The Penn men's basketball team improved to 15-4 overall and 2-1 in the Ivy League with a 75-63 victory over Cornell Friday night at the Palestra. The Quakers jumped out to a 20-8 lead midway through the first half, and led, 32-21, at the break. The Big Red, however, tied the score at 36 on a Wallace Prather three-pointer five minutes into the second half. After that, however, it was all Penn as junior forward Ugonna Onyekwe scored eight straight points for Penn to lead a Quakers 15-5 run. Onyekwe led the Quakers with 25 points and six rebounds, while junior guard Andrew Toole had a Penn career high 22 points and six boards. At the 10:29 mark of the second half, with the Quakers up 51-41, Onyekwe and Toole had 45 of Penn's points. Prather led all scorers with 26 points and also recorded five steals. In other Ivy League action Friday, Yale beat Dartmouth, 73-55, Harvard knocked off Brown, 89-81, and Princeton came back to edge Columbia, 49-41. Penn, at 2-1, now stands at fourth in the Ivies. Princeton is 3-0 and in first, while Harvard and Yale are both 4-1.
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