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GAME INFORMATION
Game #8: Cornell vs. Bucknell
Tip off: Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:00 p.m.
Site: Sojka Pavilion (4,000), Lewisburg, Pa.
2009-10 Records: Cornell (5-2, 0-0 Ivy); Bucknell (4-3, 0-0 Patriot)
Series Record: Series tied 22-22
Last Meeting: Cornell won 75-64, Jan. 6, 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Radio: 93.5 WVBR-FM (Barry Leonard, Matt Grassie)
Bucknell Web Site: www.BucknellBison.com
TV: None
Live Stats: Available at www.BucknellBison.com
Live Video: Available at www.BucknellBison.com
HEAD COACH STEVE DONAHUE
Cornell head coach Steve Donahue is in his 10th season at Cornell (122-135, .475) ... Donahue became the fourth Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Coach of Men’s Basketball at Cornell on Sept. 6, 2000.
ITHACA, N.Y. — After starting the season with a 5-1 record away from home base, Cornell will look to build on that lofty road record when it visits Bucknell on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 7:00 p.m. at Sojka Pavilion. 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.
Cornell brings a three-game win streak into the road game against the Bison, capping an undefeated run through the 16-team Legends Classic tournament with wins over Toledo, Vermont and Drexel in consecutive days this past weekend in Philadelphia.
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 10.7 points, 4.6 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game, while Foote is at 12.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks. Wittman, the second all-time leading scorer at Cornell, paces the squad with his 17.1 points. Additionally, Chris Wroblewski, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, is putting up 10.1 points per game as the fourth 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.
The Bison enter the contest with a 4-3 record, including winning four of their last five outings. Head coach Dave Paulsen, in his second season with Bucknell, has his team playing lockdown defense, surrendering less than 70 points per game while limiting opponents to under 40 percent shooting overall and 33 percent from 3-point range.
ABOUT BUCKNELL
• Conference: Patriot League
• Head Coach: Dave Paulsen (Williams ‘87), second season.
• Bucknell has won four of its last five contests, with its only loss to Cornell’s Ivy League rival Columbia, after opening the season with consecutive losses.
• Darrly Shazier and Patrick Behan pace the team with 12.4 ppg., with Behan also grabbing 6.4 rpg. Shazier had 27 assists and just nine turnovers through seven games.
• Bryan Cohen is also in double figures at 11.0 ppg.
• The Bison have been outstanding defensively, limiting foes to .398 shooting overall and .333 from 3-point range.
• The Bison are coming off an impressive 85-61 win at Wagner on Nov. 28 behind a career-best 19 points by freshman Bryson Johnson.
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell is 135-111 all-time against current members of the Patriot League.
• The Big Red is 22-22 all-time against Colgate and has also played Army (20-13), Colgate (70-53), Holy Cross (2-3), Lafayette (7-11), Lehigh (12-8) and Navy (2-1).
• This is the only schedule game Cornell has against a Patriot League opponent.
• This is the only scheduled meeting between the Big Red and a member of the Patriot League in 2009-10.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 20-19 against Patriot League teams at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• The series is tied 22-22 after the Big Red won last year’s contest.
• Head coach Steve Donahue has never led a team to victory on the road against the Bison. Cornell last won in Lewisburg, Pa., during the 1999-2000 season, a 59-56 triumph, and has lost all four games since by an average of 18.5 points..
• The two teams had their first meeting in the 1899-1900 season when the Bison won 29-10.
• The Big Red snapped a five-game losing streak to Bucknell in the series with last year’s 75-64 triumph.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell will look for its first win at Bucknell under head coach Steve Donahue, who has lost all four games to the Bison in Lewisburg, Pa.
• The Big Red will also attempt to take a 23-22 edge in a series that started back in the 1899-1900 season.
• Cornell enters the game with a 5-1 record away from Newman Arena, including winning all four contests in the 2009 Legends Classic.
• The last contest at Bucknell, an 88-75 defeat at the hands of the Bison in 2007-08, is widely looked at as the turning point in Cornell’s consecutive Ivy League title run. After falling to Bucknell to slip to 4-3 on the year, the Big Red had a players only meeting at Sojka Pavilion. Out of its came a run where Cornell finished the season with an 18-3 finish, including an unblemised Ancient Eight schedule. Since that loss, Cornell has gone 44-15.
REVIEWING THE LEGENDS CLASSIC
• The Big Red joined Florida as the lone unbeaten teams in the 16-team Legends Classic with its 4-0 run.
• Cornell went 4-0, winning its games by an average of 11.5 points.
