Career scoring highs from Cooper Noard (20) and Adam Hinton (12) and a gritty performance on the boards lifted the Cornell men’s basketball team to an 84-68 victory over Iona on Monday evening at Hynes Center. The Big Red improved to 4-2, while the Gaels slipped to 1-5.
Noard led four double-figure scorers with 20 points, Jake Fiegen added 15, Hinton scored 12 off the bench and Guy Ragland Jr. added 11 points to go along with his eight rebounds in the victory. Nazir Williams chipped in seven points, five assists and three rebounds and AK Okereke finished with six points, six rebounds and eight assists. In all, the Big Red assisted on 22 of its 27 baskets and shot 48 percent for the day. Maybe most impressively, Cornell ended the contest with a 37-36 edge on the glass against an Iona team that entered the game leading the nation in offensive rebounds and were outrebounding opponents by nine per game.
DeJour Reaves led the Gaels with 19 points and five rebounds, with Adam Njie Jr. (14 points, six assists, three rebounds). Yaphet Moundi (13 points, nine rebounds, five steals) and Jalen Barr (10 points, four rebounds) also reaching double figures. The Gaels shot 40 percent from the floor for the game and 19 percent from beyond the arc (4-of-21).
UP NEXT
• Cornell will head up I-81 to renew its series with Syracuse on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. at the JMA Wireless Dome.
• The contest will be broadcast live on the ACC Network.
• The Big Red will attempt to snap a 43-game losing streak to the Orange dating back to the 1968-69 campaign, unofficially the fourth-longest streak in NCAA history (the NCAA does not recognize four SU wins that were later vacated and has stopped the official streak at 36.
• Cornell is 0-29 in the Dome against the Orange (1-30 overall).
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