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GAME INFORMATION
Game #5: Cornell vs. Toledo
Tip off: Friday, Nov. 27, at 2:00 p.m.
Series Record: Toledo leads 5-0
Last Meeting: Toledo won 58-35, Dec. 3, 1976 in Toledo, Ohio
Game #6: Cornell vs. Vermont
Tip Off: Saturday, Nov. 28, at 2:00 p.m.
Series Record: Vermont leads 6-4
Last Meeting: Vermont won 73-60, Dec. 5, 2003 in Burlington, Vt.
Game #7: Cornell at Drexel
Tip off: Sunday, Nov. 29, at 2:30 p.m.
Series Record: Drexel leads 2-0
Last Meeting: Drexel won 91-84, Jan. 7, 1989 in Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (2-2, 0-0 Ivy); Toledo (0-3, 0-0 Mid-American); Vermont (2-2, 0-0 America East); Drexel (1-3, 0-0 Colonial)
Site: Daskalakis Center (2,532), Philadelphia, Pa.
Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
Live Stats: Available at www.DrexelDragons.com
Live Video: Available at www.DrexelDragons.com
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (119-135, .469) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — After dropping consecutive games to Big East opposition, the Cornell men’s basketball team will attempt to get back on the winning track when it closes out play in the 2009 Legends Classic beginning on Friday, Nov. 27, at 7:00 p.m. at Drexel’s Daskalaskis Athletic Center. Barry Leonard will provide the calls on 93.5 WVBR-FM, which can be heard live on the internet as part of the RedCast subscription service.
The Big Red, guaranteed four games in the tournament, have already gone on the road to top Massachusetts (74-61) and now will meet Toledo (Friday), Vermont (Saturday) and Drexel (Sunday) looking to wipe away its first losing streak and avoid its first-three game skid since losing consecutive games on the road to Indiana, Syracuse and Minnesota last season.
The senior trio of Louis Dale (11.0 ppg., 4.5 apg.) Jeff Foote (11.3 ppg., 9.0 rpg.) and Ryan Wittman (17.5 ppg., 3.5 apg.) rank among the top players at their positions in all of college basketball and provide the Big Red with options at every position group. Sophomore Chris Wroblewski, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has also made his mark in the starting lineup (12.5 ppg., 3.3 rpg.). Seniors Mark Coury, Alex Tyler and Geoff Reeves, juniors Max Groebe and Adam Wire and freshman Errick Peck round out the rotation.
Toledo is off to an 0-3 start, but was competitive in a loss at Michigan State in its last outing. Vermont is one of the favorites in the America East and has a road win against Rutgers to its credit, while Drexel stopped perennial Ivy League challenger Penn in its last contest and will be playing at home.
ABOUT TOLEDO
• Conference: Mid-American
• Head Coach: Gene Cross (Illinois ‘94), second season.
• Toledo boasts a challenging non-conference schedule with games against Michigan State, Cincinnati and Alabama.
• Toledo is in the midst of a youth movement, returning only six players and possessing a roster with zero seniors and a national-high of eight scholarship freshmen.
• The team’s leading scorer is freshman Stephen Albrecht who averages 18.0 points through three games.
• The Rockets are coming off a competitive 75-62 loss at No. 2 Michigan State.
CORNELL VS. THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
• Cornell is 33-31 all-time against current members of the Mid-American Conference.
• The Big Red is 0-5 all-time against Toledo and has also played Ball State (0-1), Bowling Green (0-3), Buffalo (30-14), Eastern Michigan (1-2), Kent State (0-1), Miami (OH) (1-0), Northern Illinois (0-2) and Ohio (1-3).
• The Big Red has never played Akron, Central Michigan and Western Michigan.
• This is the only scheduled meeting between the Big Red and a member of the MAC in 2009-10.
• Cornell’s last win against a MAC team came with a 78-72 triumph at Buffalo on Nov. 22, 2002.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 2-2 against the Mid-American Conference teams at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Toledo leads the all-time series 5-0.
• The two teams had their first meeting in the1939-40 season in Ohio, with the home team capturing a 45-29 victory.
• The two teams also met in the 1940-41 (34-33), 1941-42 (52-31),1947-48 (58-41) and 1976-77 (58-35) seasons with the Rockets capturing each contest at home.
ABOUT VERMONT
• Conference: America East
• Head Coach: Mike Lonergan (Catholic ‘88), fifth season.
