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GAME INFORMATION
Game #28: Princeton at Cornell
Tip off: Friday, February 26, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Princeton (16-7, 7-2 Ivy League); Cornell (23-4, 9-1 Ivy League)
Series Record: Princeton leads 134-77
Last Meeting: Cornell won 48-45, February 13, 2010 in Princeton, N.J.
Game #29: Penn at Cornell
Tip off: Saturday, February 27, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Penn (5-18, 4-5 Ivy League); Cornell (23-4, 9-1 Ivy League)
Series Record: Penn leads 143-70
Last Meeting: Penn won 79-64, February 12, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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: Sold out for both games
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (140-137, .505) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — A pair of sell-outs welcome a senior class of eight ready to make their final regular season appearances at Newman Arena and a share of the 2009-10 Ivy League title will be on the line when Cornell faces Princeton on Friday, Feb. 26 and Penn on Saturday, Feb. 27 with both games tipping off at 7 p.m. Barry Leonard and Matt Grassie 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.
The senior class of Louis Dale, Jeff Foote, Jon Jaques, Geoff Reeves, Pete Reynolds, Alex Tyler, Andre Wilkins and Ryan Wittman has already accomplished quite a bit. With an 82-32 record overall and a 43-9 mark in Ivy action heading into the weekend, the group of eight is not only one of the largest in school history, but it has had more success than any other group. Two wins this weekend would send the team off with at least a share of its third consecutive Ivy League title. No conference school other than Penn or Princeton has accomplished that feat.
The scenario for clinching the outright Ivy League title this weekend is more complicated. Cornell needs a sweep of the weekend set against Princeton and Penn. Coupled with Princeton loss at Columbia on Saturday and a Harvard loss to either Brown or Yale in Cambridge would have the Big Red celebrating its third straight NCAA bid.
Wittman paces the team in scoring (17.6 ppg.), while Foote (12.4 ppg., 8.4 rpg., 1.9 bpg.) leads the way in both rebounding and blocks and is second in the nation in field goal percentage (.616). Senior Louis Dale is averaging 11.5 ppg. and a team-high 4.8 apg.
ABOUT PRINCETON
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (Princeton ‘97), third season.
• Princeton stands in second place in the Ivy League with its 7-2 record, a game and a half behind the Big Red. Cornell won the first meeting in a hard-fought 48-45 triumph on Feb. 13 in Princeton, N.J. at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• The Tigers rank among the national leaders in scoring defense (52.7 ppg.) and field goal percentage defense (.402).
• Sophomore Douglas Davis leads the Tigers in scoring (12.8 ppg.), while Dan Mavraides (12.0 ppg.) is also in double figures.
• Princeton shoots 44 percent from the floor and 37 percent from 3-point range.
• In conference play, Princeton’s opponents are shooting just .386 from the floor and are averaging just 8.2 assists per game.
• Princeton split last weekend at home, dominating Yale in an 82-58 win on Friday before slipping up against Brown, falling 57-54.
THE SERIES
• Princeton leads the series 134-77 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Cornell has won nine of the last 11 meetings between the teams, including five of the last six games at Jadwin Gymnasium and four of the last five at Newman Arena, with the lone loss coming in double overtime in 2005-06.
• This current senior class is 6-1 against the Tigers.
ABOUT PENN
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Jerome Allen (Penn ‘09), first season.
• Penn’s record stands at just 5-18 (4-5 Ivy), but the Quakers have played much better basketball under head coach Jerome Allen, winning four of its last eight contests heading into Friday night’s game at Columbia. Included was an impressive 79-64 victory over the Big Red on Feb. 12.
• The Quakers split last weekend at home, knocking off Yale 81-69 after dropping an 80-73 contest to Brown.
• Sophomore Zack Rosen averages a team-best 17.6 points on 43 percent shooting from the floor and averages 4.3 assists and 3.5 rebounds each night.
• Jack Eggleston is the only other double figure scorer, posting 13.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per night.
