GAME INFORMATION

GAME #6: No. 5 Cornell vs. No. 3 Yale
FACE OFF: Saturday, March 16, at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Reese Stadium (New Haven, Conn.)
2019 Records: No. 4 Cornell (4-1, 0-0 Ivy League); No. 3 Yale (3-1, 0-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 52-26-1
LAST MEETING: Cornell, 14-8 (5/6/2018 in New York, N.Y.)
 

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THE MATCHUP: After upsetting No. 1 Towson on Sunday at the Crown Lacrosse Classic in Charlotte, the No. 4 Big Red men's lacrosse team is looking to make a statement for the second weekend in a row when it opens up the 64th season of Ivy League play against No. 3 Yale at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. The defending national champion Bulldogs have won three in a row after an overtime loss in its season opener to Villanova. The teams split a pair of games last year, with Yale winning on Schoellkopf Field during the regular season, before the Big Red upset then No. 1 Yale in the championship game of the Ivy League Tournament. The game will be broadcast live to a nationwide audience on ESPNEWS. Individuals with the proper cable subscription will also be able to view the game on the WatchESPN app or online at: www.espn.com/watch. Live stats will be available at www.yalebulldogs.com and the game can be heard locally on WHCU 870 AM or worldwide at www.whcuradio.com with Barry Leonard and Howie Borkan '81 on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. YALE: The Cornell/Yale rivalry began in 1916 with a 5-1 Big Red victory, and Cornell has dominated ever since.
• The Big Red holds a 52-26-1 record in the series, thanks in large part to 22 straight victories over the Bulldogs from 1966 to 1987.
• Cornell had a 14-game winning streak vs. Yale ended when the Bulldogs defeated the Big Red in the 2012 Ivy League tournament.
• The Big Red went on to win the next three meetings (2013-15) before dropping the next three vs. Yale.
 
A WIN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red to 5-1 on the season.
• make Cornell 53-26-1 all-time vs. Yale.
• be the second in a row vs. the Bulldogs.
• be the second over a ranked opponent this season.  
• be the 763rd win in program history.
• be Cornell's 260th regular season Ivy League win.
• make Cornell 30-6 all-time when ranked No. 4 in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 7-8 all-time vs. the No. 3 team in the USILA Coaches' Poll.  
 
IVY OPENERS: The contest vs. Yale marks the 64th Ivy League season opener for Cornell men's lacrosse. Since the conference began play in the 1956 season, the Big Red has posted a 45-18 record in Ivy League openers, including winning 16 of its last 19, dating back to the 1999 season. More often than not, Cornell has met either Yale or Harvard in the conference opener, playing a different school on only six occasions.
 
IVY KINGS:
• Since Ivy League play began in 1956, Cornell has won a conference-high 29 titles, including 17 undefeated crowns.
• Cornell's last regular season Ivy title came in 2015.
• The Big Red also has the best regular season Ivy League record of any team in the conference at 259-107-1.
 
250+ IVY WINS:
• With its 8-2 victory over Dartmouth on March 28, 2015, Cornell became the first – and is still the only – program in Ivy League history to reach 250 regular season conference victories.
• The Big Red's 259 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.
 
THE HEAD COACH
• Peter Milliman (17-6, .739) was promoted to the position of Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse in May 2018 after spending one season as the interim head coach.
• He spent the previous four seasons as an assistant coach and then as the program's Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse.
• The 2019 season is his sixth as a head coach (54-32, .628).
 
YOUNGEST STAFF: Cornell boasts a pair of recent grads as assistant coaches – Jordan Stevens '15 and Connor Buczek '15. No other Division I staff had two full-time assistant coaches as young as or younger than the Big Red duo.
 
200 POINTS IN SIGHT: Junior Jeff Teat needs just one more points to reach 200 for his career.
• Only three Cornell players have amassed 200 points for the Big Red – Rob Pannell (354; 2009-13); Mike French (296; 1974-76); Eamon McEneaney (256; 1975-77). 
 
SIEVE! SIEVE! SIEVE! 
• Through five games this season, Cornell's opponents are saving just 35.2 percent.
• During the 2018 season, Big Red opponents managed to save just 39.2 percent of shots faced – the lowest in program history. 
• Since opponent save percentage started being recorded in 1977, Cornell's opponents have saved fewer than 45 percent of shots faced just once (2013; .435 percent).
 
RACE TO 100: Both Jake McCulloch (53-24—77) and Connor Fletcher (46-24—70) are closing in on 100 points for their career.
• Last season, both Jeff Teat and Clarke Petterson reached the 100-point plateau.
 
IVY ACCOLADES: Cornell has had three players earn Ivy League accolades so far this season.
• Jonathan Donville was named Player of the Week on March 4 after scoring four goals and chipping in three assists in a 17-16 victory over UAlbany.
• Clarke Petterson was named Player of the Weed on March 12 after scoring a career-high eight goals to help Cornell upset No. 1 Towson.
• Chayse Ierlan was named the Rookie of the Week on March 12 after earning his first career start and posting 10 save to get the win over No. 1 Towson.
 
