• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (302-93-5, .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-PENN SERIES
• Cornell has a decisive 85-21-1 lead in the all-time series dating back to 1907-08.
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive dual meets against the Quakers, including a 32-9 decision last season in Philadelphia.
• Penn's last win came on Feb. 2, 2002, a 21-9 Quaker victory in Philadelphia, Pa.

THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 57-15 dating back to the 1907-08 season when the teams first met.
• The Big Red has won 32 consecutive dual meets against the Tigers, including last year's 34-6 victory in New Jersey.
• Princeton's last win over the Big Red came in a 21-19 Tiger victory at home during the 1985-86 campaign.

LAST TIME VS. PENN, PRINCETON
• The Cornell wrestling team swept a pair of dual meets on Feb. 10 to capture a record 16th consecutive Ivy League title, topping Penn 32-9 and Princeton 34-6 on the road, its 82nd and 83rd straight conference win. 
• The Big Red improved to 12-2 overall and capped yet another undefeated conference season in the process.
• The Big Red won six of the seven contested bouts in a dominant 32-9 win at Penn.
• Aided by forfeits at 125 and 141, Cornell built a 22-0 lead in the team score and was never threatened in picking up its 82nd straight Ivy win. 
• The 16 consecutive league titles builds on its own record - no school in any sport has won more Ivy League titles in consecutive years. 
• The win was the 16th straight over the Quakers, who handed Cornell its last Ivy loss back in 2002.
• It was 15-0 after three matches and the Tigers never recovered as Cornell had an answer for everything Princeton threw its way.
• Noah Baughman and Yianni Diakomihalis had second period pinfalls sandwiched around a workmanlike 5-2 win for Chaz Tucker at 133 to get things rolling, then won all five matches after intermission after the Tigers crawled back within 15-6 with a pair of hard fought decisions that went in their direction.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell extended its win streak to four matches, winning seven of the first eight matches to roll through No. 24 Lock Haven 32-9 on Saturday afternoon at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• Top-ranked Yianni Diakomihalis pinned No. 20 Kyle Shoop late in the second in a dominating performance to improve to 15-0 on the season.
• The Big Red won three tight decisions, including Chas Tucker using a takedown and back points to top NCAA qualifier DJ Fehlman in sudden victory at 133.
• In a match that started at 174, Cornell earned bonus points at 197 with Ben Honis nearly catching a tech fall in a 13-point triumph over Parker McClellan, and Jonathan Furnas finishing off a 10-2 major decision over Jonathan Ross thanks to a late third period takedown at 149.

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 33-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 126-25-1 (.832) 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 50-6 (.893) in its last 56 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Cornell has won 36 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• Sophomore Max Dean is 25-1 and classmate Yianni Diakomihalis is 22-1 in dual matches, with freshman Vitali Arujau unbeaten at 11-0.

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.
• The Big Red has outscored its first three Ivy League opponents by a 122-16 margin with all three triumphs on the road.
• 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 302-93-5 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 75-14-1 in dual matches (.839) 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 continues its regular season-ending stretch of four consecutive matches against top 20 teams when it visits No. 11 Virginia Tech (Friday, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.) and No. 15 North Carolina (Saturday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m.) next weekend.