• As a team, Penn is shooting 40 percent overall (31 percent from 3-point range) while surrendering 48 percent shooting (38 percent from 3-point range).
• Since taking over as head coach, Jerome Allen has registered a 5-11 record after the Quakers began the season with seven straight losses.
THE SERIES
• Penn leads 143-70 overall in a series that dates back to the 1903-04 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, four of the last five with the wins coming by an average of 13.5 points after losing 18 consecutive contests to the Quakers.
• The current group of seniors has a 4-3 record against Penn, falling to the Quakers 79-64 on Feb. 12 at the Palestra.
THE STORY LINE
• The winningest senior class in Cornell history will make their final regular season appearances at Newman Arena when the Big Red faces the Ivy League’s perennial top dogs, Princeton and Penn.
• First-place Cornell and second-place Princeton will battle for the second time in three weeks. Princeton sat in first and Cornell was in second when the two teams met on Feb. 13 in New Jersey, but the Big Red persevered and took home a hard-fought 48-45 victory at Jadwin Gymnasium, moving back into the top spot in the league standings.
• The Big Red will also attempt to avenge a 79-64 loss at Penn when the two teams meet on Saturday night. No team has swept a season series from Cornell since both Harvard and Penn swept the series from the Big Red in 2006-07.
• A pair of wins would give Cornell at least a share of the 2009-10 Ancient Eight title, the program’s third consecutive. For the Big Red to clinch the title outright on Saturday, it would need some help. Besides needing to sweep the two games, Columbia would have to beat Princeton on Saturday evening in New York City, while Harvard would need to lose at home to either Brown on Friday or Yale on Saturday.
• The Big Red needs seven 3-pointers in its final four games to establish an Ivy record (currently 266 by Penn in 2001-02).
• A win over Princeton would make Cornell the winningest non-P team in Ivy history (Columbia, 23-5 in 1967-68.
A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• give Cornell a two-game lead over the field in the loss column in Ancient Eight play.
• be 24 wins for the Big Red, the most by a non-Penn or Princeton team in Ivy history (since the formation of Ivy play in 1955-56)
• make the Big Red 24-4 overall.
• give Cornell a 10-1 Ivy League record.
• give Cornell 22 wins in its last 24 games.
• make the Big Red 35-4 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 44-9 over the last four.
THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 34-4 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 43-9 over the last four.
• The Big Red has won 20 straight conference contests at home and is 24-2 in league play at home over the last four seasons. Cornell has won nine straight games at Newman Arena overall.
• Cornell is 35-2 in its last 37 games at Newman Arena.
• Cornell is 82-32 over the last four years, making the Big Red seniors the winningest class in school history.
YOU’RE A SELL-OUT
• This weekend will be the 12th and 13th sell-outs in Newman Arena history for Cornell men’s basketball, dating back to the opening of the facility in 1990.
• It will be the first time consecutive home games have been sell-outs and the first time an Ivy League weekend has sold out both contests.
• Cornell has sold out four games this season, a school record. The Big Red has a pair of sell-outs in both 2003-04 and 2007-08. Three of the last four games sold out.
• Entering the year, the Big Red had sold out just nine games.
• In seven Ivy League contests, Cornell will average 4,242 in an arena that seats 4,473 (94.8 percent capacity).
NEWMAN NOTES
• Cornell closed the 2008-09 season with a 21-game win streak at Newman Arena, ranking as the third-longest in Division I. That streak was snapped in its 2009-10 season opener, an 89-79 loss to Seton Hall.
• The Big Red has won its home games by an average of 22.1 points this season. The team has doubled its opponents’ assist total (189-94) while turning it over 19 fewer times, has hit more than twice as many 3-pointers (108-46) and holds dominant advantages in field goal percentage (.487-.365), 3-point percentage (.417-.280), rebounding (39.0-30.6), blocked shots (50-31) and steals (79-61).
