ITHACA, N.Y. — The men's squash team will attempt to win the Hoehn Cup for the fourth time in program history this weekend, when it competes at the College Squash Association's 'B' Division national championship at Penn Squash Center in Philadelphia.
 
The Hoehn Cup features the nation's ninth- through 16th-ranked teams, and Cornell (6-7) enters the weekend seeded first in the bracket and ninth overall in the country. That lands the Big Red a quarterfinal match at 2 p.m. Friday against #16 Franklin & Marshall (9-9) – which is an identical matchup (though with different seeds) to Cornell's last Hoehn Cup quarterfinal in 2020. The Big Red won that match, 5-4, to improve to 30-24 all-time against the Diplomats.
 
Cornell, which last won Hoehn Cups in 1993, 2006 and 2007, is coming off a disappointing final weekend of its regular season when a 6-3 loss to Drexel knocked the Big Red outside of the CSA's top eight for the first time all season and took away ambition of returning to the top-flight Potter Cup field for the first time since 2014.
 
The Big Red did, however, receive good news on Wednesday when junior Veer Chotrani was selected to the All-Ivy League Team for a second time. Chotrani is 6-7 from the #1 position, and senior Charles Culhane leads the team in victories with an 8-5 record exclusively from the #4 position.
 
One of the other Hoehn Cup quarterfinals, #12 Dartmouth vs. #13 Chatham, will run simultaneous to the action between Cornell and F&M. The first wave of quarterfinals precedes those matches at 11 a.m., pitting #11 Western Ontario against #14 Williams , and #10 Rochester vs. #15 MIT.
 
The winner of Cornell's match and the Dartmouth/Chatham match will square off against each other in the semifinals at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The losers will play at 3 p.m. in the consolation semifinals. Sunday's potential match times are 8:30 or 11:30 a.m.
 
Results will be updated throughout the weekend on the CSA's website. All competition will also be streamed through College Squash YouTube.