• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (298-93-5, .759; 117-8-1 Ivy, .932)
• He is the David R. Dunlop '59 Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell
• The all-time winningest wrestling coach in program history, Koll has guided the Big Red to 16 straight Ivy League titles (19 overall), 11 EIWA crowns and eight top five NCAA team finishes, including second twice (2010, 2011)
• He was the 2005 NWCA Division I Coach of the Year and the Dan Gable Coach of the Year
• His wrestlers have won 15 national titles with 67 All-Americans and 61 individual EIWA champions.

A WIN OVER COLUMBIA WOULD ...
• improve Cornell to 6-2 on the season and 2-1 against EIWA rivals.
• be the 84th consecutive dual meet win over an Ivy League opponent, including the 33rd straight against the Lions.
• make the Big Red 32-6 in dual meets over the last three years (.842).
• be the 299th career victory for head coach Rob Koll (298-93-5, .759).
• give the Big Red an 816-402-20 (.667) all-time dual meet record.

THE CORNELL-COLUMBIA SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 90-13 dating back to the 1907-08 season when the teams first met.
• The Big Red has won 32 consecutive dual meets against the Lions.
• Columbia's last win over the Big Red came in a 20-19 Lions victory in Ithaca during the 1985-86 campaign.

LAST TIME VS. COLUMBIA
• Cornell senior Gabe Dean became the school's career leader in bonus point wins with a first-minute fall as the ninth-ranked Big Red dominated the second half of the meet in a 34-9 win over Columbia on Feb. 4, 2017 at University Gymnasium. 
• Dean earned the fall over Jacob Young just 38 seconds into his match to collect his 94th bonus point victory, surpassing four-time All-American Cam Simaz (93). 
• Dean's continued dominance overshadowed an early Big Red deficit, as Columbia led 9-3 after three matches. 
• Cornell answered in a big way - seven consecutive wins to cruise to the victory.
• Noah Baughman opened the match with a hard-fought 4-0 win over Johnson Mai at 125, but the Lions responded with a fall at 133 and a third period tilt that allowed for a Columbia decision at 141.
• Jonathan Furnas got Cornell back within 9-6 with a 5-1 victory over Sam Ward, and Taylor Simaz put the visitors in the lead for good with a first period fall over Tyler Oberg at 157. 
• Senior Brian Realbuto's pin at 174 put the Big Red on the verge of winning, then Dean's fall put Cornell over the top for the program's 74th straight win over an unranked opponent. 
• The nationally-ranked Big Red also scored bonus points from Jake Anderson at 197, an 11-2 winner over Michael Bulkin.
• Two of the more exciting matches of the night came at 165 and 285, with Cornell coming out on top in both. 
• Brandon Womack gained a takedown in the final 10 seconds to knock off Tyrel White, 3-1, and Craig Scott's third period reversal after Garrett Ryan tied the match with a takedown ended with a 6-2 Big Red victory.

LAST TIME OUT
• Lehigh jumped out to a 13-0 lead after three matches and survived with an overtime victory in the dual's final match to upset No. 7 Cornell 19-16 on Jan. 12 at Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall. 
• Both teams won five matches apiece, but a first minute injury default in the very first match of the day put the Big Red in a hole it never fully recovered from. 
• With a pair of nationally-ranked grapplers on the shelf for the matchup of traditional EIWA rivals, the Big Red couldn't get over the hump despite a number of key and impressive wins.
• The dual started at 157 pounds, and Cornell wasn't able to grab its first win until 184 when Max Dean won a hard-fought 8-4 contest over Chris Weiler. 
• Ben Honis then topped No. 15 Jake Jakobsen 6-2 at 197 to get the visitors back within 13-6 in the team score at halftime.
• Cornell answered a narrow loss at heavyweight with three straight victories, including a major decision by Vitali Arujau at 125 to even the team score at 16-16 entering the final match. 
• Chas Tucker topped a ranked Brandon Paetzell 8-4 at 133, and defending national champion Yianni Diakomihalis claimed a 13-7 victory over Ryan Pomrinca.
• The loss snapped a 12-match road win streak for the Big Red and is just the second against an unranked opponent dating back to the 2007 season.