• Senior Louis Dale averaged a team-high 13.8 ppg. in the tournament, while classmate Ryan Wittman averaged 13.5 ppg. to earn tournament most valuable player. He was joined on the all-tournament team by senior reserve Jon Jaques.
• Four players averaged in double figures during the tournament.
• Defensively, the Big Red limited its four opponents to 43 percent shooting overall and 30 percent from 3-point range, while forced 18.0 turnovers per game and outrebounding its foes by 2.0 per game. Cornell averaged 9.5 steals in the four contests.
PLAYER NOTES
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 50-of-56 free throws this season (.893), including 9-of-10 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points.
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 18.6 points in the five games since.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 12-of-28 from 3-point range in his last five games (43 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• Junior Adam Wire has 16 of his 33 rebounds on the offensive glass, while 21 of Jeff Foote’s 57 rebounds have also come on the offensive end.
• Senior Louis Dale has 16 steals in seven games, twice as many as any other player on the team.
• Senior Jeff Foote has 12 blocked shots, four times more than any other player on the Big Red.
• In Cornell’s five wins this season, Mark Coury has made 11-of-13 shots from the floor (.846), while Geoff Reeves has hit 17-of-28 shots (.607).
• During Cornell’s three-game win streak, senior Louis Dale has 14 assists and just five turnovers.
TEAM NOTES
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in five of seven contests.
• Since shooting 50 percent in the season-opening win over Alabama, the Big Red has hit on just 43 percent of its field goals despite going 4-2 over that stretch.
• The Big Red has held opponents under 60 points in each of its last two games.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in six of its seven games this season.
• The team has hit 23 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 26 more assists.
• Its .760 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would be just off the school record 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 .436 shooting overall and .329 from the arc.
• One area Cornell will look to for improvement will be keeping its opponent off the foul line. The Big Red has committed at least 18 fouls in six of seven games and has averaged 20.1 per game. Those fouls have sent its opponents to the line an average of 24.6 times per game. Cornell’s foes have attempted 47 more free throws over the first seven contests.
• The Big Red has hit more 3-pointers than its opponent in all seven games.
NEXT UP
• Cornell returns home on Sunday, Dec. 6 when it meets Saint Joseph’s at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena. The Hawks captured a 71-67 victory a season ago at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pa.
• Cornell will the have a two week break before returning to action in the ECAC Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden. The Big Red will face Davidson on Sunday, Dec. 20 at noon at Madison Square Garden, then will meet either St. John’s or Hofstra in the finale.
Cornell brings a three-game win streak into the road game against the Bison, capping an undefeated run through the 16-team Legends Classic tournament with wins over Toledo, Vermont and Drexel in consecutive days this past weekend in Philadelphia.
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 10.7 points, 4.6 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game, while Foote is at 12.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks. Wittman, the second all-time leading scorer at Cornell, paces the squad with his 17.1 points. Additionally, Chris Wroblewski, last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, is putting up 10.1 points per game as the fourth 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.
The Bison enter the contest with a 4-3 record, including winning four of their last five outings. Head coach Dave Paulsen, in his second season with Bucknell, has his team playing lockdown defense, surrendering less than 70 points per game while limiting opponents to under 40 percent shooting overall and 33 percent from 3-point range.
ABOUT BUCKNELL
• Conference: Patriot League
• Head Coach: Dave Paulsen (Williams ‘87), second season.
• Bucknell has won four of its last five contests, with its only loss to Cornell’s Ivy League rival Columbia, after opening the season with consecutive losses.
• Darrly Shazier and Patrick Behan pace the team with 12.4 ppg., with Behan also grabbing 6.4 rpg. Shazier had 27 assists and just nine turnovers through seven games.
• Bryan Cohen is also in double figures at 11.0 ppg.
• The Bison have been outstanding defensively, limiting foes to .398 shooting overall and .333 from 3-point range.
• The Bison are coming off an impressive 85-61 win at Wagner on Nov. 28 behind a career-best 19 points by freshman Bryson Johnson.
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell is 135-111 all-time against current members of the Patriot League.
• The Big Red is 22-22 all-time against Colgate and has also played Army (20-13), Colgate (70-53), Holy Cross (2-3), Lafayette (7-11), Lehigh (12-8) and Navy (2-1).
• This is the only schedule game Cornell has against a Patriot League opponent.
• This is the only scheduled meeting between the Big Red and a member of the Patriot League in 2009-10.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is 20-19 against Patriot League teams at Cornell.
