TOWSON, Md. -- Tyler Tejada scored 26 points and Towson shot nearly 76 percent after halftime to pull away from Cornell for a 93-80 victory on Wednesday night at SECU Arena. The Tigers improved to 6-3, while Cornell slipped to 5-4 with its second road loss to a top mid-major team in 24 hours.

Tejada hit 6-of-10 shots from 3-point range and added eight rebounds, while Dylan Williamson had 15 points and eight assists for the Tigers, who used a dominant second half on the glass and in the paint to erase a 36-35 Cornell lead at the break. Towson outscored the Big Red 58-44 after intermission and finished with a 38-25 advantage on the boards, turning 16 offensive rebounds into 20 second-chance points. 

Senior Jake Fiegen led Cornell with 19 points on 7-for-13 shooting, going 5-for-5 at the free-throw line. Senior Adam Hinton added 17 points and knocked down 5-of-6 from 3-point range, while classmate Cooper Noard scored 14 and junior Kaspar Sepp posted 12 points, six rebounds and four assists. The Big Red shot 54 percent percent overall (30-for-56), but were just 6-of-19 from 3-point range. 

Sepp's two free throws tied it at 48-48 with 16:01 remaining, but Towson answered with a 24-12 surge over the next eight minutes. Tejada drilled a go-ahead 3-pointer, Williamson scored in transition and Jack Doumbia Jr. chipped in inside as the Tigers built a 72-60 cushion with just under eight minutes to play. Cornell never got closer than 11 the rest of the way. 

Towson shot 37-for-66 (56 percent) from the field and was 11-for-22 from beyond the arc, including 4-for-8 from distance after halftime as it made 25-of-33 shots overall in the second half. Doumbia ended the night with 13 points off the bench, while Caleb Embeya had six points and seven rebounds and Jaquan Womack added eight points on 3-for-3 shooting. 

Cornell used a 13-1 spurt early to build a 15-8 lead and went up 36-33 on Sepp's dunk in the final minute of the first half before Embeya's free throws cut the margin to one at the break. Hinton buried a pair of early threes in the second half to briefly put the Big Red in front, but Towson's size and hot shooting took over from there. 

NEXT UP
• The Cornell men's basketball team plays its final game before exam break when it visits Samford on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. CT at the Pete Hanna Center in Birmingham, Ala.

• The Big Red won the first-ever matchup between the teams 88-86 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Jake Fiegen at Newman Arena.
• The Bulldogs ended last season with a 22-11 record and earned a spot in the Postseason NIT.