HEAD COACH BRIAN EARL
• Brian Earl is in his second season as the Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball (16-32, .333; 6-14 Ivy, .300).|
• 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-BROWN SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 77-52
In Providence, R.I.: Series tied 32-32
Current Streak: Cornell, 1 game
Last Meeting: Cornell won 92-78, 3/4/17 in Providence, R.I.
Earl vs. Brown: 1-1
Series Notes: Cornell holds a 76-52 lead in a series that dates back to the 1949-50 campaign • Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 19 of the last 26 meetings • the Bears ended Cornell's 13-game win streak in the series in March 2013 and has gone 6-3 since • Cornell has won 11 of the last 14 meetings between the programs in Providence, including 10 in a row from 2004-13

A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD
• push Cornell's record to 9-11 on the season, surpassing last season's overall win total (8-21).
• make the Big Red 3-1 in its last four conference games.
• push its Ivy record to 3-4.
• be the 1,251st in program history (1,250-1,419 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. BROWN
• Cornell scored the game's first 13 points and never trailed, ending its 2016-17 season with a 92-78 victory at Brown on March 4, 2017 at the Pizzitola Sports Center.
• Playing his final collegiate game, senior guard Robert Hatter had 20 points, three rebounds and three assists, jumping into the school's all-time top 10 scorers in the process.
• He was part of an offense that shot 59 percent from the floor and assisted on 17 of its 30 baskets on the evening to help snap a four-game losing streak.
• Junior Wil Bathurst had his first career double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds and the sophomore tandem of Stone Gettings (21 points, five rebounds, three assists) and Matt Morgan (16 points, six rebounds, four assists, two steals) combined for 37 points.
• Fellow sophomores Joel Davis (seven points) and Troy Whiteside (seven points, six rebounds, two assists, two steals, one block) also made major contributions to the win.
• The Big Red controlled the glass (37-29) and overcame 16 turnovers in the victory.
• Brown senior Steven Spieth had a game-high 31 points and added eight rebounds in his final collegiate game, with classmate JR Hobbie connecting on five 3-pointers for 15 points.
• Obie Okolie was also in double figures with 13 points and chipped in seven boards.

LAST TIME OUT
• Seth Towns drained a go-ahead 3-pointer with under three minutes to play and preseason Ivy League favorite Harvard held on down the stretch with free throws to top Cornell 76-73 on Jan. 3 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell's Stone Gettings had his third 30-point game of the season and the fourth double-double of his career with a 32-point, 10-rebound effort in defeat, while Matt Morgan scored 16 points and dished off six assists without a turnover.
• Josh Warren scored eight points, Steven Julian had five points and five boards and Terrance McBride had four points, five helpers and two steals.
• The Big Red had 19 assists on the night and just 10 turnovers, but were done in at the free-throw line - hitting just 10-of-18, including missing the tying or go-ahead free throw twice in the final three minutes, and one that would have extended its lead to two possessions right before Harvard took a lead with 3:09 to play.
• Towns ended the night with 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists among four double figure scorers.
• Chris Lewis chipped in 17 points, six boards, two assists and three blocked shots, Christian Juzang had 12 points, six rebounds and three assists and Danilo Djuricic scored 11 off the bench.
• The Crimson made 15-of-16 free throws on the night, including all 10 second half charity tosses and six straight in the final 88 seconds for the win.

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 23.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 42 consecutive games, the sixth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 42 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 23.5 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 29 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 16.7 ppg., 6.4 rpg. and 2.6 apg. in 24.6 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 16 games, spanning 412 minutes, Gettings has scored 286 points, grabbed 107 rebounds, dished 48 assists and collected 12 steals and five blocks — 27.8 ppg., 10.4 rpg., 4.7 apg. per 40 minutes.
• Junior forward Steven Julian is second in the Ancient Eight in blocked shots (1.5 bpg.), fifth in rebounding (6.2 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 820 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 866 of 870 games (5,612 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
• Cornell will head to Yale on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. while attempting to snap a xx-game losing skid in New Haven. Conn.
• The Big Red then returns home for a four-game homestand beginning on Friday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. against defending Ivy champion Princeton.