Cornell University Athletics

* Men's Basketball History/Individual Honors (PDF)
* All-Time Letter Winners (PDF)
* Year-by-Year Leaders (PDF)  
* Year-by-Year Stats (PDF) 
* Team Game Records (PDF)
* Team Season Records (PDF)
* Individual Game Records (PDF)
* Individual Season Records (PDF) 
* Individual Career Records (PDF) 
* Season Stats - Since 1946-47
* Men's Basketball vs. All Opponents (PDF) 
* All-Time Results (PDF)
* All-Time Player Stats - Since 1946-47 (PDF)  

1899-00
Cornell plays and wins their first home game in a close 22-11 contest against Hamilton.

1907-08
Walter Haggety becomes the first Cornell men's basketball coach as the team begins the season with two straight victories

1908-09
Cornell has its first winning season as a program going 13-10 under second year head coach Walter Haggety. Crosby is also Cornell's first first-team all IEBL

1910-1911
Cornell dominated a visiting Tufts team, winning 68-8. The 60-point win is still the largest margin of victory in team history.

1913-14
Backed by All-Americans George Halstead (1913), Gil Halstead (1914) and Walter Lunden (1914) Cornell wins the first of back to back Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League (EIBL) championships in coach Albert Sharpe's first two seasons.  

1920-21
On February 12, Penn came up to Cornell with an undefeated 16-0 record, and were beaten in a nailbiter 20-19 for what would be one of two losses on the season for the eventual national champions

1923-24
After successful 13-8 campaign and third IEBL championship, Cornell puts a school record three players on the 1924 All-League team, with Dake, Capron and Byron all garnering honors

1935-36
Howard Ortner retires as coach, leaving with the most victories and winning seasons in Cornell men's basketball history with 159 wins and 7 winning seasons in 17 years.

1939-40
Cornell defeats defending national champion runner up Ohio State 29-28 in Columbus, one of only three home losses for the 13-7 Buckeyes.  

1940-41
The Cornell men's basketball team acts as ambassadors, traveling to Havana, Cuba to play a series of games. The team goes 3-0 in Havana beating the Cubans by scores of 40-35, 42-24 and 43-19.

1948-49
Hillary Chollet sets a school record of 37 points and a national collegiate record of 19 foul shots on February 23 in a 58-70 loss at the hands of Syracuse.

1949-50
Cornell loses to Ohio State 42-43 with Paul Gerwin's 13 points leading the Big Red while they were forced to play without second leading scorer Walter Ashbaugh who was out with an injury.  The Buckeyes would go on to finish ranked second in the final AP poll of the season.

1950-51
The Big Red win a school record 20 games while only losing to three different teams.  First team all-Ivy League selection and senior co-captain Paul Gerwin led the team, averaging 13.4 points, 4.8 assists and 8.6 rebounds per game in 25 games for the Big Red.

1953-54
Cornell had its 3rd IEBL title in its grasp, only having to beat Princeton in the final game of the regular season.  The Big Red however lost the game and were forced to play in a one game playoff the next day.  Fortunately coach Royner Greene was able to rally his team to a 46-44 victory.  The win gave Cornell its first NCAA tournament appearance.  Unfortunately Cornell lost both tournament games, falling to Navy 69-67 and 10th ranked N.C. State 65-54.

1956-57
Cornell earns first Ivy League win with a victory over Brown at home, 82-50.

1958-59
Coach Royner Greene retires with a Cornell record 168 victories, 1 conference championship, and 6 winning seasons in 13 years at the helm of Cornell basketball

1964-65
With a Barton Hall record 9,000 fans in attendance Blaine Aston launched a 17 foot jumper with just 3 seconds left to overcome 40 points from Bill Bradley as the Big Red beat Princeton 70-69.  It would be the Tigers last defeat until they lost to Michigan in the Final Four.  Cornell was led by first team all-Ivy performers Robert DeLuca and Stephen Cram with 18 points a piece.

1965-66
The Cornell Big Red went 15-9 finishing second in the Ivy league for the second straight season, topping the century mark four times, including scoring a school record 116 points against Colgate on December 4, with Stephen Cram pacing 6 Big Red in double figures with 26 points.

