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Jordan Henderson by the Canisius bench on Nov. 22, 2022 at Cornell inside Newman Arena.
Ken Morey
70
Canisius Canis 2-3,0-0 MAAC
79
Winner Cornell CU 4-1,0-0 Ivy League
Canisius Canis
2-3,0-0 MAAC
70
Final
79
Cornell CU
4-1,0-0 Ivy League
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Canisius Canis 34 36 70
Cornell CU 45 34 79

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Early Turnovers Doom Men’s Basketball at Cornell

Cornell's Nazir Williams scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while teammate Guy Ragland Jr., came off the bench to score a dozen points as well to help lead the host Big Red to a 79-70 win over Canisius in men's basketball action Tuesday night at Newman Arena in Ithaca, N.Y.
 
The win, Cornell's fourth straight, improved the Big Red to 4-1 on the season, while the Golden Griffins fell to 2-3 with the loss.

For Canisius, graduate student Jordan Henderson scored a game-high 24 points, one shy of his career-high, highlighted by six 3-point field goals, which matched a career-best. Redshirt-freshman Tahj Staveskie scored 15 points and dished out six assists and graduate student Jamir Moultrie added 11 points. Both Staveskie and Moultrie made three 3-pointers in the losing effort for Canisius, as the Griffs made 13 triples on the night, the fourth time this season where the team has made 10-or more 3-pointers in a game.

The Griffs took an early 6-5 lead on a 3-pointer by Staveskie 1:53 seconds into the contest. That lead would end up being Canisius' final lead of the ball game, however, as Cornell used a 17-5 run over the next 6:40 to make the score 22-11 in favor of the home team. In that scoring spurt, Cornell took advantage of four Canisius turnovers, which resulted in nine Big Red points. The Griffs trailed Cornell 45-34 at the halftime break despite shooting 50.0 percent (13-for-26) from the field in the game's opening 20 minutes, with six of those baskets coming from 3-point land.
 
In the second half, Cornell led the Blue and Gold 75-61 with 3:16 left on the clock before Canisius pushed back and whittled that margin down to five points with 1:46 remaining in the contest. Henderson got that scoring surge started for the Griffs after he drilled a 3-pointer from the left wing off a pass from sophomore Xzavier Long with 2:57 on the clock. After the Griffs got back-to-back defensive stops, Staveskie hit a pair of 3-pointers 17 seconds apart to make the score 75-70 with 1:46 remaining. That would be as close as the Griffs would get the rest of the night, as Williams hit a jumper in the lane with the shot clock winding down on the Big Red's next possession to put Cornell back up seven points at 77-70 with 1:13 showing on the game clock.
 
Canisius shot 42.6 percent (26-for-61) from the field for the game while making 13-of-30 3-point shots. Cornell shot 49.2 percent (30-for-61) from the floor and made 11-of-30 3-point attempts, and the Big Red ended the night with a 38-33 advantage on the glass. Canisius senior Jacco Fritz had a season-high seven boards for the Blue and Gold in the losing effort.

Head coach Reggie Witherspoon's Postgame Comments  
GAME NOTES
• Tuesday was the 46th all-time meeting between Canisius and Cornell, and the Big Red now lead the series 28-18.
• After turning the ball over eight times in the first half, Canisius was charged with just four turnovers in the game's final 20 minutes.
• Henderson's six 3-pointers ties his career-best effort from behind the arc – he also had six 3-point makes at UIC on Nov. 26, 2019.
• Henderson now has 150 career 3-pointers to his credit, which ranks him ninth in school history. On Tuesday, he passed former Griffs Hodari Mallory and Kevin Thompson on the school's career 3-point makes list.
• Staveskie is the first Canisius player to score 10-or more points in his first five career games as a Griff since Malcolm McMillian scored in double-figures in six-straight games to open the 2015-16 campaign.
• Long matched a career-high with four assists in Tuesday's game.
 
UP NEXT
Canisius return to action Sunday, Nov. 27 when the team travels across town to face rival Buffalo. Tip-off at Alumni Arena is set for 2:30 p.m., and the game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with the radio call exclusively on GoGriffs.com.
 
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