GAME INFORMATION
GAME #10: No. 13 Cornell vs. Harvard
FACE OFF: Saturday, April 7, at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2018 Records: Cornell (6-3, 2-1 Ivy League); Harvard (7-2, 2-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 65-26
LAST MEETING: Cornell, 12-9 (4/8/17 in Cambridge, Mass.)
 
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THE MATCHUP:  The third-most contested rivalry in the Ivy League is on tap this weekend when the No. 13 Big Red welcomes Harvard to Schoellkopf Field for the 92nd meeting between the two programs on Saturday, April 7 at 1 p.m.  Cornell has been on an offensive roll, scoring 20+ goals in each of its last three games while improving to 6-3 overall and 2-1 in the Ivy League.  The Crimson had a six-game winning streak snapped last week with a 14-6 loss to No. 1 Albany to fall to 7-2 on the year (2-0 Ivy). The game can be viewed on the Ivy League Network, or heard at www.WHCUradio.com or locally on WHCU 870 AM with Jason Weinstein and Tom LaFalce on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. HARVARD: The Cornell and Harvard rivalry dates back nearly as far as both teams' lacrosse programs, as the two squads first squared off in the 1895 season.
• Standing at 92 meetings, the series is the third most contested in the Ivy League, a mark good for 10th in NCAA DI.
• The Big Red won that first meeting, 2-1, and has dominated ever since, holding a 65-26 overall record against.
• Harvard snapped a 16-game losing streak in 2014, and went on to win three in a row (2014-17) to give the Crimson its longest streak in the series since winning five straight from 1994 to 1998.
 
A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD:
• be two in a row over the Crimson.
• give Cornell four straight wins for the first time since winning four in a row against Yale, Colgate, Penn and Dartmouth during the 2015 season.
• improve the Big Red to 4-1 on Schoellkopf this season.
• be the 752nd win in program history.
• make Cornell 18-10 all-time when ranked 10th in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell's record to 255-56 all-time vs. teams that are not ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Cornell sophomore Brandon Salvatore's younger brother Kyle Salvatore plays for Harvard. 
• Harvard assistant coach Justin Turri is the cousin of former Big Red midfielder Troy Turri '08.
• Crimson senior Joe Lang is the younger brother of former Cornell All-American Roy Lang '12 and his sister Kelly was also a member of the Big Red women's lacrosse team, graduating in 2013.
• Harvard freshman Kyle Massimilian is the younger brother of former Big Red FOGO Domenic Massimilian.
• Jake McCulloch, John Day, Andrew Lockhart, Tom Reilly, and Harvard sophomore Eric Wang all went to Ward Melville.
• Jonathan Donville, Scott Flynn, and Harvard's Nigel Andrews and Tim Edmonds all attended Deerfield Academy.
• Teddy Strzetelski and Harvard's Morgan Cheek, Watson Cheek, and George Loring all attended Noble and Greenough School.
• Dom Doria and Harvard's Franki Tengredi and Carney Mahon all attended Chaminade High School.
• Parker Henderer and Harvard's Peter Blynn both attended The Haverford School.
• Tyler Miller and Harvard's Michael Farber both attended Rye Country Day.
 
THE HEAD COACH
• Peter Milliman (6-3, .667) 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 is in his fifth season as a head coach (43-29).
 
OFFENSIVE OUTBURST:
• Cornell has scored 20+ goals in three consecutive games (Penn – 20; Air Force – 23; Dartmouth – 22) for the first time in program history.
• The Big Red's 65 goals in that span have come on 87 shots on goal (.747 percent).
• Cornell has assisted on 48 of the 65 goals (.738).
• Of the 65 goals, 38 have come from the midfield, with 27 from the attack.
• With 65 goals on 113 possessions, the Big Red has averaged just over one goal on every other possession during the streak (.575 percent). 
 
HIGHEST SCORING MIDFIELDERS: Jordan Dowiak ranks seventh in the nation among midfielders with 21 goals.
• Of the six players ahead of Dowiak, only Loyola's Jay Drapeau (24 goals) and Maryland's Connor Kelly (22 goals) have played in as few games as the Big Red midfielder (nine games).
• UVA's Dox Aitken tops the list with 27 goals in 11 games.
 
MIDSEASON MARK
• Jeff Teat and Christian Knight have been named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-American teams.
• Teat was a second-team selection, while Knight was a third-team honoree.
 
WIN NUMBER 750
• Cornell picked up the 750th win in program history when it defeated Air Force, 23-5 on March 27.
• The Big Red is one of just seven NCAA Division I men's lacrosse programs to boast at least 750 wins.
 
BACK IN THE RANKINGS AGAIN
• Cornell's inclusion in the March 26 USILA Coaches Poll (No. 14) ended a 29-week streak in which the Big Red was out of the poll, the longest stretch in school history.
• The Big Red was last ranked at No. 15 on Feb. 15, 2016.
• The Cornell program has had just two other significant ranking droughts in program history – 26 weeks from mid-March 1996 until the first week of the 1999 season and 21 weeks from late March 1993 until April 29, 1995.
 
