Columbia Lions @ Cornell Big Red

12-15, 1-13 Ivy

Final

	1	2	T
Columbia COLU	42	39	81
Cornell COR	53	47	100

Cornell Big RedCornellCOR

17-10, 9-5 Ivy

100

17-10, 9-5 Ivy

Williams scores 26, Cornell defeats Columbia 100-81

Mar 9, 2026, 05:34 am

ITHACA, N.Y. -- — Nazir Williams' 26 points helped Cornell defeat Columbia 100-81 on Saturday.

Cornell will be the No. 2 seed in the four-team Ivy Madness, which runs March 15 and 16 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Williams added six rebounds for the Big Red (17-10, 9-5 Ivy League). AK Okereke scored 21 points and added eight rebounds. Guy Ragland Jr. had 15 points and went 5 of 9 from the field (3 for 7 from 3-point range).

Zine Eddine Bedri led the Lions (12-15, 1-13) in scoring, finishing with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa added 14 points for Columbia. Mason Ritter finished with 10 points. The loss was the Lions' seventh in a row.

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Game Information

Ithaca, NY

Referee:Brandon Kamil

Referee:Jafar Kinsey

Referee:Javed Trotman

NCAA Division I

Ivy League	CONF	GB	OVR
Yale	11-3	-	24-7
Harvard	10-4	1	17-12
Pennsylvania	9-5	2	18-12
Cornell	8-6	3	15-13
Columbia	5-9	6	16-12
Dartmouth	5-9	6	11-16
Princeton	5-9	6	9-20
Brown	3-11	8	9-18

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