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GAME INFORMATION
Game #12: Cornell at La Salle
Tip off: Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 4:00 p.m.
Site: Tom Gola Arena (4,000), Philadelphia, Pa.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (9-2, 0-0 Ivy); La Salle (7-4, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Series Record: Series tied 2-2
Last Meeting: Cornell won 79-70, Dec. 20, 2008 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard)
La Salle Web Site: www.GoExplorers.com
TV: None
Live Stats: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Live Video: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (126-135, .483) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell.
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell men’s basketball team returns from Christmas break looking to keep its hot streak intact when it meets La Salle on Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 4:00 p.m. at Tom Gola Arena in Philadelphia. Barry Leonard and Matt Grassie will provide the call on 93.5 WVBR-FM, while live audio of the game can be heard on the internet as part of the RedCast subscription service.
Cornell brings a seven-game win streak into the contest, including winning its first-ever Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival with dramatic victories over Davidson (91-88 in overtime) and 14-time tournament champion and Big East member St. John’s (71-66). The victory was the first over a Big East team by the Big Red in 40 years.
The contest will continue a run of 10 of its first 12 games away from home. Cornell already owns road wins at Alabama, St. John’s, Massachusetts and Drexel, neutral court wins over Davidson and Vermont and a home win over Saint Joseph’s early in the season.
The All-Ivy trio of Louis Dale, Jeff Foote and Ryan Wittman have lived up to their billing so far this season. Dale is averaging 9.7 points, 5.2 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game, while Foote is at 14.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks. Wittman, the second all-time leading scorer at Cornell, paces the squad with his 18.3 points. Additionally, Chris Wroblewski, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, is putting up 10.9 points per game as the third double-figure scorer. Seniors Mark Coury, Jon Jaques, Alex Tyler and Geoff Reeves, juniors Max Groebe and Adam Wire and freshman Errick Peck round out the rotation.
ABOUT LA SALLE
• Conference: Atlantic 10
• Head Coach: Dr. John Giannini (North Central ‘84), sixth season.
• La Salle brings a 7-4 record into its contest with the Big Red.
• The Explorers are riding a six-game win streak at home.
• Senior Rodney Green leads the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 18.8 ppg. and is one of the early leaders for Atlantic 10 Player of the Year.
• The Explorers are eighth in the latest Division I rankings for 3-point field goal percentage at .426.
• Freshman Aaric Murray is averaging 10.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.
CORNELL VS. THE ATLANTIC 10
• Cornell is 16-18 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10.
• The Big Red 2-2 against La Salle and has also played Dayton (0-1), Duquesne (0-2), Fordham (4-4), Massachusetts (1-0), Richmond (0-1), St. Bonaventure (8-3), Saint Joseph’s (0-3), Saint Joseph’s (1-3), Saint Louis (0-1) and Xavier (Ohio) (0-1).
• The Big Red has never played Charlotte, George Washington, Rhode Island or Temple.
• This is the last of three scheduled meetings this season against teams from the A-10. Cornell knocked off Massachusetts on the road 74-61 on Nov. 18 and topped Saint Joseph’s 78-66 on Dec. 6.
THE SERIES
• The series is tied 2-2 after the Big Red won last year’s meeting 79-70.
• Jeff Foote set a then-career high with 25 points, including 16 in the second half, as Cornell rallied from a 14-point second half deficit to knock off the Explorers a season ago after a two-week break for final exams.
• Foote made 8-of-14 shots from the floor and 9-of-12 from the charity stripe as Cornell gutted out the victory, outscoring their Atlantic 10 foe 52-32 after halftime to snap a three-game losing skid. Ryan Wittman chipped in with 18 points, while classmate Louis Dale had 14.
• Cornell and La Salle have played one other time with Cornell head coach Steve Donahue on the sidelines, a 73-59 Big Red loss on Dec. 28, 2002.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell brings a seven-game win streak into the post-Christmas break after capturing the 2009 Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival on Dec. 21.
• Cornell knocked off Davidson in overtime 91-88 behind a 35-footer at the buzzer by senior Ryan Wittman. That came after classmate Louis Dale made a layup with 0.7 seconds left to send the game into the extra period. The Big Red then topped St. John’s 71-66 in the final, the first win over a Big East squad in 40 years.
• The Big Red brings a 2-0 record this season against Atlantic 10 opponents into the contest, knocking off Massachusetts 74-61 in the first round of the Legends Classic on Nov. 18, then topped Saint Joseph’s 78-66 on Dec. 6 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell will pit its 8-1 road/neutral site record against a La Salle squad with a six-game home win streak.
