Cornell University Athletics

January 13, 1899
Captain R.F. Ludwig scores 30 points in Cornell’s first-ever varsity competition, defeating Waverly YMCA on the road 48-12.

January 12, 1901
Cornell plays its first official game on the Ithaca campus, defeating the 34th Separate Company of Geneva by a 37-12 margin at the old Armory.

May 25, 1901
Representatives of Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale met in New York and organized The Intercollegiate Basketball League, soon to to be the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, the first collegiate basketball conference.

February 27, 1905
The Big Red hands Fredonia State Normal its first loss in three seasons, outscoring the visitors 27-9 in the second half to collect a 43-21 victory.

January 1908
Walter Haggerty, formerly the assistant coach at Yale, is named the first head coach of Cornell basketball.

December 16, 1910
Cornell dominated a visiting Tufts team, winning 68-8. The 60-point margin of victory holds up as a school record for 33 years.

February 15, 1913
The Big Red tops Penn 17-9, moving its record in EIBL play to 6-1. That victory, along with Dartmouth’s 22-12 loss to Princeton three days later, would give Cornell its first-ever league title. For good measure, the Big Red defeated the Big Green 27-25 in Hanover, N.H. in the season finale on March 1 to finish 11-4 (7-1 EIBL).

March 2, 1913
Wisconsin, champion of the West, refuses an opportunity play a “national championship” game against Cornell, champion of the East. A faculty statement says that “nothing would be gained on a post-season game from the championship of the country,” according to the Wisconsin Daily News.

February 18, 1914
Cornell avenges an early season loss at Columbia with a 41-19 victory in Ithaca, part of a 13-1 finish to the season. The Big Red and Lions tie for the EIBL title with 8-2 records, but a playoff date can not be arranged.

February 5, 1919
Cornell plays its final game in the Old Armory, defeating St. Lawrence 34-11.

February 15, 1919
The Big Red opens competition at Barton Hall, then call the New Armory, with a 32-20 EIBL win over Columbia.

January 6, 1921
The Cuban Athletic Club sends an invitation to Cornell’s basketball team to visit Havana for a three-game series in support of native son Joaquin Molinet, the Big Red team captain. Cornell reports it is unable to make the trip.

February 12, 1921
Penn visited Cornell with an undefeated 16-0 record, but the Big Red took a  20-19 nailbiter for what would be one of two losses on the season for the eventual national champion.

March 4, 1922
The Big Red plays its first overtime game, falling at Penn by a 29-25 margin.

March 15, 1924
Cornell captured its first-ever solo league title by defeating Princeton 30-20 in the season finale in New Jersey. Carl Wedell ‘24 had 15 points in the victory.

January 1, 1940
The Big Red gets the new year off to a great start, defeating defending Big Ten champion and 1939 national runner-up Ohio State on the road, 29-28, a day after dropping a 29-24 New Year’s Eve decision to Michigan in Columbus.

April 6, 1941
Cornell departs for a seven-day trip to Havana, Cuba for a goodwill series against the local team out of the Vedado Tennis Club. Cornell wins all three contests in the series (40-35, 42-24, 43-19) at the Palace of Sports in Havana, drawing the largest crowd in arena history on the opening night (5,000).

February 23, 1949
Hillary Chollet sets a school record of 37 points and a national collegiate record with 19 foul shots in a 70-58 loss at the hands of Syracuse at the State Fair Coliseum.

March 9, 1954
Henry Bumcom ‘55 hits a 12-footer as time expired to lift Cornell to a 46-44 win over Princeton in a one-game playoff at the Palestra, avenging a 48-44 defeat at the hands of the Tigers the night before and giving the Big Red the 1953-54 EIBL title and a first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament.

March 12, 1954
Three days after Henry Buncom’s last-second shot gave the Big Red the EIBL title, Navy turned the tables on the Big Red in the same Palestra. Backup Ken McCally hit a 20-foot jumper with two seconds remaining to give the Midshipmen a 69-67 win in the NCAA Tournament despite 34 points from Lee Morton. The following day, Cornell dropped a 65-54 decision to No. 10 NC State in the consolation game

February 1, 1956
Diminutive guard Chuck Rolles posts the first 40-point game in school history, tallying 42 in a 96-94 overtime loss to Syracuse in the War Memorial - a school and building record.

March 2, 1957
Cornell earns its first Ivy League win with a victory over Brown at home, 82-50.

June 1959
Sam MacNeil ‘51, the Big Red’s freshman coach and a former letter winner, takes the reigns as head coach following the March resignation of Royner Greene.

