• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (298-92-5, .761; 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 LEHIGH WOULD ...
• improve Cornell to 6-1 on the season and 2-0 against EIWA rivals.
• be the eighth victory in the last nine matchups with the Mountain Hawks, including the fourth consecutive in Bethlehem, Pa.
• narrow Lehigh's lead in the all-time series to 60-34-3.
• extend the Big Red's dual meet win streak in road matches to 13 matches.
• make the Big Red 32-5 in dual meets over the last three years (.865).
• be the 299th career victory for head coach Rob Koll (298-92-5, .761).
• give the Big Red an 816-401-20 (.667) all-time dual meet record.

THE CORNELL-LEHIGH SERIES
• Lehigh leads the all-time series 60-33-3, though Cornell has had the better of it recently.
• Cornell has won seven of the last eight duals against its EIWA rival.
• The series began in 1910, a 5-2 Big Red victory in Ithaca.
• Lehigh snapped a five-match Cornell win streak in the series in 2016 with a convincing 25-13 victory over the shorthanded Big Red, but Cornell rallied from an 17-3 halftime in 2017 in Bethlehem for a 21-20 win behind pins by Brian Realbuto (174) and Gabe Dean (184).
• Cornell upset the Mountain Hawks last winter, 23-14. 

LAST TIME VS. LEHIGH
• Bonus points and three Big Red wins over ranked Mountain Hawk wrestlers led Cornell to a 23-14 win over EIWA archrival Lehigh on Jan. 19 at Friedman Wrestling Center. 
• Will Koll (149) and Jon Jay Chavez (165) each knocked off ranked wrestlers and freshman Yianni Diakomihalis earned a major decision shutout of No. 13 Luke Karam at 141 pounds in the feature match. 
• Koll was in control throughout in knocking off No. 19 Cortlandt Schuyler 4-1, followed by Chavez taking out No. 18 Gordon Wolf on the strength of a six-point first-period move en route to a 12-6 victory. 
• Diakomihalis was never threatened in an 8-0 victory over Karam, his fifth win over a ranked opponent this season.
• Cornell's other two freshman hammers, Max Dean at 184 and Ben Darmstadt at 197, each added bonus points in wins. 
• Dean earned a dominant 10-1 major over Andrew Price before Darmstadt clinched the win heading into the final match with a first period fall over Jake Jakobsen.
• In front of a sold-out crowd, the 11-time defending EIWA champion Big Red won its second straight dual over the Mountain Hawks.

CORNELL, LEHIGH DOMINATE EIWA
• Cornell and Lehigh have been the dominant programs in the EIWA for the last two decades, winning 19 of the last 20 championships. 
• The Big Red had won 11 consecutive championship titles prior to last season, that coming after the Mountain Hawks had won six of the previous seven crowns. 
• Lehigh snapped Cornell's streak last spring for its 35th EIWA crown.
• The Big Red's 25 team titles ranks behind only Lehigh's 35, while its 158 individual titles is second only to the Mountain Hawks' 214. 
• Head coach Rob Koll's team had its 47-match win streak against EIWA opponents snapped in a 2016 home loss to Lehigh, but sports a 105-4-1 record (.959) against league opponents dating back to 2004-05, including 93-0 against opponents other than the Mountain Hawks.

LAST TIME OUT
• Top-ranked Yianni Diakomihalis knocked off a pair of ranked challengers and Cornell split a pair of matches on Dec. 30 at the South Beach Duals, topping Indiana 32-10 before falling to No. 6 Missouri 22-9. 
• The loss to the Tigers snapped a 14-match win streak by the Big Red dating back to the 2017-18 season.
• Diakomihalis again avenged his lone collegiate loss, earning the only takedown in a 3-1 victory over No. 3 Jaydin Eierman of Missouri in the showcase matchup of the day.
• Freshman Vitali Arujau and senior Jeramy Sweany also won a pair of matches, with Sweany picking up a first period fall over Indiana's Brandon Streck and a 3-2 nailbiter over 13th-ranked Zach Elam of Missouri.
• Chas Tucker had the lone takedown in a 3-1 victory over Indiana's Paul Konrath before suffering a 4-2 loss to No. 9 John Erneste of Missouri later in the day, joining 184-pounder Max Dean, 157-pounder Fredy Stroker and 174-pounder Brandon Womack as ranked Big Red wrestlers to top Indiana grapplers before dropping contests against the Tigers.

THE STREAKS
• 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 undefeated in its last 12 road dual meets (longest since 20 consecutive from 2/5/2011 until 2/21/2015) - last loss to then #1 Oklahoma State, 23-19 on Dec. 16, 2016. 
• 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 66-1 (.985) in its last 66 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 105-4-1 (.959) 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.
• Cornell is 122-24-1 (.833) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 49-6 (.891) in its last 55 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Big Red wrestling is 87-1 in dual meets (.989) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season - the lone loss coming last season in a 20-16 defeat to North Dakota State at the South Beach Duals that snapped a 77-match win streak against unranked opponents.
• Cornell has won 35 straight meets against New York state opponents.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 74-14-1 in dual matches (.837) there.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 298-92-5 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).

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
• Cornell will begin Ivy League competition when it visits Columbia, then travels across the border to Connecticut for a matchup with sacred Heart, on Jan. 19.
• The Big Red leads the Columbia series 90-13 dating back to 1907-08 and has won 32 consecutive against the Lions.
• It will be the first-ever dual meet against Sacred Heart, with the match set at 6 p.m. in Fairfield, Conn.