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ITHACA, N.Y. -- On senior day, the junior backcourt of
Drew Ferry and
Chris Wroblewski made sure the Big Red's three seniors would go out with a win as Cornell knocked off Yale 68-55 on Saturday evening at Newman Arena. The Big Red end its season on a season-long three-game win streak and finish with a 10-18 overeall record (6-8 Ivy). Yale ended its season with a 15-13 mark (8-6 Ivy).
Ferry scored a team-high 15 points and Wroblewski notched 11 points to go along with seven rebounds and six assists as the Big Red controlled the game throughout. Cornell outrebounded the bigger Bulldogs 38-33 and limited the visitors to 35 percent shooting overall and 13 percent from 3-point range (2-of-15).
Anthony Gatlin added 10 points in just 14 minutes of action.
Cornell's three seniors,
Mark Coury,
Aaron Osgood and
Adam Wire, were honored in a pregame ceremony. Coury and Wire were in the starting lineup, while Osgood made a cameo appearance to get his name in the box score in the final minute. He had missed the previous nine contests due to a knee injury. Coury ended the night with eight points, five rebounds and three assists, while Wire notched seven points, six rebounds and two blocked shots.
The Big Red played without second leading scorer
Errick Peck, who missed the game due to a death in the family.
Greg Mangano scored 18 points and grabbed five rebounds to lead the Bulldogs, but Yale's attack outside of the 6-10 conference player of the year candidate struggled. Austin Morgan scored 11 points, while top freshman Jeremiah Kreisberg had nine points and eight rebounds.
The Big Red jumped out to an 11-3 lead, trailed twice in the first half for a total of 48 seconds and led from wire-to-wire after the break. The lead grew to as many as 13 points in the final 20 minutes before Yale cut it to five with just over eight minutes left. Unlike the first meeting, where Cornell surrendered a 10-point lead in the final two minutes, the Big Red made key plays down the stretch, including hitting all four free throws, two by Coury and two by Wroblewski, to seal the win.
