Game Story; JMU 56, Cornell 40

Friday, December 28

Richmond, Va.

TBA

James Madison University

6-3

Cornell

2-8

CORNELL

JAMES MADISON

12/28/2001 12:14:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

RICHMOND, Va. (12/28/2001) – JMU held Cornell to 17 second-half points and rallied for a 56-40 victory in the first round of the University of Richmond's Spider Invitational at the robins Center.

JMU trailed 23-18 at halftime and 26-18 early during the final half but held Cornell to six second-half field goals and to but three points during a 7:14 period and to six points during a 10:13 span after intermission. After the game was tied at 30-30 with 14:07 left, JMU used a 22-6 scoring run to lead 52-36 with 3:54 to play. Pat Mitchell had six points and Jerian Younger five during JMU's 22-6 scoring burst. Dwayne Broyles' three-point field goal with 13:02 left put JMU in front to stay 35-33.

JMU hit on 13 of 20 second-half shots (65 percent) after shooting only 32 percent (8-25) during the opening half. Cornell shot only 23.3 percent (6-26) during the final half and but 27.8 percent (15-54) overall in becoming the first JMU opponent since 1991-92 to shoot poorer than 30 percent.

Cornell's 40 points were the fewest in a game against JMU since the Dukes beat Morgan State 73-39 in 1985-86 and were the fewest by a JMU opponent in a game away from the JMU Convocation Center since the Dukes beat William & Mary 41-38 in the finals of the 1982-83 Eastern College Athletic Conference South Tournament at the Robins Center.

Broyles led JMU with 18 points, and he also had five rebounds and two assists while becoming the first JMU player other than David Fanning to lead the team in scoring during the 2001-02 season. Mitchell had 14 points, including 12 during the second half, and nine rebounds, and Fanning had 13 points for JMU.