ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's basketball team will attempt to keep its road momentum going when it visits red-hot Army West Point on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. at Christl Arena. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• The matchup will be the first meeting between the teams in 17 seasons and will pit two high-octane offenses against each other.
• Army West Point is averaging 83.9 points per game, with the Big Red at 81.9 with similar numbers across the board.
• Cornell has won nine straight meetings against the Black Knights with its last loss in the series coming in 1998-99.
• Cornell is coming off an impressive 84-57 win at five-time defending Patriot League champion Colgate on Wednesday.
• The Big Red has picked up right where it left off a season ago when it went 22-8, finished tied for second in the Ivy League and made its first-ever NIT appearance.
• All five starters are in double figures and nine players are seeing double-digit minutes.
• The Big Red returns two starters and eight letter winners from last season, with former Big Red captain and longtime assistant and associate head coach Jon Jaques '10 taking over the program.
• Picked fourth in the Ivy League Preseason media poll, Cornell will be in search of its fourth consecutive appearance in the four-team conference tournament. 

GAME INFORMATION
Cornell at Army West Point
DATE & TIME: Sunday, December 8 at 1 p.m.
SITE: Christl Arena – West Point, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell (5-3, 0-0 Ivy League), Army West Point (5-3, 0-0 Patriot League)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 20-13
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: ArmyWestPoint.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

THE SERIES
111 Years • 195 Miles • 33 Meetings
Overall: Cornell leads 20-13
In West Point, N.Y.: Army West Point leads 10-9
Current Streak: Cornell, 9 games
Last Meeting: Cornell won 93-78,11/20/07 in 
Ithaca, N.Y.
Jaques vs. Army West Point: 0-0

SERIES NOTES
The two teams first met in January of 1914 and will be meeting for the first time since the 2007-08 season • Cornell has won nine straight matchups between the programs  • the Big Red has won four in a row and five of the past six contests at West Point •  the Black Kinghts' last win in the series came in the 1998-99 campaign, a 64-63 win by Army West Point at home • the Big Red is 158-126 all-time against current members of the Patriot League and has won nine in a row.

A WIN OVER ARMY WEST POINT WOULD
• push Cornell's record to 6-3 on the season.
• extend its win streak over the Black Knights to 10 games overall and give the team a 22-13 edge in the all-time series.
• make it 10 consecutive wins by the Big Red over Patriot League opponents.
• make Cornell 3-2 in road contests this season.
• make Cornell 60-33 overall (.645) since the beginning of the 2021-22 season.
• up the Big Red's non-conference record to 37-14 (.725) over its past 51 contests.
• be the 1,337th in program history (1,336-1,493-2 in 125th season, .472).

LAST TIME VS. ARMY WEST POINT
• Cornell pulled away from a hot-shooting Army team and used an outstanding performance from Brian Kreefer to knock off the Black Knights 93-78 at Newman Arena. 
• The preseason Ivy League favorites shook off Army with a 17-4 run early in the second half and opened the game up late behind five double figure scorers. 
• Kreefer, who had played just three minutes in the team's first two contests of the year, scored 21 points and added two rebounds, three assists and two steals. 
• He was part of a bench effort that combined for 45 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists. 
• Junior Jason Battle and sophomore Andre Wilkins provided energy and defense, each posting five rebounds, an assist and a steal without a turnover.
• Sophomore Louis Dale had 17 points and seven assists, classmate Ryan Wittman added 16 points and a career-best seven rebounds, junior Collin Robinson had a career-high 16 points and junior Adam Gore posted 10 points.
• Army was led by Jarell Brown's 30 points and Josh Miller's 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the loss.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell jumped out to a 22-point halftime lead and was never challenged in the second half in claiming an 84-57 victory over five-time defending Patriot League champion Colgate at Cotterell Court. 
• The offense jumped off the page for the Big Red with its 58 percent shooting as a team, 13 3-pointers made and 26 team assists on 33 baskets. 
• But it was the defense that made all the difference in picking up the road victory.
• The Big Red limited the Raiders to 43 percent shooting overall, including just 5-of-20 from beyond the 3-point arc, and scored 21 points off the Raiders' 14 turnovers. 
• Nazir Williams scored a game and season-high 22 points to pace three double figure scorers, with Cooper Noard scoring 19 with a team-best five rebounds and Guy Ragland Jr. adding 12 points and four assists. 
• Eleven different Big Red players scored and 11 assisted on at least one basket.
• Four Colgate players reached double figures - Sam Wright, Brady Cummins and Nicolas Louis-Jacques each had 11 points and Jalen Cox scored 10. 

