TOLEDO, Ohio -- Toledo used a 24-4 first half run to erase an early deficit, then hit key shots throughout the night to top Cornell 86-70 on Wednesday evening at Savage Arena to improve to 11-1 on the season. The Big Red fell to 5-6 on the season despite big games from Matt Morgan and Josh Warren.
 
Morgan scored 24 points, moving into seventh place on the Ivy League's career scoring list in the process. He connected on all 10 of his free-throw attempts, the eighth-most free throws without a miss in school history. Warren was active all night, ending up with 14 points, seven rebounds, six assists, two blocked shots and a steal in the loss. Jimmy Boeheim chipped in eight points for the Big Red. Overall, Cornell hit all 12 of its free-throw attempts, the eighth-most makes without a miss in a game in school history. Cornell shot just 3-of-14 (21 percent) from 3-point range after halftime.
 
Jaelan Sanford had a game-high 29 points and added five rebounds and five assists for the Rockets, while Nate Navigato scored 17 and Chris Darrington had 10. Willie Jackson narrowly missed a double-double with eight points and 10 rebounds and AJ Edu was credited with seven points, six rebounds and five blocked shots. The win was the ninth straight for Toledo, who hit 24-o-26 free throws themselves and dominated the backboards with a 44-22 edge, leading them to a 15-3 edge in second chance points.
 
Toledo led by nine points at the break (48-39), using the big run to erase an early 19-8 Cornell lead after the last of six consecutive points by Boeheim. Cornell stretched the lead back to eight momentarily at 23-15 after four straight points by Morgan, and then again at 25-17 on another Boeheim bucket with 10:09 left. Then Toledo answered.
 
Sanford triggered a 15-0 Toledo run with a pair of free throws, and his layup with 7:30 remaining before halftime put the home team in the lead for the first time since hitting a 3-pointer on the game's first possession. Toledo extended the lead to as many as 13 before Cornell battled back to nine after 20 minutes. Morgan had 14 points in the first half, Boeheim had eight and Warren notched seven points, five rebounds, four assists and a pair of blocked shots in the first half for the Big Red.
 
Cornell briefly clawed within four at 51-47 early in the second half with Morgan hitting a 3-pointer, Warren completing a three-point play and Terrance McBride getting in the lane for a pull-up that went down two minutes into the second half. It wouldn't get any closer than that, as Sanford drove the lane for a bucket and hit two of his nine free throws without a miss for push it back to eight. Cornell's offense grinded to a halt, going scoreless for 3:40 as Toledo built a double-figure lead. The Big Red never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.

NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red's 12-of-12 effort from the free-throw line is the eighth-most attempts without a miss in school history and is the best effort by a Cornell team since connecting on a record 20 successful attempts against Harvard during the 2016-17 campaign.
• Matt Morgan's 24 points pushed him past Harvard's Joe Carabino (1,880 points) for seventh on the Ivy League's all-time list - he ended the night with 1,900.
• Morgan reached double figures for his 62nd straight contest, extending his own school record.
• He was 10-of-10 from the free-throw line - a career-best and the eighth-most made charity shots in a game without a miss in Cornell history.
• Cornell's bench outscored Toledo 23-21, its 15th straight game outscoring the opposing reserves.
• The Big Red was outrebounded by 22, the most it has been outrebounded in a game since Yale held a 56-22 edge on the road during the 2015-16 campaign.
Josh Warren became the third Cornell player to score at least 14 points, grab six rebounds, dish six assists, block two shots and steal a pass in school history - Matt Morgan at Columbia in 2017 and Mike Lucas vs. Colgate in 1978.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will close out its pre-Christmas schedule when it visits Southern Methodist on Saturday, Dec. 22 at 7 p.m. CT in Dallas, Texas.
• It will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.