• Cornell’s two losses this season have been to teams a pair of Big East teams that have a combined record of 21-1 as of Dec. 29 (Syracuse and Seton Hall will play each other that night).
REVIEWING THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
• The Big Red won its first-ever Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival title thanks to a 91-88 overtime win over Davidson in the first round, followed by a 71-66 victory over 14-time tournament champion St. John’s in the final.
• Senior Jeff Foote was named tournament MVP after averaging 17.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 blocked shots in the two wins.
• Senior Ryan Wittman joined Foote on the all-tournament team thanks in large part to his 29-point outburst against Davidson, including the game-winning 35-foot 3-pointer at the overtime buzzer. The play was ranked the No. 3 “Play of the Week” on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
• Wittman was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Dec. 21 after his performance against Davidson.
• Senior guard Louis Dale had six assists in the Big Red’s championship win over St. John’s, pushing him past Chuck Rolles ‘56 for the school’s career record. He ended the tournament with 382.
• Senior Jon Jaques had 20 points in the championship game, making 5-of-6 3-pointers and 7-of-8 field goals to go along with three rebounds and three steals.
• Cornell shot a combined 50 percent from the field and 3-point range in the two tournament victories.
• The victory over St. John’s snapped the Big Red’s 40-year, 46-game losing streak against Big East foes.
WHAT A SENIOR CLASS
• The senior class has draw a great deal of acclaim during its four seasons.
• The team has a 68-29 record in its four seasons and is nearing last year’s 72 wins in four years for the all-time Big Red record.
• The squad is also 34-8 in Ivy play with two Ivy League championships and a third-place finish.
• Louis Dale, Jon Jaques, Geoff Reeves, Pete Reynolds, Alex Tyler and Ryan Wittman were all high school recruits from the same class that began playing for the Big Red in 2006-07.
• Andre Wilkins joined the team as a sophomore in 2007-08 after spending his rookie season at Blinn College in Texas.
• Jeff Foote transferred from St. Bonaventure in 2006-07 and sat out until after the fall semester in 2007-08. He is a fifth-year player.
PLAYER NOTES
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 81-93 free throws this season (.871), including 30-of-35 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points (.857).
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 19.3 points in the nine games since.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 21-of-44 from 3-point range in his last nine games (48 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• In Cornell’s nine wins this season, Mark Coury has made 19-of-24 shots from the floor (.792).
• Coury has hit 16-of-20 shots from the floor (80 percent) in his last seven games.
• During Cornell’s seven-game win streak, senior Louis Dale has 39 assists and just 16 turnovers. He has 29 assists and 11 turnovers in the last five games.
• Senior Jeff Foote has five double-doubles in his last eight games.
• In his last four games, Jeff Foote is averaging 17.5 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.3 blocks with three double-doubles. He has shot .634 (26-of-41) over that span.
• Foote, a career 62 percent free-throw shooter, has made 29-of-39 from the line in the last four games (.744).
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is shooting 55 percent from 3-point range (11-of-20) over his last six games, while Geoff Reeves is shooting 55 (12-of-22) in his last seven.
• Senior Ryan Wittman has made at least two 3-pointers in each of his last eight games and has been in double figures in nine consecutive.
• Senior Jon Jaques is averaging 13.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.0 assists in 20.3 minutes in his three starts. He is shooting 63 percent from the floor (15-of-24) and 58 percent (7-of-12) from 3-point range over that span.
TEAM NOTES
• The Big Red is averaging 86.0 points in its last four games, all Big Red wins.
• Cornell opponents are shooting .434 from the floor in the last three games.
• The team’s seven-game win streak is the third-longest of the decade (behing a 16-game streak in 2007-08 and a nine-game run in 2008-09).
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in nine of 11 contests.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in 10 of its 11 games this season.
• The team has hit 27 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 47 more assists.
• Its .766 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would surpass the school record of .761 set in 2007-08.
• Over its last five games, Cornell is shooting .490 from 3-point range (47-of-96).
CORNELL IN THE COMMUNITY
• LeChase Construction Services, the Special Olympics and Cornell basketball will team up for the 2009-10 season. For each 3-point shot the Big Red men’s and women’s basketball teams convert during the campaign, LeChase will donate $5 to the Special Olympics.
• So far this season, the men’s team has hit 101 treys and the women’s team has made 75 for a total of 176. So far, LeChase will be donating $880.