December 7, 1960
Cornell rallies from a 16-point halftime deficit (30-14) to stun Bucknell 52-50 on a Ron Ivkovich ‘61 basket with 10 seconds left. John Petry ‘61 scores 14 of his 19 points after halftime to spur the comeback.

March 5, 1960
George Farley breaks an Ivy League and school record with 47 points in an 83-73 loss at Princeton, including 28 of the team’s 34 points after halftime. He records 16 field goals and 15-of-16 free throws.

December 23, 1961
Jerry Szachara scores 31 points to lead Cornell past unbeaten Illinois 72-60, snapping a 34-game non-conference home win streak for the Big Ten school that spanned eight years.

January 16, 1965
With a Barton Hall record 9,000 fans in attendance, reserve Blaine Aston launched a 17-foot jumper with just three seconds left to overcome a 40-point effort from Bill Bradley as the Big Red beat Princeton, 70-69.  It would be the Tigers last defeat until they fell to Michigan in the Final Four. 

December 4, 1965
Cornell breaks school and Barton Hall scoring marks in a dominant 116-69 victory over Colgate. The Big Red also outrebounds the Raiders 79-39. Cornell reached the century mark in scoring four times that season.

December 28, 1966
Cornell used a career-high 37 points from Gregg Morris to topple Adolph Rupp and defending national champion Kentucky 92-77 in Lexington, Ky. It was a loss which came ‘as a shock’ to the Baron of the Bluegrass, as the Wildcats didn’t take a lead at any point during the game.

December 30, 1966
Two days after winning at famed Rupp Arena in Kentucky, the Big Red crosses another great college basketball venue off its list – Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse. Cornell tops the Bulldogs 69-64 behind 23 points and 17 rebounds from Walt Esdaile and 21 points and nine rebounds from Gregg Morris.

February 18, 1967
Princeton came into town ranked No. 3 nationally with a record of 20-1 and with first place in the Ivy League up for grabs. Cornell pulled out a 62-56 over the Tigers. For the second time in three years, Blaine Aston gave the Big Red the lead for good against the Tigers, this time with just under three minutes remaining.

December 20, 1967
Niagara All-American Calvin Murphy scores 42 points, but 25 points from Hank South and a dominant 63-40 edge on the backboards leads Cornell to a 84-78 against a Purple Eagle team that was averaging nearly 100 points.

January 29, 1968
Hank South scores 25 points to lift Cornell to a 76-64 victory at Ohio State.

December 29, 1972
The Big Red shocks Arkansas in the first round of its own Razorback Invitational, 78-77. Max Jones and Gerry Newby are both named to the all-tournament team despite a loss to Ohio University in the championship game.

July 1972
After three successful seasons at Cheyney State, Tony Coma is named head basketball coach at Cornell.

February 7, 1974
Tony Coma resigns, with assistant coach Tom Allen taking over the program on an interim basis for the final nine contests.

April 23, 1974
Ben Bluitt is announced as the Big Red’s head coach, becoming the first black head coach of any sport in Cornell’s more than 100 years of athletics.

November 19, 1976
Cornell plays an exhibition game against the Egyptian National Team at Barton Hall, defeating its guests 76-50.

February 24, 1979
The longest game in school history, Cornell and Princeton battle for five overtimes at Barton Hall before the Tigers escaped with a 66-61 win. The Big Red stalled for the final 4:26 of regulation and each of the four overtimes, as each team scored just one field goal before the Tigers pulled away in the fifth extra period.

November 10, 1980
Head coach Tom Miller makes his debut on the Big Red sidelines with an 83-63 win over the national team from Portugal in a game played under international rules.

February 24, 1984
The Big Red tops Ivy champ Princeton 33-32 at Barton Hall in front of 4,900 fans as John Bajusz scores nearly half the team’s points with 14. It was Drew Martin’s driving layup with four seconds remaining that gave Cornell the win. It would defeat Penn 49-46 in overtime the next night in front of 4,100 to complete a sweep of the the teams in the same weekend for the first time in 18 years.

March 3, 1984
Cornell enters the final day of the regular season tied with Princeton for the Ivy league lead, but the Big Red drops an 82-66 contest at Dartmouth while Princeton wins to earn the title.

August 12, 1985
Cornell embarks on a 17-day foreign trip to Denmark, Sweden, France, Belgium and Germany. The Big Red goes 3-4 on the trip against mainly professional teams.

February 1, 1986
Len Palmer sinks a 14-foot jumper with four seconds remaining, giving the Big Red a 45-44 win over Penn.