• The Big Red was extremely impressive in its undefeated 13-0 run at Newman Arena in 2008-09. As a team, Cornell outscored its foes by 18.9 points (80.7-61.8) while hitting at a .523 clip from the field and .471 from 3-point range. The team had a 1.5:1 assist:turnover ratio and defended at an outstanding pace, limiting opponents to .386 shooting from the floor and .297 from 3-point range.
• Cornell is riding a 20-game home Ivy league win streak as well.
• All-time, the Big Red is 154-102 (.602) in Newman Arena since the building opened in 1990.
• The Big Red is 35-2 in its last 37 home contests.
RECORD WINS
• Cornell has won a school-record 23 games this season, surpassing the 22-6 mark of 2007-08.
• The Big Red’s 23 wins is the second-most by an Ivy team this century (Penn, 25-7 in 2001-02).
• Cornell’s .852 winning percentage (23-4) is the best by an Ivy League team since Princeton went 27-2 (.931) in 1997-98.
• Since the beginning of official Ivy League play in 1955-56, only 14 conference teams have won at least 23 games in a season. Only Penn (7), Princeton (5) and Columbia (1) have teams that have won at least 23 games. Penn’s 28 wins during the 1970-71 season is the most by an Ivy team.
• One win this weekend would give the Big Red 24 wins (only 10 teams with 24+ wins), while a weekend sweep would leave Cornell at 25 wins (only eight teams with 25+ wins).
• Cornell is tied with the 1967-68 Columbia team (23-5) for the most wins by a non-P team since the inception of the Ivy League.
• The Big Red’s 14 regular season non-conference wins set an Ivy record, surpassing the 13 non-league wins by the 2001-02 Penn squad.
PLAYER NUGGETS
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 154-178 free throws this season (.865), including 48-of-54 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points (.889).
• Senior Ryan Wittman has reached double figure in 25 straight games.
• Wittman has hit 11 3-pointers in his last two games after making a total of 10 over his previous four games.
• Wittman has scored at least 20 points in two consecutive games after going 10 games without hitting that mark.
• Senior Jeff Foote has at least eight rebounds in 15 different games with 10 double figure efforts.
• Foote has 15 career double-doubles, good for third place all-time at Cornell (Bernard Jackson ‘91 - 18, Mike Davis ‘80 -18, Justin Treadwell ‘94 - 15).
• Foote has made 39-of-56 field goals in the last seven games (.696) and is 13-of-16 from the floor in the last three contests (.813).
• Foote has hit double figures in scoring in seven straight games, matching the longest stretch in his career.
• Foote has multiple blocked shots in seven of his last eight games.
• Louis Dale is the first Cornell player with 1,200 points, 400 rebounds, 400 assists and 100 steals in a career.
• In Ivy play, Louis Dale has 46 assists and 21 turnovers while shooting .511 from the floor.
• Dale and Chris Wroblewski have 80 assists and 32 turnovers combined in 10 home games.
• Senior Geoff Reeves has 21 assists and just eight turnovers in the team’s last 18 contests.
• Senior Jon Jaques has made 45 of his last 83 shots (.542), including 28-of-56 from beyond the arc (.500).
• Junior Adam Wire hasn’t committed a turnover in his last 15 games (140 minutes). He has 10 assists and zero turnovers in Ivy League play (109 minutes).
• Wire hasn’t scored in his last six games, going just 0-for-3 from the floor, in 58 minutes.
• Freshman Errick Peck is averaging 8.0 points in his last three games and is shooting 75 percent during that span (9-of-12), including 3-of-3 from beyond the arc. He has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in six of his last seven.
• In the five games junior guard Max Groebe has played at least 10 minutes, he averages 11.0 points and 3.4 3-pointers per game while shooting percent (17-of-28) from beyond the arc.
• Six different players average at least a 3-pointer per game in Ivy League play.
• Five different players (Dale, Foote, Jaques, Wittman, Wroblewski) have at least one game this season with 20+ points.
