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Game #5: Cornell at Colgate
Tip off: Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m.
Site: Cotterell Court (3,000), Hamilton, N.Y.
2013-14 Records: Cornell (0-4, 0-0 Ivy); Colgate (0-2, 0-0 Patriot)
Series Record: Cornell leads 71-53
Last Meeting: Cornell won 70-63, Dec. 1, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y.
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HEAD COACH BILL COURTNEY
Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his fourth season at Cornell (35-56, .385; 18-24 Ivy, .429) ... Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.
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Game #5: Cornell at Colgate
Tip off: Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m.
Site: Cotterell Court (3,000), Hamilton, N.Y.
2013-14 Records: Cornell (0-4, 0-0 Ivy); Colgate (0-2, 0-0 Patriot)
Series Record: Cornell leads 71-53
Last Meeting: Cornell won 70-63, Dec. 1, 2010 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Radio: HITS 103.3 FM (Barry Leonard, Eric Taylor)
TV: None
Live Stats: available at www.GoColgateRaiders.com
Live Video: available at www. GoColgateRaiders.com
Tickets: check availability by calling (607) 254-BEAR
HEAD COACH BILL COURTNEY
Cornell head coach Bill Courtney is in his fourth season at Cornell (35-56, .385; 18-24 Ivy, .429) ... Courtney became the fifth Robert E. Gallagher '44 Coach of Men's Basketball at Cornell on April 23, 2010.
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After a brutally difficult schedule in the first week of the year, the Cornell men's basketball team will gear back up to face longtime Central New York rival Colgate in a midweek tilt on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y. Both squads will be eyeing their first wins of the young season.
The Big Red is coming off a difficult first seven days, facing two 2013 NCAA Final Four squads (Syracuse, Louisville) and three 2013 postseason squads (Syracuse and Louisville - NCAA, Loyola - CIT) that went a combined 88-27. Cornell has showed glimpses of outstanding basketball despite its 0-4 start with a heavy reliance on underclassmen. Four of the team's top six scorers are freshmen or sophomores and the three top upperclassmen have made a combined 23 career starts entering the year. The Big Red led No. 8/7 Syracuse by 14 points in the first half and by six at the break, led a Loyola (MD) team that won 23 games a year ago by seven points with five minutes remaining and had a 19-point advantage against Binghamton with 13 minutes left before the team's youth came out and the Big Red went on to drop all three contests. No. 3/3 Louisville controlled its game from the opening tip, jumping out to a 22-2 lead with its depth and pressure and never looking back.
Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler is off to a great start, averaging 16.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in his first four games, while freshman guard Robert Hatter is scoring 12.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists. Senior forward Dwight Tarwater is posting 9.8 points and 6.5 rebounds and freshman center Robert Onuorah (6.5 ppg., 5.3 rpg., 1.8 bpg.) and junior guard Devin Cherry (5.3 ppg., 4.0 rpg., 3.5 apg.) round out the starting lineup. The Big Red is scoring 70.5 points on 41 percent shooting while assisting on 14.3 baskets per game, but is allowing 90.8 points.
Colgate also had a challenging first week of the season and is off to an 0-2 start after losses to a pair of ACC teams on the road, losing contests to both Wake Forest (89-79) and nationally-ranked Syracuse (69-50). Four players are averaging in double figures, including senior forward Murphy Burnatowski, who had 24 points a year ago for the Raiders in a 70-63 Big Red victory at Newman Arena last December. Third-year head coach Matt Langel improved his Raider squad three games from year one to year two and were picked eighth in the preseason Patriot League poll in 2013-14.
A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD:
• help the Big Red avoid its first 0-5 start to a season since the 2001-02 campaign.
• snap a 10-game skid dating back to last season.
• be the second straight over the Raiders and extend the lead in the all-time series to 72-53.
• end a four-game road skid.
• be the 1,210th in program history (1,209-1,330 in 114 seasons).
ABOUT COLGATE:
• Colgate is 0-2 on the season after losses at Wake Forest (89-79) and Syracuse (69-50).
• Four players are averaging in double figures and six are scoring at least 7.5 points per contest.
• Ethan Jacobs leads the way at 12.0 ppg. and 6.0 rpg., with both Austin Tillotson (11.5 ppg., 6.5 apg.) and Pat Moore (11.5 ppg.) near the team's scoring lead. Murphy Burnatowski (10.0 ppg., 5.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) and also right there.
• Despite playing a pair of ACC teams to open the season, the Raiders are allowing opponents to shoot just 42 percent from the floor overall and 26 percent from 3-point range.
• The Raiders are being outrebounded by 10.0 per game and are committing 17.5 turnovers per contest.
• Third-year head coach Matt Langel has a 19-45 record at Colgate and helped the Raiders to three additional wins overall and in the Patriot League in his second year directing the program.
THE CORNELL-COLGATE SERIES:
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 71-53 dating back to the first meeting in the 1901-02 campaign.
