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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cornell put six players in double figures to hand head coach Bill Courtney his first Ivy League win, a 91-79 victory over Brown on Saturday evening at the Pizzitola Sports Center. The Big Red improved to 5-15 (1-5 Ivy), while the Bears slipped to 8-12 (1-5 Ivy).
Cornell continued to make the Pizzitola Sports Center its home away from home, hitting 16 3-pointers, outrebounding the home team by 12 (42-30) and holding a commanding 64-16 edge in bench scoring to snap a five-game skid. Drew Ferry scored 20 points, while both Johnathan Gray and Chris Wroblewski posted 13 points. Wroblewski added five rebounds and five assists to his totals. Both Max Groebe and Errick Peck also scored 11 points apiece and combined for 10 rebounds, while Mark Coury scored 10 points, grabbed nine rebounds, blocked two shots and stole a pass in 18 productive minutes off the bench.
Brown got a 26-point, nine-rebound, five-assist effort from Tucker Halpen as the Bears hit 11 3-pointers of their own. The home team was credited with 21 assists and committed just eight turnovers in the loss.
Unlike Friday night's loss at Yale, the Big Red was able to close out the game by executing in the final minutes. Cornell took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Gray, the first of two consecutive treys by the sophomore, to trigger a 12-2 run. An offensive rebound by Coury ended wuth a Groebe layup, and the senior center then got underneath for a dunk on a feed by Wire to put Cornell up nine (70-61) with 8:32 to play. Brown was able to sneak back to within four points on two occasions, the last with 3:17 to play, but the Big Red made 10-of-12 shots from the stripe in the final 1:23 to earn the win.
A year after making an Ivy record 20 3-pointers in the Ancient Eight-title clinching victory in Providence, Cornell hit nine 3-pointers in the first half en route to a 43-42 lead. Peck hit all three of his efforts from beyond the arc for 11 points, while Ferry hit two toward his eight points. For the second straight night, the Big Red bench came up big, outscoring Brown 27-6.
The first half saw 13 lead changes and four ties in large part due to Brown's Halpern. The sophomore hit three 3-pointers of his own and scored 15 points with five rebounds and three assists in 16 productive minutes for the Bears. McGonagil, coming off a 39-point effort in Friday's win over columbia, scored six points for Brown, but did so on just 2-of-8 shooting from the floor.
The Big Red returns home to play host to Penn on Friday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena, before Princeton comes to town the following day.
