• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (301-93-5, .761; 119-8-1 Ivy, .934)
• 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-LOCK HAVEN SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 11-4-1 in a series that dates back to the 1951-52 season.
• Lock Haven won that first meeting, 17-15, in Pennsylvania.
• The Big Red has won the last five duals between the teams, a 25-9 decision during the 1998-99 season, a 26-12 triumph in 2005-06, a 22-13 triumph in 2014-15, a 31-15 victory in 2016-17 and a 20-18 decision in 2017-18.
• Nine of the 14 meetings came between 1990-99, with the Big Red going 5-2-1. 

LAST TIME VS. LOCK HAVEN
• Freshman Ben Darmstadt put a damper on Lock Haven's senior day, earning a first period fall to rally 10th-ranked Cornell past the 23rd-ranked Bald Eagles 20-18 on Jan. 4, 2018 at Thomas Fieldhouse. 
• The Big Red trailed 15-8 heading into the final four matches and were down 15-14 when Darmstadt pinned Trey Hartsock just 67 seconds into their 197-pound match, his 15th win by fall this season.
• A number of factors led to the Big Red rally, including hard-fought wins by Brandon Womack at 174 and Max Dean at 184 that allowed the Big Red to narrow the gap. 
• Chaz Tucker earned a 6-4 victory at 133 and No. 4 Yianni Diakomihalis was dominant in a tech fall victory over Kyle Shoop, who has been ranked during the season. 
• Tucker earned the only takedowns in his win over DJ Fehlman at 133, while Dean came back after giving up an early takedown against Corey Hazel at 184 to take a 5-2 win, improving to 22-2 on the season.
• Will Koll lost a tough 5-3 contest at 149 pounds to No. 16 Ronnie Perry, one of three nationally-ranked Bald Eagles' wrestlers to take victories on the afternoon.

LAST TIME OUT
• Bonus points all over the lineup allowed Cornell head coach Rob Koll to win his 300th and 301st dual matches as head coach of the Big Red as his 10th-ranked team dropped Brown 42-6 and Harvard 50-0 on Saturday. 
• The Big Red put away the Bears early. 
• Cornell won the first five matches, four with bonus points attached, and raced out to a 23-0 lead in the team score. 
• Cornell piled up a pair of wins by fall, tech fall and major decision, as well as scoring an injury default in the final match of the day. 
• All seven Cornell wrestlers ranked in the first NCAA Coaches Panel ranking earned victories, with five earning extra team points.
• The win over the Crimson was the sixth-largest in school history in dual meets and the biggest since a 54-0 home win over Princeton during the 2008-09 season. 
• The Big Red won seven of the nine contested matches with bonus points, with four Cornell wins coming by fall and another by forfeit. 

THE STREAKS
• The Big Red is 69-2 (.972) in its last 71 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 108-5-1 (.952) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 96-0 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 86 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Sophomore Yianni Diakomihalis enters the weekend with an individual 32-match win streak.
• Big Red wrestling is 90-2 in dual meets (.978) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell is 125-25-1 (.831) 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 46-5 (.902) in its last 51 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 24-1 and classmate Yianni Diakomihalis is 21-1 in dual matches, with freshman Vitali Arujau unbeaten at 10-0.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive Ivy crowns and 86 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 eighth Big Red coach in any sport to reach 300 career victories with a win at Brown on Jan. 26, 2019 and now sports a 301-93-5 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
• The Big Red will attempt to close out its 17th consecutive Ivy League title when it hosts Penn (Friday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m.) and Princeton (Saturday, Feb. 9 at 1 p.m.) next weekend at the Friedman Wrestling Center.