GAME INFORMATION
GAME #11: No. 10 Cornell at No. 11 Syracuse
FACE OFF: Tuesday, April 9, at 6:00 p.m.
SITE: The Carrier Dome (Syracuse, N.Y.)
2019 Records: Cornell (7-3, 2-2 Ivy League); Syracuse (6-3, 1-2 ACC)
SERIES RECORD: Syracuse leads, 65-40-1
LAST MEETING: Cornell, 10-9 (5/13/2018 in Syracuse)
 
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THE MATCHUP: The third-most contested rivalry in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse is on tap this week, as the No. 10 Big Red travels to No. 11 Syracuse for the 107th meeting between these two storied programs at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9.  Cornell has won two in a row, including a 19-11 victory over Harvard on Saturday, to improve to 7-3 on the season, while the Orange defeated Hobart last Tuesday to improve to 6-3 on the year. The game will be broadcast to a nationwide audience on ESPNU or can be seen on the WatchESPN app. The contest can also be heard locally on WHCU 870 AM or worldwide at www.whcuradio.com with Barry Leonard and Tom LaFalce '94 on the call.
 
THE SERIES VS. SYRACUSE: Since the rivalry began in 1920, there have been only four seasons (1944, 1945, 1977, 1978) that the two squads have not faced each other.
• With 106 meetings in the books, the rivalry is the third most contested in NCAA DI men's lacrosse history.
• Cornell has won two in a row, defeating SU during the 2018 regular season, as well as the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
• Since 2000, SU holds a 12-10 lead, but the teams have played eight one-goal games, with two others being decided by two goals.
              
A WIN WOULD:
• improve the Big Red to 8-3 on the season.
• be the third in a row vs. Syracuse.
• be the 766th win in program history.
• even the Big Red's record at 2-2 vs. nationally ranked opponents this season.
• make Cornell 21-10 all-time when ranked No. 10 in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• improve Cornell to 15-5 all-time vs. opponents ranked No. 11 in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Syracuse's Andrew Helmer is the cousin of former Big Red women's lacrosse players Caroline (2009-12) and Meg Helmer (2011, 2013).
• Clarke Petterson and Jeff Teat attended The Hill Academy with SU's Jerry Staats and Owen Hill.
• Cooper Telesco and SU brothers Brett and Jack Kennedy all attended Ridgewood HS.
• Ryan Maloney and Chayse Ierlan attended Victory HS with SU's Jamie Trimboli.
• Andrew Barclay and SU's Griffin Cook both attended Jamesville-Dewitt HS.
• Billy Chabot and SU's Owen Hull both attended Rye HS.  
• JJ Lombardi and SU's Bradley Voigt and Troy Lauder all attended Salisbury School.
 
THE HEAD COACH
• Peter Milliman (20-8, .714) 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 (57-34, .626).
 
THE 30-30 CLUB: Jeff Teat needs just five goals and one assist to join Mike French as the only two players in Cornell history to post 30 goals and 30 assists in a season three times during their career.
• Only two other Big Red players – Eamon McEneany '77 and Rob Pannell '13 – have tallied at least 30 goals and 30 assists in a season twice in their career.
• Including Teat's performance in 2017 and 2018 there have been just 13 seasons in Cornell history with a 30-30 performer.
 
MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICANS: For the second year in a row, a pair of Big Red have been named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-American list, as junior Jeff Teat (first-team) earns his second selection along with classmate Brandon Salvatore (second-team).
  
TOP 20 ATTACK: Cornell is the only team in the nation to have all three starting attackman ranked in the top 20 nationally for points per game.
• Three other teams – Penn State (Grant Ament, Mac O'Keefe), Georgetown (Daniel Bucaro, Jake Carraway), and Richmond (Teddy Hatfield, Ryan Lanchbury) have two attackman listed in the top 20.
• Maryland has two players – one attack (Jared Berhnhardt) and one midfielder (Logan Wisnauskas) in the top 20.
 