• Vermont is off to a 2-2 in a season, which begins with 10 consecutive road games before its home opener on December 13th against Quinnipiac.
• Senior Marquis Blakely was honored by Collegeinsider.com and CollegeHoops.net with nominations to the Preseason Mid Major All-American teams.
• Following an impressive road victory over Rutgers, 77-71, the Catamounts fell victim to the Big East’s Providence by a score of 106-64.
CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST
• Cornell is 13-17 all-time against current members of the Big East.
• The Big Red is 4-6 against Vermont and has also played Albany (0-3), Binghamton (5-1), Boston University (1-0), Hartford (0-3), Maine (0-1), New Hampshire (1-2) and Stony Brook (3-1).
• The Big Red has never played UMBC.
• This is the only scheduled contest the Big Red have against a team from the America East in 2009-10.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 3-11 against the America East at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Vermont holds a 6-4 edge in the all-time series, including winning four straight meetings.
• The first-ever meeting between the two teams came during the 1900-01 season, a 16-6 Big Red victory in Burlington, Vt..
• Cornell’s last win in the series came with a 73-58 decision in the championship game of the 1990 USAir-Big Red Classic.
• In the last meeting on Dec. 5, 2003, Vermont ran out to a 19-point halftime lead and held on despite a 23-point, 10-assist, 6-rebound night from Ka’Ron Barnes. An eventual NCAA tournament team, the Catamounts were led by Taylor Coppenrath (27 points, nine rebounds) and T.J. Sorrentine (17 points, 10 assists).
ABOUT DREXEL
• Conference: CAA (Colonial Athletic Association)
• Head Coach: James “Bruiser” Flint (St. Josephs ‘87), eighth season.
• Drexel is off to a 1-3 start against a brutal non-conference slate that includes clashes with Kentucky, Rutgers and Villanova.
• Associate head coach Mike Connors is familiar with Ithaca, as he graduated from Ithaca College in 1985.
• Drexel return an experienced team, including four of five starters and 10 letter winners.
• Most recently the Dragons faced Ivy stalwart Penn and emerged with a 58-49 victory with the help of 22 points from Jamie Harris.
CORNELL VS. THE COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
• Cornell is 5-15 all-time against current members of the Colonial Athletic Association.
• The Big Red is 0-2 against Drexel and has also played Delaware (1-0), Georgia State (0-1), Hofstra (3-2), James Madison (0-1), UNC-Wilmington (0-1), Northeastern (1-4), Old Dominion (0-1), Virginia Commonwealth (0-2) and WIlliam & Mary (0-1).
• The Big Red has never played George Mason or Towson.
• This is the first of two possible meetings with CAA schools this season for the Big Red. Cornell could also meet Hofstra on day two of the ECAC Holiday Festival on Dec. 21 at Madison Square Garden.
• Cornell’s last win against a CAA team came in a 65-49 win at Hofstra on Jan. 8, 1994.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 0-3 against the CAA at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Drexel leads the all-time series 2-0 with both contests being decided by seven points or less.
• The Big Red and the Dragons played in back-to-back years, with Drexel winning 87-83 in Philadelphia on Jan. 9, 1988 and 91-84 in Ithaca on Jan. 7. 1989.
THE STORY LINE
• After a brutally tough schedule, ranked as the sixth-hardest in Division I by the RPI, Cornell will finish up play at the 2009 Legends Classic when it faces Toledo, Vermont and Drexel in consecutive days beginning on Friday at the Daskalaskis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, Pa.
• The Big Red is continuing a string of playing seven of its first eight games away from home and is 2-1 thus far on the road. Included are wins over Alabama (SEC) and Massachusetts (Atlantic 10).
• Senior Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski has been hot in his last two games, both against Big Rest teams. Wittman is averaging 21.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists, while Wroblewski is at 21.0 ppg., 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists. Both players hit nine 3-pointers total in the two contests.
REVIEWING THE SYRACUSE GAME
• Syracuse’s defense put the clamps down in the second half after a Big Red 3-point barrage in the first, pulling away late for an 88-73 victory over Cornell on Tuesday evening at the Carrier Dome.
• Senior Ryan Wittman scored 19 points and hit three 3-pointers to surpass Princeton’s Brian Earl for the Ivy League career record, ending the night with 282. He added five rebounds and two assists in the loss and became the second player in school history to reach the 1,500-point mark.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski scored 20 points, including 17 in the first half, and drained six 3-pointers.
