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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale defense stepped up on Senior Day at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, limiting Cornell to 23 percent shooting overall and 18 percent from 3-point range in a 71-40 victory over the Big Red on Saturday evening. The loss dropped Cornell to 11-15 (6-6) Ivy, while the Bulldogs avenged a loss to the Big Red earlier this season in improving to 19-7 (9-3 Ivy).

Chris Wroblewski was the lone Cornellian in double figures with 10 points to go along with four rebounds and four assists. No other Big Red player scored more than five points. Freshman Shonn Miller hit for five points and chipped in eight rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals. Eitan Chemerinski had seven rebounds, including six offensive boards for the second straight night.

Playing in his final regular season home game, Greg Mangano posted 16 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots, while Reggie Willhite nearly posted a triple-double with eight points, nine rebounds and eight assists. Jesse Pritchard (13 points) and Austin Morgan (11 points) were also in double figures.

Yale jumped out to an 8-0 lead and looked like it would blow the game open early, but Cornell battled back, evening the score at 16-16 nine minutes in on a basket by freshman Deion Giddens. Five straight points by Johnathan Gray, including a 3-pointer, highlighted the 16-8 Big red run. Cornell tied the contest at 18-18 on a layup by Dwight Tarwater with 8:24 left in the half, but that triggered a Yale run. Jesse Pritchard's 3-pointer helped the home team explode on a 16-2 run that included three other triples (two by Morgan, one by Mangano) and a dunk by Brandon Sherrod that forced a Big Red timeout with two minutes left in the first half. Wroblewski broke the team's seven-minute scoring drought with two free throws, but Pritchard nailed another trey for Yale. Wroblewski's two free throws with under a minute to play sent the visitors into the break still trailing 37-24.

After shooting just 26 percent in the first half, Cornell would have figured to turn the numbers around in the second half, but it only got worse. Yale scored the first six points after halftime to quickly extend the lead to 19, The Big Red made only three baskets in the first 13 and a half minutes coming out of the locker room and saw the Bulldogs' lead get out to as many as 24 with five minutes to play before both teams emptied their benches. The Bulldogs scored the final 10 points of the game and held the Big Red scoreless for the final 4:19 to run out with the easy victory.

Cornell will close ou tthe 2011-12 season at home against Dartmouth on Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m. at Newman Arena, then will welcome Harvard on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. for Senior Day.