ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's basketball team will attempt to move to 3-0 on the season when it visits historic Rose Hill Gymnasium to face Fordham on Saturday, No. 11 at 1 p.m. The matchup will be broadcast on ESPN+ and will be simulcast on SNY.

• The game is the first of consecutive contests the Big Red will play against Atlantic 10 opponents.
• Cornell will put its 2-0 start on the line against a Rams' team that won 25 games a season ago and won its 2023-24 opener against Wagner in overtime, 68-64, on Monday evening.
• The Big Red is off and running again this season, averaging 95.5 points per game while shooting 54 percent overall and 39 percent from 3-point range and assisting on 23 buckets per outing.
• A year ago, Cornell  paced the Ivy League in 11 categories, including scoring offense (81.7), 3-pointers made (10.7) and attempted (30.4) per game, assists (17.5), assist:turnover ratio (1.41), steals (9.7), effective field goal percentage (.556) and fastbreak points (15.9), while ranking in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense, assists, bench points, fastbreak points, steals and 3-pointers made and attempted. 
• Cornell has won 22 consecutive non-conference contests against schools from outside of the Big Ten and ACC, dating back to a Dec. 22, 2019 loss at Hartford (80-76).

GAME INFORMATION
Cornell at Fordham
DATE & TIME: Saturday, Nov. 11 at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Rose Hill Gymnasium – The Bronx, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell (2-0, 0-0 Ivy League), Fordham (1-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
SERIES RECORD: Series tied 4-4
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: FordhamSports.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com

THE SERIES
81 Years • 234 Miles • 8 Meetings
Overall: Series tied 4-4
In The Bronx, N.Y.: Fordham leads 3-0
Current Streak: Fordham, 1
Last Meeting: Fordham won 81-41 1/19/80 in The Bronx, N.Y.
Earl vs. Fordham: First-ever meeting

SERIES NOTES
The two teams first met on Dec. 12, 1942 in Barton Hall in Ithaca, a 41-34 Fordham win • the Big Red went 4-2 from 1950-79 • Cornell's last win came in Ithaca on Jan. 15, 1979, a 66-65 win • it will be the first game against an A-10 foe since defeating Duquesne 78-71 on the road on Nov. 27, 2017 •  Cornell is 21-25 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10 Conference and has won two straight • this will be the first of two consecutive contests vs. A-10 opponents.

A WIN OVER FORDHAM WOULD
• give the Big Red a 3-0 start to a season for the second time in the past three years.
• up its non-conference win streak to 23 games against teams outside the ACC or Big Ten. 
• make Cornell 5-4 all-time against Fordham and 22-25 vs. current members of the Atlantic 10 conference.
• extend its win streak against A-10 schools to three games.
• give Cornell a 35-22 record overall since the beginning of the 2021-22 season.
• be the 1,329th in program history (1,328-1,492-2 in 123 seasons, .471).

LAST TIME VS. FORDHAM
• Larry Oeding scored 13 points and was the lone double figure scorer for the Big Red as Fordham earned an 81-41 win on Jan. 19, 1980 at Rose Hill Gymnasium in the Bronx.
• The Big Red shot just 29 percent from the floor (15-of-51) and 39 percent from the free-throw line (11-of-28) while turning the ball over 17 times.
• The Rams held a decisive 48-31 edge on the backboards with Edward Bona grabbing 11 to go with his 11 points. 
 
