Extended Runs Send Dartmouth to 77-60 Defeat

Friday, January 29

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

7-10, 1-2Ivy

Columbia

14-6, 3-0Ivy

Columbia

Dartmouth

1/29/2016 9:27:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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HANOVER, N.H. — Columbia opened the game with 10 straight points, then added a 16-point run later in the first half to drop Dartmouth into a hole it could not dig itself out of as the visiting Lions dealt the Big Green a 77-60 defeat on Friday night at Leede Arena. Maodo Lo and Grant Mullins each contributed a game-high 16 points for Columbia (14-6, 3-0 Ivy), while freshman Evan Boudreaux led Dartmouth (7-10, 1-2 Ivy) with 15.

The game featured a whopping 53 fouls that led to 67 free throw attempts. The Lions dropped 25-of-36 (.694) at the foul line while Dartmouth wasn't far behind at 22-of-31 (.710). But the combination of long-range shooting and tenacious defense proved to be too much for the Big Green on this evening.

Columbia hounded Dartmouth all night, forcing a season-high 20 turnovers thanks to 10 steals while holding the Green to just 37.0 percent (17-of-46) from the floor and 25.0 percent (4-of-16) from long range. Meanwhile, at the other end of the floor, the Lions drained 10-of-25 (.400) from behind the arc with Lo and Alex Rosenberg (who added 14 points) each collecting a trio of triples to constantly keep Dartmouth at bay.

The 10-point spurt to open the game began in earnest with Lo's first bomb and was capped by a breakaway dunk by Luke Petrasek, who scored 10 points on the night, causing Dartmouth head coach Paul Cormier to call a timeout little more than three minutes into the contest.

Dartmouth briefly stemmed the tide with buckets in the paint by senior Connor Boehm and Boudreaux. But after the two sides traded trifectas, the Lions roared to 16 straight points in a four-minute span for a 29-7 bulge. Lo scored the first five points with a breakaway layup after stealing the ball, then a pull-up three-pointer from the left wing. Rosenberg also had five straight points during the run with a trey, while the other six points came at the foul line.

A Mullins three-pointer with 8:30 left in the half built up the Columbia lead to a game-high 23 points at 32-9, but Dartmouth allowed just one more field goal for the remainder of the stanza while chipping away at the huge deficit. The difference was still 21 with five minutes until the intermission due to trips to the foul line, but after senior Malik Gill drove for a layup and dished off on another drive to junior Wesley Dickinson for another easy bucket, the Lions called time even with a 17-point advantage.

Dartmouth took its turn going to the charity stripe, converting four straight to extend its run to eight. Then, trailing 42-27 with 1:30 on the clock, Boehm hit the first of two foul shots, then rebounded his own miss for a layup. Two more freebies by senior Kevin Crescenzi in the waning seconds allowed the Big Green to go into the locker room down by 10 at 42-32.

In the second half, Dartmouth twice cut the Columbia edge into single digits, the last time on the second of two three-pointers by sophomore Miles Wright that made it a 51-42 game with 15:22 remaining. The Green could get no closer, however, and when C.J. Davis drained a three-pointer with 10 minutes to play, Columbia was in the midst of a 13-2 run that ballooned the lead back to 22 at 71-49. Dartmouth never got closer than 17 points the rest of the way.

Boudreaux was the lone Big Green player to score in double figures, and his seven rebounds led all players as the two sides fought fairly evenly on the boards with Columbia gathering 36 to Dartmouth's 34.

Lo finished the game 6-of-13 from the floor and 3-of-8 from beyond the arc, plus led the Lions with six rebounds, three assists and five steals. Mullins was a bit more efficient, knocking down 5-of-8 field goals, including 2-of-4 on three-pointers, but was just 4-of-8 at the line.

Dartmouth, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, will be back in action on Saturday night at 7 p.m. when it hosts Cornell (8-9, 1-2 Ivy) in hopes of a weekend split. The game can be seen live online via Big Green Insider on the Ivy League Digital Network with Jay Burnham calling the action. The Big Red are coming off a 77-62 road victory at Harvard (9-10, 1-2 Ivy), which will host Columbia tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Notes: Boudreaux has led Dartmouth in scoring in the last four games and 10 of the 17 on the season ... the Big Green beat Columbia in both meetings last year, and the season series has ended in a sweep in each of the previous five seasons; the two teams play again in New York on Feb. 20 ... Boehm finished the game with seven points and needs just seven more to reach 1,000 in his career.