• Senior Jeff Foote notched a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, while freshman Errick Peck had career highs of eight points, six rebounds and two assists in 13 minutes off the bench.
• Cornell held a narrow 36-35 edge on the backboards.
• Syracuse’s defense limited the Big Red to 39 percent shooting after halftime and 41 percent for the game, and after the visitors connected on 9-of-19 from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes, were limited to 4-of-18 after the break.
• Freshman Brandon Triche had 21 points, while Wes Johnson notched 15 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots in the win.
• SU shot 51 percent from the floor, made 9-of-18 from beyond the arc and was 23-of-28 from the free throw line.
• Cornell put a scare into the Orange at the half, trailing just 42-36 after hitting nine 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. Wroblewski hit 6-of-7 from the floor, including 5-of-6 from beyond the arc for a game-best 17 points.
PLAYER NOTES
• No players are hotter than senior Ryan Wittman (21.5 ppg., 3.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) and sophomore Chris Wroblewski (21.0 ppg., 4.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) over the last two contests, both coming against Big East foes (Seton Hall and Syracuse). Both players have hit nine 3-pointers in the last two games.
• Wittman and Wroblewski enter the weekend as the team’s top two scorers. That duo has made 22-of-23 free throws this season (.957) and had hit 24 3-pointers combined in the four contests.
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 22.0 points in the other three games (Alabama, Seton Hall, Syracuse), all coming against high major opponents.
• Senior Jeff Foote has been the team’s leading rebounder in all four contests this season, including averaging 9.7 rpg. in his last three.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 9-of-19 from 3-point range in his last two games (47 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• Cornell has had three different players lead the team in scoring (wittman twice, Dale and Wroblewski) in the four contests, with the team’s leading scorer posting 20+ points in each game.
• Junior Adam Wire had eight of his 13 rebounds on the offensive glass and is shooting 75 percent from the field (6-of-8).
• Freshman Errick Peck has averaged 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in his last two games against Big East schools after collecting just three points and two rebounds in his first two collegiate games. He had career bests of eight points, six rebounds and two assists at Syracuse in 13 minutes.
• Junior Max Groebe is 3-of-4 from 3-point range this season in just 14 minutes off the bench.
TEAM NOTES
• The Big Red has hit for double figures in 3-pointers in three of its four games and connected on eight in the other.
• Cornell has scored between 71 and 79 points in all four contests.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in its last three games and has not had a game with a negative ratio is season.
• The team has hit 18 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 21 more assists.
• Its .785 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would easily best the previous school mark of .761 set in 2007-08.
• Excluding the Syracuse game, where the ninth-ranked Orange shot better than 50 percent from the floor and from 3-point range, Cornell’s defense has held opponents to .428 shooting overall and .341 from the arc.
• Two areas Cornell will look to for improvement will be rebounding and keeping its opponent off the foul line. The Big Red has been outrebounded by an average of 5.5 boards per game and has been beat on the boards in three of four games. It did outrebound No. 9 Syracuse 36-35. It has also committed at least 18 fouls in each game and has averaged 22.3 per game. That has sent its opponents to the line an average of 29.5 times per game. Cornell’s foes have attempted 48 more free throws over the first four contests.
THE BIG RED AND IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS
• Cornell last won an in-season tournament when it dropped VMI and Vermont to capture the 1990-91 USAir-Cornell Classic.
• The Big Red has also won tournament championships at the 1978-79 and 1967-68 Kodak Classic (both in Rochester, N.Y.).
• Overall, Cornell is 36-93 in tournament play during the regular season.
• The Big Red went 3-1 in the 2008-09 NIT Preseason Tip-Off, dropping an 86-75 decision to St. John’s before consecutive wins over Loyola (MD) (82-72), Loyola (IL) (78-53) and Eastern Michigan (67-54).
• Cornell opened the 2009 Legends Classic with a 74-61 win at Massachusetts on Nov. 18.
NEXT UP
• The Big Red continues its stretch of playing seven of its first eight games away from Newman Arena when it meets Bucknell on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at Sojka Pavillion in Lewisburg, Pa.
• Cornell returns home on Sunday, Dec. 6 when it meets Saint Joseph’s at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena.
