Men's Basketball
Men’s Basketball Takes Last Shot at Ivy Bid
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The Red needs two wins and some help if it hopes to compete in the Ivy tournament.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/mens_basketball/page/3/)
The Red needs two wins and some help if it hopes to compete in the Ivy tournament.
The Red turned in two sub-par performances on the road this weekend, losing by more than 20 points to both Yale and Brown. Now in sixth place with two games left, the team is in danger of its season ending without a trip to the Ivy Tournament.
8-0 and 19-6 runs to start the first and second halves, respectively, weren’t enough for Cornell to take down first-place Yale.
Cornell trailed by as many as 13 in the first half, but clawed its way back to beat Brown in overtime.
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Morgan exploded for a career-high 41 points against Dartmouth on Friday, coming just six points shy of the all-time Cornell single-game scoring record. It was the most points ever scored by an individual in Dartmouth’s Leede Arena and the first time a Cornell player has scored 40 or more points in 59 years.
After Cornell beat the Tigers in triple overtime in Ithaca last season, Princeton picked up an OT win in 2019.
The Red started the second half on a 13-1 run to down former Cornell coach and current Penn coach Steve Donahue’s Quakers.
Coming into this important home test, the Red, and senior guard Matt Morgan especially, has been on a tear of late. The Red has won three of its last four and only dropped its last contest by three points in Harlem, with Morgan magical as usual.
Last weekend, a furious Columbia comeback fell short at Cornell. On Saturday in New York, the script was flipped as the Red’s game-tying shot attempt rolled out.