ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's basketball team closes out the 2024-25 home schedule and celebrates its seniors when it returns home to face Yale and Brown this weekend at Newman Arena. The Big Red will look for the season sweep over Yale when the two teams meet on Friday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m., then will honor its four seniors prior to Saturday's 3 p.m. contest against Brown. The contests will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• Cornell is coming off a tight 68-63 defeat at Penn last Saturday, a game that saw the Big Red lead into the fourth quarter before the Quakers hit 7-of-9 shots to rally.
• The Big Red had four double figure scorers, led by Summer Parker-Hall's 17 points and Emily Pape's 13.
• Defense has been the Big Red's calling card all season, holding 12 opponents to 60 points or fewer in regulation.
• Cornell will honor seniors Jada Davis, Lexi Green, Arianna Linoxilakis and Summer Parker-Hall prior to Saturday's contest, then will try and enjoy Senior Day by avenging a 49-39 defeat at Brown on Jan. 20 to earn a season split.
• First-year head coach Emily Garner's fast-improving Big Red is 3-3 in its past six contests. 
• Picked seventh in the Ivy League Preseason media poll, Cornell remains alive for a spot in the Ivy League Tournament, standing at 3-8 (two games out of fourth place with three to play).
• Cornell has already matched last season's overall win total and tripled its amount of league wins from 2024.




GAME INFORMATION
Yale at Cornell
DATE & TIME: Friday, February 28 at 4 p.m.
SITE: Newman Arena – Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Yale 3-21 (2-9 Ivy); Cornell 7-17 (3-8 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Yale leads 60-30
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

Brown at Cornell
DATE & TIME: Saturday, March 1 at 3 p.m.
SITE: Newman Arena – Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Brown 10-14 (4-7 Ivy); Cornell 7-17 (3-8 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Brown leads 57-32
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com



A WIN OVER YALE WOULD ...
• push Cornell's record to 8-17 on the season and 4-8 in Ivy League play.
• complete a season sweep of the Bulldogs, the Big Red's first over Yale since 2018-19.
• improve its record to 4-3 over its last seven contests.
• narrow Yale's lead in the all-time series to 60-31.
• up its all-time record in Ivy League play to 192-418 (.314).
• be the 474th in program history (473-780 in 53rd season, .377).

LAST TIME VS. YALE
• The Cornell women's basketball team defeated Yale 57-40, its first win over the Bulldogs since 2019. 
• The victory snapped Yale's eight-game win streak in the series.
• Summer Parker-Hall led the Big Red in scoring with 17 points and went 7-for-7 from the field and 3-for-3 from the free-throw line. 
• Paige Engels also scored double digits with 10 points, Azareya Kilgoe had nine, Rachel Kaus notched seven, Clarke Jackson had six and Kelsey Langston and Audrey Chen rounded out the Big Red scoring with three each. 
• Yale was led in scoring by Mackenzie Egger who had nine.
• The Big Red was strong on the defensive side of the ball and dominated the boards, 42-28.
• Emily Pape, Parker-Hall and Kaus all had six rebounds, Engels and Jackson each had five and Kilgoe had three.
• Cornell had three steals to Yale's five with Jackson having all three for the Big Red. 

LAST TIME VS. BROWN
• Turnovers proved to be the difference maker in a close contest for Cornell as it lost 49-39 to Brown. 
• The Big Red had 19 turnovers throughout the game, while the Bears had 11.
• Brown capitalized on Cornell's turnovers by recording 15 steals and 15 points off of turnovers to Cornell's three steals and nine points off turnovers. 
• Alyssa Moreland led the Bears in steals with six. 
• The Big Red's steals came one apiece from Summer Parker-Hall, Rachel Kaus and Clarke Jackson.
• In the loss, Paige Engels had another double-digit day, leading Cornell in points with 10 and set her career-high leading the team in rebounds with eight to go along with two assists.
• Parker-Hall and Kaus each had nine points on the afternoon and Jackson had eight. 
• The Bears were led by Isabella Mauricio who scored 18 and notched her 1,000th career point on her last basket of the game.