February 14, 1986
Trailing by one with Brown shooting two free throws with just four seconds to play, the Big Red rallies for a 61-58 win in regulation against the first-place Bears in Providence. After two free throw misses, John Bajusz is fouled on an inbounds play and hits two free throws for the eventual win.

March 31, 1986
The Big Red hires 31-year-old Mike Dement as head coach.

January 6, 1990
The Big Red plays its first game in Alberding Hall, now Newman Arena, and beats Army 96-70.

January 20, 1990
Cornell officially opened Alberding Fieldhouse in the most exciting way possible, as 4,500 fans took in the ceremonial introduction to the Big Red’s new homecourt. Rowdy Meeks ‘90 tied the game at 71-71 with five seconds remaining, then watched as Steve Johnson ‘91 stole the ball from Columbia and nailed a 35-foot buzzer beater to etch his name in Big Red lore to give the home team an improbable 71-68 win.

May 6, 1991
Princeton assistant Jan van Breda Kolff is named the 16th head coach of Cornell basketball.

December 30, 1992
Cornell defeats No. 19 California 74-54 in the consolation game of the 1992 Seton Hall/Meadowlands Tournament. Though future NBA assist leader Jason Kidd sat out the game, future first round draft pick Lamond Murray was in the lineup in the Big Red’s first win over a ranked team in 26 seasons.

March 6, 1993
Cornell closes out the season with five wins in its last six contests to finish 9-5 in Ivy play and 16-10 overall, capped by a 108-87 win at Harvard in the season finale. The 108 points ranked as the fifth-highest scoring game in school history .

May 4, 1993
Former Cornell assistant coach Al Walker, who was on the sidelines for Cornell’s 1988 Ivy championship team, is named the 17th head coach in Cornell history after Jan van Breda Kolff accepts a similar position at Vanderbilt.

June 14, 1996
Scott Thompson, formerly head coach at Rice and Wichita State, is introduced as the new head basketball coach after taking over for Al Walker.

February 11, 2000
Cornell overcomes a 19-point first half deficit in a 65-57 win over Yale.

February 20, 2000
Ray Mercedes scores 10 points in a loss at Princeton, becoming the 16h player in school history to surpass 1,000 career points and the first since 1996.

September 6, 2000
Longtime Penn assistant coach Steve Donahue is introduced as the fourth Robert E. Gallagher Head Coach of Cornell Basketball, replacing Scott Thompson, who stepped down in July while fighting a cancer diagnosis.

November 29, 2000
Steve Donahue earns his first win as a head coach with a 91-81 overtime victory at Army.

March 3, 2001
Ray Mercedes closes his career with a 37-point effort in a 93-84 loss at Harvard. He moved into second place on the school’s scoring list in the process.

November 16, 2001
Chris Vandenberg sets a school freshman record with seven blocked shots in his first collegiate game, a 65-48 loss at Canisius.

December 22, 2001
Cornell’s career steals record fell to Wallace Prather, as the first of his four steals in a 69-61 win over Lehigh pushed him past DeShawn Standard with 156.

January 12, 2002
Wallace Prather became the school’s 17th 1,000-point scorer as part of a 15-point effort in a 79-74 loss at Yale.

November 2, 2002
Cornell drills Carleton University 101-68 in an exhibition game, shooting 60 percent from the floor against the eventual Canadian national champions.

November 22, 2002
Eric Taylor hits 14-of-16 shots and Cornell upsets Buffalo on the road 78-72 in the season opener, scoring 30 points, doubling his previous career high.

January 5, 2003
Ka’Ron Barnes sets a school record with 13 assists in an 80-73 victory over Lafayette at Newman Arena.

March 12, 2003
Lenny Collins is named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, the first Cornell freshman to collect that award in 10 seasons, while Ka’Ron Barnes was chosen to the second team.

May 20, 2003
The Big Red embarks on an 11-day trip to Australia, playing four exhibition games while taking in the sights in Sydney and Cairns. Cornell went 3-1 on the trip, averaging 115.3 points per game.

November 2, 2003
Cornell plays an exhibition game against Carleton University, the defending Canadian national champions. The Big Red defeated Carleton for the second straight season, two of the Ravens’ three losses over that span, with a 75-68 triumph.

November 23, 2003
Cornell welcomed its first major conference opponent at Newman Arena in 13 years as Georgia Tech visited Ithaca. In front of a national television audience and a sold-out crowd of 4,762 fans, the Yellow Jackets overcame an early eight-point deficit on its way to a 90-69 win. Georgia Tech would go on to reach the NCAA championship game after winning the Preseason NIT.