SIEVE! SIEVE! SIEVE! 
• Of Cornell's nine opponents so far this season, only Yale's goalie managed to save more than 45 percent of shots faced (.591).
• Dartmouth's .185 save percentage is the lowest of the season for a Big Red opponent.
• For the season, Big Red opponents have managed to save just 34.3 percent of shots faced. 
• Since opponent save percentage started being recorded in 1977, Cornell's opponents have saved fewer than 45 percent of shots faced just once (2013; .435 percent).
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Jeff Teat has the longest point-scoring streak on the team with one point in each of the last 18 games.
• Cornell has had fewer than 15 turnovers in all nine games this season.
• Paul Rasimowicz has won at least 50 percent of his face-off attempts over the past six games.
• The Big Red has scored 20+ goals in three consecutive games (Penn – 20; Air Force – 23; Dartmouth – 22) for the first time in program history.
• Cornell has picked up at least 30 ground balls in its last three outings.
• The Big Red has won 10 consecutive games in which it has led at the end of three quarters.
• After the victory over 2-5 Dartmouth, Cornell has won six straight games vs. teams with a losing record.
• With the win over No. 20 Penn State, Cornell has gone 20 consecutive seasons with at least one win over a nationally ranked opponent.
 
STREAKS STOPPED
• The Big Red's man-down defense killed seven straight opponent man-up chances over the span of four games before giving up an extra-man goal vs. Air Force.
• The Big Red ended a four-game losing streak in games on the road with its 20-13 win at Penn on March 24.
• Cornell goalies posted double-digit saves in 10 consecutive games prior to the Big Red' 20-13 win over No. 15 Penn.
• With Cornell's comeback win over No. 20 Penn State, the Big Red ended an eight-game losing streak in games in which it trailed at halftime, and a nine-game streak in which it trailed at the end of three quarters.
• With the Big Red's 9-7 win over No. 20 Penn State, Cornell ended an 11-game losing streak in games in which it has scored less than 10 goals.
 
IVY KINGS:
• Since Ivy League play began in 1956, Cornell has won a conference-high 29 titles, including 17 undefeated crowns.
• Cornell has won a share of 12 of the last 14 Ivy League titles, with its last crown coming in 2015.
• The Big Red also has the best regular season Ivy League record of any team in the conference at 257-109-1.
 
250 IVY WINS:
• With its 8-2 victory over Dartmouth on March 28, 2015, Cornell became the first program in the Ivy League history to reach 250 regular season conference victories.
• The Big Red's 256 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.
 
FASTEST TO 100:
• With 100 points in 18 career games, Jeff Teat scored 100 career points faster than any other four-year player in Cornell or Ivy League history.
• In NCAA history, the 18 games matches Tim Nelson (NC State/SU), who also did it in 18 games from 1982-83.
• 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 than Pannell, but due to NCAA rules that prohibited freshmen from playing varsity sports, both accomplished the feat in their junior season.
• Teat is the 42nd player in Cornell history to amass 100 career points.
 
WEEKLY HONORS
• Jeff Teat was named the Ivy League Player of the Week and to the USILA Team of the Week on March 26 after his six-goal, two-assist performance vs. No. 15 Penn. Of his eight points, half came during the Big Red's decisive 9-2 run as it turned an 11-9 deficit into a 20-13 victory.
• John Piatelli was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on March 12 after registering career highs in goals (4), assists (2), and points (6) vs. Binghamton, as well as assisting on the game-tying goal vs. No. 20 Penn State.
• Christian Knight was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on March 5 after a 19-save effort vs. No. 1 Albany.
• 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 62 points since the 2017 season, nearly half (29) have involved Teat.
• Teat has assisted on 14 of Petterson's 38 goals since 2017.
• Of Petterson's 26 assists since 2017, 14 have come on goals by Teat.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Christian Knight ranks sixth in career saves (525) … He needs 36 more to move into fifth place.
• Christian Knight ranks seventh in career wins (25) … He needs five more to move into sixth place.
 
TEWAARATON WATCH
• Jeff Teat has been named to the 2018 Tewaaraton Award men's watch list.
• Teat is one of just eight Ivy Leaguers and 10 sophomores on the list.
 
PULVER'S GOT SENIOR CLASS
• Jake Pulver has been named one of 20 candidates for the 2018 Senior CLASS Award in collegiate lacrosse.
• To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition.
• Cornell has had three Senior CLASS award winners – Matt McMonagle '07, Max Seibald '09, and Connor Buczek '15.
 
ROSTER SUPERLATIVES: Cornell's 49-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. 
 
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, five are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Albany (first), Yale (third), Syracuse (eighth), Lehigh (15th), and Penn State (18th).
• Two other opponents – Harvard, and Penn – are receiving votes.
• Cornell is 2-2 this season vs. ranked opponents.
 
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.
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 236-84 for a .738 winning percentage, with 12 undefeated seasons.
• Cornell has been even more impressive since 2000, going 103-29 overall (.780) with perfect slates in 2015 (6-0), 2011 (8-0), 2009 (6-0), 2007 (7-0) and 2005 (6-0).

UP NEXT: The Big Red remains in Ithaca to take on No. 8 Syracuse on Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m.