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Freshman Jon Ivy (Rochester, NY/East) led all Brockport scorers with a career-high 22 points as The College at Brockport Men's Basketball team ended its regular season by defeating Cortland with a 66-60 victory Saturday in a State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) contest at Corey Gymnasium in Cortland.
The win, sealed the No. 4 spot for Brockport (13-12 Overall, 11-7 SUNYAC) in the final regular season conference standings. The Golden Eagles will play host to Oneonta at 7 pm Tuesday in the first round of the SUNYAC tournament at Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium in Brockport.
Against Cortland, Ivy kept the Golden Eagles in the game early with 12 of his 22 points in the first half. Despite Ivy's offense, the Red Dragons (10-15, 7-11) led by five points at 34-29 at the halftime intermission.
“Ivy's been like this the last ten games,” Brockport head coach Greg Dunne said of Ivy's performance, “He's the best freshman in the conference. This is how we've expected him to perform from the beginning of the season.”
In the second half, Brockport connected on 56 percent of its shots from the field and converted 15 free throws compared to Cortland's 33% shooting from the field and zero free throw attempts in the final 20 minutes. The lack of offense allowed Brockport to take the lead by scoring the first nine points of the second stanza. The score remained close before Ivy scored six consecutive points for Brockport giving the Golden Eagles the lead for good at 56-54 with 4:31 left to play.
Sophomore Derek Klein (Valley Stream, NY/Long Island Lutheran) converted five free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.
Junior Kyheem Green (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) was also a key contributor for the Golden Eagles, scoring 13 points and gathering a team-high nine rebounds. Klein finished with 13 points in the win, shooting 5-6 from the free-throw line.
The Golden Eagles enter the playoffs winning six of their last nine games by an average of 17.3 points per game.
“What happens when you play so many teams on the road, you start to play a little tight,” Dunne said of the team's transition from the first half into the second, “At halftime we talked about just coming out loose.”
