STORYLINE
• The Cornell men's basketball team will look to match its win total from all of last season when the Big Red visits Ivy leader Harvard on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7:00 p.m. at Lavietes Pavilion.
• The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+ with Scott Sudikoff, Andy Towne and Eric Gallanty on the call.
• Cornell squeaked out an 83-80 win at Dartmouth behind an incredible 41-point performance from senior guard Matt Morgan, putting up its fifth true road win of the season.
• Morgan's personal 12-0 run gave Cornell the lead for good late in the first half, then connected for key baskets four different times in the game's final five minutes after the Big Green cut the Big Red's lead to a single possession.
• The 41 points was a career high, a Leede Arena record and the first 40-point game by a Cornell player since 1960.
• He also matched a school record and Leede Arena record with his nine 3-pointers (9-of-11) while shooting 13-of-17 from the floor overall.
• Morgan, a two-time Ivy League Player of the Week, enters the matchup among the national leaders at 23.9 ppg. while adding 4.6 rpg., 2.7 apg. and 1.1 spg.
• Morgan, who holds the nation's third-longest double figure scoring streak at a school and Ivy-record 72 games (No. 21 in NCAA history), needs 11 points to match Dartmouth's Jim Barton, who he had a chance to meet last night, for No. 2 in Ivy League history (2,158 points).
• Morgan is one of four returning starters for the Big Red, who went 12-16 in 2017-18 and earned the program's first-ever bid to the Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament.
• Seniors Troy Whiteside (3.6 ppg.), Steven Julian (4.0 ppg., 6.4 rpg., 2.3 apg., 1.7 bpg.), Jack Gordon (4.5 ppg., 2.1 rpg., 1.7 apg.) and Joel Davis (2.6 ppg., 1.9 rpg.) join junior Josh Warren (10.4 ppg., 4.8 rpg., 3.0 apg.) and sophomore Terrance McBride (4.0 ppg., 1.9 rpg., 1.9 apg.) as players who have spent significant time as starters and are expected to continue playing key roles for Cornell in 2018-19.
• Sophomore forwards Jimmy Boeheim (10.3 ppg., 3.2 rpg.), the son of Naismith Hall of Fame Coach Jim Boeheim of Syracuse, Jake Kuhn (4.5 ppg., 1.8 rpg.) and Riley Voss (1.8 ppg., 1.2 rpg.) have also been significant contributors off the bench, with Boeheim joining Davis in the starting lineup for the last seven games (5-2).
• Third-year head coach Brian Earl will look to continue the program's upward swing, as the Big Red made a two-game jump in conference play a year ago.
• A win against Harvard would match the Big Red's win total from a year ago (12-16).
• At 3-2, Cornell currently has a full-game lead over Penn for the fourth and final spot to the Ivy League Tournament, with its two losses coming by three points at Columbia and in overtime vs. first-place Princeton.

THE SERIES VS. HARVARD
Overall: Cornell leads 93-82
In Cambridge, Mass.: Series tied 44-44
Current Streak: Harvard, 6 games
Last Meeting: Harvard won 74-55, 3/10/18 in Philaldelphia, Pa. in the Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament Semifinals
Earl vs. Harvard: 0-5
Series Notes: Series dates back to the 1901-02 season • Harvard has won six straight meetings • Cornell won two consecutive prior to this stretch, but that came on the heels of nine consecutive Crimson wins • Harvard has won seven of the last eight meetings between the teams at Lavietes, with five of those losses coming by double digits

A WIN OVER HARVARD WOULD ...
• give Cornell a 12-10 overall mark and a 4-2 start in Ivy League play.
• snap the Crimson's six-game win streak in the series.
• boost the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 94-82.
• give Cornell a 10-7 record in its last 17 Ivy regular season contests.
• complete the first weekend Ivy road sweep for the Big Red since also knocking off Dartmouth and Harvard, in reverse order, during the 2015-16 campaign.
• be the 1,266th in program history (1,265-1,434 in 118 seasons, .469).

LAST TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
• Harvard went on a 13-2 run in the final two minutes of the first half, including a halfcourt buzzer beater on a broken play, and Cornell couldn't recover as the Crimson advanced to the finals of the 2018 Ivy League Men's Basketball Tournament with a 74-55 win over the Big Red. 
• Matt Morgan scored a team-high 19 points and added three rebounds, three assists and three steals to close a record-breaking junior campaign. 
• He finished the year with 630 points, a mark that not only stands as a school record, but also ranks 12th all-time in Ivy history. 
• Morgan was the lone double figure scorer for the Big Red, which earned the fourth and final seed into the tournament on the season's final day.
• Seth Towns (24 points, 12 rebounds) and Chris Lewis (16 points, 10 rebounds) both had double-doubles, while Christian Juzang had 12, including nine in the final 75 seconds of the half to turn a six-point BIg Red lead into a five-point halftime deficit inside of the final media timeout. 
• The run put the Big Red on its heels, and the underdog struggled to recover.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Matt Morgan's 2,147 points ranks 12th among all active men's college basketball players (all divisions) and is seventh in Division I.
• Morgan's 72 consecutive double figure scoring games has now more than doubled John Sheehy's 34 straight (1953-55) for a school record that had held for 62 years.
• Morgan is making his bid to lead the Ivy League in scoring for the fourth straight year, as his 23.9 ppg. is well ahead of Yale's Miye Oni (17.9 ppg.).
• He is averaging 26.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.1 steals in the team's last nine contests against Division I opponents.
• Morgan's 971 points in Ivy League play over four years has already surpassed the previous mark of 899 by John Bajusz '87.
• During Cornell's last seven games (5-2), junior Josh Warren has shot 36-of-59 (61 percent) from the floor (6-of-10 from 3-point range) and has averaged 13.7 points, 6.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 0.6 blocks.
• Senior Steven Julian is averaging 7.5 rebounds (2.0 offensive), 2.2 blocked shots and 1.0 steals over his last 13 games.
• Sophomore Terrance McBride, Cornell's career leader in assist:turnover ratio (2.61), has 10 assists and just one turnover in three career games for the Big Red.
• Cornell is 4-0 this season and 11-2 in three years under head coach Brian Earl when holding opponents under 40 percent shooting and are 7-1 in 2018-19 and 27-9 overall when outshooting its foe.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 850 consecutive games (11th-longest streak in Division I) dating back to a contest against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2). Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, the Big Red has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 896 of 900 games (5,847 3-pointers over that span).
• Dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 42-52 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 7-10 in multiple overtime games, with the longest game for the Big Red being a five overtime contest against Princeton, won by the Tigers 66-61 on Feb. 24, 1979 at Barton Hall. Cornell is 30-20 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 11-29 in road games.

NEXT UP
• Cornell returns home for games against Brown (Friday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.) and Yale (Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.) at Newman Arena.
• Both games will be broadcast on ESPN+.