November 29, 2003
The Big Red takes part in a Western New York doubleheader at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, defeating Army 79-66.

December 29, 2003
Ka’Ron Barnes became the 18th 1,000-point scorer in school history thanks to a 22-point, eight-rebound, seven-assist effort in a 78-75 overtime loss at St. Francis (NY).

February 6, 2004
Cornell improved to 5-0 in Ivy League play for the first time in nearly 40 years with a 96-81 win at Brown behind 29 points from Cody Toppert, 28 from Ka’Ron Barnes and 16 points and 12 rebounds from Eric Taylor.

March 10, 2004
Ka’Ron Barnes becomes the first Big Red player to earn first-team All-Ivy honors in seven seasons with a unanimous selection.

December 1, 2004
Cody Toppert became the 20th member of the 1,000-point club with 15 in an 83-76 loss at Quinnipiac.

December 4, 2004
Ryan Rourke converted a three-point play with 29 seconds left to give the Big Red a 58-54 win at St. Bonaventure, the first victory over an Atlantic 10 opponent since the 1998-99 season.

December 20, 2004
Cody Toppert hit seven of the team’s school and Carrier Dome record 15 3-pointers, but No. 8 Syracuse outrebounded Cornell 34-17, tallied 15 steals and blocked seven shots in an 82-69 win for the Orangemen.

January 30, 2005
The Big Red wins its 100th game all-time at Newman Arena thanks to a 63-58 victory over Dartmouth.

February 4, 2005
Cody Toppert hit two free throws with 3.5 seconds remaining to lift Cornell to a 76-75 win over Brown, helping the Big Red overcome a Newman Arena-record 36 points from Bears’ guard Jason Forte.

February 26, 2005
Cornell swept Princeton for the first time in 20 years, rallying from a nine-point deficit to the Tigers for the second straight game in a 52-49 win at Newman Arena on Senior Day in front of a national television audience on the YES Network. 

March 5, 2005
Eric Taylor surpassed the 1,000-point scoring mark in his final collegiate game and Cornell finished in second place in the Ivy League after a 77-61 win at Brown.

March 10, 2005
Lenny Collins earns first-team All-Ivy League honors, while three-year captain Eric Taylor captures honorable mention accolades after leading the circuit in field goal percentage.

November 9, 2005
Cornell led into the final five minutes, but No. 16 Syracuse was able to use a late run to top the Big Red 67-62 in the second round of the 2K5 College Hoops Classic Benefitng Coaches vs. Cancer at the Carrier Dome. 

January 24, 2006
Sophomore guard Khaliq Gant is injured in a practice drill, fracturing his nick. The spinal cord injury left him paralyzed for four months and ended his basketball career. Gant continued to be part of the basketball program through graduation.

January 28, 2006
Wearing Khaliq Gant’s No. 21 embroidered on their left shoulders, Cornell went on the road an captured an emotional 81-59 victory at Columbia’s Levien Gymnasium thanks to Adam Gore’s 28 points. Trailing by three at the half, the Big Red outscored the Lions 47-22 after halftime, then stopped to see Gant in the hospital on their return trip to Ithaca.

March 1, 2006
Lenny Collins ‘06 is named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America third team.

March 9, 2006
Adam Gore ‘09 is named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and is joined on the All-Ivy second team by Lenny Collins ‘06.

November 11, 2006
Cornell opens the season with a 64-61 win at Northwestern, the first win over a Big Ten school for the Big Red since the 1967-68 campaign.

December 1, 2006
Seven players reached double figures as Cornell ran past VMI 99-94 in the first round of the WIlliam & Mary Tip-Off Classic.

January 13, 2007
Cornell holds Princeton to its lowest scoring output in an Ivy League game in the shot clock era in a 55-35 win at Newman Arena.

February 28, 2007
Rhodes Scholar finalist Graham Dow ‘07 is named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first team, the 12th Ivy Leaguer and first Cornellian to earn that honor.

March 7, 2007
Ryan Wittman ‘10 is named Ivy League Rookie of the Year to lead three Big Red postseason picks. Wittman was joined on the All-Ivy second team by Andrew Naeve ‘07, while Louis Dale ‘10 is named honorable mention.

May 23, 2007
Cornell kicks off a 10-day foreign trip to France, visiting Paris, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence and Nice. The Big Red goes 2-2 against its international opponents while seeing sights like the Eiffel Towerm Notre Dame Cathedral, Champs d’Elysees, the Louvre, Versailles and the French Riviera.

