Box Score | Game Highlights

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Big Red women's basketball team jumped out to a 9-0 lead and never looked back, leading wire-to-wire to rout Brown 78-53, this evening at the Pizzitola Center in Providence, R.I. With the win, Cornell improves to 13-11 overall and evens its Ivy League record at 5-5.

Freshman forward Nia Marshall led four Big Red players in double-figures with a game-high 16 points on an 8-for10 performance from the floor. Senior forward Allyson DiMagno registered 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds, while Shelby Lyman (13) and Kerri Moran (12) both hit double-digits and handed out seven assists apiece.

Brown (8-16, 2-8) was led by Sophie Bikofsky and Natalie Ball with 11 points each, while and Elise Sharpe finished with 10. KJ Veldman had a game-high eight rebounds.

Cornell was outstanding on offense, assisting on 22-of-28 baskets and connecting on a blistering 55 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3-point range. Defensively, the Big Red held the Bears to just 23 percent overall and 18 percent from beyond the arc. Cornell also harassed Brown into 13 turnovers to hold a 17-4 advantage in points off of turnovers. The Big Red had just eight turnovers on offense.

Both teams pulled down 33 rebounds. Brown was better on the offensive glass, with 15 to Cornell's seven, but managed to score just 11 second-chance points, while Cornell made the most of its offensive rebounds with eight points.

The Big Red had its inside-outside game working early on as Lyman nailed a trey to open the game before Marshall connected on back-to-back layups. Stephanie Long then hit a jumper to make it 9-0 at the 17:03 mark.

Rebecca Musgrove ended the Brown drought but another 3-pointer by Lyamn handed Cornell a double-digit lead. Aspen Chandler drilled a trey at the 12-minute mark to make it a 13-point advantage (17-4), but a 10-4 run by the home team made it a 21-14 game with 9:35 to go in the half.

The teams traded baskets and Brown made it a six-point game on two occasions but a pair of made free throws by DiMagno sparked an 11-5 run to close the half with a 39-26 lead.

After trading baskets early in the second half, the Big Red steadily began to build its lead, using a small 6-2 run which included four points from DiMagno to go up 49-32 with 14:35 to play. Just over two minutes later, a jumper from Lyman and a trey from Megan LeDuc put the Big Red up by 21 points.

Cornell eventually went up by as many as 28 points before a 3-pointer by Emily Dinger hit a 3-pointer with 21 seconds to play to account for the 78-53 final.

The Big Red will play its final home games of the season and honor the five members of the Class of 2014 when it welcomes Harvard and Dartmouth on Friday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, March 1, respectively. The game with the Crimson will tip-off at 7 p.m., while the game with the Big Green will begin at 6 p.m., following a Senior Day ceremony.