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GAME INFORMATION
Game #20: Dartmouth at Cornell
Tip off: Friday, January 29, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Dartmouth (4-12, 0-2 Ivy League); Cornell (16-3, 2-0 Ivy League)
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 101-97
Last Meeting: Cornell won 75-57, February 27, 2009 in Hanover, N.H.
Game #21: Harvard at Cornell
Tip off: Saturday, January 30, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Harvard (13-3, 2-0 Ivy League); Cornell (16-3, 2-0 Ivy League)
Series Record: Cornell leads 88-68
Last Meeting: Harvard won 71-70, February 28, 2009 in Cambridge, Mass.
Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
TV: None
Live Stats: available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Live Video: available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Tickets: available by calling (607) 254-BEAR
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (133-136, .494) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — With a 2-0 start to the Ivy season, Cornell won’t get any breaks when it faces Dartmouth on Friday, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m., and Harvard on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena. Barry Leonard will provide the calls on 93.5 WVBR-FM, while live video of both games will be available as part of the RedCast subscription service.
Cornell enters the weekend as one of the hottest teams in the country, having won four straight and 14 of its last 15 with its lone loss at then-No. 1 Kansas. The Big Red easily swept the travel partner series with Columbia, winning its two games by a combined 47 points while limiting the Lions to .301 shooting overall. The leading 3-point percentage team in the country heading into the series, Columbia hit on just 6-of-25 (24 percent) of its shots beyond the arc in the two contests.
While Cornell is off to a great start in conference action, no team is going to be willing to concede anything as the Big Red looks to continue its 16-game home conference win streak. Dartmouth, under interim head coach Mark Graupe, has played very good basketball in its last two games, including nearly upsetting Harvard in dropping a 72-68 contest on Jan. 23. The Crimson, meanwhile, have proven to be a great challenger to the Big Red’s search for a third straight Ancient Eight championship. Harvard is off to a 13-3 start (2-0 Ivy) that includes wins over Boston College, William & Mary and Rice. Crimson senior Jeremy Lin and Cornell senior Ryan Wittman are the early favorites to capture the 2009-10 Ivy League Player of the Year award.
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Mark Graupe (North Dakota ‘87), First season.
• Dartmouth is 4-12 this season (0-2 Ivy) after dropping a pair of contests to Harvard sandwiching a thrilling 65-64 comeback win over St. Francis (NY).
• The Big Green is 2-2 in its last four contests and owns a victory over Bucknell (49-43 on Jan. 4), the same Bison team that the Big Red needed overtime to defeat on Dec. 2.
• First-year coach Mark Graupe took over the team three games ago following the resignation of head coach Terry Dunn. He was in his first year as an assistant coach in Hanover, N.H.
• Dartmouth does not have a double figure scorer, but has nine players averaging between 4.3 and 8.2 points.
• The Big Green is shooting just .393 from the floor this season and .291 from 3-point range, but is limiting foes to .288 from beyond the arc.
• Dartmouth is being outrebounded by more than seven boards per game (37.5-30.4).
• Robby Pride is averaging a team-high 8.2 ppg. and leads the team in assists (34) and 3-pointers made (13). David Rufful is second in scoring (8.1 ppg.) and paces the team in steals (27).
THE SERIES
• Dartmouth leads 101-97 overall in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, winning eight straight and 11 of the last 12 meetings. Six of those eight wins have come by double figures.
• The current Cornell seniors have never lost to the BigGreen (6-0).
• The Big Red’s longest win streak in the series is nine wins from 1963-67.
ABOUT HARVARD
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Tommy Amaker (Duke ‘87), third season.
• After escaping Dartmouth with a 72-68 win on Jan. 23, the Crimson are off to an impressive 13-3 start (2-0 Ivy) and carry a six-game win streak into Friday’s contest at Columbia.
• Senior Jeremy Lin ranks among the Ivy League leaders in scoring (17.1), assists (4.8) and steals (47) as one of the country’s top mid-major players.
• Eight different players average at least 5.0 ppg. and 10 different players average double figure minutes.
• The Crimson is shooting 49 percent from the floor as a team and limiting foes to 40 percent from the field.
• Harvard has struggled shooting the basketball from beyond the arc (.302), but has limited foes to an even lower percentage (.293).
THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the series 88-68, dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• The Big Red is 9-5 in the last 14 contests and has won three of the last four meetings.
• This current senior class is 3-3 against the Crimson, including a home-and-home split last year.
