Women's Basketball Prepares For Mount St. Mary's (Md.)

STREAKS, STORYLINES & SIDEBARS 

• The Cornell women’s basketball team opened the 2022-23 season against its longest non-Ivy rival at Colgate on Monday, Nov. 7 where it fell 62-48 to the Raiders at Cotterell Court in Hamilton, N.Y.
• The Big Red tallied the first win of the season in the home opener when it battled Lafayette after trailing by five at half.
• Picked sixth in the Ivy League Preseason media poll, the Big Red is coming off a 9-16 season and a sixth-place finish among the Ancient Eight.
• Theresa Grace Mbanefo and Samantha Will were the lone 2022 grads for the Red, opening up new court opportunities for the returners.
• Freshman Emily Pape has neared double-double territory in both of her first two collegiate outings (13 pts, 7 rebounds at Colgate; 7 pts, 10 rebounds at FDU).
• Cornell returns 11 athletes from last year, while adding four new faces.
• The Big Red and the Mountaineers are competing for only the second time ever. Cornell won the lone meeting in 2004.

THE SERIES 
Overall: Cornell leads, 1-0
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Never competed
Current Streak: Cornell, 1 game
Last Meeting: Cornell won 70-60, 11/20/2004 in Baltimore, Md.
Smith vs. Mount: 1-0
Series Notes: 

• Cornell owns the lone meeting in 2004, which was a neutral site match hosted by UMBC.

A WIN OVER THE MOUNT WOULD ... 

• move the home record to 2-1.
• up Cornell’s record vs. The Mount to 2-0 all-time when at home.
• be the 458th win in program history (457-748 in seasons, .353).

LAST TIME OUT: Cornell 58, Bucknell 65
GAME STORY I BOX SCORE I GALLERY

• The Big Red lost to Bucknell in an overtime battle, 58-65.
• Cornell led 13-8 at the end of the first quarter and held a three-point or more lead throughout the quarter.
• At halftime, the Big Red still possessed the 25-22 lead after going ona 8-0 run to open the quarter.
• Cornell had the edge at the end of the third quarter yet again, leading 39-34.
• The Bison managed to take the lead for the first time all game in the fourth quarter with 2:38 remaining on the clock. The final two minutes of regulations included back-and-fourth action to leave the score knotted at 52 at the end of the game after Bucknell sunk a shot from deep to tie it.
• The Big Red claimed the first basket during overtime, but Bucknell finished the game withn a 13-4 run to earn the 65-58 win.

Photos by Dave Burbank, Eldon Lindsay, Patrick Shanahan and Darl Zehr