• The Big Red basketball teams offered a free youth clinic on Dec. 12 that included a free-throw shooting contest to benefit the United Way of Tompkins County.
NEXT UP
• The Big Red returns home on Dec. 31 when it meets Penn State-Behrend at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena.
• Cornell won the only prior meeting between the teams.
Cornell brings a seven-game win streak into the contest, including winning its first-ever Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival with dramatic victories over Davidson (91-88 in overtime) and 14-time tournament champion and Big East member St. John’s (71-66). The victory was the first over a Big East team by the Big Red in 40 years.
The contest will continue a run of 10 of its first 12 games away from home. Cornell already owns road wins at Alabama, St. John’s, Massachusetts and Drexel, neutral court wins over Davidson and Vermont and a home win over Saint Joseph’s early in the season.
The All-Ivy trio of Louis Dale, Jeff Foote and Ryan Wittman have lived up to their billing so far this season. Dale is averaging 9.7 points, 5.2 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game, while Foote is at 14.0 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks. Wittman, the second all-time leading scorer at Cornell, paces the squad with his 18.3 points. Additionally, Chris Wroblewski, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, is putting up 10.9 points per game as the third double-figure scorer. Seniors Mark Coury, Jon Jaques, Alex Tyler and Geoff Reeves, juniors Max Groebe and Adam Wire and freshman Errick Peck round out the rotation.
ABOUT LA SALLE
• Conference: Atlantic 10
• Head Coach: Dr. John Giannini (North Central ‘84), sixth season.
• La Salle brings a 7-4 record into its contest with the Big Red.
• The Explorers are riding a six-game win streak at home.
• Senior Rodney Green leads the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 18.8 ppg. and is one of the early leaders for Atlantic 10 Player of the Year.
• The Explorers are eighth in the latest Division I rankings for 3-point field goal percentage at .426.
• Freshman Aaric Murray is averaging 10.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.
CORNELL VS. THE ATLANTIC 10
• Cornell is 16-18 all-time against current members of the Atlantic 10.
• The Big Red 2-2 against La Salle and has also played Dayton (0-1), Duquesne (0-2), Fordham (4-4), Massachusetts (1-0), Richmond (0-1), St. Bonaventure (8-3), Saint Joseph’s (0-3), Saint Joseph’s (1-3), Saint Louis (0-1) and Xavier (Ohio) (0-1).
• The Big Red has never played Charlotte, George Washington, Rhode Island or Temple.
• This is the last of three scheduled meetings this season against teams from the A-10. Cornell knocked off Massachusetts on the road 74-61 on Nov. 18 and topped Saint Joseph’s 78-66 on Dec. 6.
THE SERIES
• The series is tied 2-2 after the Big Red won last year’s meeting 79-70.
• Jeff Foote set a then-career high with 25 points, including 16 in the second half, as Cornell rallied from a 14-point second half deficit to knock off the Explorers a season ago after a two-week break for final exams.
• Foote made 8-of-14 shots from the floor and 9-of-12 from the charity stripe as Cornell gutted out the victory, outscoring their Atlantic 10 foe 52-32 after halftime to snap a three-game losing skid. Ryan Wittman chipped in with 18 points, while classmate Louis Dale had 14.
• Cornell and La Salle have played one other time with Cornell head coach Steve Donahue on the sidelines, a 73-59 Big Red loss on Dec. 28, 2002.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell brings a seven-game win streak into the post-Christmas break after capturing the 2009 Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival on Dec. 21.
• Cornell knocked off Davidson in overtime 91-88 behind a 35-footer at the buzzer by senior Ryan Wittman. That came after classmate Louis Dale made a layup with 0.7 seconds left to send the game into the extra period. The Big Red then topped St. John’s 71-66 in the final, the first win over a Big East squad in 40 years.
• The Big Red brings a 2-0 record this season against Atlantic 10 opponents into the contest, knocking off Massachusetts 74-61 in the first round of the Legends Classic on Nov. 18, then topped Saint Joseph’s 78-66 on Dec. 6 at Newman Arena.
• Cornell will pit its 8-1 road/neutral site record against a La Salle squad with a six-game home win streak.
• Cornell’s two losses this season have been to teams a pair of Big East teams that have a combined record of 21-1 as of Dec. 29 (Syracuse and Seton Hall will play each other that night).