GAME INFORMATION
Game #5: Cornell vs. Toledo
Tip off: Friday, Nov. 27, at 2:00 p.m.
Series Record: Toledo leads 5-0
Last Meeting: Toledo won 58-35, Dec. 3, 1976 in Toledo, Ohio
Game #6: Cornell vs. Vermont
Tip Off: Saturday, Nov. 28, at 2:00 p.m.
Series Record: Vermont leads 6-4
Last Meeting: Vermont won 73-60, Dec. 5, 2003 in Burlington, Vt.
Game #7: Cornell at Drexel
Tip off: Sunday, Nov. 29, at 2:30 p.m.
Series Record: Drexel leads 2-0
Last Meeting: Drexel won 91-84, Jan. 7, 1989 in Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (2-2, 0-0 Ivy); Toledo (0-3, 0-0 Mid-American); Vermont (2-2, 0-0 America East); Drexel (1-3, 0-0 Colonial)
Site: Daskalakis Center (2,532), Philadelphia, Pa.
Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
Live Stats: Available at www.DrexelDragons.com
Live Video: Available at www.DrexelDragons.com
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (119-135, .469) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — After dropping consecutive games to Big East opposition, the Cornell men’s basketball team will attempt to get back on the winning track when it closes out play in the 2009 Legends Classic beginning on Friday, Nov. 27, at 7:00 p.m. at Drexel’s Daskalaskis Athletic Center. Barry Leonard will provide the calls on 93.5 WVBR-FM, which can be heard live on the internet as part of the RedCast subscription service.
The Big Red, guaranteed four games in the tournament, have already gone on the road to top Massachusetts (74-61) and now will meet Toledo (Friday), Vermont (Saturday) and Drexel (Sunday) looking to wipe away its first losing streak and avoid its first-three game skid since losing consecutive games on the road to Indiana, Syracuse and Minnesota last season.
The senior trio of Louis Dale (11.0 ppg., 4.5 apg.) Jeff Foote (11.3 ppg., 9.0 rpg.) and Ryan Wittman (17.5 ppg., 3.5 apg.) rank among the top players at their positions in all of college basketball and provide the Big Red with options at every position group. Sophomore Chris Wroblewski, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has also made his mark in the starting lineup (12.5 ppg., 3.3 rpg.). Seniors Mark Coury, Alex Tyler and Geoff Reeves, juniors Max Groebe and Adam Wire and freshman Errick Peck round out the rotation.
Toledo is off to an 0-3 start, but was competitive in a loss at Michigan State in its last outing. Vermont is one of the favorites in the America East and has a road win against Rutgers to its credit, while Drexel stopped perennial Ivy League challenger Penn in its last contest and will be playing at home.
ABOUT TOLEDO
• Conference: Mid-American
• Head Coach: Gene Cross (Illinois ‘94), second season.
• Toledo boasts a challenging non-conference schedule with games against Michigan State, Cincinnati and Alabama.
• Toledo is in the midst of a youth movement, returning only six players and possessing a roster with zero seniors and a national-high of eight scholarship freshmen.
• The team’s leading scorer is freshman Stephen Albrecht who averages 18.0 points through three games.
• The Rockets are coming off a competitive 75-62 loss at No. 2 Michigan State.
CORNELL VS. THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
• Cornell is 33-31 all-time against current members of the Mid-American Conference.
• The Big Red is 0-5 all-time against Toledo and has also played Ball State (0-1), Bowling Green (0-3), Buffalo (30-14), Eastern Michigan (1-2), Kent State (0-1), Miami (OH) (1-0), Northern Illinois (0-2) and Ohio (1-3).
• The Big Red has never played Akron, Central Michigan and Western Michigan.
• This is the only scheduled meeting between the Big Red and a member of the MAC in 2009-10.
• Cornell’s last win against a MAC team came with a 78-72 triumph at Buffalo on Nov. 22, 2002.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 2-2 against the Mid-American Conference teams at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Toledo leads the all-time series 5-0.
• The two teams had their first meeting in the1939-40 season in Ohio, with the home team capturing a 45-29 victory.
• The two teams also met in the 1940-41 (34-33), 1941-42 (52-31),1947-48 (58-41) and 1976-77 (58-35) seasons with the Rockets capturing each contest at home.
ABOUT VERMONT
• Conference: America East
• Head Coach: Mike Lonergan (Catholic ‘88), fifth season.