PLAYER NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell enters the weekend with four double figure scorers, a total of 10 players averaging at least 6.0 points per contest, and 15 posting at least 2.0 points.
• Six Big Red players with at least 10 minutes played through two games are shooting 70 percent or better from the floor and 10 are at 50 percent or better.
• In his first two career starts, sophomore Cooper Noard is second on the team in scoring (14.0 ppg.) and rebounding (6.0 rpg.) and paces the team in 3-pointers (8-of-16).
• Noard leads the team in minutes played at 22.0 through two contests.
• Chris Manon has 114 steals in 56 career games, or 2.04 steals per game, ahead of Wallace Prather's school record average of 1.89. Manon is challenging the record despite averaging just 19.0 minutes per game for his career. 
• Dating back to last season, Manon has multiple steals in five consecutive contests.
• Manon had 63 steals in 2022-23, surpassing a two-decades old single-season school record 54 set by DeShawn Standard (1997-98) and matched by Wallace Prather (2001-02).
• Manon collected seven steals in the win over Binghamton, tied for the second-most in a single-game in school history and the most since Lenny Collins posted a record eight at Bucknell on Jan. 20, 2004.
• His five against Yale in the Ivy League Tournament semifinals broke a tourney record for steals in a game.
• Manon's .524 career field goal percentage ranks seventh all-time at Cornell among players with at least 400 shot attempts.
• The Big Red's two-headed center of Sean Hansen and Guy Ragland Jr. combined to average 18.1 points, 9.1 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.8 blocks while playing 40.8 minutes per game in 2022-23.
• The duo is even better this season, averaging 24.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, 5.0 assistsand 4.0 steals in 35.5 minutes per game while shooting 58 percent from the floor overall and from 3-point range. 
• Hansen set a school record by hitting all eight field goals in the win over Saint Francis (Pa.), doubling his previous scoring high with 26 points and becoming the first player in school history with a game of at least 25 points, five rebounds, five assists and three steals.
• With seven assists and just one turnover this season, Ragland leads five Cornell players posting at least a 3.0 assist:turnover ratio. 
• With his double-double in the win over Ithaca, Ragland became just the sixth player in school history with multiple double-double efforts off the bench (Stan Brown, Mike Millane, Bernard Jackson, Brian Kopf and Jeff Foote) in a career.
• Ragland posted five points, seven rebounds and six assists off the bench against Morrisville, becoming just the seventh Big Red player to tally at least five points, five rebounds and five assists in the same game off the bench at Cornell.
• Keller Boothby turned the ball over just six times in 551 minutes on the court (22 assists) last season and has just 19 career miscues in 1,182 minutes (one every 62.2 minutes). Dating back to the Big Red's game on Feb. 5, 2022 against Penn, he has just eight turnovers in 772 minutes of action (28 assists and 65 3-pointers made over that span).
• Boothby shot .478 (22-of-46) from 3-point range in Ivy play last year.
• In 13 home games in 2022-23, Keller Boothby had 11 assists and one turnover in 245 minutes of play.
• Despite going scoreless in his first two career starts, sophomore DJ Nix has posted a +27 rating - good for third on the team behind Chris Manon (+39) and Sean Hansen (+28).
• Freshman Jacob Beccles scored 15 points in his collegiate debut, the most by a Big Red rookie in his first game since Chris Manon netted 17 points in a win over Binghamton to kick off the 2021-22 season.
• Former walk-on, sophomore forward AK Okereke, is averaging 8.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 19.0 minutes per game.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Of the 30 100-point games for the Big Red in school history, head coach Brian Earl has been at the helm for nine of them, including for five of the top 10 totals.
• Earl's teams also have seven of the top 10 single-game assist totals. and six of the top 10 made 3-point field goal totals.
• The Big Red was placed third in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll, its highest preseason selection since also being chosen third in the 2010-11 poll
• Since its return from COVID, Cornell men's basketball has posted a 34-22 record (.607), a  mark that is 34-16 when removing guarantee games (.680).
• Over the past three seasons, the Big Red is averaging 17.6 assists per game and hitting 10.3 3-pointers per game while averaging 81.0 points per game. 
• Despite playing at the fastest pace in the Ancient Eight, Cornell's 12.4 turnovers per game was the second-lowest average in the league a year ago.
• Cornell  led the Ivy League in 11 categories in 2022-23, including scoring offense (81.7), 3-pointers made (10.7) and attempted (30.4) per game, assists (17.5), assist:turnover ratio (1.41), steals (9.7), effective field goal percentage (.556) and fastbreak points (15.9), while ranking in the top 10 nationally in scoring offense, assists, bench points, fastbreak points, steals and 3-pointers made and attempted. 
• Cornell is 22-4 at home over the past three seasons, including a perfect 12-0 against non-conference opponents over that span.
• With 300 3-pointers last season, Cornell's mark ranks second in a season for the Big Red.
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 941 consecutive games dating back to a contest against Denison in the 1988-89 season opener (0-for-2). Since the 3-point shot came into effect in NCAA play during the 1986-87 season, the Big Red has hit at least one shot behind the arc in 987 of 991 games (6,673 3-pointers over that span).
• The Big Red has won 22 consecutive non-conference games against opponents from conferences other than the ACC or Big Ten dating back to an 80-76 loss at Hartford on Dec. 22, 2019— a span of 1,421 days.
• The Big Red's seven-game win streak last season was its longest since walking off the floor victorious in nine consecutive contests late in 2009-10.
• Graduated seniors Greg Dolan '23 (Loyola Chicago) and Marcus Filien (UAlbany) have moved on to play as graduate transfers at other Division I institutions (Ivy League does not allow graduate student eligibility).  
• Over the past three seasons, nine grad transfers have gone on to play Division I basketball elsewhere — Jimmy Boeheim (Syracuse), Kobe Dickson (Howard), Bryan Knapp (George Washington), Terrance McBride (Rice), Dean Noll (Stony Brook), Sarju Patel (UAlbany) and Riley Voss (Wright State).