THE STREAKS
• The Big Red is 66-2 (.971) in its last 68 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 105-5-1 (.950) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 93-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 16 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 83 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Sophomore Yianni Diakomihalis enters the weekend with an individual 30-match win streak.
• Big Red wrestling is 87-2 in dual meets (.978) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell is 122-25-1 (.828) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red had a string of 14 consecutive dual meet wins (longest since 19 straight from 1/28/2011 until 2/12/2012) snapped in its 22-9 defeat at the hands of Missouri at the South Beach Duals.
• Cornell is 43-5 (.896) in its last 48 road dual matches after having its 12-meet win streak away from home at Lehigh on Jan. 12.
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last 10 seasons and in the top 10 in 14 of the last 16 years (11 straight).
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 17 seasons and in 27 of the last 28 years.
• The Big Red is 49-6 (.891) in its last 55 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Cornell has won 35 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• Sophomore Max Dean is 21-1 and classmate Yianni Diakomihalis is 19-1 in dual matches, with freshman Vitali Arujau unbeaten at 7-0.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive Ivy crowns and 83 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 16 straight Ivy League titles build on the Big Red's record of consecutive Ivy titles by the same team in a sport. The wrestling team has won four more than Cornell had in men's gymnastics (from 1967-68 to 1976-77) and men's lacrosse (1973-74 to 1982-83), as well as Princeton in men's lacrosse (1994-95 to 2003-04).
• Every four-year member of the Cornell wrestling team who has enrolled since 1980 has won at least one Ivy League title during their career.
• Cornell went 40-10 in individual Ivy League matches in 2017-18, its best mark since going 42-8 during the 2013-14 dual meet seasons.
• Head coach Rob Koll became the ninth Big Red coach in any sport to reach 250 career victories with a sweep at the Grapple at the Garden in 2014 and now sports a 298-93-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red holds a 35-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 258-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (8-0), Brooklyn Poly (2-0), Buffalo (8-4), Clarkson (2-0), Colgate (29-2), Columbia (89-13), Cortland (17-1), Geneseo (1-0), Hofstra (19-4), Ithaca (12-3), Long Island (1-0), Manhattan (1-0), NYU (2-0), Queens (1-0), RPI (2-0), RIT (7-0-1), St. Lawrence (0-1), Syracuse (42-35-1), Union (2-1) and Wagner (2-0).
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 74-14-1 in dual matches (.837) there.

WORK IN CLASSROOM HONORED BY NWCA
• Cornell joined Minnesota as the lone NCAA wrestling schools to rank in the top 10 at both the national championships and the NWCA
All-Academic team list.
• Cornell ranked eighth nationally with its team 3.368 grade point average.
• Seniors Gabe Dean, Brian Realbuto and Dylan Palacio and freshman Noah Baughman were honored individually for their outstanding achievements in the classroom.
• Cornell ranked second among all schools with three All-Americans listed individually, behind only Ohio State's four.
• The Big Red moved up from last season's No. 17 ranking on the All-Academic list among 30 schools that posted a 3.1 GPA or better as a team.
• All six Ivy League schools were listed, with Harvard taking the top spot for the second straight year (3.586).
• Of the 30 teams, 22 were repeat selections from last year.

HIRSCH '94 TO RECEIVE NCAA SILVER ANNIVERSARY AWARD
• Dr. David Hirsch '94 has been chosen to receive the NCAA's Silver Anniversary Award at the 2019 Honors Celebration on Jan. 23 during the 2019 NCAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. 
• He will be joined in receiving the award by Tim Cullen (Air Force), Mia Hamm (North Carolina), Lisa Leslie (Southern California), Heath Shuler (Tennessee) and Jason Varitek (Georgia Tech). 
• The Silver Anniversary Award annually recognizes distinguished individuals on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their college athletics careers. 
• Hirsch was the 1994 NCAA Division I wrestling champion at 126 pounds. 
• He became the first Cornell student-athlete since 1960 and just the fifth in school history to win a national wrestling crown. 
• A member of the Cornell Athletics and Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Halls of Fame, Hirsch was a three-time EIWA champion and a two-time All-American during his time on East Hill. 
• His record of 116-17 ranked third in career wins at Cornell at the time. 
• Following graduation in 1994 with a degree in Applied Economics & Management, Hirsch graduated from New York University College of Dentistry in 1999 and then completed medical school, wrapping up a six-year oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Bellevue/NYU. 
• Today, Hirsch is chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/General Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. 
• Throughout his professional career, Hirsch has traveled internationally for philanthropic purposes, performing surgeries ranging from correction of genetic deformities to major head and neck reconstruction. 

NEXT UP
• The Big Red concludes its five-game road swing with a pair of Ivy League duals when it heads to Brown (11 a.m.) and Harvard (6:00 p.m.) on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019.
• Cornell leads the all-time series with Brown 55-2, while it holds a 56-9 edge over the Crimson.