USILA TEAM OF THE WEEK: Cornell has had three players named to the USILA Team of the Week this season.
• After posting a 14-point opening weekend with 10 goals and four assists vs. Hobart and Lehigh, Jeff Teat was named to the team on Feb. 26.
• Connor Fletcher earned the March 5 honor after scoring the game-winner vs. UAlbany with 14 seconds to play.
• Clarke Petterson took home the awards on March 12 after scoring eight goals in Cornell's upset of No. 1 Towson.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Jeff Teat ranks fourth in career assists (116) … He needs six more to move into third place.
• Jeff Teat ranks fourth in career points (199) … He needs 57 more to move in to third place.
• Paul Rasimowicz ranks ninth in career faceoffs won (283) … He needs just 12 to move into eighth place.
• Brandon Salvatore ranks seventh in career caused turnovers (44) … He needs seven more to move into sixth place.
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point-scoring streak on the team with one point in each of the last 20 games.
• Cornell goalies have posted double-digit saves in two consecutive games.
• The Big Red has posted a shot percentage better than .650 in four straight games.
• Cornell has posted fewer turnovers than its opponents in four consecutive contests.
• The Big Red has scored in double-digits in five straight games.
Cornell has won 12 consecutive games when leading at halftime.
The Big Red has won 19 straight when leading at the start of the fourth quarter.
• With the win over No. 1 Towson, Cornell has gone 21 consecutive seasons with at least one win over a nationally ranked opponent.
 
RANKED OPPONENTS: Cornell's schedule features six opponents currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Penn State (first), Yale (third), Towson (fifth), Notre Dame (seventh), Syracuse (13th) and Lehigh (20th).
• A year ago, the Big Red posted six wins over nationally ranked opponents, the most for Cornell since 2013.
• The Big Red is 1-1 so far this season vs. nationally ranked opponents, including a victory over No. 1 Towson.
• Cornell has defeated the No. 1 team in the nation the last two years – Yale in the 2018 Ivy League Tournament and Towson this season.
 
INSIDE LACROSSE PRESEASON MEDIA ALL-AMERICANS: Jeff Teat (first-team) and Jake McCulloch (third-team) were named Inside Lacrosse Preseason Media All-Americans.
 
USILA ALL-AMERICANS: The Big Red had four players named USILA All-Americans following the 2018 season, including junior Jeff Teat.
 
TICKLE THE ALL-IVY: The Big Red returns six All-Ivy selections from a year ago – Jeff Teat (unanimous first-team), Jake McCulloch, Ryan Bray, Fleet Wallace, Paul Rasimowicz, and Brandon Salvatore.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has four captains this season – seniors Ryan Bray, Jake McCulloch, Clarke Petterson and Fleet Wallace.
 
HARD HAT: Jeff Teat was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2019 season. The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.
 
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK:  The 14-member Class of 2022 features four US Lacrosse All-Americans, and a member of the Australian national team that competed at the 2018 FIL World Championships. The group consists of six defenders, three players that can play attack or midfield, two midfielders, two face-off specialists, and one goalie. The 14 hail from five different states, including a class-high five New Yorkers, as well as one player coming from Australia and one from Ontario.
 
INTERNATIONAL BIG RED: With six international players on the roster (five Canadians, one Australian), Cornell has the fifth most international players in Division I men's lacrosse this season.  
• Only Robert Morris (15 Canadians); Vermont (nine Canadians; one German); St. Bonaventure (nine Canadians) and Hobart (seven Canadians) have more.
• Other than Cornell (Tim Graham – Australia) only Vermont has a player on its roster from a foreign country other than Canada (Per-Anders Olters – Germany).
• Tim Graham is the first Cornell men's lacrosse player to come from a foreign country other than Canada since John E. Beeby (Dersingham, Eng.), Thomas H. Beeby (Dersingham, Eng.) and John S. Roederer (Paris, France) all appeared on the 1961 roster.
 
AUSTRALIAN NOTES: Tim Graham is the first Australian to play men's lacrosse in the Ivy League.
• Graham becomes just the eight Australian to play Division I men's lacrosse, and the first since Adam Sear (Yokin) and James Watson-Galbraith (Perth) played for Maryland and UMBC, respectively, during the 2010 season.
 
THE SEASON 2019: The Big Red will be featured in a five-chapter multi-platform video and digital content series, "The Season 2019." Now in its second season, the series also features the Florida Gators' women's lacrosse team and is being broadcast on ESPNU.
 
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 293-167-7 (.635).
• The Big Red has four New York teams on its schedule during the 2019 season –Hobart, Albany, St. Bonaventure, and Syracuse – and is 2-0 on the season.
 