NOTES FROM THE COLGATE GAME
• The team's 27-point road win was its biggest against a Division I opponent since topping Brown 85-45 on Feb. 21, 2009 in Providence, R.I. and the largest out of conference since defeating NJIT 64-33 on Jan. 15, 2008 in Newark, N.J.
• The team's 26 assists in a road contest tied a school record previously set in a 107-105 loss at Miami (Fla.) on Dec. 7, 2022 and matched in the first round of the NIT at Ohio State on March 19, 2024.
• The 26 assists is tied for the 13th-most in a game in school history.
• The Big Red outscored the Raiders 21-6 in points off turnovers.
• Freshman Mateen Rafiq scored his first collegiate points with a 3-pointer during a stint in the first half.
• Senior Nazir Williams surpassed 900 career points (ending the night with 911), becoming the 37th player to reach that milestone. 
• He also connected on his 100th career 3-point field goal (101 total), becoming the 23rd Big Red player to hit the century mark.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Since its return from COVID, Cornell men's basketball has posted a 59-33 record (.641), a mark that is 59-22 when removing regular season guarantee games (.728).
• Over the past four seasons, the Big Red is averaging 17.9 assists per game and hitting 10.3 3-pointers per game while averaging 81.1 points per game. Over that stretch, Cornell is shooting .593 from two-point range.
• Cornell is 34-6 at home over the past three seasons, including 18-1 against non-conference opponents over that span.
• Cornell earned two votes in the USA Today Coaches Poll on Jan. 29, 2023 after its victory over Princeton, the first time the Big Red earned recognition in the poll since ranking No. 17 in the final poll in 2010 (April 6, 2010).
• The team's 22 wins last season were tied for second-most by a Big Red, matching the 2007-08 Ivy League champion squad and trailing the 29 wins from the 2009-10 squad.
• Seven of Cornell's eight losses came away from home against top 100 NET teams — nationally-ranked Baylor (No. 15 in NET, 24-11), Ohio State (No. 49 in NET, 22-14), Princeton (No. 55 in NET, 24-5), Yale twice (No. 83 in NET, 23-10),  Syracuse (No. 84 in NET, 20-12) and George Mason (No. 93 in NET, 20-12), six teams that each reached 20 wins and combined to go 133-64 (.675). 
• A year ago, the Big Red led Division I in bench scoring (36.0 ppg.) and ranked in the top 20 in effective field goal percentage (sixth, .572), assists per game (sixth, 18.1 apg.), 3-pointers (10th, 10.3), field goal percentage (14th, .487) and scoring offense (16th, 82.1).
• In 14 Ivy games last season, Cornell assisted on 241 baskets with 153 turnovers (1.58 assist-turnover ratio).  
• The Big Red was 18-2 last season when leading at halftime, with the two losses on the road at Ivy leaders Yale (46-38) and Princeton (35-33).
• Cornell has hit a 3-pointer in 980 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 1,029 of 1,033 games (7,072 3-pointers over that span).

MISCELLANEOUS TEAM NOTES
• 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).

THE BIG RED IN OVERTIME
• 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
• Cornell will play its final game prior to the final exams break when it visits California on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. PT at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif.
• The contest will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra and ESPN+.
• The series is tied at 1-1, with the Big Red winning the last meeting 74-54 against the then 20th-ranked Golden Bears on Dec. 30, 1992 in the consolation game of the Seton Hall/Meadowlands Tournament in South Orange, N.J.