• Cornell is 47-27 all-time against Harvard in Ithaca.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell brings a 16-game Ivy League home win streak into the weekend.
• Cornell is 27-3 in conference play over the last three seasons, 36-8 in the last four and 42-14 in its last 56 overall league contests.
• Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is the second-longest tenured coach in the Ivy League and will be facing Dartmouth’s Mark Graupe, in his first season, on Friday.
• The game against Harvard on Saturday will feature the Ivy League’s top two offenses against the top two defenses by field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense.
• Cornell’s three losses this season have been to a pair of top 5 teams (Kansas, Syracuse) and Big East foe Seton Hall, squads that have combined for a 49-8 record as of Jan. 25.
A CORNELL WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 17-3 overall.
• give Cornell a 3-0 Ivy League record for the third straight season.
• give Cornell 15 wins in its last 16 games.
• improve the Big Red’s home record to 6-1.
• make the Big Red 28-3 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 37-8 over the last four.
REVIEWING THE COLUMBIA SERIES
• Cornell completed a season sweep of its travel partner, Columbia, with a 74-53 victory at home on Jan. 16, followed by a 77-51 triumph on Jan. 23 in New York City.
• The Big Red held Lions’ leading scorer, Noruwa Agho, to 15 points on 5-of-23 shooting (.217) and 0-for-3 from 3-point range in the two games.
• Cornell’s defense limited the Lions to 52.0 ppg., surrendering .301 shooting from the floor and .240 from 3-point range with six blocks and 24 steals in the two wins.
• The Big Red has now won 14 of its last 16 meetings against Columbia, including nine straight.
• No current Big Red player has lost a game to Columbia (8-0).
• With his eight assists against the Lions, senior Louis Dale became the first player in Cornell history to surpass 400 career assists (405) and also moved into the school’s top 10 scoring list with his 16 points, ending the night 10th with 1,218 points.
• Senior Ryan Wittman surpassed Columbia great Buck Jenkins ‘93 for ninth place on the Ivy League’s all-time scoring list with his 11-point effort against the Lions, giving him 1,777 points.
THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 27-3 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 36-8 over the last four.
• The Big Red has won 16 straight conference contests at home and is 20-2 over the last four seasons.
• Cornell is 31-2 in its last 33 games at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red has won 14 of its last 15 contests overall, with the only loss coming at Kansas.
• Cornell is 75-31 over the last four years, making the Big Red seniors the winningest class in school history.
NEXT UP
• Cornell remains at home for another Ivy League doubleheader as part of playing five of its first six league games at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red hosts Yale on Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., then battles Brown on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.
Cornell enters the weekend as one of the hottest teams in the country, having won four straight and 14 of its last 15 with its lone loss at then-No. 1 Kansas. The Big Red easily swept the travel partner series with Columbia, winning its two games by a combined 47 points while limiting the Lions to .301 shooting overall. The leading 3-point percentage team in the country heading into the series, Columbia hit on just 6-of-25 (24 percent) of its shots beyond the arc in the two contests.
While Cornell is off to a great start in conference action, no team is going to be willing to concede anything as the Big Red looks to continue its 16-game home conference win streak. Dartmouth, under interim head coach Mark Graupe, has played very good basketball in its last two games, including nearly upsetting Harvard in dropping a 72-68 contest on Jan. 23. The Crimson, meanwhile, have proven to be a great challenger to the Big Red’s search for a third straight Ancient Eight championship. Harvard is off to a 13-3 start (2-0 Ivy) that includes wins over Boston College, William & Mary and Rice. Crimson senior Jeremy Lin and Cornell senior Ryan Wittman are the early favorites to capture the 2009-10 Ivy League Player of the Year award.
ABOUT DARTMOUTH
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Mark Graupe (North Dakota ‘87), First season.
• Dartmouth is 4-12 this season (0-2 Ivy) after dropping a pair of contests to Harvard sandwiching a thrilling 65-64 comeback win over St. Francis (NY).
• The Big Green is 2-2 in its last four contests and owns a victory over Bucknell (49-43 on Jan. 4), the same Bison team that the Big Red needed overtime to defeat on Dec. 2.
• First-year coach Mark Graupe took over the team three games ago following the resignation of head coach Terry Dunn. He was in his first year as an assistant coach in Hanover, N.H.
• Dartmouth does not have a double figure scorer, but has nine players averaging between 4.3 and 8.2 points.
