Big Green Roll Past Cornell, 88-49

Saturday, February 15

Hanover, NH

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

12-10,6-3Ivy League

Cornell

13-9,5-4Ivy League

Cornell

Dartmouth

2/15/2025 11:23:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: Callie Cyr

HANOVER, N.H. – Cade Haskins led the Big Green with 17 points as the Dartmouth men's basketball team took down Cornell 88-49 Saturday evening from Leede Arena. He added six rebounds to the stat line. The score marks the most points against Cornell since scoring 97 on January 15, 1988 - a 97-83 win.

Ryan Cornish drained 16 points to the box score while Brandon Mitchell-Day grabbed eight rebounds for the Big Green.

The Big Green's record improves to 12-10 (6-3 Ivy League) and Cornell's falls to 13-9 (5-4 Ivy League). 

Score: Dartmouth 88, Cornell 49
Records: Dartmouth (12-10, 6-3 Ivy League), Cornell (13-9, 5-4 Ivy League) 
Location: Hanover, N.H. (Leede Arena) 
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025
Attendance: 1,018

UP NEXT:

The Big Green return to action when they travel to Penn on Friday, Feb. 21 with a 7 p.m. tip off.

FIRST HALF: 

The Big Green held Cornell from scoring for 3:24 and put up nine of their own during the Big Red drought.
Two three-pointers from Haskins, one off a steal on the other end and back-to-back dunks from Mitchell-Day and Jayden Williams extended the Dartmouth lead to 21-2 with 12:50 left in the half.
Another 9-3 run brought the Big Green lead to 30-7 with 8:38 to go.
The Cornell offense gained some life down the stretch of the half, but the Big Green took the 44-18 lead into halftime.

SECOND HALF:

Cornell scored the first points of the half, but Mitchell-Day responded immediately with an offensive rebound and dunk. 46-20, Dartmouth.
With 11:39 left, nine unanswered points from the Big Green put them in front 63-30.
A late push from the Big Red brought the score to 70-41 going into the third media timeout of the half.
With less than five to go, two three-pointers a piece from Connor Christensen and Ben Brown electrified the crowd and extended the lead to 87-42.
The game ended with Cornell outscoring Dartmouth 7-1 but the Big Green took the victory 88-49.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

The Big Green out rebounded the Big Red 49-35. Within that, they grabbed two more offensive rebounds.
Dartmouth recorded 11 steals and notched 20 points off turnovers.
The Big Green held Cornell to 11% shooting from beyond the arc.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE:

Every Big Green player who saw action in the contest contributed points.
This is the third straight game that Dartmouth has held their opponent to 56 points or less. The team beat Harvard Saturday, Feb. 8 by a score of 76-56 and Columbia by a score of 78-56 on Friday, Feb. 14.
Tonight was Dartmouth's largest ever margin of victory against Cornell.
Dartmouth handed Cornell its largest margin of defeat against any opponent (Ivy League or non-league) since November 25, 2015 — a 93-49 loss to Pitt.