The numbers:11-15 overall, 6-6 Ivy, 235th RPI, 251st Sagarin, 278th Pomeroy
The recent results: won 68-64 vs. Yale (2/24), lost 69-64 vs. Brown (2/25)
The upcoming schedule: at Harvard (3/3), at Dartmouth (3/4)

Three-point worm turns
The Big Red had been one of the top three-point shooting teams in the league the first 19 games of the season at 38.1 percent. But in its last seven games, Cornell has shot just 41 of 130 (31.5 percent) from the arc. Freshman phenom Adam Gore has hit only 6 of his last 27 three-point attempts (22.2 percent), Lenny Collins is 7 of his last 32 (21.9 percent) and Graham Dow is 3 of 12 in the last seven games. Meanwhile, after holding opponents to 30.0-percent three-point shooting in the first 22 games, the Big Red was lit up from distance the past two weekends. Princeton, Penn, Yale, and Brown combined to shoot 31 of 82 (37.8 percent) from three-point range as the Big Red lost three of four.

Seniors go out on down note
The disappointing Senior Night loss to a Brown team the Big Red had already defeated in Providence was a sadly fitting way for the Cornell seniors to go out. Collins and Ryan Rourke are two of the more talented forwards in the league, but both players have struggled through disappointing senior campaigns. A First Team All-Ivy selection a year ago, Collins was one of the preseason Player of the Year favorites, but saw his numbers go down across the board, with the singular exception of assists. His shooting plummeted from 44.8 percent as a junior to 34.4 percent, and his three-point percentage dropped from 40.9 percent last year to 35.0 percent this season. Rourke shot the ball slightly better this year (41.2 percent overall, up from 36.8 percent last year), but never did put up the numbers he was capable of producing. The JuCo transfer had a miserable 10-game stretch early on this year where he failed to reach double figures in scoring.

Donahue expands rotation again
After watching his team nearly cough up an 18-point second half lead at Brown, Steve Donahue played just eight players against Yale and Princeton. But the night after the double-overtime loss to the Tigers, Donahue’s rotation was back to 10 deep. Despite sixth man Jason Hartford’s injury-plagued season, the Cornell bench has accounted for more than a quarter of the team’s scoring, chipping in 429 of the Big Red’s 1,627 points (26.4 percent).

Hartford loves playing Yale
Jason Hartford had two of his better performances on the season in the two games against Yale. The junior dropped a season-high 21 points on the Bulldogs in New Haven, then scored nine critical points during Cornell’s decisive second-half run in the rematch in Ithaca. Hartford shot 11 of 13 (84.6 percent) from the field in the two games and is shooting 55.5 percent from the field on the season.

Odds and ends
After a rough first five games in the league in which he averaged 3.4 points and 6.4 rebounds and shot just 6 of 21 (28.5 percent), Andrew Naeve is averaging 8.4 points and 8.3 rebounds and shooting 23 of 41 (56.1 percent) in the last seven Ivy contests… Ugo Iheakweazu might want to think about taking more shots. The sophomore transfer has connected on a team-best 61.4 percent of his field goal attempts this season… Freshman guard Jason Battle is shooting 14 of 26 (53.8 percent) on the season, but hasn’t attempted a three-pointer… Cornell’s starting backcourt of Dow and Gore have just 13 combined offensive rebounds on the season.