Men's Basketball Falls to Yale, 72-67

Friday, February 28

Hanover, NH

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

13-12,7-5Ivy League

Yale

19-6,12-0Ivy League

Yale

Dartmouth

2/28/2025 8:33:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: Callie Cyr

HANOVER, N.H – Ryan Cornish and Brandon Mitchell-Day combined for 50 points as the Dartmouth men's basketball team fell to Yale 72-67 from Leede Arena on Friday evening.

Cornish drained 28 points for the Big Green while Mitchell-Day buried 22. Cornish shot 45% from the field and 55% from three while Mitchell-Day shot 60% from the field.

The Big Green's record falls to 13-12 (7-5 Ivy League) and Yale's improves to 19-6 (12-0 Ivy League). 

Score: Yale 72, Dartmouth 67
Records: Dartmouth (13-12, 7-5 Ivy League), Yale (19-6, 12-0 Ivy League) 
Location: Hanover, N.H. (Leede Arena) 
Date: Friday, February 28, 2025

UP NEXT:

The Big Green return to action when they play host to Brown on Saturday, March 1 with a 4 p.m. tipoff on Senior Day.

FIRST HALF: 

The Bulldogs went on an early run to take a 12-8 lead.
Four points from Mitchell-Day tied the game at 12-12 with 13:29 remaining.
The rest of the half, the teams went basket for basket until three pointers from Cornish and Mitchell-Day gave the Big Green a 28-24 lead with 4:04 to go.
The half ended with a Jackson Munro basket and a three pointer from Cornish to put the Big Green ahead 35-29 going into halftime.

SECOND HALF:

The Big Green came out of halftime and went on a 6-2 run to extend to a 10-point lead with 18:01 remaining in the half.
10 unanswered points from the Bulldogs tied the game 41-41 with 16:35 left. Another six points allowed the Bulldogs to regain the lead, 47-44.
The teams once again exchanged baskets for close to five minutes with Yale holding the lead.
Nine Bulldog points compared to the Big Green's two extended the Yale lead to 10, 66-56.
The Big Green responded with seven unanswered of their own, all from Cornish and Mitchell-Day, but it wasn't enough to hold off the Bulldogs. Yale took the victory, 72-67.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

The Big Green forced seven Yale turnovers and capitalized with 10 points off them.
The game saw 10 lead changes and four ties.
Cornish's 28 points ties his season high. He scored 28 at Cornell on January 31.
Connor Amundsen added eight rebounds to the box score, a career high.