THROWBACK NUMBERS
• The 2019 roster feature four unique numbers on it - #51, #61, #77, and #88.
• Jeff Teat is the first player to wear #51 since Jerome Dolins wore it in 1966.
• Tom Reilly is the first Big Red men's lacrosse player to ever wear #77.
• Theodore Batson is just the second player to ever wear No. 61, joining teammate Parker Henderer, who wore the number last season.  
• JQ Stramanak is the first player to wear #88 since Joseph Ryan in 1959
 
ELITE COMPANY
• During the 10-year span of 2009-2018 only 12 schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (145), Maryland (132), Denver (129), Syracuse (114), Loyola (113), Notre Dame (110), Virginia (109), North Carolina (108), Yale (108), Cornell (107), Albany (106), and Johns Hopkins (101).
• During that time, only 10 teams have won at least 65 percent of its games – Syracuse (.754), Maryland (.754), Denver (.746), Duke (.744), Notre Dame (.720), Loyola (.717), Yale (.692), Cornell (.673), Virginia (.671) and North Carolina (.665).
 
DOUBLE-DIGIT GAMES: With his 10 points vs. Brown on April 21, 2018, Jeff Teat matched the Cornell record held by Mike French '76, with five double-digit games.
• Of his five 10+ point games, two have come against nationally ranked teams, and three have come against Ivy opponents.
12 – Jeff Teat vs. Harvard (4/7/2018)       
12 – Jeff Teat vs. No. 16 Princeton (4/29/2017)                  
11 – Jeff Teat vs. No. 13 Virginia (3/11/2017)
10 – Jeff Teat vs. Hobart (2/24/2018)
10 – Jeff Teat vs. Brown (4/21/2018)
 
100-POINT: With his four points vs. Yale in the Ivy League Tournament, Clarke Petterson became the 43rd player in Cornell history to register 100 career points.
 
60-60 POINT SCORERS:
• Clarke Petterson (63) and Jeff Teat (99) are just the eighth pair of Cornell teammates to each register 60 points in a season.
• They are the first pair of 60-60 scorers since Rob Pannell (102) and Steve Mock (70) in 2013.
 
90-POINT PERFORMANCE: Jeff Teat finished the 2018 season with 99 points to become just the eighth Big Red player to finish a season with 90+ points.
• Cornell's last 90+ point scorer was Rob Pannell with 102 points in 2013.
 
TWO 70-POINT SEASONS: Jeff Teat has amassed more than 70 points in back-to-back seasons.
• He is just the fourth player in Big Red history to put together at least two 70-point seasons in a career, joining Mike French '76, Eamon McEneaney '77, and Rob Pannell '13. 

THE 30-30 CLUB: In his first two seasons, Jeff Teat has posted 30 goals and 30 assists.
• Only three other Big Red players – Mike French '76, Eamon McEneany '77 and Rob Pannell '13 – have tallied at least 30 goals and 30 assists in a season twice in their career, with French reaching the mark three times.
• Including Teat's performance in 2017 and 2018 there have been just 13 seasons in Cornell history with a 30-30 performer.
 
WIN NUMBER 750
• Cornell picked up the 750th win in program history when it defeated Air Force, 23-5 on March 27, 2018.
• The Big Red is one of just seven NCAA Division I men's lacrosse programs to boast at least 750 wins.
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 241-84 for a .742 winning percentage, with 12 undefeated seasons.
• Cornell has been even more impressive since 2000, going 103-29 overall (.780) with perfect slates in 2015 (6-0), 2011 (8-0), 2009 (6-0), 2007 (7-0) and 2005 (6-0).
 
FASTEST TO 100:
• With 100 points in 18 career games, Jeff Teat scored 100 career points faster than any other four-year player in Cornell or Ivy League history.
• In NCAA history, the 18 games matches Tim Nelson (NC State/SU), who also did it in 18 games from 1982-83.
• Rob Pannell tallied his 100th career point in his 25th career game with the Big Red during his sophomore season in 2010.
• Michael French '76 (16 games) and Eamon McEneaney '77 (19 games) registered their 100th career point in fewer games than Pannell, but due to NCAA rules that prohibited freshmen from playing varsity sports, both accomplished the feat in their junior season.
• Teat was the 42nd player in Cornell history to amass 100 career points.
 
MILLIMAN TABBED TO ASSIST TEAM USA: Head Coach Peter Milliman was named an assistant coach for the 2019 U.S. men's national indoor team. The team will be led by Regy Thorpe (Syracuse University), who will guide the team in pursuit of a gold medal at the 2019 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), Sept. 19-28, 2019, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
 
RECAPPING 2018: The 2018 squad exceeded all expectations, evidenced by the team's appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals, where it fell to defending national champion Maryland. After back-to-back losing seasons in 2016 and 2017, the Big Red started the 2018 season well outside the top 20 and were picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League. Throughout the season, Cornell continually improved and returned to the USILA Coaches' Poll on March 26 (No. 14) ending a 29-week unranked drought, the longest stretch in school history. The team went on to finish second in the conference with a mark of 4-2 before winning the program's first Ivy League Tournament title since the 2011 campaign.
 
UP NEXT: The Big Red will return to Schoellkopf Field to play its first midweek contest of the season as it welcomes first-year program St. Bonaventure for a 5 p.m. contest on Tuesday, March 19.