December 31, 2007
Cornell rallied from down nine points with 2:19 to play to force overtime, then held on for an 86-84 win at Quinnipiac. 

January 10, 2008
The Big Red put a scare into No. 8 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but fell 81-67. Cornell led late in the first half and kept the second half deficit within arm’s length in the Big Red’s last loss until the NCAA Tournament. 

February 15, 2008
Alex Tyler ‘10 scored six points in the final 25 seconds, including the game-winner, as Cornell stormed back from a five-point deficit for a 72071 win at Harvard. Tyler had 19 points and 10 rebounds for his only career double-double as the Big Red, with the New York Times in tow on the bus with the team,improved to 7-0 in Ivy play. 

March 1, 2008
The Big Red clinched its first Ivy League championship in 20 years, setting off a court-storming of epic proportions as Cornell defeated Harvard 86-53 at Newman Arena. Steve Donahue’s team cut down the nets, ending a 19-year reign of Penn or Princeton claiming the Ancient Eight title. 

March 8, 2008
Cornell becomes the first school other than Penn or Princeton to post an unbeaten Ivy season (13th overall), ending the year 14-0 with a 71-64 victory at Jadwin Gymnasium over the Tigers. It was the 16th straight win for Cornell overall and made the Big Red the fourth team since the formation of the Ivy League to sweep the Penn-Princeton weekend. 

March 12, 2008
Louis Dale ‘10 becomes the second Cornellian to be named Ivy League Player of the Year and is joined on the all-conference first team by Ryan Wittman ‘10. Steve Donahue is named NABC District Coach of the Year. 

March 20, 2008
No. 3 seed Stanford proves to be too much for the Big Red in a 77-53 loss at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. 

March 31, 2008
Louis Dale ‘10 is named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press. 

November 14, 2008
Cornell raises its 2007-08 Ivy championship banner prior to a 79-69 victory over South Dakota in the season opener. 

November 30, 2008
Ryan Wittman ‘10 becomes the 22nd 1,000-point scorer in school history with 28 points at Indiana’s Assembly Hall, but the Hoosiers win 72-57. 

February 13, 2009
Ryan Wittman ‘10 sets the Cornell career record for 3-pointers (240) and the Big Red establishes a new record for assists in a game (31) in a 96-75 win over Harvard in Ithaca. 

February 21, 2009
Louis Dale ‘10 reaches the 1,000-point plateau, the 23rd player in school history to reach that mark, in an 85-45 win at Brown. 

March 6, 2009
Cornell clinches the Ivy League title and becomes the first team in the field for the second straight year with an 83-59 win over Penn. 

March 20, 2009
No. 3 seed Missouri ends Cornell’s season with a 78-59 decision in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho. 

November 14, 2009
The Big Red opens the season with a 71-67 victory at Alabama, the first time in 37 years Cornell defeated a team from the SEC. 

November 24, 2009
Ryan Wittman ‘10 hits three 3-pointers at No. 9 Syracuse to become the Ivy League’s all-time leader in 3-pointers, surpassing Princeton’s Brian Earl with 262. He also becomes the second Cornell plaeyr to reach 1,500 career points.

December 20, 2009
Ryan Wittman ‘10 entered his big shot among the all-time list of big shots at the Mecca of College Basketball, hitting a 35-foot jumper at the buzzer to propel Cornell to the finals of the Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival with a 91-88 overtime win over Davidson. Louis Dale ‘10 sent the game into OT with a driving basket at the buzzer in regulation. 

December 21, 2009
Jon Jaques’ ‘10 deep 3-pointer at the shot clock buzzer propelled Cornell to a 71-66 win over St. John’s in the championship game of the Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival. The win snapped a 40-year, 46-game losing streak against Big East foes. Jeff Foote ‘10 was named tournament MVP and the Big Red joined past winners of the famed tournament

December 29, 2009
Ryan Wittman ‘10 sets the Cornell career scoring record with 34 points in a win at La Salle, pushing him past John Bajusz (1,663). He ended the night with 1,667 points and his career with 2,028.

January 6, 2010
The entire nation takes notice as the Big Red holds a lead into the final 30 seconds at No. 1 Kansas, threatening its 50-game win streak at Phog Allen Arena. The Jayhawks escaped with a 71-66 win, but not  before ESPN simulcast the final minutes of the contest and led with the game on SportsCenter.

February 1, 2010
The Big Red enters the national rankings for the first time in 59 years when it is ranked No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.

March 5, 2010
Cornell ties an Ivy League record and establishes a new school mark with 20 made 3-pointers in a 95-76 win at Brown, clinching its third straight conference title in the process.

