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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Sophomore Shonn Miller dominated inside and senior Johnathan Gray hit from the outside as Cornell won its third Ivy League road game in four starts with a 68-61 victory at Yale on Friday evening at John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Big Red evened its record at 12-12 overall (4-3 Ivy), while Yale fell to 9-15 (3-4 Ivy).

Miller had 18 points, nine rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals and Gray, who had a career-high 29 points in last year's meeting in Ithaca, scored 18 and hit a pair of huge 3-pointers in the final minutes to send Cornell to the win. Gray added four rebounds, two assists, a blocked shot and a steal. Senior Errick Peck had 12 points and Galal Cancer netted six points, five assists and three rebounds. As a team, the Big Red shot 45 percent  from the floor and forced 16 Yale turnovers.

The Bulldogs' got 13 points from Justin Sears, while Sam Martin had 10, all in the first half. They had a 34-31 edge on the glass, but it was a 12-of-26 effort at the free throw line that sealed their fate. Yale shot 62 percent from the floor after halftime, but connected on just 5-of-15 from the charity stripe.

Cornell matched its most wins in three seasons under head coach Bill Courtney and improved to 3-1 on the road in conference play this year after going 4-10 in league action the last two seasons. They did so by answering the home team's every run, never letting the Bulldogs get out front of the pack.

The Big Red scored the first six points of the contest, leapt out to a 19-9 advantage 11 minutes in and never trailed over the first 20 minutes. Martin kept Yale in the game with 10 points in the first half, including three 3-pointers in the span of less than four minutes, and a pair of free throws by Jeremiah Kreisberg tied the contest at 22-22.

Gray, who would hit big shots over and over, answered right away after the free throws. His straight line drive into the paint ended with a Ned Tomic layup. The reserve forward was playing in place of Miller after the picked up his second foul. Galal Cancer answered with a spin move past a defender, then collected himself and softly laid it in the basket to make it a four-point game. Gray scored a basket and Peck nailed a pair of free throws and all of a sudden it was a six-point game. Austin Morgan nailed a trey to cut the lead in half and Cornell couldn't get off a good shot as the half expired with the visitors leading 30-27.

Yale scored five quick points to take its first lead of the game just 75 seconds into the second half, the first of six lead changes after the break. A thunderous Miller dunk off a pretty feed from Peck forced the third of four ties in the second half four minutes in. The Bulldogs led for much of a three-minute stretch,  but never by more than xx points. Gray, who made all four of his treys in the second half, hit a pair to help Cornell regain a lead, another one from a good six feet behind the and the last from the corner that doubled the team's lead from three to six with less than a minute and a half to play.

After a Morgan 3-point miss, Cornell's Cancer made 3-of-4 from the free throw line in the final 42 seconds to collect the win. Yale, meanwhile, missed its two attempts late that would have helped them get back in the game.

The Big Red gets right back into action tomorrow when it visits Brown for a 6 p.m. showdown at the Pizzitola Sports Center. Cornell has won 12 straight in the series and 15 of the last 16 meetings between the teams overall.