ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell senior guard Matt Morgan has been named the Ivy League Player of the Week and the College Sports Madness Mid-Major National Player of the Week it was announced today. Morgan had a career game in the Big Red's non-conference finale last weekend to capture his sixth career conference player of the week citation.

Morgan helped the Big Red finish non-conference season with an 8-8 record with a career performance in Cornell's 86-74 win on Jan. 9 at Towson. The senior guard became the sixth player in Ivy League history to reach 2,000 career points as he matched his personal best with 38, a mark that set a SECU Arena record. He tied a Cornell record with nine 3-pointers in the game, another SECU Arena standard, and did all that damage in just 30 minutes of playing time. Morgan connected on 13-of-19 shots from the floor and 9-of-14 from beyond the arc, while adding six rebounds, four assists and a steal. Morgan netted 24 of his points in the second half and scored 36 of his points in the game's final 24:22, rallying Cornell from a four-point deficit to as many as a 22-point lead. The native of Concord, N.C. broke a 60-year-old Cornell record for career free throws made with 14:58 to play in the first half with his 438th, surpassing Louis Jordan '58 for the career mark. He also extended his streak of consecutive double figure games to 67 (an Ivy League record and the 23rd-longest streak in NCAA history), and moved into second on the Ivy League's career 3-pointer list - surpassing Harvard's Laurent Rivard (now at 291).

Morgan enters Saturday's Ivy League opener against Columbia six points from matching Ryan Wittman's Cornell scoring record (2,028 points) and moving into the top five in scoring in conference history. He's averaging career highs of 23.6 points and 4.8 rebounds while shooting 52 percent from the floor, 46 percent from 3-point range and 84 percent from the free-throw line. Morgan and the Big Red meet the Lions at 4 p.m.