March 10, 2010
Ryan Wittman ‘10 was unanimously voted as Ivy League Player of the Year and is joined on the first team by classmates Louis Dale ‘10 and Jeff Foote ’10. It is just the seventh time three teammates were named to the All-Ivy first team in the same season.

March 19, 2010
Cornell wins its first-ever NCAA Tournament game, shocking No. 5 seed and Atlantic 10 regular season and tournament champion Temple 78-63 at Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. It was the first NCAA win for an Ivy school in 14 years. Cornell win over the 17th-ranked Owls is the highest ranked non-conference opponent the Big Red has ever defeated.

March 21, 2010
The Big Red became the first Ivy League team in 31 years to advance to the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend by defeating No. 4 seed Wisconsin 87-69 in Jacksonville, Fla. The Big Red set an Ivy League record for wins in a season (29), and Ryan Wittman ‘10 became the third Ancient Eight player to surpass 2,000 career points.

March 25, 2010
Cornell’s magical run in the NCAA Tournament ended with a 62-45 loss to No. 1 seed Kentucky in the regional semifinal at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse.

March 30, 2010
Ryan Wittman ‘10 is named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press and Steve Donahue is chosen to receive the Clair Bee Award as national coach of the year.

April 2, 2010
Ryan Wittman ‘10 and Jeff Foote ‘10 play in the Reese’s College All-Star game at the Final Four in Indianapolis. Wittman starts and scores five points with three rebounds and Foote records three points and seven rebounds off the bench for Team Hershey.

April 7, 2010
Steve Donahue resigns as head coach to take over the men’s basketball program at Boston College.

April 17, 2010
The City of Ithaca proclaims “Big Red Day in Ithaca, N.Y.” to celebrate the success of the Cornell men’s basketball and men’s (ECAC Hockey tournament champion) and women’s (NCAA finalist) hockey teams.

April 23, 2010
Bill Courtney becomes the school’s 21st head coach of Cornell men’s basketball.

November 12, 2010
Bill Courtney picks up his first win as a collegiate head coach with a 65-61 victory at Albany, overcoming a 12-point first half deficit.

November 17, 2010
The Big Red raises its 2009-10 Ivy League championship and NCAA Sweet 16 banners, then goes out and tops Delaware 75-61 in its home opener.

December 30, 2010
Cornell makes 18 straight shots at one point, hits 15 3-pointers on 21 attempts and shoots 64 percent overall to top defending Southern Conference champ Wofford 86-80 in the consolation game of the Richmond Marriott Holidays on the Hardwood Tournament.

February 22, 2011
Chris Wroblewski ‘12 earned a spot on the Capital One Academic All-America third team.

January 3, 2012
Chris Wroblewski ‘12 becomes the 24th player in school history to register his 1,000th point as part of a 15-point effort in a 70-62 loss at Maryland.

February 3, 2012
Chris Wroblewski ‘12 is named to the Capital One Academic All-America third team, becoming the first Big Red basketball player to be honored nationally twice.

March 2, 2012
Chris Wroblewski ‘12 sets the school’s career assist mark, surpassing former teammate Louis Dale. He’s end his four-year career with 482 assists, 13th-best in Ivy history.

March 7, 2012
Shonn Miller ‘15 is named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, the seventh Cornellian to earn that honor. Chris Wroblewski ‘12 caps his career by garnering first-team All-Ivy honors.

March 8, 2012
Jeff Foote ‘10 becomes the first Cornellian to earn a spot on an NBA roster in more than 50 years when he signed a 10-day contract with the New Orleans Hornets. He had four points and four rebounds the next night in his NBA debut against the Denver Nuggets.

November 24, 2012
The Big Red wins the 2012 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational lower bracket with an 84-76 win over Longwood. 

November 18, 2014
Cornell rallies from a 17-point first half deficit that was 13 with 11 minutes to play in a 58-52 home win over Colgate. 

January 10, 2015
The Big Red posts its largest scoring margin in school history and surrenders its fewest points in nearly 70 years in a 107-29 victory over Alfred State. 

February 7, 2015
The cardiac kids do it again as Cornell rallies from down 12 with eight minutes to play to stun Princeton with a 22-0 run on its way to a 68-60 victory at Newman Arena. 

February 27, 2015
Shonn Miller becomes the school’s 25th 1,000-point scorer with 24 points and 15 rebounds as the Big Red upsets Ivy champ Harvard at Newman Arena, 57-49. The game is televised on CBS Sports Network. 

