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Harvard will have to shore up its interior defense against Yale in order to exploit its size. In the two teams’ meeting in New Haven, Bulldogs forward Dominick Martin shot 5-for-8 from the floor and scored 10 crucial second-half points. Possibly the Ivy League’s best pure post scorer, the 6’10 Martin is second in the league with a .540 field goal percentage, and is coming off a 20-point performance on 10-of-12 shooting in Tuesday’s loss to Brown...
Rourke, who transferred from Mesa (Ariz.) Community College prior to the season, poured in 20 second-half points on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor and went 6-of-6 from the line to sink Harvard. Hitting an assortment of layups and mid-range jumpers, the 6’8 junior helped turn around a 26-22 halftime deficit. His jump shot with 9:53 to play put Cornell ahead 42-40, a lead the Big Red would not relinquish for the remainder of the game...
...Crimson, Kevin Rogus was the bright spot on offense, shooting 8-of-15, including four second-half threes. But while Rogus was able to shake free of the defense for the first time in several games, the normally solid duo of junior center Brian Cusworth and junior forward Matt Stehle was held in check...
Rourke’s 20 second-half points came on 7-of-8 shooting, while the rest of the squad went 9-for-15 for a combined field-goal percentage of 69.6 over the final 20 minutes of the contest...
Hayes turned in 12 second-half tallies, most of them on second-chance points or layups...