TEAM NOTES
• Cornell opponents are shooting .389 from the floor (.339 from 3-point range) and averaging 58.7 points in the last 17 games after shooting .456 (.387 from 3-point range) and allowing 73.0 points in the first 10 contests.
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in 22 of 25 contests.
• The Big Red shot 50 percent or better in each of its last 10 contests after missing that mark for 12 consecutive games. It shot 50 percent or better six times over the team’s first 13 games.
• Cornell has a negative assist:turnover ratio in just three games all season.
• Cornell has only trailed at the half twice in the last 21 games and five times this season.
• The Big Red has outrebounded 15 of its last 20 opponents (+5.2 over that span), including 10 of the last 12 games (+7.4).
• The Big Red’s 260 3-pointers is a school record
• After hitting a season-low two 3-pointers (on a season-low eight attempts) at Princeton, Cornell exploded for 27 3-pointers in road wins at Harvard and Dartmouth, shooting .563 in the two games beyond the arc.
• Cornell has made at least 10 3-pointers in 15 contests this season, a new school record. Additionally, the Big Red has hit nine in three other games.
• Opponents have made double figure 3-pointers four times in 2009-10, but Cornell is 3-1 in those games (only loss to Penn, 11).
• The Big Red has hit eight or more 3-pointers in 17 of its last 19 contests.
• Cornell hasn’t been held below 40 percent shooting all season, but has limited opponents to 40 percent shooting or below 13 times this year.
• As a team, the Big Red is shooting just .673 from the free-throw line (113-168) over the last nine games since making all 12 free throws in the win at South Dakota.
• Opponents have gathered more than 30 rebounds just once in the last seven contests.
NEXT UP
• Cornell will close out the regular season back on the road, as the Big Red opens March with contests at Brown (Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m.) and Yale (Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m.).
GAME INFORMATION
Game #28: Princeton at Cornell
Tip off: Friday, February 26, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Princeton (16-7, 7-2 Ivy League); Cornell (23-4, 9-1 Ivy League)
Series Record: Princeton leads 134-77
Last Meeting: Cornell won 48-45, February 13, 2010 in Princeton, N.J.
Game #29: Penn at Cornell
Tip off: Saturday, February 27, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Newman Arena (4,473), Ithaca, N.Y.
2009-10 Records: Penn (5-18, 4-5 Ivy League); Cornell (23-4, 9-1 Ivy League)
Series Record: Penn leads 143-70
Last Meeting: Penn won 79-64, February 12, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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: Sold out for both games
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (140-137, .505) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — A pair of sell-outs welcome a senior class of eight ready to make their final regular season appearances at Newman Arena and a share of the 2009-10 Ivy League title will be on the line when Cornell faces Princeton on Friday, Feb. 26 and Penn on Saturday, Feb. 27 with both games tipping off at 7 p.m. Barry Leonard and Matt Grassie 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.
The senior class of Louis Dale, Jeff Foote, Jon Jaques, Geoff Reeves, Pete Reynolds, Alex Tyler, Andre Wilkins and Ryan Wittman has already accomplished quite a bit. With an 82-32 record overall and a 43-9 mark in Ivy action heading into the weekend, the group of eight is not only one of the largest in school history, but it has had more success than any other group. Two wins this weekend would send the team off with at least a share of its third consecutive Ivy League title. No conference school other than Penn or Princeton has accomplished that feat.
The scenario for clinching the outright Ivy League title this weekend is more complicated. Cornell needs a sweep of the weekend set against Princeton and Penn. Coupled with Princeton loss at Columbia on Saturday and a Harvard loss to either Brown or Yale in Cambridge would have the Big Red celebrating its third straight NCAA bid.
Wittman paces the team in scoring (17.6 ppg.), while Foote (12.4 ppg., 8.4 rpg., 1.9 bpg.) leads the way in both rebounding and blocks and is second in the nation in field goal percentage (.616). Senior Louis Dale is averaging 11.5 ppg. and a team-high 4.8 apg.