MISCELLANEOUS TEAM NOTES
• Brian Earl and his brother Dan (Chattanooga) are one of five active sets of brothers directing Division I programs, joining Bryce (Grand Canyon) and Scott (Baylor) Drew, Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny (Connecticut) Hurley, Joe (Boston University) and James (Yale) Jones and Archie (Rhode Island) and Sean (Xavier) Miller.
• Associate head coach Jon Jaques was a starter and senior captain on the 2009-10 Cornell team that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.
• Cornell has played in 47 different states, as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia, France and Spain. The only states the Big Red has not played in are Alaska, North Dakota and Mississippi.
• The Big Red continues to be ranked among the best according to the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report (APR). The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members' continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation. The NCAA "commends" teams that have APR scores in the top 10 percent within their sport. Cornell has been recognized 10 times in since the APR began in 2005, including seven consecutive (2009-16).
• Dating back to the first overtime game against Penn way back in 1922, Cornell is 42-51 in games that go an extra period. Cornell is 7-10 in multiple overtime games, with the longest game for the Big Red being a five overtime contest against Princeton, won by the Tigers 66-61 on Feb. 24, 1979 at Barton Hall. Cornell is 31-19 in home overtime games, 2-2 in neutral contests and 10-29 in road games.
• Are Cornell Student-Athletes on Scholarship? The easy answer is no. Cornell student-athletes are awarded need-based financial aid, just as any other student who applies to the school. That package can come in the form of student loans and grants. The basic intent of the original Ivy League agreement of 1954 was to improve and foster intercollegiate athletics while keeping the emphasis on such competition in harmony with the educational purpose of the institutions. The Ivy League is nationally recognized for its level of success — absent of athletic scholarships — while rigorously maintaining its self-imposed high academic standards. The Ivy League has demonstrated a rare willingness and ability, given the current national pressures on intercollegiate success, to abide by these rules and still compete successfully in Division I athletics.

UP NEXT
• The Big Red will visit George Mason on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at EagleBank Arena in Farifax, Va.
• The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• This will be the second all-time meeting between the teams after Cornell topped the Patriot 68-60 on Nov. 14, 2014 at the Patriot Center.
• Shonn Miller had 21 points, 13 rebounds and two blocked shots to lead the Big Red.