• Cornell won 16 straight contests between 1961-69 and 11 more in a row from 1981-91.
• The Raiders have had the best of the recent series, winning five of the last eight meetings.
• A year ago, the Big Red earned a 70-63 victory over the Raiders at Newman Arena behind 20 points and 14 rebounds from Shonn Miller.
CORNELL VS. PATRIOT LEAGUE:
• Cornell is 142-119 all-time against current members of the Patriot League, including 71-53 against Colgate.
• The Big Red has also played American (1-1), Army (20-13), Boston University (2-2), Bucknell (23-25), Holy Cross (2-3), Lafayette (7-11), Lehigh (13-9), Loyola (MD) (1-1) and Navy (2-1).
• Cornell is 7-8 in its last 15 contests against Patriot League opponents.
• This is the second of two scheduled contests with Patriot League opponents this season after dropping a 93-89 overtime decision to Loyola (MD) in Ithaca on Nov. 10.
THE STREAKS:
• Cornell is 107-77 (.582) in the last six seasons.
• The Big Red is 56-28 (.667) in its last 84 Ivy League contests over the last six years.
• Cornell is 60-24 (.714) over its last 84 home games.
• In non-conference games, the Big Red is 50-49 (.505) over the last six seasons vs. scholarship programs.
• The Big Red is 7-5 on the road in its last 12 games away from Newman Arena.
NOTES TO KNOW:
• Cornell has increased its win totals in each of the last two seasons under head coach Bill Courtney, from 10 in 2010-11 after graduating eight seniors from the previous year's NCAA Sweet 16 team, to 12 in 2011-12 to 13 a year ago.
• In two games against teams that aren't nationally ranked, the Big Red has averaged 84.0 points on .471 shooting from the floor with 35 assists and just 18 turnovers. In the two games against nationally ranked squads, Cornell is averaging 57.0 points on .345 shooting with 22 assists and 36 turnovers.
• In those games against Loyola (MD) and Binghamton, Cornell is +1.0 on the backboards while posting a -12.0 rebounding deficit against Syracuse and Louisville.
• Freshman Robert Hatter established a Cornell freshman record with 32 points against Loyola (MD).
• Sophomore Nolan Cressler needs seven 3-pointers to climb into Cornell's career top 20 list.
• Cressler had 20 points in the first half against #8/7 Syracuse, nearly matching his career high of 22 points. He established a new personal best with his 23 points in the game.
• Cressler has a streak of eight consecutive double figure scoring games dating back to last year.
• Senior Dwight Tarwater had 21 points and 11 rebounds against the Greyhounds, nearly matching his junior year scoring total (30 points) and surpassing his rebounding total from a year ago (eight).
• Junior Devin Cherry had a career-best 17 points against Binghamton.
• The Big Red brings a 10-game losing streak into the contest, its longest since Cornell also lost 10 in a row spanning the 1980-81 (final two games) and 1981-82 seasons (first eight games).
NEXT UP:
• Cornell returns to Newman Arena for consecutive home games starting with a matchup against Siena on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.
• Siena leads the all-time series 2-1, with the Saints winning the last matchup 74-56 during the 2008-09 campaign.
After a brutally difficult schedule in the first week of the year, the Cornell men's basketball team will gear back up to face longtime Central New York rival Colgate in a midweek tilt on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y. Both squads will be eyeing their first wins of the young season.
The Big Red is coming off a difficult first seven days, facing two 2013 NCAA Final Four squads (Syracuse, Louisville) and three 2013 postseason squads (Syracuse and Louisville - NCAA, Loyola - CIT) that went a combined 88-27. Cornell has showed glimpses of outstanding basketball despite its 0-4 start with a heavy reliance on underclassmen. Four of the team's top six scorers are freshmen or sophomores and the three top upperclassmen have made a combined 23 career starts entering the year. The Big Red led No. 8/7 Syracuse by 14 points in the first half and by six at the break, led a Loyola (MD) team that won 23 games a year ago by seven points with five minutes remaining and had a 19-point advantage against Binghamton with 13 minutes left before the team's youth came out and the Big Red went on to drop all three contests. No. 3/3 Louisville controlled its game from the opening tip, jumping out to a 22-2 lead with its depth and pressure and never looking back.
Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler is off to a great start, averaging 16.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in his first four games, while freshman guard Robert Hatter is scoring 12.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists. Senior forward Dwight Tarwater is posting 9.8 points and 6.5 rebounds and freshman center Robert Onuorah (6.5 ppg., 5.3 rpg., 1.8 bpg.) and junior guard Devin Cherry (5.3 ppg., 4.0 rpg., 3.5 apg.) round out the starting lineup. The Big Red is scoring 70.5 points on 41 percent shooting while assisting on 14.3 baskets per game, but is allowing 90.8 points.
