ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell men's lacrosse team will attempt to remain unbeaten on the road when it visits Ivy foe Brown on Saturday, April 5 at 12 p.m. at Stevenson-Pincine Field in Providence, R.I. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• Cornell, ranked No. 1 in the latest national polls for the second consecutive week, brings a four-game win streak into the contest coupled with the most explosive and efficient offense in Division I.
• The Big Red ranks No. 1 nationally in goals (16.2), assists (10.9) and points (27.1) per game and is in the top five in shooting percentage (.359) while scoring at least a dozen goals in every contest this season.
• Senior All-American and Tewaaraton Trophy candidate CJ Kirst  is making a push to become Division I lacrosse's all-time leading goal scorer with 210, just 14 behind Payton Cormier's record of 224 for Virginia from 2020-24.
• The nation's active leading scorer at 291 points, Kirst is on the verge of becoming the 24th player in Division I history to reach 300 for a career and he paces all of college lacrosse with his 61 points (45 goals, 16 assists) this season.
• Kirst's running mate Michael Long became the sixth player at Cornell to surpass 200 career points during a six-point effort in Tuesday's 18-11 non-league win over UAlbany — while also making him the fourth player at Cornell to reach 100 career goals and 100 career assists.
• Junior Jack Cascadden has been outstanding at the faceoff X, winning 62 percent of his restarts in the past four contests (61-of-99).
• The defense has surrendered just 8.0 goals over its past two games and is allowing opponents to shoot just 24 percent overall this season.
• The Big Red has been jumping out on opponents all season, outscoring opponents 86-44 in the first half (an average score of 10-5).
Head coach Connor Buczek's Big Red team returns eight starters and 22 letter winners from last season's 9-5 squad that won the Ivy League regular season title — its third straight and 32nd overall in program history.

GAME INFORMATION
#1/1 Cornell at Brown
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 5 at 12:00 p.m.
SITE: Stevenson-Pincine Field - Providence, R.I.
RECORDS: Cornell 8-1 (3-0 Ivy); Brown 3-6 (0-2 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 41-22
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

A WIN OVER BROWN WOULD ...
• make Cornell 9-1 on the season with its fifth straight win.
• get the Big Red off to a 4-0 Ivy start for the first time under head coach Connor Buczek '15 and the first time by any Cornell team since 2013.
• improve Cornell's advantage over the Bears to 42-22 and claim its third straight victory over Brown.
• give the Big Red a 281-116-1 all-time mark in Ivy League play (.707).
• push Buczek's career record to 43-15 (.741).
• be the 817th in program history (816-502-27, .617).

LAST TIME VS. BROWN
• A slow first half for Cornell's offense was saved by Wyatt Knust, who stood tall in goal on Schoellkopf Field, helping the Big Red to a 14-8 victory over Brown by making a career-best 24 saves on .750 save percentage. 
• Freshman Ryan Goldstein led the Cornell attack with five points on a hat trick and two assists. 
• Hugh Kelleher, CJ Kirst, Michael Long, and Spencer Wirtheim followed with three points apiece. 
• Willem Firth notched a goal and an assist for two points. 
• Marc Psyllos went 8-for-16 at the faceoff X. 
• Brown only had three players tally more than one point. 
• Aiden McLane and Ben Scandone each scored two goals, and Matteo Corsi put up one goal and one assist. 
• Dash Sachs took all but one faceoff for the Bears, going 11-for-25. 
• Netminder Connor Theriault posted 17 saves in the contest, his second-most of the season.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell seniors CJ Kirst and Michael Long both reached career milestones and the top-ranked Big Red rolled to an 18-11 victory over UAlbany at Schoellkopf Field. 
• Kirst scored six goals, jumping into the top five in Division I history in career goals with 210, while Long's five assists and six points pushed him over 100 assists and 200 points in his Big Red career. 
• Long became just the fourth player in school history with both 100 career goals and 100 career assists, joining Mike French '76, Rob Pannell '13 and Jeff Teat '20, becoming just the sixth player overall to surpass 200 points. 
• Junior Jack Cascadden won 19-of-26 faceoffs with 13 ground balls while scoring a goal. 
• Ryan Golstein scored two goals and two assists and both Willem First and Ryan Waldman scored twice with one assist apiece. 
• Both Brendan Staub and Matt Dooley notched three ground balls with a caused turnover. 
• Silas Richmond led UAlbany with four goals and two assists.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior CJ Kirst's 291 points are five shy of matching Mike French '76 for second on the school's career list.
• Kirst is nine points from becoming the 24th player in Division I history to reach the 300-point milestone.
• Kirst also has 55 career caused turnovers, one from reaching seventh all-time at Cornell and three from reaching sixth.
• With his next man-up goal, Kirst would reach 15th on the school's career list with 13 and is two away from jumping to 13th place.
• Senior Michael Long is five assists from joining the top five in school history, matching Mike French '76 with 105
• At 14th place in career goals with 102, Long is four from matching his Big Red head coach Connor Buczek '15 with 106 for 13th.
• Junior goalkeeper Wyatt Knust has 268 career saves, two away from jumping into 15th place at Cornell.
• With 16 career wins in goal, Knust is two victories from reaching the top 12 at Cornell.
• Junior Jack Cascadden is 11th in career faceoff wins with 257, 38 from joining the top 10.