• Vermont is off to a 2-2 in a season, which begins with 10 consecutive road games before its home opener on December 13th against Quinnipiac.
• Senior Marquis Blakely was honored by Collegeinsider.com and CollegeHoops.net with nominations to the Preseason Mid Major All-American teams.
• Following an impressive road victory over Rutgers, 77-71, the Catamounts fell victim to the Big East’s Providence by a score of 106-64.
CORNELL VS. THE AMERICA EAST
• Cornell is 13-17 all-time against current members of the Big East.
• The Big Red is 4-6 against Vermont and has also played Albany (0-3), Binghamton (5-1), Boston University (1-0), Hartford (0-3), Maine (0-1), New Hampshire (1-2) and Stony Brook (3-1).
• The Big Red has never played UMBC.
• This is the only scheduled contest the Big Red have against a team from the America East in 2009-10.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 3-11 against the America East at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Vermont holds a 6-4 edge in the all-time series, including winning four straight meetings.
• The first-ever meeting between the two teams came during the 1900-01 season, a 16-6 Big Red victory in Burlington, Vt..
• Cornell’s last win in the series came with a 73-58 decision in the championship game of the 1990 USAir-Big Red Classic.
• In the last meeting on Dec. 5, 2003, Vermont ran out to a 19-point halftime lead and held on despite a 23-point, 10-assist, 6-rebound night from Ka’Ron Barnes. An eventual NCAA tournament team, the Catamounts were led by Taylor Coppenrath (27 points, nine rebounds) and T.J. Sorrentine (17 points, 10 assists).
ABOUT DREXEL
• Conference: CAA (Colonial Athletic Association)
• Head Coach: James “Bruiser” Flint (St. Josephs ‘87), eighth season.
• Drexel is off to a 1-3 start against a brutal non-conference slate that includes clashes with Kentucky, Rutgers and Villanova.
• Associate head coach Mike Connors is familiar with Ithaca, as he graduated from Ithaca College in 1985.
• Drexel return an experienced team, including four of five starters and 10 letter winners.
• Most recently the Dragons faced Ivy stalwart Penn and emerged with a 58-49 victory with the help of 22 points from Jamie Harris.
CORNELL VS. THE COLONIAL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
• Cornell is 5-15 all-time against current members of the Colonial Athletic Association.
• The Big Red is 0-2 against Drexel and has also played Delaware (1-0), Georgia State (0-1), Hofstra (3-2), James Madison (0-1), UNC-Wilmington (0-1), Northeastern (1-4), Old Dominion (0-1), Virginia Commonwealth (0-2) and WIlliam & Mary (0-1).
• The Big Red has never played George Mason or Towson.
• This is the first of two possible meetings with CAA schools this season for the Big Red. Cornell could also meet Hofstra on day two of the ECAC Holiday Festival on Dec. 21 at Madison Square Garden.
• Cornell’s last win against a CAA team came in a 65-49 win at Hofstra on Jan. 8, 1994.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 0-3 against the CAA at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• Drexel leads the all-time series 2-0 with both contests being decided by seven points or less.
• The Big Red and the Dragons played in back-to-back years, with Drexel winning 87-83 in Philadelphia on Jan. 9, 1988 and 91-84 in Ithaca on Jan. 7. 1989.
THE STORY LINE
• After a brutally tough schedule, ranked as the sixth-hardest in Division I by the RPI, Cornell will finish up play at the 2009 Legends Classic when it faces Toledo, Vermont and Drexel in consecutive days beginning on Friday at the Daskalaskis Athletic Center in Philadelphia, Pa.
• The Big Red is continuing a string of playing seven of its first eight games away from home and is 2-1 thus far on the road. Included are wins over Alabama (SEC) and Massachusetts (Atlantic 10).
• Senior Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski has been hot in his last two games, both against Big Rest teams. Wittman is averaging 21.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists, while Wroblewski is at 21.0 ppg., 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists. Both players hit nine 3-pointers total in the two contests.
REVIEWING THE SYRACUSE GAME
• Syracuse’s defense put the clamps down in the second half after a Big Red 3-point barrage in the first, pulling away late for an 88-73 victory over Cornell on Tuesday evening at the Carrier Dome.