1966-67
Cornell used a career high 37 points from Greg Morris to topple Adolph Rupp and Kentucky Wildcats on December 28 in Lexington Kentucky 92-77. It was a loss which came 'as a shock' to the Baron of the Bluegrass as the Wildcats didn't lead at all during the game.In February, Princeton came into town ranked third in the nation with a record of 20-1 and first place in the Ivy League up for grabs.  Cornell would drop that record to 20-2 with their 10th straight win of the season, a 62-56 over the Tigers.  Once again it was Blaine Aston who gave the Big Red the lead for good with just under 3:00 minutes remaining.

1967-68
Sam MacNeil ends his nine year run as Cornell's head coach with a 75-69 victory at Penn in the final game of the season. MacNeil ranks third all time in victories with 139, and he finished with a winning record in eight of his nine seasons at the helm. Gregg Morris graduates as the Big Red's third all-time leading scorer. Morris averaged 15.7 points per game for his career. 

1979-80
Mike Davis graduates as Cornell's all-time leader in career scoring average with 18.7 points per game, and the all-time leader in career field goals made (569)and field goals attempted (1,296).

1984-85
Senior captain Ken Bantum becomes the first Cornell player ever to be named Ivy League Player of the Year. Bantum graduated as Cornell's all-time scoring leader (1,411 points), all-time field goal percentage leader (.622), and also held records for the most career free throw attempts (617) and most career starts (100).

1987-88
With an 11-3 conference record, the Big Red won the Ivy League championship and gained an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1954. Cornell faced a Final Four-bound Arizona team led by future NBA players Steve Kerr and Sean Elliott in the tournament, falling to a 90-50 defeat. 

1989-90
The Big Red beat Army 96-70 on January 6 in the first game played in Newman Arena. The win started a six-game home win streak for the Big Red on their new home court.  

1992-93
On December 30, Cornell upsets No. 19 California, 74-54, at the Meadowlands. California's roster included two future NBA players in Jason Kidd and Lamond Murray. 

1998-99
Cornell senior Jeffrion Aubry graduates as the Big Red's career leader in blocked shots with 187. Aubry finished his career with three of the top five blocked shot totals in team history. 

2000-01
Current Big Red head coach Steve Donahue earns his first win on November 29, leading Cornell to a 91-81 OT victory at Army. Donahue has steadily improved the team's record since joining Cornell before the 2000-2001 season, including an above .500 record the past two seasons and a birth in the NCAA tournament in 2008.

2003-04
Cody Toppert finishes the season with 77 3-point field goals made, good for second all-time in a single season at Cornell. Toppert would go on to graduate the following season as the all-time leader in 3-point field goals made in a career. 

2006-07
In its season opening game on the road, Cornell beat Northwestern 64-61. Adam Gore led the Big Red with 20 points. The win marked the first time in nearly 40 years that a Big Red team defeated a member of the Big Ten since beating Ohio State 76-64 in 1968.

2007-08
Cornell won its first outright Ivy League title in 20 years, becoming the 13th team to run through conference play unbeaten (14-0) and set a school record for overall wins (22). The Big Red also ran off a school-record 16-game win streak. Louis Dale was named Ivy League Player of the Year and joined Ryan Wittman as a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy First Team. Jeff Foote and Adam Gore were named to the All-Ivy Second Team. In front of a sold-out Newman Arena crowd, Cornell became the first Division I men's team to clinch a berth in the 2007-08 NCAA tournament with an 86-53 victory over Harvard. The Big Red went on to play Stanford in the NCAA tournament, losing by a score of 73-53 to the Cardinals. 

2008-09
Cornell became the first Ivy League school other than Penn or Princeton to claim consecutive Ioutright Ivy League titles, going 21-10 (11-3 Ivy). The Big Red became the first team in the country to clinch a berth to the national tournament for the second straight year, setting records for points (2,281) and 3-pointers (241) along the way. Ryan Wittman was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection and earned a spot on the NABC all-district team, while Louis Dale was also a first-team All-Ivy pick and second-team all-district honoree. Jeff Foote was awarded the league's inaugural Defensive Player of the Year honor, was placed on the All-Ivy second-team for the second straight year and was a second-team NABC all-district pick. Chris Wroblewski became the third Cornell player in four years to capture the league's Rookie of the Year honor. Cornell fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 3 seed Missouri, the Big 12 tournament champions, by a 78-59 score.