ITHACA, N.Y. – The men's squash team comes off the intersession break this weekend with its first home matches of the season. Cornell returns to Ivy League play when it takes on Yale at 1 p.m. Saturday, then it takes on Trinity in a non-league match that begins at noon Sunday. Matches from all six courts at Belkin International Squash Courts will be streamed live through The Ivy League Network.
 
Cornell enters the weekend at 2-1 for the season, having concluded the fall semester portion of its slate with a 5-4 win over Columbia in the teams' Ivy opener on Dec. 8. The victory was the Big Red's first over the Lions since 2015, and it helped bump the squad up two spots to #7 in the College Squash Association's national rankings, which – if carried through the remainder of the season – would leave Cornell aligned for a coveted spot in the field for the Potter Cup, the top flight of the national championships.
 
Junior Veer Chotrani earned the clinching point for the Big Red in the match against the Lions, and Nick Robinson and Charles Culhane won their respective matches to improve to a perfect 3-0 on the season individually.
 
Yale has opened the season 4-0 and holding down a national ranking of fifth after victories against Virginia, Western and Brown in November, plus a 7-2 decision over ninth-ranked Drexel on Sunday. Trinity is also undefeated at 3-0, holding a ranking of fourth in the nation. The Bantams had been scheduled to compete against Drexel on Saturday, but that match was postponed.
 
The Big Red is 3-59 all-time against the Bulldogs after an 8-1 loss on Jan. 11, 2020. The Big Red last defeated Yale in 2012 during the quarterfinals of the Potter Cup, which eventually powered Cornell to a program-best fourth-place finish in the national rankings. Cornell is 4-27 against Trinity, with this match serving as the first meeting between the programs since Jan. 16, 2019, when the Bantams were the defending national champion.

Cornell had momentarily added a non-league match against Williams on Wednesday, but that has since been postponed. The teams are exploring a makeup date for that match in the coming weeks.