ITHACA, N.Y. -- Senior Matt Morgan set a Cornell Newman Arena record with 35 points, but Yale controlled the backboards and had three players surpass 20 points to hold off the Big Red 98-92 on Saturday evening. The Bulldogs improved to 17-4 (7-1 Ivy), while the home team fell to 13-11 (5-3 Ivy).

Morgan was sensational all evening, hitting 10-of-18 shots from the floor with five 3-pointers and was a perfect 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. He added six rebounds, three steals and two assists. The 35 points is tied for the 17th-most in a game in Cornell history and his five 3-pointers give him 87 on the season - a career high and the fourth-most in a season in school history.

Sophomore Jimmy Boeheim had a career-best 24 points and senior Jack Gordon just missed his career best with 15 as Cornell shot 53 percent from the floor and 46 percent from beyond the arc with 10 treys made. Josh Warren chipped in seven points, six rebounds and six assists and Steven Julian had three points, five boards, four blocks and three assists. The Big Red erased a seven-point halftime deficit to go up as many as six after the break, but Yale's 54-37 scoring edge in the paint and 38-27 edge on the backboards allowed the Bulldogs to wear down the Big Red.

Paul Atkinson came off the bench for Yale to scored 23 points with 10 rebounds, including five on the offensive glass, while Jordan Bruner chipped in 22 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Miye Oni rounded out the three 20-point scorers with 20 to go along with seven rebounds, six assists, two steals and two blocks in the victory. Yale shot 53 percent from the floor, connected on 9-of-20 3-pointers and turned the ball over just nine times with 20 assists. The Bulldogs had 15 offensive boards in the win, allowing the visitors take 11 more shots than the home team.

GAME FLOW
• The Big Red raced out to an 8-0 lead over the first 1:43 before the Bulldogs called a timeout to settle down and immediately went on a 12-3 run to take its first lead of the game a little more than two minutes later.
• Cornell, behind the strength of more than 3,000 boisterous fans on Staff Appreciation Day, held Yale within striking distance until late in the half when the Bulldogs pulled ahead by 10 (43-33).
• Morgan scored five straight, but a Trey Phills basket at the horn sent the visitors into the  break leading 45-38.
• A 3-pointer by Morgan, followed by two free throws, caught Cornell up at 47-47 with 17:25 remaining in regulation, and a 15-4 Big Red run gave Cornell its biggest lead of the night since the opening minutes at six (57-51) just under five minutes into the second half.
• The lead traded hands with Yale in control, though Cornell made its last charge by getting within four numerous times, the last on a Jack Gordon driving basket with 4:10 to play to make it 82-78.
• Yale went back up by as many as 10 and watched the Big Red continue to claw away, getting within four in the final seconds.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Morgan's 35 points surpassed the 34 points he scored against Northeastern on 11/30/2016 and Nolan Cressler posted vs. Brown on 2/22/2014 for a Cornell arena record, and behind only Jason Forte's 36 points for Brown during the 2004-05 campaign.
• Morgan moved all the way to fourth on the school's single-season scoring list with 566 points.
• He also became the school's career leader in field goals (705), passing Ryan Wittman '10 (696).
• Morgan's 10-of-10 effort from the free-throw line is the eighth-most in a single game without a miss in school history.
• The senior has now reached double figures in an Ivy record 75 games, the 18th-longest stretch in NCAA history.
• The Big Red dropped its first game of the season when scoring at least 80 points after winning its first six contests when hitting that mark.
• Yale extended its win streak in the series to 12 games.

NEXT UP
• Cornell will hit the road for the treacherous Princeton-Penn road trip beginning with a matchup against the Tigers on Friday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
• The last two meetings between the teams have gone to overtime, with Princeton claiming a 70-61 contest in Ithaca on Feb. 2.