March 11, 2015
Shonn Miller is unanimously chosen to the All-Ivy first team after ranking second in the conference in scoring (16.8 ppg.), rebounding (8.5 rpg.) and free-throw percentage (.834) and among the top 10 in blocks (fourth, 1.8) and steals (eighth, 1.3). He would go on to be named to the NABC all-district second team and a finalist for the Lefty Driesell Award as national Defensive Player of the Year.

February 27, 2016
Matt Morgan scores 20 points at Princeton to set a new Ivy League freshman scoring record, surpassing Brown’s Earl Hunt (460 points in 1999-2000). He would end the season with 510 points.

April 18, 2016
Brian Earl, former Ivy League Player of the Year and longtime assistant and associate head coach at Cornell, is named the 22nd head caoch in program history. Earl replaced Bill Courtney, whose contract was not renewed after six seasons.

August 10, 2016
Cornell embarks on a 10-day trip to Spain, going 3-0 on the goodwill tour while visiting Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona.

November 20, 2016
Brian Earl picks up his first win as a collegiate head coach in an 82-75 win at Lafayette.

December 20, 2016
Robert Hatter scores 20 points, becoming the 26th member of the century club, in a 79-67 loss at #23/25 USC.

March 3, 2017
Matt Morgan scored 28 points at Yale, becoming the first sophomore in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark.

March 11, 2017
Garry Munson is named Cornell’s first Legend of Ivy League Basketball in a ceremony at the inaugural Ivy League Men’s basketball Tournament in Philadelphia.

April 23, 2017
Matt Morgan declares his intention to put his name into consideration for the NBA Draft. Morgan does not sign with an agent and pulls his name out of consideration by the deadline to retain his final two seasons of collegiate eligibility.

February 16, 2018
Cornell rallies from a 22-point deficit with under 12 minutes to play to top defending Ivy League champion Princeton 107-101 in triple overtime at Newman Arena.

March 3, 2018
The Big Red qualifies for its first-ever Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament with an 86-75 season-ending win at Dartmouth, coupled by losses by Princeton (at Yale) and Columbia (at Harvard). Matt Morgan becomes the school’s single-season scoring leader with 16 points, pushing his total to 611 on the season and surpassing Ryan Wittman ‘10 (596 in 2009-10).

March 10, 2018
Cornell plays in its first-ever Ivy League Tournament game, dropping a 74-55 decision to No. 1 seed Harvard at the Palestra in Philadelphia. Matt Morgan earns all-tournament honors with a 19-point effort.

March 12, 2018
Stone Gettings earns a spot on the CoSIDA Academic All-America third team.

April 3, 2018
For the second straight season, Matt Morgan declares for the NBA Draft. 

January 9, 2019
Matt Morgan scores an arena record 38 points on a school record nine 3-pointers, becoming the sixth Ivy League player to reach 2,000 career points in an 86-74 win over Towson.

January 19, 2019
Matt Morgan breaks the Cornell career scoring record during a 21-point effort in a home win over Columbia, surpassing Ryan Wittman ‘10 and ending the night with 2,044 points.

February 8, 2019
With a Leede Arena record 41 points, Matt Morgan posts the most points by a Cornellian in nearly 60 years.

March 9, 2019
Cornell closes out the regular season with a win over Dartmouth, though Matt Morgan scores just eight points on his Senior Day to snap an 80-game double figure scoring streak — a Cornell and Ivy League record and the 12th-longest mark in NCAA Division I history.

March 17, 2019
The Big Red earns an invitation to the CollegeInsider.com (CIT) Postseason Tournament.

March 19, 2019
Jimmy Boeheim scores 31 points and Matt Morgan had 24 in his final collegiate game as the Big Red dropped a 98-89 overtime contest to Robert Morris in the first round of the CIT Postseason Tournament. Morgan closed his career with 2,333 points, good for No. 2 all-time in Ivy League history.

October 17, 2019
Matt Morgan signs a free agent contract with the defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors and is assigned to the Raptors 905 team in the G League

February 8, 2020
With the 1988 and 2010 Ivy League title teams in attendance, the Big Red put forth a championship effort. Cornell scored the first six points of the night and led wire-to-wire, handing Ivy leader Princeton  its first conference loss with a 73-62 victory over the Tigers. The game was delayed a day after a major snowstorm blew through Ithaca.

March 7, 2020
Cornell snaps a 19-game road losing streak with an 85-82 win at Princeton, completing its first season sweep of the Tigers since the 2009-10 season.

March 9, 2020
Jimmy Boeheim is named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America second team. He becomes the seventh Cornell Academic All-American.