KIRST WATCH
• Cornell and the Ivy League's all-time goal scoring leader (210), senior CJ Kirst in nearing the top of the all-time NCAA career charts.
• Kirst is the nation's active leader in career goals (210) and points (291), well ahead of Princeton's Coulter Mackesy (148) and Harvard's Sam King (222).
• The 10th player in Division I history to reach the 200-goal mark, he became the fastest player to reach that mark and his 57 games played are nine fewer than any of the other players on the list.
• He enters the weekend two goals shy of reaching No. 3 all-time in Division I history, 11 from hitting No. 2, and 14 away from Payton Cormier's record of 224 for Virginia from 2020-24.
• Kirst's 3.68 goals per game is the fourth-best average in Division history — and second at Cornell behind Mike French's 4.06, which is No. 2 in NCAA history. NC State's Stan Cockerton scored 4.39 goals per game from 1977-80.
• His points total of 291 is 27th all-time and four from reaching the top 25.
• Kirst's 5.00 goals per game leads all players in all NCAA Divisions, with Talon Osmun of Division III Mount Union (4.80) ranking second. 
• The senior is the nation's leading goal scorer in Division I at 5.00 goals per game with No. 2 being Siena's Pratt Reynolds at 3.67 — more than a goal behind the Big Red captain.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Cornell has scored at least 12 goals in all nine contests this season.
• Seniors CJ Kirst (first, 5.09) and Michael Long (ninth, 4.00) rank among the nation's top 10 active leaders in career points per game.
• Willem Firth ranks third in the nation with six extra-man scores.
• Since regaining his starting spot last April, senior Wyatt Knust has 201 saves (13.4 saves per game) with a 9.83 goals against average and a .586 save percentage in his past 15 contests.
• Junior Jack Cascadden has scored 11 career goals (with four assists) directly off face-offs in his career, including six goals in his past eight games.
• Senior defender Jayson Singer has started 37 of the past 38 games for the Big Red.
• Cornell is 22-6 (.786) at home under head coach Connor Buczek.

PRESEASON HONORS
• Senior attackman CJ Kirst is the USA Lacrosse Division I Men's Preseason Player of the Year and Attackman of the Year.
• Kirst, senior midfielder Hugh Kelleher and senior attackmen Michael Long have been selected to the 2025 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List.
• Kirst was also chosen as a USA Lacrosse, USILA and Inside Lacrosse Division I Men's Preseason All-America first team selection. 
• Kirst was chosen as college lacrosse's top player by Inside Lacrosse in its IL Top 50, while Long was slotted No. 19.
• Long was a third-team All-America choice by both USILA and Inside Lacrosse.
• Sophomore midfielder Willem Firth, senior defender Jayson Singer and senior goalkeeper Wyatt Knust were honorable mention selections by USILA, while Inside Lacrosse honored Firth, senior midfielder Hugh Kelleher and senior short-stick midfielder Chris Davis.

THE HARD HAT
• Charlie Box was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2025 season. 
• Sixth-year senior Michael Long (2023) and fifth-year senior CJ Kirst (2024) have also carried the Hard Hat during their careers.
• The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. 
• Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. 
• The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies • how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 306-168-7 (.643).
• The Big Red has three New York teams on its schedule during the 2025 season – Hobart (22-9), UAlbany (18-11) and Syracuse.
• Cornell is 18-2 over its past 20 contests against New York state teams dating back to 2018, including 4-1 vs. Syracuse, and owns a seven-game win streak against teams from the Empire State.

PROFESSIONAL NOTES
• Jeff Teat '21 broke the single-season Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) scoring record with 64 points (28 goals, 36 assists), shattering the previous mark of 44 by Lyle Thompson (2022) and matched by Marcus Holman (2023).
• Professional lacrosse's all-time single-season leading point scorer is Rob Pannell '13. The former Big Red player set the record in the 2018 season of the Major League Lacrosse (MLL), putting away 43 goals and 35 assists for 78 points.
• Chayse Ierlan '23 became the fourth Big Red player taken in the PLL Draft after the goalkeeper was chosen No. 29 overall by the California Redwoods last May. He joins Gavin Adler '24, Jeff Teat '21 and Clarke Petterson '19. Teat was the No. 1 overall pick in 2021 and Adler went No. 1 in 2023.
• Since 2002, Cornell has had 38 players chosen in the MLL/PLL Draft.

HALLS OF FAME
• One of the most successful lacrosse coaches of all time, Nevin D. "Ned" Harkness was announced as one of four coaches making up the 2024 class of inductees to the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLAC) Hall of Fame. 
• Another Cornell name to be inducted into this class is Big Red alumnus Howie Borkan '81, who is the "Bob Russell Contributors Award" recipient.
• Additionally, Texas A&M coach Tony Scazzero '75, who was the longest tenured coach in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association before retiring last spring, was inducted into the MCLA Hall of Fame.
• Jason Noble '13 was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame this past fall. 
• The three-time All-America selection (first-team in 2013, second-team in 2012, honorable mention in 2011) was also a two-time first-team All-Ivy pick and anchored of one of the nation's top defenses. 
• He later was named the 2017 NLL Defensive Player of the Year in leading the Georgia Swarm to the league title.

IVY PRESEASON POLL
• The Big Red was chosen first in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll announced in February.
• Cornell finished first with nine of the 14 first-place votes and a total of 90 points, just ahead of Princeton (87 points, four first-place votes).
• Yale (71 points, one first-place vote) and Penn (57 points) rounded out the top four.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will travel to Long Island to square off with longtime rival Syracuse on Saturday, April 12 at 4 p.m. at Mitchel Field in Uniondale.
• The contest will be broadcast on Corrigan Sports Network.
• The Orange leads the all-time series 66-42-1, though Cornell has won four of the past five meetings.
• Cornell won a thrilling 18-17 contest last season in OT at Schoellkopf Field.