ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell welcomes its Central New York rival Binghamton to Berman Field on Tuesday night, which will serve as the Big Red's final non-conference match of the season.

Game Information

SITE: Berman Field – Ithaca, N.Y. (natural surface)
TIME: Tuesday, Oct. 18 – 7 p.m.
RECORDS: Binghamton (3-6-4, 1-1-2 America East), Cornell (9-3-0, 2-1-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 14-5-2
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com

About the Big Red

• Senior midfielder Brandon Morales is tied for third in the Ivy League for points (six goals, three assists — 15 points). Fifth-year senior Emeka Eneli is tied for the eighth-most points with 11 on the power of three goals and five assists. Sophomore forward Alioune Ka (four goals, two assists), and senior defender Connor Drought (two goals, six assists) also have double-digit point totals.
 
• Junior defender Kisa Kiingi (three goals, two assists — eight points) is the lone Cornell nearing the 10-point plateau, needing one goal to accomplish the feat.
 
• The Big Red currently has four players with at least 10 points this season, the first time that has happened on a Cornell squad since 2012 (Daniel Haber, Conor Goepel, Tyler Regan, and Stephen Reisert). It is the ninth time since 1947 that a Cornell team has had four 10-point scorers in the same season, joining the 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1981, 1995, 1999, and 2012 teams.
 
• Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Friedberg has been the Big Red's go-to keeper this year, having started all 12 games this season. Friedberg has logged all but 11:25 of the Big Red's minutes this season, while posting a 9-3-0 record with a 1.01 goals-against average and a .684 save percentage.
 
• After falling to Colgate last Tuesday in Hamilton and to Penn on Saturday at home, Cornell enters Tuesday's match on a two-game losing streak, the program's first since falling to Yale and UAlbany on Oct. 18 and 22, 2019.

Berman Field Advantage

• After Vermont snapped Cornell's 15-game unbeaten streak at Berman Field on Sept. 13, Cornell had bounced back by with 8-0 and 3-2 victories over Canisius and Harvard prior to Saturday's setback.
 
• Since 2019, the Big Red is unbeaten in 17 of its last 19 matches at Berman Field, posting a 14-2-3 record and a .816 win percentage, which ranks 14th in the nation. Cornell is joined by Georgetown, New Hampshire, and Yale as the lone programs with just two home losses during that span.
 
• The Big Red is 9-1-1 over its last 11 home non-conference matches, dating back to the 2018 campaign. Cornell's lone loss in that span came on Sept. 13 against Vermont.

Having an Eye for the Goal

• The Big Red has scored 26 goals so far this year, marking the program's 10th overall time since 1946 that Cornell has logged at least 26 goals over its first 12 matches. It is the second consecutive year and just the third time in the last 25 seasons of competition that Cornell has at least 26 goals over the first 12 matches.
  
• Dating back to 2019, Cornell has scored in 44 of its last 47 matches and in 77 of the 96 games (80.2 percent) played during John Smith's tenure as head coach at Cornell. The 80.2 percent figure ranks as the fourth-highest total by a Cornell head coach. It is the highest since Dan Wood (1971-75), the coach in which Smith's position is currently endowed for.

Reaching the 10-Win Plateau

• With a victory on Tuesday, Cornell would increase its already established program record for consecutive 10-win seasons to four.
 
• Securing a win in its 13th game of the season would be the third time over the last four seasons of competition that Cornell has won its 10th game in the 13th match of the season (2021, 2018).

Helping the Team Out

• Senior defender Connor Drought has been an assist machine for the Big Red this season, logging six assists so far on the season. Drought's six assists are tied with Harvard's Willem Ebbinge for the Ivy League lead. and tied for 27th nationally.
 
• Drought's six assists are tied for the third-most by a designated defender, joined by Memphis' Hayden Anderson, Wake Forest's Jahlane Forbes, Washington's Omar Grey, Siena's Jesper Schone Vogtengen, Indiana's Nyk Sessock, and LIU's Robert Winkler. Only Quinnipiac's Alexander Stjernegaard (nine assists) and San Francisco's Nathan Simeon (eight assists) have more assists.
 
• The six assists by Drought are the most by a Cornell defender on record in program history and is tied for the 12th-most by a Big Red player in program history. With his next assist, he will match Richard Stimpson (2000), Ian Pilarski (2001), Daniel Haber (2012), Tyler Bagley and Emeka Eneli (2021) for the seventh-most assists in a season.

Scouting the Bearcats

• Binghamton enters Tuesday's contest with a 3-6-4 record and a 1-1-2 mark in America East play. Despite the Bearcats' record, Binghamton is unbeaten over its last five matches (3-0-2).
 
• The Bearcats are coming off a 4-1 victory over UMass Lowell on Saturday at the Bearcats Sports Complex in Vestal. Devin Heanue, Ethan Homler, Matthew Cozetti, and Anthony Lazaridis all scored for the Bearcats. Mats Roorda made four saves in the victory.
 
• Cozetti paces a balanced Bearcats offense with eight points (three goals, two assists). Heanue, Lazaridis, and Markos Touroukis all have registered seven points on the season.
 
• Roorda has started in 10 of Binghamton's 13 matches to date, logging a 3-4-3 record to go along with a 1.02 goals-against average and a .773 save percentage. P.J. Parker has started the other three matches, registering a 1.93 goals-against average and a .667 save percentage.

Series vs. Binghamton

• Cornell has a 14-5-2 advantage over Binghamton in the series, which dates back to 1974. The Big Red opened the series with seven wins over the first eight matches between 1974 and 1981 before the two programs did not play until the 2007.
 
• Upon the resumption of the annual meetings between Binghamton and Cornell, the Bearcats went 3-0-1 over the Big Red. Cornell has won seven of the last nine meetings between the two programs, going 7-1-1.

Looking Ahead

• Cornell will head to the Garden State to take on Princeton in a pivotal Ivy League matchup on Saturday. First touch between the Big Red and Tigers is slated for 4 p.m. from the newly-opened Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.