ABOUT PRINCETON
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Sydney Johnson (Princeton ‘97), third season.
• Princeton stands in second place in the Ivy League with its 7-2 record, a game and a half behind the Big Red. Cornell won the first meeting in a hard-fought 48-45 triumph on Feb. 13 in Princeton, N.J. at Jadwin Gymnasium.
• The Tigers rank among the national leaders in scoring defense (52.7 ppg.) and field goal percentage defense (.402).
• Sophomore Douglas Davis leads the Tigers in scoring (12.8 ppg.), while Dan Mavraides (12.0 ppg.) is also in double figures.
• Princeton shoots 44 percent from the floor and 37 percent from 3-point range.
• In conference play, Princeton’s opponents are shooting just .386 from the floor and are averaging just 8.2 assists per game.
• Princeton split last weekend at home, dominating Yale in an 82-58 win on Friday before slipping up against Brown, falling 57-54.
THE SERIES
• Princeton leads the series 134-77 dating back to the first meeting between the teams in the 1901-02 season.
• Cornell has won nine of the last 11 meetings between the teams, including five of the last six games at Jadwin Gymnasium and four of the last five at Newman Arena, with the lone loss coming in double overtime in 2005-06.
• This current senior class is 6-1 against the Tigers.
ABOUT PENN
• Conference: The Ivy League
• Head Coach: Jerome Allen (Penn ‘09), first season.
• Penn’s record stands at just 5-18 (4-5 Ivy), but the Quakers have played much better basketball under head coach Jerome Allen, winning four of its last eight contests heading into Friday night’s game at Columbia. Included was an impressive 79-64 victory over the Big Red on Feb. 12.
• The Quakers split last weekend at home, knocking off Yale 81-69 after dropping an 80-73 contest to Brown.
• Sophomore Zack Rosen averages a team-best 17.6 points on 43 percent shooting from the floor and averages 4.3 assists and 3.5 rebounds each night.
• Jack Eggleston is the only other double figure scorer, posting 13.0 points and 6.5 rebounds per night.
• As a team, Penn is shooting 40 percent overall (31 percent from 3-point range) while surrendering 48 percent shooting (38 percent from 3-point range).
• Since taking over as head coach, Jerome Allen has registered a 5-11 record after the Quakers began the season with seven straight losses.
THE SERIES
• Penn leads 143-70 overall in a series that dates back to the 1903-04 campaign.
• Cornell has had the best of the series recently, four of the last five with the wins coming by an average of 13.5 points after losing 18 consecutive contests to the Quakers.
• The current group of seniors has a 4-3 record against Penn, falling to the Quakers 79-64 on Feb. 12 at the Palestra.
THE STORY LINE
• The winningest senior class in Cornell history will make their final regular season appearances at Newman Arena when the Big Red faces the Ivy League’s perennial top dogs, Princeton and Penn.
• First-place Cornell and second-place Princeton will battle for the second time in three weeks. Princeton sat in first and Cornell was in second when the two teams met on Feb. 13 in New Jersey, but the Big Red persevered and took home a hard-fought 48-45 victory at Jadwin Gymnasium, moving back into the top spot in the league standings.
• The Big Red will also attempt to avenge a 79-64 loss at Penn when the two teams meet on Saturday night. No team has swept a season series from Cornell since both Harvard and Penn swept the series from the Big Red in 2006-07.
• A pair of wins would give Cornell at least a share of the 2009-10 Ancient Eight title, the program’s third consecutive. For the Big Red to clinch the title outright on Saturday, it would need some help. Besides needing to sweep the two games, Columbia would have to beat Princeton on Saturday evening in New York City, while Harvard would need to lose at home to either Brown on Friday or Yale on Saturday.
• The Big Red needs seven 3-pointers in its final four games to establish an Ivy record (currently 266 by Penn in 2001-02).
• A win over Princeton would make Cornell the winningest non-P team in Ivy history (Columbia, 23-5 in 1967-68.
