ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell's all-time leading scorer
Matt Morgan will have a busy weekend at the Final Four in Minneapolis, Minn. after being chosen to play in the 2019 Reese's College All-Star Game and the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship.
Morgan will play for the East team, coached by former NBA guard Nate Robinson and three-time Slam Dunk champion, in the Reese's All-Star Game. The contest will be played on Friday, April 5 at 4:30 p.m. at US Bank Stadium and features 20 of the most outstanding senior players in Division I. It will be broadcast live on CBS Sports Network. Live stats for the game will also be available at
http://nabc.statbroadcast.com. Morgan is the third Cornell player to suit up for the game, with both
Ryan Wittman (five points, three rebounds) and
Jeff Foote (three points, seven rebounds) playing in 2010.
Morgan will join former Ivy League rivals Blake Reynolds (Yale), Myles Stephens (Princeton) and Obi Okolie (Brown) at the 3X3U event, scheduled for April 5-7 at the Mall of America. The tournament is comprised of all-star teams of seniors, who have exhausted their collegiate eligibility, representing all 32 Division I conferences. The teams will compete for a $150,000 prize pool, with the champions taking home $100,000. Additionally, the winners will earn the right to compete in the 2019 USA Basketball 3x3 Open National Championship later this spring. All games of the Dos Equis 3X3U National Championship will be carried live on Twitter or ESPN2 beginning at 3 p.m. ET on April 5. The Ivy League team made the quarterfinals a year ago in the first-ever event.
A unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection and a pick for the USBWA All-District team earlier this month, the 6-2 guard averaged 22.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.4 steals while shooting 51 percent from the floor, 43 percent from 3-point range and 86 percent from the free-throw line while starting all 31 games for the Big Red. After being picked to finish sixth in the preseason, Morgan led Cornell to a tie for fourth and completed a season sweep of Ivy champ Harvard along the way to its biggest win total (15-16) since 2010. The team ultimately earned a bid to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, the program's six postseason invite in school history. Morgan set a single-season school record with his 687 points along the way.
The second leading scorer in Ivy League history with 2,333 points, he finished behind only Princeton's Bill Bradley (2,503), becoming the sixth Ivy League and 574th Division I basketball player to surpass 2,000 career points. After leading the Ivy League in scoring for the fourth consecutive season, Morgan is ranked 18th nationally in points per game (22.2 ppg.) and 3-point percentage (.431), 23rd in 3-pointers made per game (3.32), 44th in free-throw percentage (.860) and among the top 100 in 3-point attempts, free throws attempted and made, 3-pointers made and field goals made.
Morgan had 41 points at Dartmouth – the third-highest single-game total in school history and the most in a game since 1960. That was one of six games this season with at least 30 points. He surpassed that milestone 13 times in his career. Twice this season he hit nine 3-pointers in a game – tying the school record. He surpassed 2,000 points in a win at Towson, then broke the school scoring record the next time out in an Ivy-opening win over Columbia. Morgan posted arena scoring records at three facilities during the season, at Towson, Dartmouth and Cornell and compiled an 80-game streak of scoring in double figures - an Ivy record and the 12th-longest in NCAA history.
Cornell's all-time leading scorer, Morgan will graduate with career records for points scored (2,333), scoring average (20.5 ppg.), field goals made (743), field goals attempted (1,580) and free throws made (513), season records for points scored (687 in 2018-19) and 3-pointers made per game (3.32 in 2018-19), and game records for 3-pointers in a game (9, twice). In addition, he ranks in the top 10 in career 3-pointers made (second, 334), games started (second, 112), minutes played (third, 3,705), games played (third, 113), free-throw percentage (fourth, .834) and assists (eighth, 296) and just outside the top 10 in steals (12th, 126). The four-time All-Ivy pick was a Lou Henson All-American as a junior, a two-time NBA Draft early entrant and the all-time leading freshman scorer in conference history. Morgan was an eight-time Ivy Player of the Week and a five-time conference rookie of the week pick.
