Ithaca Journal
February 23, 2009
ouis Dale scored the 1,000th point of his career, Jeff Foote netted a game-high 16 points and Cornell routed the Bears, 85-45, in a men's basketball game at the Pizzitola Sports Center on Saturday.
That outcome, coupled with Yale's win over Columbia and Dartmouth's win over Princeton, puts Cornell (18-8, 8-2 Ivy) in first place by two games again with just four to play — five for Penn and Princeton.
Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale are caught in a second-place logjam at 6-4.
"I think the league is so darn balanced," Cornell coach Steve Donahue said. "The biggest difference is all these young players, they're all getting better and better over the last month and a half, and the league is so young."
Cornell jumped on Brown early, outrebounded the Bears 48-29, received great bench play and limited the hosts to 32 percent shooting, including a 3-for-21 effort from the three-point line.
"In this league, for Saturday night, it's all about energy and fighting through what happened the night before," Donahue said. "I thought our guys did a great job; every single one.
"All day I thought we were focused."
Foote scored the first six points of the second half, as Cornell's 17-point lead ballooned to 27. Brian Kreefer scored 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds off the bench, Ryan Wittman added 15 and Alex Tyler 10. Cornell scored 20 points off 18 Brown turnovers.
"(Foote) was great," Donahue said. "I thought he guarded well, he ran the floor, he outworked their bigs early on."
Dale became the 23rd Cornell player to crack 1,000 career points, joining classmate Wittman on the list.
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