A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• give Cornell a two-game lead over the field in the loss column in Ancient Eight play.
• be 24 wins for the Big Red, the most by a non-Penn or Princeton team in Ivy history (since the formation of Ivy play in 1955-56)
• make the Big Red 24-4 overall.
• give Cornell a 10-1 Ivy League record.
• give Cornell 22 wins in its last 24 games.
• make the Big Red 35-4 in Ivy League over the last three seasons and 44-9 over the last four.
THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 34-4 in Ivy play over the last three seasons and 43-9 over the last four.
• The Big Red has won 20 straight conference contests at home and is 24-2 in league play at home over the last four seasons. Cornell has won nine straight games at Newman Arena overall.
• Cornell is 35-2 in its last 37 games at Newman Arena.
• Cornell is 82-32 over the last four years, making the Big Red seniors the winningest class in school history.
YOU’RE A SELL-OUT
• This weekend will be the 12th and 13th sell-outs in Newman Arena history for Cornell men’s basketball, dating back to the opening of the facility in 1990.
• It will be the first time consecutive home games have been sell-outs and the first time an Ivy League weekend has sold out both contests.
• Cornell has sold out four games this season, a school record. The Big Red has a pair of sell-outs in both 2003-04 and 2007-08. Three of the last four games sold out.
• Entering the year, the Big Red had sold out just nine games.
• In seven Ivy League contests, Cornell will average 4,242 in an arena that seats 4,473 (94.8 percent capacity).
NEWMAN NOTES
• Cornell closed the 2008-09 season with a 21-game win streak at Newman Arena, ranking as the third-longest in Division I. That streak was snapped in its 2009-10 season opener, an 89-79 loss to Seton Hall.
• The Big Red has won its home games by an average of 22.1 points this season. The team has doubled its opponents’ assist total (189-94) while turning it over 19 fewer times, has hit more than twice as many 3-pointers (108-46) and holds dominant advantages in field goal percentage (.487-.365), 3-point percentage (.417-.280), rebounding (39.0-30.6), blocked shots (50-31) and steals (79-61).
• The Big Red was extremely impressive in its undefeated 13-0 run at Newman Arena in 2008-09. As a team, Cornell outscored its foes by 18.9 points (80.7-61.8) while hitting at a .523 clip from the field and .471 from 3-point range. The team had a 1.5:1 assist:turnover ratio and defended at an outstanding pace, limiting opponents to .386 shooting from the floor and .297 from 3-point range.
• Cornell is riding a 20-game home Ivy league win streak as well.
• All-time, the Big Red is 154-102 (.602) in Newman Arena since the building opened in 1990.
• The Big Red is 35-2 in its last 37 home contests.
RECORD WINS
• Cornell has won a school-record 23 games this season, surpassing the 22-6 mark of 2007-08.
• The Big Red’s 23 wins is the second-most by an Ivy team this century (Penn, 25-7 in 2001-02).
• Cornell’s .852 winning percentage (23-4) is the best by an Ivy League team since Princeton went 27-2 (.931) in 1997-98.
• Since the beginning of official Ivy League play in 1955-56, only 14 conference teams have won at least 23 games in a season. Only Penn (7), Princeton (5) and Columbia (1) have teams that have won at least 23 games. Penn’s 28 wins during the 1970-71 season is the most by an Ivy team.
• One win this weekend would give the Big Red 24 wins (only 10 teams with 24+ wins), while a weekend sweep would leave Cornell at 25 wins (only eight teams with 25+ wins).
• Cornell is tied with the 1967-68 Columbia team (23-5) for the most wins by a non-P team since the inception of the Ivy League.
• The Big Red’s 14 regular season non-conference wins set an Ivy record, surpassing the 13 non-league wins by the 2001-02 Penn squad.
PLAYER NUGGETS
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 154-178 free throws this season (.865), including 48-of-54 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points (.889).
• Senior Ryan Wittman has reached double figure in 25 straight games.
