PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Matt Morgan scored 21 points, but Penn controlled the second half and salvaged a season split with Cornell on Saturday evening at the Palestra, winning 68-50. The Big Red dropped to 13-13 (5-5 Ivy) with the loss, while the Quakers improved to 16-10 (4-6 Ivy).

Penn rallied from a 32-30 halftime deficit by limiting the Big red to 18 second half points on 30 percent shooting, including just 1-of-8 from beyond the 3-point arc. The Quakers, meanwhile, had four double figure scorers and hit 11-of-29 3-pointers to even the season series. 

Morgan scored 14 of his points in the first half, hitting double figures for the 77th consecutive game, extending his own school and Ivy record and moving to No. 14 in NCAA history. He hit on 6-of-12 shots from the floor, including five 3-pointers, and chipped in with three rebounds, three assists and three steals. He was the lone double figure scorer, with Jimmy Boeheim and Josh Warren each scoring six points. Warren added seven rebounds anf three blocks, while Steven Julian added seven boards and two steals in defeat.

AJ Brodeur had 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists and Devon Goodman scored 16, including 4-of-6 from 3-point range. Antonio Woods and Jake Silpe each  scored 12, with Silpe also being credited with four assists and three steals and Woods collecting five assists and three boards. Penn shot 45 percent from the floor after the break and gradually pulled away in what was a six-point game with under five minutes remaining.

NOTES TO KNOW
• The loss dropped Cornell into a fourth-place tie with Brown at 5-5, a game ahead of Penn (4-6) with four to play.
• With his 12 field goal attempts, senior Matt Morgan became the school's all-time leader in that category with 1,524 (surpassing Ryan Wittman '10 at 1,520).
• Morgan played in his 109th career game, the fifth-most played of any Cornell player in program history.
• With 599 points, Morgan is on the cusp of scoring 600 in a season, something only he has done in school history (630 points in 2017-18).

NEXT UP
• Cornell continues its four-game road swing when it visits first-place Yale on Friday, March 1 at 7 p.m. at John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn.
• The Big Red dropped a 98-92 contest to the Bulldogs in Ithaca on Feb. 16, its 12th consecutive loss to Yale.