• Senior Ryan Wittman scored 19 points and hit three 3-pointers to surpass Princeton’s Brian Earl for the Ivy League career record, ending the night with 282. He added five rebounds and two assists in the loss and became the second player in school history to reach the 1,500-point mark.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski scored 20 points, including 17 in the first half, and drained six 3-pointers.
• Senior Jeff Foote notched a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds, while freshman Errick Peck had career highs of eight points, six rebounds and two assists in 13 minutes off the bench.
• Cornell held a narrow 36-35 edge on the backboards.
• Syracuse’s defense limited the Big Red to 39 percent shooting after halftime and 41 percent for the game, and after the visitors connected on 9-of-19 from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes, were limited to 4-of-18 after the break.
• Freshman Brandon Triche had 21 points, while Wes Johnson notched 15 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots in the win.
• SU shot 51 percent from the floor, made 9-of-18 from beyond the arc and was 23-of-28 from the free throw line.
• Cornell put a scare into the Orange at the half, trailing just 42-36 after hitting nine 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. Wroblewski hit 6-of-7 from the floor, including 5-of-6 from beyond the arc for a game-best 17 points.
PLAYER NOTES
• No players are hotter than senior Ryan Wittman (21.5 ppg., 3.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) and sophomore Chris Wroblewski (21.0 ppg., 4.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) over the last two contests, both coming against Big East foes (Seton Hall and Syracuse). Both players have hit nine 3-pointers in the last two games.
• Wittman and Wroblewski enter the weekend as the team’s top two scorers. That duo has made 22-of-23 free throws this season (.957) and had hit 24 3-pointers combined in the four contests.
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 22.0 points in the other three games (Alabama, Seton Hall, Syracuse), all coming against high major opponents.
• Senior Jeff Foote has been the team’s leading rebounder in all four contests this season, including averaging 9.7 rpg. in his last three.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 9-of-19 from 3-point range in his last two games (47 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• Cornell has had three different players lead the team in scoring (wittman twice, Dale and Wroblewski) in the four contests, with the team’s leading scorer posting 20+ points in each game.
• Junior Adam Wire had eight of his 13 rebounds on the offensive glass and is shooting 75 percent from the field (6-of-8).
• Freshman Errick Peck has averaged 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in his last two games against Big East schools after collecting just three points and two rebounds in his first two collegiate games. He had career bests of eight points, six rebounds and two assists at Syracuse in 13 minutes.
• Junior Max Groebe is 3-of-4 from 3-point range this season in just 14 minutes off the bench.
TEAM NOTES
• The Big Red has hit for double figures in 3-pointers in three of its four games and connected on eight in the other.
• Cornell has scored between 71 and 79 points in all four contests.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in its last three games and has not had a game with a negative ratio is season.
• The team has hit 18 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 21 more assists.
• Its .785 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would easily best the previous school mark of .761 set in 2007-08.
• Excluding the Syracuse game, where the ninth-ranked Orange shot better than 50 percent from the floor and from 3-point range, Cornell’s defense has held opponents to .428 shooting overall and .341 from the arc.
• Two areas Cornell will look to for improvement will be rebounding and keeping its opponent off the foul line. The Big Red has been outrebounded by an average of 5.5 boards per game and has been beat on the boards in three of four games. It did outrebound No. 9 Syracuse 36-35. It has also committed at least 18 fouls in each game and has averaged 22.3 per game. That has sent its opponents to the line an average of 29.5 times per game. Cornell’s foes have attempted 48 more free throws over the first four contests.
THE BIG RED AND IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS
• Cornell last won an in-season tournament when it dropped VMI and Vermont to capture the 1990-91 USAir-Cornell Classic.
• The Big Red has also won tournament championships at the 1978-79 and 1967-68 Kodak Classic (both in Rochester, N.Y.).
• Overall, Cornell is 36-93 in tournament play during the regular season.
• The Big Red went 3-1 in the 2008-09 NIT Preseason Tip-Off, dropping an 86-75 decision to St. John’s before consecutive wins over Loyola (MD) (82-72), Loyola (IL) (78-53) and Eastern Michigan (67-54).
• Cornell opened the 2009 Legends Classic with a 74-61 win at Massachusetts on Nov. 18.
NEXT UP
• The Big Red continues its stretch of playing seven of its first eight games away from Newman Arena when it meets Bucknell on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at Sojka Pavillion in Lewisburg, Pa.
• Cornell returns home on Sunday, Dec. 6 when it meets Saint Joseph’s at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena.
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