Marquette Comes to Town for the First Time in MLAX Program History

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 
• Cornell looks to get back in the win column when it hosts Marquette on Tuesday afternoon.
• The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
• The Big Red has outscored opponents 131-89 across the first nine games of the season.
• Marquette enters the contest with a win over common opponents Penn State.
• Cornell fell to 7th place position in the USILA Coaches Poll and 6th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll this week.
• Cornell ranks eighth nationally in scoring defense, allowing 9.89 goals per game. The Big Red also ranks third in groundballs per game, averaging 38.56, and 16th nationally in caused turnovers per game (9.11). Cornell's clearing percentage of 90.7 pecent ranks eighth nationally. Marquette has the best scoring offense in the Big East, averaging 13.20 goals per game.
• Cornell returns the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in CJ Kirst, who notched 55 goals and 79 points for the Big Red last year. Kirst has 47 points in eight games played. He leads the nation in goals per game (4.78) and in points per game (5.78). Following his 11-point performance at Hobart and five-point day at #9/#8 Ohio State, Kirst was named the Ivy League Player on the Week (March 5). He earned a nod on the USILA National Team of the Week following his seven-goal outing versus #16 Penn.
• Gavin Adler is a three-time National Team of the Week honoree, most recently following the Cornell win over Yale where he tallied eight groundballs and a caused turnover. He aided in holding one of the nation's leading attackman, Matt Brandau, to just one goal, nearly ending a 129-game goal-streak, the longest in the country.
• Jack Cascadden has become a staple in the Big Red faceoff unit. He ranks second in the Ivy in faceoff winning percentage (.598). He was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week following his performance against Penn, where he assisted on a goal just 10 seconds into the game, and went 12-for-16 at the faceoff.
• The Big Red boasts three mid-season All-Americans, Gavin Adler (First-team), Chayse Ierlan (Third-team), and CJ Kirst (First-team).

THE SERIES 
Overall: Never competed.
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Never competed.
Current Streak: N/A
Last Meeting: N/A
Buczek vs. Harvard: N/A
Series Notes: 

• Tuesday marks the first meeting the two opponents will face in their history. Marquette has had a varsity program since the 2012 season, and first began competing in 2013.
• The Big Red's all-time record against opponents currently in the Big East is 3-4.
  
  A WIN OVER MARQUETTE WOULD ... 
  • be the first win in the all-time series.
  • prevent a two-game slide for the second time this season.
  • be the 796th win in program history (795-493-27 in 126 seasons, .605).

LAST TIME OUT: Harvard 10, Cornell 8
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY
• The Big Red fell to Harvard, 10-8, for the team's first Ivy loss of the season.
• The Big Red began on a 3-0 run in the first quarter, but Harvard would take the lead in the second half and never look back..
• The Cornell attack was led by CJ Kirst, who tallied four goals and an assist.
• Brian Piatelli notched his third hat trick of the season.
• Jack Cascadden went 12-for-16 from the faceoff.
• Harvard's Andrew Perry had a hat trick and an assist for four points, while seven other Crimson scored.
• Chayse Ierlan had 14 saves for the Big Red in the contest.

Photos by Dave Burbank, Madison Epperson, Eldon Lindsay, and Darl Zehr.