November 12, 2020
The Ivy League Council of Presidents announce that league schools will not conduct intercollegiate athletics competition in winter sports during the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 19, 2021
Cornell tops Division III Wells to improve to 4-0, its first perfect start after four games in 60 years. 

December 5, 2021
The Big Red sets program records for points (122), field goals (49) and assists (41) in running past Keuka College 122-64. The 49 field goals surpassed the record of 47, while the 41 assists destroyed the previous mark of 31.

March 8, 2022
Brian Earl is named the Ivy League Coach of the Year, the first Cornell head coach to earn the honor.

March 12, 2022
In its second Ivy League Tournament appearance, Cornell nearly rallies from a 17-point deficit against regular season champion, taking a late lead before falling 77-73 against Princeton at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion.

November 10, 2022
The Big Red knocks down a school-record 22 3-pointers, including 13 in the second half alone, in a 114-57 win over Division III SUNY Delhi.  

December 7, 2022
In a wild game, eventual ACC regular season champion and Final Four participant Miami (Fla.) outscores the Big Red 107-105 as Cornell nearly rallies from a 21-point second half deficit, rimming out a game-winning shot attempt in the final seconds.  

December 20, 2022
Cornell claims win No. 1,300 all-time with a 96-64 win over Lehigh at Newman Arena.  

December 29, 2022
The Big Red runs its non-conference home win streak to a school-record 13 games after an 86-70 win over Binghamton.  

January 13, 2023
Against the eventual Ivy League champion and the conference’s top defense, the Big Red scores 37 points in the final 9:30 to rally past Yale 94-82 in a game televised on ESPNU.  

March 4, 2023
The Big Red earns a Senior Day win over Columbia at home, then finds out several hours later it earned the fourth and final spot to the Ivy League Tournament when Yale defeats Brown that evening.

November 20, 2023
Cornell tops Utah Valley 74-61 to win the Bay Bracket of the Jacksonville Classic at Flagler University. Chris Manon is named Tournament MVP.

January 29, 2024
The Big Red receives a pair of votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after handing Princeton just its second loss of the season, 83-68, two days prior.

March 1, 2024
Cornell doesn’t turn the ball over in the second half and erases a 14-point deficit in the second half to snap a nine-game losing skid to Penn in the Palestra, topping the Quakers 87-81.

March 17, 2024
Cornell earns its first-ever National Invitation Tournament (NIT) bid.

March 19, 2024
The Big Red leads into the final minute on the road at second-seeded Ohio State in the first round of the NIT, but ultimately drops an 88-83 contest to the Buckeyes.

March 23, 2024
Brian Earl steps down as head coach to accept the same position at William & Mary.

April 5, 2024
Jon Jaques '10, an impactful player and coach on some of the most successful Big Red teams in school history, was named the 23rd Robert E. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Cornell Men's Basketball.

November 8, 2024
Cornell raised an NIT banner into the rafters prior to the game and Jake Fiegen drilled a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds remaining to give the Big Red an 88-86 victory over defending SoCon champion Samford.

December 11, 2024
For the first time in 73 years, the Big Red defeated an ACC team with an 88-80 victory at California.

January 5, 2025
Cornell set school records for points in a half (67 in the first half) and a game (123) and captured second place on the charts in field goals (48), 3-pointers (20) and assists (37) in a game in a 123-71 victory over Penn State-Schuylkill.

January 11, 2025
Sophomore Jacob Beccles scored a career-high 23 points and tied a school record by hitting all five of his 3-point attempts without a miss in a 94-83 victory at Columbia.

February 28, 2025
Cornell scored 63 first-half points, including 15 3-pointers by the break, to help it to its most lopsided victory in the 121-year series with Penn, topping the Quakers 90-62 at Newman Arena.

March 2, 2025
In front of a nationally-televised audience on ESPN2, Cornell's offense shot 64 percent from the floor overall and connected on 20-of-33 3-pointers in a 102-70 triumph over Princeton.

March 3, 2025
Jon Jaques '10 is named a finalist for the Joe B. Hall National Coach of the Year. CollegeInsider.com presents the award annually to the top first-time head coach in Division I college basketball

March 15, 2025
The Big Red picks up its first-ever win at the Ivy League Tournament, advancing past Dartmouth 87-71 in the semifinal at Brown's Pizzitola Sports Center. 

March 16, 2025
Cornell shot 71 percent from the floor in the second half, but Yale matched the Big Red shot-for-shot and held on for a 90-84 victory at the Pizzitola Sports Center in the championship game of the Ivy League Tournament.