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2nd |
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| Pricneton (8-13, 6-2 Ivy) |
25 |
32 |
7 |
12 |
76 |
| Cornell (10-13, 5-4 Ivy) |
30 |
27 |
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68 |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
Cornell led by nine with under three minutes left when 5-9 Scott Greenman put back his own miss to cut the Tiger deficit to seven. Ryan Rourke airballed a three-pointer, then fouled Noah Savage shooting a three-pointer at the other end. Savage hit two of three free throws to make it a five-point game. After Graham Dow lost the ball in transition, Savage then drilled a 27-footer to cut Cornell’s lead to just two. Adam Gore couldn’t get a jumper to fall, and Andrew Naeve’s tip hanged on the rim before rolling off. Justin Conway missed a wide-open three-pointer, and Lenny Collins was fouled, hitting both free throws with 33.4 seconds left to put Cornell up four. Greenman found Conway for a layup to bring the Tigers back to within two, then Princeton fouled Rourke with 13.2 seconds on the clock. The Cornell forward hit the first free throw, but the second free throw spun out. At the other end, Greenman hit a 24-foot three-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to finish off a 12-3 run to end regulation and send the game to overtime. |
| Key sign it was over |
Trailing by five with 32 seconds left in the second overtime session, Gore missed a three-pointer. Savage controlled the rebound for Princeton and hit two free throws with under 30 seconds left to put the Tigers up seven. |
| Key performance |
Scott Greenman. Not only did the diminutive point guard hit the big shot to force overtime, but he hit an even wilder shot with Cornell trailing by three at the end of the first overtime. Greenman found himself double-teamed behind the arc by the Princeton bench. The senior point guard dribbled through the Cornell defenders, twisted his body around Dow, and uncorked an off-balance line drive that found the bottom of the net to force the second overtime. Greenman matched his career-high from two weeks ago with 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting (4 of 6 from three-point range). He also grabbed the aforementioned crucial offensive rebound and tallied four assists and three steals, while playing all 50 minutes. |
| Key statistic |
Princeton’s 51.6-percent to 31.0-percent shooting edge after halftime. After getting outshot 56.5 percent to 47.6 percent in the first 20 minutes, Princeton turned the tables on the Big Red. The Tigers hit 16 of 31 shots after intermission, and most impressively scored on 14 of their final 19 possessions of the contest. |
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| Notes |
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Cornell scored the first nine points of the contest. Princeton’s first lead of the evening didn’t come until 48 seconds into the second overtime. |
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In a move that doesn’t bode well for tomorrow night’s game in New York, Joe Scott again used just seven players in the double-overtime affair. In addition to Greenman’s iron-man 50-minute effort, Savage also logged 48 minutes. Steve Donahue also didn’t use his bench much, playing just eight guys. Lenny Collins played 49 minutes and the other four starters all saw more than 40 minutes of action. |
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Savage led all scorers with 28 points, largely on the strength of his 6-of-9 shooting from three-point range. |
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Rourke, Collins, and Gore all tied for team-high scoring honors for Cornell with 14 points. David Lisle added 10 points in 16 minutes off the bench. |
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Cornell’s largest lead of the game was nine points on three occasions: 9-0 and 11-2 early on, and again in the second half at 54-45 with under three minutes left. |
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The Big Red came into the game as the top three-point shooting team in the Ivy League at 37.9 percent on the season and 42.8 percent in league play. Yet Cornell shot just 5 of 20 (25.0 percent) from outside the arc on the evening. |
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Conway bounced back from a poor game at Penn on Tuesday with a seven-point, five-rebound, three-assist, zero-turnover effort in Ithaca. |
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Cornell dominated the boards, grabbing 13 of 32 (40.6 percent) at the offensive end and 24 of 28 (85.7 percent) on defense. |
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The Princeton win snapped a three-game losing streak to the Big Red. |
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