THE SERIES
• The series is tied 22-22 after the Big Red won last year’s contest.
• Head coach Steve Donahue has never led a team to victory on the road against the Bison. Cornell last won in Lewisburg, Pa., during the 1999-2000 season, a 59-56 triumph, and has lost all four games since by an average of 18.5 points..
• The two teams had their first meeting in the 1899-1900 season when the Bison won 29-10.
• The Big Red snapped a five-game losing streak to Bucknell in the series with last year’s 75-64 triumph.
THE STORY LINE
• Cornell will look for its first win at Bucknell under head coach Steve Donahue, who has lost all four games to the Bison in Lewisburg, Pa.
• The Big Red will also attempt to take a 23-22 edge in a series that started back in the 1899-1900 season.
• Cornell enters the game with a 5-1 record away from Newman Arena, including winning all four contests in the 2009 Legends Classic.
• The last contest at Bucknell, an 88-75 defeat at the hands of the Bison in 2007-08, is widely looked at as the turning point in Cornell’s consecutive Ivy League title run. After falling to Bucknell to slip to 4-3 on the year, the Big Red had a players only meeting at Sojka Pavilion. Out of its came a run where Cornell finished the season with an 18-3 finish, including an unblemised Ancient Eight schedule. Since that loss, Cornell has gone 44-15.
REVIEWING THE LEGENDS CLASSIC
• The Big Red joined Florida as the lone unbeaten teams in the 16-team Legends Classic with its 4-0 run.
• Cornell went 4-0, winning its games by an average of 11.5 points.
• Senior Louis Dale averaged a team-high 13.8 ppg. in the tournament, while classmate Ryan Wittman averaged 13.5 ppg. to earn tournament most valuable player. He was joined on the all-tournament team by senior reserve Jon Jaques.
• Four players averaged in double figures during the tournament.
• Defensively, the Big Red limited its four opponents to 43 percent shooting overall and 30 percent from 3-point range, while forced 18.0 turnovers per game and outrebounding its foes by 2.0 per game. Cornell averaged 9.5 steals in the four contests.
PLAYER NOTES
• The top four players in the backcourt, seniors Louis Dale, Geoff Reeves, Ryan Wittman and sophomore Chris Wroblewski have made 50-of-56 free throws this season (.893), including 9-of-10 in the final three minutes of games within 10 points.
• Senior Ryan Wittman had a career-low four points at UMass, but has averaged 18.6 points in the five games since.
• Sophomore Chris Wroblewski is 12-of-28 from 3-point range in his last five games (43 percent) after hitting just 1-of-5 (20 percent) in his first two.
• Junior Adam Wire has 16 of his 33 rebounds on the offensive glass, while 21 of Jeff Foote’s 57 rebounds have also come on the offensive end.
• Senior Louis Dale has 16 steals in seven games, twice as many as any other player on the team.
• Senior Jeff Foote has 12 blocked shots, four times more than any other player on the Big Red.
• In Cornell’s five wins this season, Mark Coury has made 11-of-13 shots from the floor (.846), while Geoff Reeves has hit 17-of-28 shots (.607).
• During Cornell’s three-game win streak, senior Louis Dale has 14 assists and just five turnovers.
TEAM NOTES
• Cornell has scored at least 70 points in five of seven contests.
• Since shooting 50 percent in the season-opening win over Alabama, the Big Red has hit on just 43 percent of its field goals despite going 4-2 over that stretch.
• The Big Red has held opponents under 60 points in each of its last two games.
• Cornell has a positive assist:turnover ratio in six of its seven games this season.
• The team has hit 23 more 3-pointers this season than its opponents and has 26 more assists.
• Its .760 free-throw percentage, if maintained, would be just off the school record 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 .436 shooting overall and .329 from the arc.
• One area Cornell will look to for improvement will be keeping its opponent off the foul line. The Big Red has committed at least 18 fouls in six of seven games and has averaged 20.1 per game. Those fouls have sent its opponents to the line an average of 24.6 times per game. Cornell’s foes have attempted 47 more free throws over the first seven contests.
• The Big Red has hit more 3-pointers than its opponent in all seven games.
NEXT UP
• Cornell returns home on Sunday, Dec. 6 when it meets Saint Joseph’s at 2 p.m. at Newman Arena. The Hawks captured a 71-67 victory a season ago at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pa.
• Cornell will the have a two week break before returning to action in the ECAC Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden. The Big Red will face Davidson on Sunday, Dec. 20 at noon at Madison Square Garden, then will meet either St. John’s or Hofstra in the finale.
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