GAME INFORMATION
GAME #11: No. 11 Cornell vs. No. 6 Syracuse
FACE OFF: Tuesday, April 10, at 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2018 Records: Cornell (7-3, 3-1 Ivy League); Syracuse (6-3, 3-0 ACC)
SERIES RECORD: Syracuse leads, 64-39-1
LAST MEETING: No. 1 Syracuse, 15-8 (4/11/17 in Syracuse, N.Y.)
 
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THE MATCHUP:  The third-most contested rivalry in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse is on tap this week, as the No. 11 Big Red welcomes No. 6 Syracuse to Schoellkopf Field for the 105th meeting between these two storied programs on Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m.  Cornell has won four consecutive contests, averaging 20 goals per game during that span, as it has improved to 7-3 overall and moved into second place in the Ivy League with a mark of 3-1. The Orange have won three in a row, including a pair of top-six victories over No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 3 Duke, and have relied on its defense in its last two outings, giving up an average of 5.0 goals per game as it has improved to 6-3 overall and 3-0 in the ACC. The game can be viewed on the Ivy League Network, or heard at www.WHCUradio.com or locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Tom LaFalce on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. SYRACUSE: Since the Cornell and Syracuse rivalry began in 1920, there have been only four seasons (1944, 1945, 1977, 1978) that the two squads have not faced each other.
• With 104 meetings in the books, the rivalry is the third most contested in NCAA Division I history, behind only the Hobart-Cornell (137) and the Johns Hopkins-Maryland (115) series.
• Syracuse holds the edge in the series, 65-38-1.
• Cornell won the last time the teams met on Schoellkopf Field, a 10-9 overtime decision in the 2016 season.
• Since the 2000 campaign, the series has been extremely close, with SU holding a 12-7 lead as the teams have played seven one-goal games, with two others being decided by two goals.
 
A WIN OVER SYRACUSE WOULD:
• make Cornell 39-65-1 all-time in the series.
• give the Big Red back-to-back wins over the Orange on Schoellkopf Field for the first time since defeating Syracuse in 2000 and 2002.  
• be the 753rd win in program history.
• give Cornell five straight wins for the first time since the 2014 squad opened the season with nine consecutive victories.
• improve the Big Red to 3-2 vs. nationally ranked opponents this season.
• improve Cornell to 5-1 on Schoellkopf Field this season.
• make Cornell 16-8 all-time when ranked 11th in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell's record to 6-8 all-time vs. teams that are ranked sixth in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Jake Pulver's brother Josh played lacrosse for Syracuse.
• Syracuse's Andrew Helmer is the cousin of former Big Red women's lacrosse players Caroline (2009-12) and Meg Helmer (2011, 2013).
• Clark Petterson and Jeff Teat attended The Hill Academy with SU senior Brendan Bomberry.
• Josh Pulver and SU's Ryan Simmons and Brett Barlow all attended Fayetteville-Manlius HS.
• Cooper Telesco and SU redshirt freshman Brett Kennedy both attended Ridgewood HS.
• Ryan Maloney and SU sophomore Jamie Trimboli both went to Victor HS.
 
THE HEAD COACH
• Peter Milliman (7-3, .700) 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 (44-29).
  
WEEKLY HONORS
• Jeff Teat was named the Warrior/US Lacrosse Player of the Week on April 9.
• Cornell has earned three Ivy League Player of the Week honors from two players – Jeff Teat (March 26, April 9) and Christian Knight (March 5).
• The Big Red have had two freshman – John Piatelli (Feb. 27) and Jonathan Donville (April 9) – named the Ivy League Rookie of the week.
• Jeff Teat has been named to the USILA Team of the Week twice – Feb. 27 and March 26.

TEAT'S CAREER DAY: Cornell sophomore Jeff Teat had a career day vs. Harvard on April 7, having a hand in 12 of the Big Red's 15 goals.
• Teat's 12 points on the day matched a career high and ranks third all-time in Cornell history for points in a single-game.
• His eight assists set a personal-best and ranks fourth in Big Red history for assists in a single-game.
• The eight assists were the most by a Cornell player since Andrew Collins handed out eight helpers vs. Yale in 2003.  
 
50-POINT SEASONS: Jeff Teat has amassed more than 50 points for the second consecutive season.
• He is just the 12th player in Big Red history to put together at least two 50-point seasons in a career.  

THE 30-30 CLUB: Jeff Teat is just one goal away from reaching 30 goals and 30 assists on the season for the second year in a row.
• Only three other Big Red players – Mike French '76, Eamon McEneany '77 and Rob Pannell '13 – have tallied at least 30 goals and 30 assists in a season twice in their career, with French reaching the mark three times.
• Including Teat's performance in 2017 there have been just 12 seasons in Cornell history with a 30-30 performer.
 
HIGHEST SCORING MIDFIELDERS: Jordan Dowiak ranks sixth in the nation among midfielders with 24 goals.
• Of the five players ahead of Dowiak, only Loyola's Jay Drapeau (25 goals) has played in as few games as the Big Red midfielder (10 games).
• Bucknell's Sean O'Brien tops the list with 33 goals in 12 games.
 
BACK IN THE RANKINGS AGAIN
• The Big Red enters the week of April 9 ranked 11th in the USILA Coaches Poll.
• 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 10 opponents so far this season, only Yale's goalie managed to save more than 50 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 35.2 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 19 games.
• Cornell has had fewer than 15 turnovers in all 10 games this season.
• Paul Rasimowicz has won at least 50 percent of his face-off attempts over the past seven games.
• The Big Red has scored at least 15 goals in four straight games.
• Cornell has picked up at least 30 ground balls in its last four outings.
• The Big Red has won 11 consecutive games in which it has led at the end of three quarters.
• With the win over No. 20 Penn State, Cornell has gone 20 consecutive seasons with at least one win over a nationally ranked opponent.
 
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.
 
OFFENSIVE OUTBURST:
• Earlier this season, Cornell 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 came on 87 shots on goal (.747 percent).
• Cornell assisted on 48 of the 65 goals (.738).
• Of the 65 goals, 38 came from the midfield, with 27 from the attack.
• With 65 goals on 113 possessions, the Big Red averaged just over one goal on every other possession during the streak (.575 percent). 
 
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.
 
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.
  
THE PETTERSON-TEAT CONNECTION:
• Clarke Petterson and Jeff Teat both attended The Hill Academy.
• Of Petterson's 68 points since the 2017 season, nearly half (33) have involved Teat.
• Teat has assisted on 17 of Petterson's 40 goals since 2017.
• Of Petterson's 28 assists since 2017, 16 have come on goals by Teat.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Christian Knight ranks sixth in career saves (533) … He needs 28 more to move into fifth place.
• Christian Knight ranks seventh in career wins (26) … He needs four more to move into sixth place.
• Jeff Teat ranks eighth in career assists (75) … He needs just seven more to move into seventh 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 10 finalists 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.
 
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 289-167-7 (.632).
• The Big Red has five New York teams on its schedule this season – Colgate, Hobart, Albany, Binghamton, and Syracuse – and is 2-2 so far.
 
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. 
 
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, five are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Albany (third), Yale Syracuse (sixth), (eighth), Penn State (15th) and Lehigh (17th).
• Three other opponents – Harvard, Brown, and Princeton – are receiving votes.
• Cornell is 2-2 this season vs. ranked opponents.
 
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).
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 237-84 for a .738 winning percentage, with 12 undefeated seasons.

UP NEXT: The Big Red travels to Bethlehem, Pa., to take on Patriot League foe Lehigh at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 14. The game will be broadcast live on CBS Sports.