REVIEWING THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL
• The Big Red won its first-ever Madison Square Garden Holiday Festival title thanks to a 91-88 overtime win over Davidson in the first round, followed by a 71-66 victory over 14-time tournament champion St. John’s in the final.
• Senior Jeff Foote was named tournament MVP after averaging 17.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 blocked shots in the two wins.
• Senior Ryan Wittman joined Foote on the all-tournament team thanks in large part to his 29-point outburst against Davidson, including the game-winning 35-foot 3-pointer at the overtime buzzer. The play was ranked the No. 3 “Play of the Week” on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
• Wittman was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Dec. 21 after his performance against Davidson.
• Senior guard Louis Dale had six assists in the Big Red’s championship win over St. John’s, pushing him past Chuck Rolles ‘56 for the school’s career record. He ended the tournament with 382.
• Senior Jon Jaques had 20 points in the championship game, making 5-of-6 3-pointers and 7-of-8 field goals to go along with three rebounds and three steals.
• Cornell shot a combined 50 percent from the field and 3-point range in the two tournament victories.
• The victory over St. John’s snapped the Big Red’s 40-year, 46-game losing streak against Big East foes.
WHAT A SENIOR CLASS
• The senior class has draw a great deal of acclaim during its four seasons.
• The team has a 68-29 record in its four seasons and is nearing last year’s 72 wins in four years for the all-time Big Red record.
• The squad is also 34-8 in Ivy play with two Ivy League championships and a third-place finish.
• Louis Dale, Jon Jaques, Geoff Reeves, Pete Reynolds, Alex Tyler and Ryan Wittman were all high school recruits from the same class that began playing for the Big Red in 2006-07.
• Andre Wilkins joined the team as a sophomore in 2007-08 after spending his rookie season at Blinn College in Texas.
• Jeff Foote transferred from St. Bonaventure in 2006-07 and sat out until after the fall semester in 2007-08. He is a fifth-year player.
PLAYER NOTES
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 81-93 free throws this season (.871), including 30-of-35 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points (.857).
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 19.3 points in the nine games since.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 21-of-44 from 3-point range in his last nine games (48 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• In Cornell’s nine wins this season, Mark Coury has made 19-of-24 shots from the floor (.792).
• Coury has hit 16-of-20 shots from the floor (80 percent) in his last seven games.
• During Cornell’s seven-game win streak, senior Louis Dale has 39 assists and just 16 turnovers. He has 29 assists and 11 turnovers in the last five games.
• Senior Jeff Foote has five double-doubles in his last eight games.
• In his last four games, Jeff Foote is averaging 17.5 points, 12.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.3 blocks with three double-doubles. He has shot .634 (26-of-41) over that span.
• Foote, a career 62 percent free-throw shooter, has made 29-of-39 from the line in the last four games (.744).
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is shooting 55 percent from 3-point range (11-of-20) over his last six games, while Geoff Reeves is shooting 55 (12-of-22) in his last seven.
• Senior Ryan Wittman has made at least two 3-pointers in each of his last eight games and has been in double figures in nine consecutive.
• Senior Jon Jaques is averaging 13.3 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.0 assists in 20.3 minutes in his three starts. He is shooting 63 percent from the floor (15-of-24) and 58 percent (7-of-12) from 3-point range over that span.
TEAM NOTES
• The Big Red is averaging 86.0 points in its last four games, all Big Red wins.
• Cornell opponents are shooting .434 from the floor in the last three games.
• The team’s seven-game win streak is the third-longest of the decade (behing a 16-game streak in 2007-08 and a nine-game run in 2008-09).
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in nine of 11 contests.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in 10 of its 11 games this season.
• The team has hit 27 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 47 more assists.
• Its .766 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would surpass the school record of .761 set in 2007-08.
• Over its last five games, Cornell is shooting .490 from 3-point range (47-of-96).
CORNELL IN THE COMMUNITY
• LeChase Construction Services, the Special Olympics and Cornell basketball will team up for the 2009-10 season. For each 3-point shot the Big Red men’s and women’s basketball teams convert during the campaign, LeChase will donate $5 to the Special Olympics.
• So far this season, the men’s team has hit 101 treys and the women’s team has made 75 for a total of 176. So far, LeChase will be donating $880.
• The Big Red basketball teams offered a free youth clinic on Dec. 12 that included a free-throw shooting contest to benefit the United Way of Tompkins County.
NEXT UP
• The Big Red returns home on Dec. 31 when it meets Penn State-Behrend at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena.
• Cornell won the only prior meeting between the teams.
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