OFFENSIVE PUNCH: The Big Red ranks in the top 10 in every NCAA offensive category.
• Second in shooting percentage (.411)
• Second in scoring offense (15.90)
• Second in points per game (25.90)
• Second in assists per game (10.00)
• Eighth in man-up offense (.438)
 
INDIVIDUALS IN THE NCAA: These Big Red are in the top 25 in the NCAA rankings ... 
• Jeff Teat – Seventh in assists per game (2.90); Sixth in points per game (5.40).
• Clarke Petterson – First in shooting percentage (.673); Fourth in goals per game (3.50); 17th in points per game (4.60).
• John Piatelli – Third in shooting percentage (.550); Seventh in goals per game (3.30); 14th in points per game (4.80).
• Brandon Salvatore – Fifth in caused turnovers per game (2.50).
 
GROUND BALL BUY: Brandon Salvatore ranks 30th in the nation in ground balls per game (5.50), the highest average of any player that is not their team's primary face-off man.
 
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 PLATEAU: With an assist on Colton Rupp's man-up goal vs. Yale on March 16, junior Jeff Teat registered the 200th point of career.
• Only three other players have amassed 200 points for the Big Red – Rob Pannell (354; 2009-13); Mike French (296; 1974-76); Eamon McEneaney (256; 1975-77). 
 
POINT SCORING STREAK: Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team, standing at 25 consecutive games.
• The streak is good for 21st in the nation.
It is also the fourth longest streak in the Ivy League, behind Penn's Simon Mathias (51 games), Yale's Jackson Morrill (41) and Princeton's Michael Sowers (37).
 
SIEVE! SIEVE! SIEVE! 
• Through 10 games this season, Cornell's opponents are saving just 39.8 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 one other time (2013; .435 percent).
 
RACE TO 100: Both Jake McCulloch (61-25—86) and Connor Fletcher (47-28—75) are closing in on 100 points for their career.
• Last season, both Jeff Teat and Clarke Petterson reached the 100-point plateau.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Jeff Teat ranks third in career assists (130). He needs 34 more to move into second.
• Jeff Teat ranks fourth in career points (225). He needs 31 more to move in to third.
• Jeff Teat ranks 12th in career points (95). He needs four more to move in to 11th
• Clarke Petterson ranks 10th in career goals (103). He needs three more to move into ninth place.
• Paul Rasimowicz ranks sixth in career faceoffs won (316). He needs 33 more to move into fifth place.
• Brandon Salvatore ranks fifth in career caused turnovers (57). He needs one more to move into fourth place.
• Dom Doria ranks 10th in career caused turnovers (37). He needs one more to move into ninth place.
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point-scoring streak on the team with one point in each of the last 25 games.
• Cornell goalies have posted double-digit saves in seven consecutive games.
• Cornell has posted a shot on goal percentage greater than .600 in nine straight games.
• The Big Red has scored in double-digits in 10 straight games.
• 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 seven opponents currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Penn State (first), Yale (fifth), Penn (seventh), Towson (ninth), Syracuse (11th), Notre Dame (12th), and Lehigh (17th).
• A year ago, the Big Red posted six wins over nationally ranked opponents, the most for Cornell since 2013.
• The Big Red is 1-2 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.
 
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 294-167-7 (.635).
• The Big Red has four New York teams on its schedule during the 2019 season – Hobart, Albany, St. Bonaventure, and Syracuse – and is 3-0 on the season.
 
IVY ACCOLADES: Cornell has had four players earn Ivy League accolades so far this season.
• Clarke Petterson was named Player of the Week on April 8 after scoring five goals on just five shots, registering his 100th career goal in the process, as Cornell defeated Harvard, 19-11.  
• 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 Week 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.
 
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.
 
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. 
 
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.
  
UP NEXT: The Big Red has another tough road test ahead when it travels to South Bend to take on No. 12 Notre Dame at noon on Sunday, April 14.