ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell senior guard Galal Cancer had a game-high 18 points to go with eight rebounds and four steals and the host Big Red shot 50 percent from the field in the game's second half to knock off Canisius 67-60 in non-conference men's basketball action Wednesday night in Newman Arena. With the win, Cornell snaps its three-game losing skid and moves to 3-4 on the year, while the Golden Griffins dropped to 2-2.

For Canisius, redshirt-freshman Jermaine Crumpton scored a career-high 15 points off the bench. Sophomore Zach Lewis was good for 14 points and four steals, while senior guard Jeremiah Williams added 10 points to the losing effort. For the game, Canisius shot 33.3 percent from the field, 28.6 percent from 3-point land and 61.5 percent from the free-throw line.

Canisius trailed by six points with 3:56 left in the first half before Williams scored five of the Blue and Gold's next six points to make the score 30-30 with 57 seconds left before the intermission. After Crumpton knocked down a pair of free-throws with 31 seconds left in the first half top put Canisius up 32-30, Cornell held for the last shot and scored as the first half horn sounded when Cancer drove through the lane and laid one off the glass to knot the game at 32-32 at intermission. Out of halftime, Cornell out scored Canisius 8-0 in the first 2:49 of the second stanza to jump out to a 40-32 lead, with senior Shonn Miller scoring five of those eight points, capped with a break-away dunk and a made free-throw with 17:11 left in the game.

Cornell led Canisius by as many as 10 points midway through the second half, but the Griffs were able to whittle that cushion down to six with 5:25 left in the contest when Crumpton drained a 3-pointer from the left wing. Cornell's lead ballooned back to as many as nine points before Crumpton again got the Griffs within six at 61-55 with 2:44 remaining after he drilled another trey, this time from the top of the key. With 1:56 left in the contest, Crumpton's two makes from the charity stripe made the score 61-57 in favor of Cornell, but that would end up being as close as the Griffs would get for the remainder of the night, as the Big Red went 5-for-6 from the free-throw line in the game's final 45 seconds, while Canisius went just 3-for-8 from the stripe in the game's final minute of play.

"We missed too many lay-ups and too many free-throws tonight," Canisius head coach Jim Baron said. "When you're young and inexperienced like we are, you need to do the little things to win games, especially against teams that have upper classmen. We just need to keep working and keep get better. We forced them into 23 turnovers, but we only scored 18 points off those turnovers. We really need to make teams pay when they make mistakes."

Cornell ended the night shooting 44.7 percent from the floor and 67.7 percent from the free-throw line. Miller had 10 points, seven boards and two blocks in the win for Cornell, while sophomore Darryl Smith chipped in 13 points. Canisius junior Jamal Reynolds led all players with nine rebounds, but Cornell ended up out-rebounding the Blue and Gold by a final count of 40-35.

Canisius will return to action Saturday, Nov. 29, when the team plays cross-town rival Buffalo in the second game of the Big 4 Basketball Classic, presented by The Buffalo News. Game time in First Niagara Center is set for 4:15 p.m.