• Wittman has hit 11 3-pointers in his last two games after making a total of 10 over his previous four games.
• Wittman has scored at least 20 points in two consecutive games after going 10 games without hitting that mark.
• Senior Jeff Foote has at least eight rebounds in 15 different games with 10 double figure efforts.
• Foote has 15 career double-doubles, good for third place all-time at Cornell (Bernard Jackson ‘91 - 18, Mike Davis ‘80 -18, Justin Treadwell ‘94 - 15).
• Foote has made 39-of-56 field goals in the last seven games (.696) and is 13-of-16 from the floor in the last three contests (.813).
• Foote has hit double figures in scoring in seven straight games, matching the longest stretch in his career.
• Foote has multiple blocked shots in seven of his last eight games.
• Louis Dale is the first Cornell player with 1,200 points, 400 rebounds, 400 assists and 100 steals in a career.
• In Ivy play, Louis Dale has 46 assists and 21 turnovers while shooting .511 from the floor.
• Dale and Chris Wroblewski have 80 assists and 32 turnovers combined in 10 home games.
• Senior Geoff Reeves has 21 assists and just eight turnovers in the team’s last 18 contests.
• Senior Jon Jaques has made 45 of his last 83 shots (.542), including 28-of-56 from beyond the arc (.500).
• Junior Adam Wire hasn’t committed a turnover in his last 15 games (140 minutes). He has 10 assists and zero turnovers in Ivy League play (109 minutes).
• Wire hasn’t scored in his last six games, going just 0-for-3 from the floor, in 58 minutes.
• Freshman Errick Peck is averaging 8.0 points in his last three games and is shooting 75 percent during that span (9-of-12), including 3-of-3 from beyond the arc. He has shot better than 50 percent from the floor in six of his last seven.
• In the five games junior guard Max Groebe has played at least 10 minutes, he averages 11.0 points and 3.4 3-pointers per game while shooting percent (17-of-28) from beyond the arc.
• Six different players average at least a 3-pointer per game in Ivy League play.
• Five different players (Dale, Foote, Jaques, Wittman, Wroblewski) have at least one game this season with 20+ points.
TEAM NOTES
• Cornell opponents are shooting .389 from the floor (.339 from 3-point range) and averaging 58.7 points in the last 17 games after shooting .456 (.387 from 3-point range) and allowing 73.0 points in the first 10 contests.
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in 22 of 25 contests.
• The Big Red shot 50 percent or better in each of its last 10 contests after missing that mark for 12 consecutive games. It shot 50 percent or better six times over the team’s first 13 games.
• Cornell has a negative assist:turnover ratio in just three games all season.
• Cornell has only trailed at the half twice in the last 21 games and five times this season.
• The Big Red has outrebounded 15 of its last 20 opponents (+5.2 over that span), including 10 of the last 12 games (+7.4).
• The Big Red’s 260 3-pointers is a school record
• After hitting a season-low two 3-pointers (on a season-low eight attempts) at Princeton, Cornell exploded for 27 3-pointers in road wins at Harvard and Dartmouth, shooting .563 in the two games beyond the arc.
• Cornell has made at least 10 3-pointers in 15 contests this season, a new school record. Additionally, the Big Red has hit nine in three other games.
• Opponents have made double figure 3-pointers four times in 2009-10, but Cornell is 3-1 in those games (only loss to Penn, 11).
• The Big Red has hit eight or more 3-pointers in 17 of its last 19 contests.
• Cornell hasn’t been held below 40 percent shooting all season, but has limited opponents to 40 percent shooting or below 13 times this year.
• As a team, the Big Red is shooting just .673 from the free-throw line (113-168) over the last nine games since making all 12 free throws in the win at South Dakota.
• Opponents have gathered more than 30 rebounds just once in the last seven contests.
NEXT UP
• Cornell will close out the regular season back on the road, as the Big Red opens March with contests at Brown (Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m.) and Yale (Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m.).
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