• The Big Green is shooting just .393 from the floor this season and .291 from 3-point range, but is limiting foes to .288 from beyond the arc.
• Dartmouth is being outrebounded by more than seven boards per game (37.5-30.4).
• Robby Pride is averaging a team-high 8.2 ppg. and leads the team in assists (34) and 3-pointers made (13). David Rufful is second in scoring (8.1 ppg.) and paces the team in steals (27).
THE SERIES
• Dartmouth leads 101-97 overall in a series that dates back to the 1900-01 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, winning eight straight and 11 of the last 12 meetings. Six of those eight wins have come by double figures.
• The current Cornell seniors have never lost to the BigGreen (6-0).
• The Big Red’s longest win streak in the series is nine wins from 1963-67.
ABOUT HARVARD
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Tommy Amaker (Duke ‘87), third season.
• After escaping Dartmouth with a 72-68 win on Jan. 23, the Crimson are off to an impressive 13-3 start (2-0 Ivy) and carry a six-game win streak into Friday’s contest at Columbia.
• Senior Jeremy Lin ranks among the Ivy League leaders in scoring (17.1), assists (4.8) and steals (47) as one of the country’s top mid-major players.
• Eight different players average at least 5.0 ppg. and 10 different players average double figure minutes.
• The Crimson is shooting 49 percent from the floor as a team and limiting foes to 40 percent from the field.
• Harvard has struggled shooting the basketball from beyond the arc (.302), but has limited foes to an even lower percentage (.293).
THE SERIES
• Cornell leads the series 88-68, dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• The Big Red is 9-5 in the last 14 contests and has won three of the last four meetings.
• This current senior class is 3-3 against the Crimson, including a home-and-home split last year.
• Cornell is 47-27 all-time against Harvard in Ithaca.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell brings a 16-game Ivy League home win streak into the weekend.
• Cornell is 27-3 in conference play over the last three seasons, 36-8 in the last four and 42-14 in its last 56 overall league contests.
• Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is the second-longest tenured coach in the Ivy League and will be facing Dartmouth’s Mark Graupe, in his first season, on Friday.
• The game against Harvard on Saturday will feature the Ivy League’s top two offenses against the top two defenses by field goal percentage and field goal percentage defense.
• Cornell’s three losses this season have been to a pair of top 5 teams (Kansas, Syracuse) and Big East foe Seton Hall, squads that have combined for a 49-8 record as of Jan. 25.
A CORNELL WIN OVER DARTMOUTH WOULD ...
• make the Big Red 17-3 overall.
• give Cornell a 3-0 Ivy League record for the third straight season.
• give Cornell 15 wins in its last 16 games.
• improve the Big Red’s home record to 6-1.
• make the Big Red 28-3 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 37-8 over the last four.
REVIEWING THE COLUMBIA SERIES
• Cornell completed a season sweep of its travel partner, Columbia, with a 74-53 victory at home on Jan. 16, followed by a 77-51 triumph on Jan. 23 in New York City.
• The Big Red held Lions’ leading scorer, Noruwa Agho, to 15 points on 5-of-23 shooting (.217) and 0-for-3 from 3-point range in the two games.
• Cornell’s defense limited the Lions to 52.0 ppg., surrendering .301 shooting from the floor and .240 from 3-point range with six blocks and 24 steals in the two wins.
• The Big Red has now won 14 of its last 16 meetings against Columbia, including nine straight.
• No current Big Red player has lost a game to Columbia (8-0).
• With his eight assists against the Lions, senior Louis Dale became the first player in Cornell history to surpass 400 career assists (405) and also moved into the school’s top 10 scoring list with his 16 points, ending the night 10th with 1,218 points.
• Senior Ryan Wittman surpassed Columbia great Buck Jenkins ‘93 for ninth place on the Ivy League’s all-time scoring list with his 11-point effort against the Lions, giving him 1,777 points.
THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 27-3 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 36-8 over the last four.
• The Big Red has won 16 straight conference contests at home and is 20-2 over the last four seasons.
• Cornell is 31-2 in its last 33 games at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red has won 14 of its last 15 contests overall, with the only loss coming at Kansas.
• Cornell is 75-31 over the last four years, making the Big Red seniors the winningest class in school history.
NEXT UP
• Cornell remains at home for another Ivy League doubleheader as part of playing five of its first six league games at Newman Arena.
• The Big Red hosts Yale on Friday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., then battles Brown on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.
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