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BOSTON – Four different players finished with double-digit scoring while the Northeastern men's basketball team tallied 16 steals en route to an 84-66 blowout of Cornell Saturday afternoon.
 
The game was close at the half, with Northeastern earning a 39-36 edge, but the Huskies broke out in the second half outscoring Cornell 45-30 in the second stanza to run away with the win.
 
Two different Huskies notched 20-point efforts as Vasa Pusica did so for the second consecutive game finishing with 20 points, six assists and two steals. Donnell Gresham set a new career-high, for the third time this season, with the first 20-point game of his career finishing with 22 points, nine rebounds, a career-best four steals and two assists.
 
Bolden Brace finished with 12 points, all of which came in the second half, while Maxime Boursiquot garnered all of his 11 points in the first half. Both players were instrumental in the team's success in those respective halves.
 
Matt Morgan finished with 24 points for Cornell but also had five turnovers to his one assist, while Wil Bathurst added 10 points.
 
Northeastern's 16 steals were the most since the Huskies set a school record with 20 steals against Wentworth on Nov. 17, 2015 and were the most against a Division-I opponent since the Huskies thieved 18 against Sacred Heart on Dec. 21, 2002, a game that saw freshman J.J. Barea takeaway five.
 
FIRST HALF
For the second-straight game, Boursiquot started the Huskies off with a basket, this game it came from outside the arc for his first three of the season.
 
The two teams mimicked each other through the first five-points of the game, trading threes and free throws, with the Big Red gaining the lead, and the Huskies evening the score.
 
The Huskies forced Cornell into three turnovers in a 90 second span, the first two coming from Gresham, including one that took him back to his high school cornerback days as he leaped up for the interception and finished on the other end.
 
Occeus followed that with a steal, driving down and getting a pass to Brace who set him up for the slam to make it a 24-25 game.  
 
Cornell got out to as much as a four-point lead after Jack Gordon connected on a three with 3:30 left in the first half earning a 31-27 advantage. But the Huskies answered back as Pusica fought hard for a jumper in the paint, followed by a trey from the corner from Devon Begley to give the Huskies a one-point edge. Tomas Murphy followed that up with a bucket and Boursiquot drained his career-high tying third three of the half as Northeastern's 10-0 run gave the Huskies a 37-31 lead.
 
The Big Red answered with a three and a pair of free throws with six seconds left cut it to a three-point game, 39-36, at the half.  
 
SECOND HALF
The Huskies broke the game wide-open in the second half using an early 14-2 run to make it a 14-point game with twelve-and-a-half minutes to go eventually extending that into a 25-4 run to make it a 23-point advantage, 69-46 with 9:19 to go in the first half.
 
The run was kick started by a Brace three, his first points of the game, and followed by some Gresham free throws, a Miller layup, Pusica free throw, an ankle-breaking three by Gresham and capped by another Brace trey (following a Cornell basket).
 
Brace and Gresham combined for 20 of the 25 points in the run with 10 of Brace's 12 second half points coming during that time frame.
 
The two teams traded baskets the remainder of the game before Gresham helped the Huskies to their largest lead of the day, 24 points for an 84-60 lead, with his third-three in the contest, before Cornell was able to whittle the lead down to 18 as the Huskies finished with an 84-66 victory
 
Northeastern's three games, and three victories, at home this season have come by 34-point, 16-point, and 18-point margins.
 
UP NEXT
The Huskies continue their four-game homestand on Tuesday when they take on Bucknell on Paws For Puerto Rico Night at Matthews Arena. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. Tickets, of which the proceeds are going to hurricane relief, are still available for the game here. In addition, all fans that donate on Tuesday will receive a 'Los Huskies' t shirt (while supplies last).