Cornell Big Red

Only five Division I teams scored more than the Big Red’s 88.46 points a game in 2025-26, and only ten allowed more than their 83.39. At home, Cornell covered two spreads in nine.

Points at both ends

A Cornell game in 2025-26 was a scoring game. The Big Red averaged 88.46 points, sixth in Division I, and gave up 83.39, a figure only ten teams in the country exceeded. Their 28 games produced 14 overs and 12 unders in the 26 with a total.

Home spreads

The Big Red went 7-4 at home and covered 2 of 9 lined home games. That 22.2% sits 355th of 365, with ten programs below it. Three home defeats came as clear favorites: 102-91 to Dartmouth at -485, 91-81 to Penn at -345 and 73-54 to Harvard at -218.

On the road they were 8-8 and covered 8 of 15, 53.3%, and the 16 road moneylines lost 3.08 units against 1.21 lost on the nine at home.

Favorite or underdog

Favored 16 times, Cornell won 11 and covered seven, and the favorite moneylines finished close to flat, 0.18 units down. As underdogs it won twice in ten and covered three, one of the lowest underdog cover rates in Division I: 345 teams were higher. The two underdog wins were 72-69 over Yale at +185 and 86-79 at Harvard at +105.

A unit on all 26 priced games lost 5.28; December, a 1-4 month, took 3.65 of it. February, 4-2 and 1.5 units up, was the only month in profit, and November’s 5-2 start came with one cover in five spreads.

Ivy League opponents

Yale met Cornell three times and won twice, the second in the Ivy League tournament semifinal. Princeton lost both meetings and Cornell covered both. Penn won both and covered both.

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