ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's squash team's travels within Ivy League play continue this weekend with matches at 11 a.m. Saturday at Dartmouth and noon Sunday at Harvard.
 
Cornell (2-3, 1-1 Ivy League) is ranked seventh in the nation by the College Squash Association, coming off a pair of losses to fifth-ranked Yale (8-1, on Saturday) and fourth-ranked Trinity (9-0, on Sunday). Junior Veer Chotrani accounted for the Big Red's lone point on the weekend with a four-game victory over the Bulldogs' Harrison Gill at the No. 1 position. He also took his match against the Bantams to five games, as did Nikhil Arjunan Iyer from the No. 6 spot.
 
Despite the losses, the Big Red still maintains a coveted position inside the nation's top eight, which would land it a berth in the Potter Cup – the top flight of the CSA's National Championships – if it holds by the end of the regular season in about a month.
 
Dartmouth is ranked 11th and sits at 3-4 overall and 0-3 in Ivy play after suffering a pair of 9-0 setbacks last weekend in league play against highly-ranked Princeton (on Saturday) and Penn (on Sunday).
 
Cornell leads the all-time series against Dartmouth, 40-24, halting a seven-match Big Green winning streak with a 6-3 decision that featured three matches that passed the hour-long mark in the semifinals of the 2020 Hoehn Cup. It was an upset victory for the Big Red, which had dropped a regular-season match against the Big Green by the same score.
 
Second-ranked Harvard is 6-1 overall and 3-1 against Ivy competition entering a Tuesday afternoon match against ninth-ranked Drexel. The Crimson is coming off a pivotal weekend in which it clashed with #1 Penn and #3 Princeton – suffering a 6-3 loss to the Quakers in a rematch of the 2020 national championship before skirting by Princeton, 5-4, the next day.
 
The Big Red is 2-49 all-time against Harvard, with the last victory coming on Dec. 4, 2010 in Ithaca.