TRENDING UP
• Senior Summer Parker-Hall enters her final three games atop the school's single-season field goal (.573) and free-throw percentage (.895) lists. Currently Jumana Salti's .570 field goal percentage from the 1999-2000 season ranks No. 1, while Claire Perry hit at an .889 clip in 2005-06. 
• Her free-throw percentage ranks 16th nationally among qualifiers.
• In her past four games, Parker-Hall is shooting .633 from the floor (19-of-30), including a perfect 7-for-7 shooting day at Yale.
• She is nearly the first Big Red player to shoot 50 percent from the floor (.573) and 90 percent (.895) from the line in the same season at Cornell — men's or women's.
• As a team, the Big Red is among the top free-throw shooting teams in the country at .738, a mark that stands third in the Ivy League and in the top 100 nationally.
• The Big Red ranks in the top half of the Ivy League and in the top 100 nationally in scoring defense, allowing opponents to score just 60.0 points per game on .395 shooting, a mark that also ranks fourth-best in the Ancient Eight.
• Sophomore Rachel Kaus is averaging 12.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists in her past two games off the bench.
• Since being re-inserted into the starting lineup seven games ago, freshman Kelsey Langston has helped the Big Red to a 3-4 record.
• In its past two games, the Big Red offense is shooting .495 (47-of-95) from the field, its best two-game stretch of the season.
• Looking for a key number? It might be 40 percent. The Big Red is 7-4 when shooting 40 percent or better this season and 0-13 when hitting below that clip.

MILESTONE WATCH
• At 799 career points, junior Emily Pape is one point away from reaching 900 for her career.
• Pape is close to other milestones as well — she is 28 rebounds from 500, 10 assists from 100 and 14 steals from 100.
• Senior Summer Parker-Hall enters the weekend seven made field goals from 250, one rebounds from 450 and four assists from 100.
• Sophomore Clarke Jackson is two rebounds from hitting 150 for her career.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
• Freshman Paige Engels was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice since conference play started. She was honored on Jan. 21 after averaging 12.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists against Penn and Brown, then the following week after scoring 10 points with two assists and a rebound in a narrow 62-54 loss at home to Princeton.
• Cornell's season-opening win at Army West Point is one of just five losses on the season for the Black Knights (20-5), who stand second in the Patriot League with a 12-3 mark. The 60-54 victory on Nov. 4 to open the season was also Emily Garner's first as head coach.
• It also closed the 2024 calendar year with a 76-73 triumph at Siena on Dec. 30. The Saints are 16-10 on the year and 13-4 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference - good for third place.
Assistant coach LaSashia Connelly as named of the top 50 Most Impactful Women's Assistant Coaches by Silver Ways Media, a basketball media outlet.

HALL OF FAME
• Allyson DiMagno '14 was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame this past fall. 
• A three-time All-Ivy League selection, including a second-team pick as a junior and senior and an honorable mention honoree as a sophomore, she was a three-time CoSIDA Academic all-district first teamer.
• DiMagno was the 10th player in conference history, and the first-ever in Cornell history, to reach 1,300 career points and 900 career rebounds. 
• DiMagno concluded her time on East Hill as the all-time career rebounding leader in Big Red history and set career records for offensive rebounds (347), defensive rebounds (591), games played (112) and minutes played (3663). 
• She ranked second in Cornell history for career free throw percentage (.837) and was third all-time in career points (1,329), behind only Karen Walker and Keri Farley.

UP NEXT
• Cornell closes out the regular season when it visits Columbia on Saturday, March 8 at 2 p.m. at Levien Gymnasium.
• The contest will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
• The Big Red will attempt to snap a seven-game skid against the Lions dating back to the 2019-20 season.
• Cornell holds a 50-33 advantage in the all-time series dating back to 1975.