ITHACA, N.Y. -- Brown placed five players in double figures, shot 50 percent from 3-point range and held Cornell at bay from beyond the arc in collecting an 81-70 win on Friday evening at Newman Arena. The Bears improved to 11-10 (2-3 Ivy), while the Big Red slipped to 6-14 (2-3 Ivy).

Senior guard Tavon Blackmon scored a game-high 17 points for the Bears, who hit 10-of-20 shots from deep. Brandon Anderson had 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and four steals, Obi Okolie had 13, Steven Spieth notched 11 points and six rebounds and Joshua Howard checked in with 10 points and 11 boards. Brown shot 48 percent overall, outrebounded Cornell 34-28 and controlled much of the game's final 30 minutes. 

Cornell junior Wil Bathurst scored 13 points and grabbed four rebounds, while both Matt Morgan and Troy Whiteside scored 10 apiece. The Big Red shot 49 percent overall, but was just 6-of-21 from 3-point range overall and 1-of-10 in the first half. Stone Gettings chipped in eight points, four assists and four blocked shots and Robert Hatter and Josh Warren scored seven points each.

The game was a back-and-forth affair for the first 12 minutes until a 9-0 Brown run gave the visitors the lead for good. Corey Daugherty, Joshua Howard and Tavon Blackmon all hit treys, and after Josh Warren broke the run with a Cornell layup, Blackmon hit another 3-pointer to push the Bears' lead to 28-18. Brown took a 35-26 edge into the break.

Cornell made an early push out of the locker room, with eight quick points by Gettings getting the Big Red within four (41-37) two minutes into the second half. Five minutes later it was still a five-point game (49-44) after a Jack Gordon 3-pointer, but 13-3 spurt by the Bears all but put the game on ice. Cornell cut the 15-point lead to single digits twice in the final five minutes, but never got closer than nine points the rest of the way.

NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has had at least three double figure scorers in 18 of its 20 contests this season.
• With six 3-pointers on the night, Cornell has now hit at least one trey in 792 consecutive games dating back to 1988.
• Sophomore Matt Morgan has reached double figures in scoring in 35 of his last 36 games.
• Cornell has posted a positive assist:turnover ratio in 10 of its last 12 games, including this one (16 assists, 11 turnovers).
• The Big Red's six blocked shots matched a season high, though it didn't have a steal in the game - the first time with zero steals since a 2007 home game against Penn.

NEXT UP
• Cornell welcomes reigning Ivy League champion Yale to Newman Arena tomorrow at 6 p.m.
• The two teams have split 220 all-time meetings right down the middle