Colgate also had a challenging first week of the season and is off to an 0-2 start after losses to a pair of ACC teams on the road, losing contests to both Wake Forest (89-79) and nationally-ranked Syracuse (69-50). Four players are averaging in double figures, including senior forward Murphy Burnatowski, who had 24 points a year ago for the Raiders in a 70-63 Big Red victory at Newman Arena last December. Third-year head coach Matt Langel improved his Raider squad three games from year one to year two and were picked eighth in the preseason Patriot League poll in 2013-14.
A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD:
• help the Big Red avoid its first 0-5 start to a season since the 2001-02 campaign.
• snap a 10-game skid dating back to last season.
• be the second straight over the Raiders and extend the lead in the all-time series to 72-53.
• end a four-game road skid.
• be the 1,210th in program history (1,209-1,330 in 114 seasons).
ABOUT COLGATE:
• Colgate is 0-2 on the season after losses at Wake Forest (89-79) and Syracuse (69-50).
• Four players are averaging in double figures and six are scoring at least 7.5 points per contest.
• Ethan Jacobs leads the way at 12.0 ppg. and 6.0 rpg., with both Austin Tillotson (11.5 ppg., 6.5 apg.) and Pat Moore (11.5 ppg.) near the team's scoring lead. Murphy Burnatowski (10.0 ppg., 5.0 rpg., 3.0 apg.) and also right there.
• Despite playing a pair of ACC teams to open the season, the Raiders are allowing opponents to shoot just 42 percent from the floor overall and 26 percent from 3-point range.
• The Raiders are being outrebounded by 10.0 per game and are committing 17.5 turnovers per contest.
• Third-year head coach Matt Langel has a 19-45 record at Colgate and helped the Raiders to three additional wins overall and in the Patriot League in his second year directing the program.
THE CORNELL-COLGATE SERIES:
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 71-53 dating back to the first meeting in the 1901-02 campaign.
• Cornell won 16 straight contests between 1961-69 and 11 more in a row from 1981-91.
• The Raiders have had the best of the recent series, winning five of the last eight meetings.
• A year ago, the Big Red earned a 70-63 victory over the Raiders at Newman Arena behind 20 points and 14 rebounds from Shonn Miller.
CORNELL VS. PATRIOT LEAGUE:
• Cornell is 142-119 all-time against current members of the Patriot League, including 71-53 against Colgate.
• The Big Red has also played American (1-1), Army (20-13), Boston University (2-2), Bucknell (23-25), Holy Cross (2-3), Lafayette (7-11), Lehigh (13-9), Loyola (MD) (1-1) and Navy (2-1).
• Cornell is 7-8 in its last 15 contests against Patriot League opponents.
• This is the second of two scheduled contests with Patriot League opponents this season after dropping a 93-89 overtime decision to Loyola (MD) in Ithaca on Nov. 10.
THE STREAKS:
• Cornell is 107-77 (.582) in the last six seasons.
• The Big Red is 56-28 (.667) in its last 84 Ivy League contests over the last six years.
• Cornell is 60-24 (.714) over its last 84 home games.
• In non-conference games, the Big Red is 50-49 (.505) over the last six seasons vs. scholarship programs.
• The Big Red is 7-5 on the road in its last 12 games away from Newman Arena.
NOTES TO KNOW:
• Cornell has increased its win totals in each of the last two seasons under head coach Bill Courtney, from 10 in 2010-11 after graduating eight seniors from the previous year's NCAA Sweet 16 team, to 12 in 2011-12 to 13 a year ago.
• In two games against teams that aren't nationally ranked, the Big Red has averaged 84.0 points on .471 shooting from the floor with 35 assists and just 18 turnovers. In the two games against nationally ranked squads, Cornell is averaging 57.0 points on .345 shooting with 22 assists and 36 turnovers.
• In those games against Loyola (MD) and Binghamton, Cornell is +1.0 on the backboards while posting a -12.0 rebounding deficit against Syracuse and Louisville.
• Freshman Robert Hatter established a Cornell freshman record with 32 points against Loyola (MD).
• Sophomore Nolan Cressler needs seven 3-pointers to climb into Cornell's career top 20 list.
• Cressler had 20 points in the first half against #8/7 Syracuse, nearly matching his career high of 22 points. He established a new personal best with his 23 points in the game.
• Cressler has a streak of eight consecutive double figure scoring games dating back to last year.
• Senior Dwight Tarwater had 21 points and 11 rebounds against the Greyhounds, nearly matching his junior year scoring total (30 points) and surpassing his rebounding total from a year ago (eight).
• Junior Devin Cherry had a career-best 17 points against Binghamton.
• The Big Red brings a 10-game losing streak into the contest, its longest since Cornell also lost 10 in a row spanning the 1980-81 (final two games) and 1981-82 seasons (first eight games).
NEXT UP:
• Cornell returns to Newman Arena for consecutive home games starting with a matchup against Siena on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.
• Siena leads the all-time series 2-1, with the Saints winning the last matchup 74-56 during the 2008-09 campaign.
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