• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (299-93-5, .759; 118-8-1 Ivy, .933)
• 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.

THE CORNELL-BROWN SERIES
• Cornell has a decisive 55-2 edge in the all-time dual meet series with Brown and has won 21 consecutive matchups.
• The Bears last defeated the Big Red 19-16 on Feb. 15, 1997.

THE CORNELL-HARVARD SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 56-9 dating back to their first meeting in 1946-47.
• The Big Red has won 17 consecutive dual meets between the teams, posting an average margin of 31-9 (527-146) in those meets.
• Harvard's last win came during the 2000-01 season, a 28-13 victory in Cambridge, Mass.

LAST TIME VS. BROWN, HARVARD
• The Cornell wrestling team extended its win streak over Ivy League teams to 80 contests spanning 16 years with a sweep Jan. 27, topping Brown 27-9 and Harvard 35-3 at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• The Big Red opened big early leads and earned six bonus point victories in sweeping the afternoon. 
• Cornell won its first four matches in both duals and was never threatened, with all four losses on the day coming by regular decision.
• Noah Baughman (125), Chaz Tucker (133), Yianni Diakomihalis (141), Will Koll (149), Max Dean (184) and Ben Darmstadt (197) each won both matches on the day, while all 10 grapplers picked up at least one win on the day.
• Diakomihalis and Darmstadt were bonus point machines, with each picking up a first period fall and a technical fall. 
• The third nationally ranked freshman had a pair of strong efforts, defeating Brown NCAA qualifier CJ LaFragola 5-0 and topping his cousin, Harvard's Kanon Dean, by a 3-0 final.
• Cornell improved to 36-0 all-time against Ivy League foes at the Friedman Wrestling Center and captured the 21st straight win over Brown and the 17th in a row vs.  Harvard.

LAST TIME OUT
• Despite missing nearly half its lineup, No. 10 Cornell was able to keep its Ivy win streak intact with a 30-10 victory over Columbia on Jan. 19 at Blue Gym at the Dodge Fitness Center. 
• The Big Red won its final three matches, two with bonus points attached, to extend its conference streak to 84 matches.
• Cornell picked up bonus points with a dominant major decision by Vitali Arujau at 125, then earned a forfeit at 133 and never looked back. 
• Jonathan Furns (149) and Adam Santoro (157) held down the middle weights with wins, and after the Lions picked up consecutive decisions at 165 and 174 to get back within 16-10, the Big Red dropped the hammer in the heavyweights. 
• Santoro's win at 157 over 16-3 Dan Reed was especially impressive, with the junior dominating to the final whistle to improve to 9-6 on the year.
• Max Dean got it started with a 25-7 technical fall over Joe Franzese at 184, then Ben Honis picked up a third period pin over Sam Wustefeld to clinch the victory. 
• Jeramy Sweany capped the team scoring with a 5-0 decision over Danny Conley.

THE STREAKS
• The Big Red is 67-2 (.971) in its last 69 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 106-5-1 (.951) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 94-0 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 84 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 88-2 in dual meets (.978) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell is 123-25-1 (.829) 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 44-5 (.898) 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 36 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• Sophomore Max Dean is 22-1 and classmate Yianni Diakomihalis is 19-1 in dual matches, with freshman Vitali Arujau unbeaten at 8-0.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive Ivy crowns and 84 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 299-93-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red holds a 36-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 259-81-3 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 (90-13), 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 RECEIVES NCAA SILVER ANNIVERSARY AWARD
• Dr. David Hirsch '94 received the NCAA's Silver Anniversary Award at the 2019 Honors Celebration on Jan. 23 during the 2019 NCAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. 
• He was 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
• Cornell will host Lock Haven on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 11-4-1 in a series that dates back to the 1951-52 campaign after last season's 20-18 Big Red victory.