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ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the second time this Ivy League season, the Cornell men's basketball hit 16 3-pointers and put six scorers in double figures, shooting 57 percent from the floor overall en route to a 96-76 win over Dartmouth on Saturday evening at Newman Arena. The win improved the Big Red to 7-17 (3-7 Ivy), while the Big Green fell to 5-19 (1-9 Ivy).

Sophomore Errick Peck had a career-high 22 points, classmate Johnathan Gray posted his first career double-double (10 points, 11 rebounds) and junior Chris Wroblewski narrowly missed his second of the season (19 points, nine assists) as Cornell took control early and never let its foot off the pedal in a fast-paced effort. Four different players (Wroblewski, Peck, Max Groebe and Drew Ferry) each hit at least three 3-pointers as the team connected on 16-of-29 shots from beyond the arc (.552) as a group. Both Groebe and Ferry had 14 points each, while freshman Jake Matthews scored a career-high 10 points, including eight in the first half.

Dartmouth shot 54 percent from the floor and made 7-of-14 from 3-point range, but couldn't overcome its 17 turnovers or the Big Red's hot shooting. R.J. Griffin led the team with 18 points and five rebounds, while Tyler Melville and Ronnie Dixon each had 11. Jabari Trotter rounded out the Big Green's four double figure scorers with 10 points.

Cornell's 16 3-pointers ties the season mark set on Feb. 4 at Brown and matches the third-highest single game total in school history. Groebe, Ferry and Peck each hit four, with Wroblewski hitting three. Matthews also banked in a trey.

Dartmouth led early 6-2, but Cornell regained the lead for goof on a three-point play by Peck to make it 12-9 five minutes in. Dartmouth knotted the game at 14-14, but a 3-pointer by Wroblewski with 11:30 on the clock put the home team up for good. The first half lead grew to 10 on the third of three consecutive 3-pointers by Ferry to make it 33-23. Matthews banked in his trey off a feed from Wroblewski shortly after to push the advantage to 41-27, but the visitors were able to cut the deficit in half on five quick points by Melville and a basket underneath by Clive Weeden. Wroblewski ended the half in style for the home team, rattling in a jumper and then knocking in a 3-pointer to send the Big Red into the break with a 49-37 advantage.

Cornell had little trouble scoring in the second half, building the lead to as many as 25 after Dartmouth sliced the deficit to nine with 11:43 left on a pair of Weeden free throws. Gray scored five points in three seconds on a three-point play, then a steal and layup on an inbounds pass to ignite the crowd and put the game on ice (85-65) with under eight minutes left. The Big Red sat at 94 points with more than four minutes to play, but substituted liberally down the stretch and held the ball for the last two possessions.

The Big Red will take the treacherous Princeton-Penn road trip starting next Friday, Feb. 24, when it meets the Tigers, who dropped out of first place by percentage points with its loss at Brown on Saturday.