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ITHACA, N.Y. -- After a listless first half, the Cornell men's basketball team pulled away by scoring the first 13 points of the second half and cruised to a 78-60 victory over Division III Albright on Saturday afternoon at Newman Arena. The win snapped a five-game skid for the Big Red, who improved to 5-9. Albright fell to 9-4 with the defeat.

Drew Ferry scored a team-high 16 points and added four rebounds and three steals, while Chris Wroblewski added 11 points and six assists and Shonn Miller notched 10 points, seven rebounds and blocked a career high five shots in the victory. Cornell shot 48 percent from the floor overal land connected on 10-of-22 from 3-point range while assisting on 22 baskets. The Big Red defense also limited the Lions to 34 percent shooting overall, including a 1-of-15 effort from beyond the arc (seven percent).




Derek Hall had 15 points and a game-high 13 rebounds to lead Albright, while Dave Singleton scored 13 points for the Lions. Albright held a decisivie 45-34 edge on the glass.

Albright scored the game's first four points and led for much of the first 13 minutes of the game behind Hall, who scored six early points, and Kyle Jordan, whose dunk five minutes into the game woke up the Big Red, giving the Lions a five-point lead at 14-9. Cornell got a couple of baskets, including a banked in 3-pointer, from junior Peter McMillan to keep Cornell hanging around, and a coast-to-coast layup by Johnathan Gray squared the game at 14-14 with 12 minutes left on the clock in the first half.

A pair of quick hitters for Albright put the visitors back up four, but a pair of baskets by Dave LaMore and another by Nenad Tomic put the Big Red back into the lead. In all, Cornell posted a 10-0 run over the span of 7:12 that turned a four-point deficit into a six-point lead. All 10 of those points were scored by Cornell freshmen. A Dave Singleton layup with four ticks left on the clock before halftime got Albright back to within six at the break (32-26).

The Big Red defense picked up the offense early in the second half, with Cornell forcing the Lions to miss their first eight shots and turn the ball over four times in the first six minutes of the second half as part of a 13-0 run. A backdoor layup from LaMore to Ferry capped the run, which also featured an acrobatic finish in the lane by Devin Cherry, a 3-pointer by Wroblewski and a great find from Miller to Eitan Chemerinski for a basket. Cornell led 45-26 with 15:17 to play and never led by fewer than 15 the rest of the way, extending the advantage to as many as 25. The Big Red was able to play its freshmen for much of the second half, including have four rookies on the court at the same time for much of the stretch run.

The Big Red will open Ivy League play when defending Ancient Eight champion Princeton visits Newman Arena on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m.