ITHACA, N.Y. – The Big Red women's basketball team dominated every aspect of the game, leading wire-to-wire in a 94-59 rout of Delaware State this evening in Newman Arena. Cornell's 94 points are the most ever in regulation, besting the team's 92-point performance vs. Tennessee State during the 2009-10 season, and second only to the 99 points scored by the Big Red in an overtime loss to Harvard on March 3, 1995.
 
Three Big Red players finished in double-digits, with Caitlyn Smith and Samantha Widmann scoring 16 points apiece, while Laura Bagwell-Katalinich chipped in 14. The 16 points were a career-high for Smith, who played a career-high 29 minutes and handed out four assists. Widmann finished with a team-high six rebounds and had three steals, all of which came in the first quarter as Cornell built an insurmountable lead. In her first career start, Kate Sramac finished with seven points, three steals and two assists.
 
Cornell got contributions up and down the line-up, as every healthy player saw the court, and 49 Big Red points came from the bench.
 
Delaware State (2-6) was led by NaJai Pollard's 21 points, while Lanayjha Ashe finished with 12.
 
Cornell (3-5) shot a season-high .561 from the floor (32-57), thanks to 42 points in the paint, while hitting .467 from 3-point range (7-15). Defensively, the team held DSU to just .358 overall (19-53) and a mere .083 from beyond the arc (1-12). The Big Red had a huge edge in rebounds (44-27), and used nine steals to hold a 28-16 advantage in points off turnovers.  
 
Coming off a 14-day study break, Cornell showed no sign of rust, scoring the first 10 points of the contest and forcing Delaware State into 11 turnovers in the first quarter alone as the home team built a 31-14 lead at the first break. The 31 points in a single quarter are the most ever for the Big Red, with the previous record of 29 being set vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) during the 2016-17 campaign.
 
The Big Red eventually pushed its lead to 25 points (44-19) on a layup from Halley Miklos midway through the second quarter and took a 49-30 advantage into halftime.
 
DSU never got any closer than 19 points after halftime and Cornell's largest lead came on its last bucket, as Samantha Clement knocked down a trey to account for the 94-59 final.
 
The Big Red hits the road for the final time in 2018 when it travels to Easton, Pa., to take on Lafayette at noon on Thursday, Dec. 20.