free throw attempts, the most of any Cornell team without a miss.
• Senior Robert Hatter added nine points, Wil Bathurst had eight points and four assists and JoJo Fallas recorded seven points, three rebounds, three assists and two steals.
• Harvard got a game-high 21 points from Seth Towns as four Crimson players reached double digits.
• Bryce Aiken added 17 points, Zena Edosomwan had 14 and Chris Lewis chipped in 10 points to go along with nine rebounds.
• Harvard shot 50 percent overall, held a 35-28 rebounding edge and got to the line 33 times, connecting on 26 attempts.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell rallied from a five-point deficit with a minute to play thanks to heroics by Matt Morgan and Joel Davis and a pair of big defensive stops to top Dartmouth 86-85 on Friday evening at Newman Arena.
• Morgan scored a game-high 28 points, including a key 3-pointer in the final minute, and Davis chipped in a career-high 16 points, including the go-ahead free throws with 25 seconds remaining after stealing the ball on the defensive end.
• Davis and Morgan combined to shoot 17-of-19 from the free throw line.
• Classmate Stone Gettings added 20 points, five rebounds and five assists before fouling out.
• Steven Julian also fouled out after recording nine points and a game-best 10 boards.
• Dartmouth shot 56 percent from the floor overall, putting five players into double figures.
• Taylor Johnson led the way with 25 points, four rebounds and four assists, while Miles Wright had 18, including his 1,000th career point.
• Ian Sistare had 15 points and six boards, Adrease Jackson had 12 points and six rebounds and Will Emery scored 10.
• The Big Green had a dominant 29-7 edge in bench scoring.
• Cornell allowed Dartmouth to shoot .566 from the field, the highest field goal percentage by an opponent in a Big Red win since Princeton shot .568 in a 66-58 Big Red victory in 2005.

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 sixth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 23.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 41 consecutive games, the seventh-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 41 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 23.9 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 28 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 15.8 ppg., 6.2 rpg. and 2.7 apg. in 24.1 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 15 games, spanning 378 minutes, Gettings has scored 254 points, grabbed 97 rebounds, dished 47 assists and collected 11 steals and five blocks — 26.9 ppg., 10.3 rpg., 5.0 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.6 bpg.), fourth in rebounding (6.3 rpg.) and is ninth 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 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 819 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 865 of 869 games (5,611 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 hits the road next weekend for contests at Brown (Friday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.) on ESPN3 and Yale (Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.).