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Bryan Knapp attempts a jump shot against Lafayette on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019 in Newman Arena in Ithaca, NY.
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Beyond The Box Score: Lafayette Game

12/9/2019 1:00:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Here are some notes from Saturday's 62-50 loss to Lafayette.
 

Individuals 

  • Jimmy Boeheim connected on 13-of-22 field goals against Lafayette for 27 points, his third 20-point in the team's last four outings.
    The 13 field goals was one off his career high of 14 set last season against Robert Morris in the 2019 CIT game.
  • He joins Matt Morgan (two times) and Mike Davis (four times) as the lone Cornell players in have multiple games with at least 13 made field goals since 1975.
  • The 22 field goals attempted is the most by a Cornell player since Matt Morgan took 22 shots at Harvard in 2018.
  • Boeheim posted the eighth game in more than 40 years to record at least 27 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals in a contest with Matt Morgan last achieving it against Binghamton in 2018 (38 points, 13 rebounds, three assists, four steals).
  • Bryan Knapp's two steals tied a career high.
     

Team 

  • The three turnovers tied a Cornell record for fewest in a single game, matching three in contests against SMU (Dec. 30, 1980) and Penn (March 5, 1983).
  • Strangely, all three were losses (67-42 vs. SMU, 55-51 at Penn).
  • The three turnovers were the fewest ever in a game at Newman Arena. 
  • Cornell posted a 4.00 assist:turnover ratio, its highest in a game since posting a 6.75 ratio in a 2015 win over Alfred State (27:4) and its highest in a Division I game since posting a 4.00 mark in a 2010 home win over Yale (20:5).
  • Cornell's .143 percentage from 3-point range was its lowest since hitting 4-of-28 shots for .143 in a 2018 home loss to Colgate.
  • The Big Red had nine steals, its fourth contest of the year with at least nine. Cornell had just five such games all of last season.
  • Cornell has now lost four games by three points or less in the span of a month for the first time since the winter of 1981 when it dropped contests at Columbia (46-45), at Harvard (71-69 in OT), vs. Princeton (46-44) and at Brown (43-42) from Jan. 23-Feb. 13.

     
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