CORNELL-DARTMOUTH SERIES
Overall: Cornell leads 109-106
In Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth leads 63-45
Current Streak: Cornell, 3 games
Last Meeting: Cornell won 86-85, 2/2/18 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Earl vs. Dartmouth: 3-0
Series Notes: Cornell holds a narrow 109-106 lead in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign • Cornell has had the best of the series recently, having won 23 of the last 29 meetings • the Big Red's sweep a year ago was the first time in five years where the teams didn't split the season series

A WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD
• depending on other results around the league (with Columbia and Princeton losses), give the Big Red  the fourth seed in next weekend's Ivy League Tournament.
• send out seniors Jordan Abdur-Ra'oof, Wil Bathurst, Kyle Brown and Pat Smith out with a regular season win.
• end the regular season with a 12-15 record.
• close the Big Red's Ivy record at 6-8, a two-game improvement over last season.
• make the Big Red 6-5 in its last 11 conference games.
• be the 1,254th in program history (1,253-1,423 in 118 seasons, .468).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
 • 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 Feb. 2, 2018 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.

LAST TIME OUT
• Harvard and Cornell spent all night throwing mighty shots at each other, but the preseason Ivy favorite Crimson regained its spot atop the conference standings with a 98-88 double overtime victory over the Big Red last night at Lavietes Pavillion.
• Junior Matt Morgan tied his career high with 34 points and classmates Stone Gettings (23 points, six rebounds, four assists) and Steven Julian (10 points, 12 rebounds, three assists) all made huge contributions.
• The Big Red remained in the fight despite shooting under 40 percent from the floor (.394), being outrebounds 41-32 and allowing the Crimson to shoot 53 percent overall and hit 12 3-pointers.
• Jack Gordon had eight points and four assists off the bench and Joel Davis netted seven points.
• In all, the junior class combined for 82 of the team's 88 points on the night.
• Chris Lewis scored 29 points to lead four Crimson players with at least 18 points.
• Christian Juzang had a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds, Seth Towns scored 20 and Justin Bassey recorded 18 along with seven rebounds and five assists.
• Harvard was hurt by 19 turnovers and allowed the Big Red to get to the free-throw line 29 times.
• Morgan's conventional three-point play with 4.8 seconds left in regulation sent the game into overtime after the Crimson led by as many as 10 in the second half.

PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Junior Matt Morgan, the nation's ninth-leading scorer, has been on a tear all season, averaging 22.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists this year, including claiming Ivy League Player of the Week honors three times.
• Morgan has reached double figures in 49 consecutive games, the fifth-longest active streak by a Division I player in the country entering the week.
• The 49 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 22.9 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., 6.7 rpg. and 2.8 apg. in 26.8 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 23 games, spanning 643 minutes, Gettings has scored 417 points, grabbed 160 rebounds, dished 72 assists and collected 18 steals and 12 blocks — 25.9 ppg., 10.0 rpg., 4.5 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 (1.5 bpg.), fourth in steals (1.2 spg.) and sixth in rebounding (6.0 rpg.).
• 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 827 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 873 of 877 games (5,663 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 41-51 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 7-10 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 10-29 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
• Depending on other results, Cornell will either prepare for the Ivy League Tournament next weekend in Philadelphia or will start looking toward the 2018-19 campaign that begins with practice in October.