LEWISBURG – Visiting Cornell showed why it is the nation’s most prolific three-point shooting team, hitting 20-of-32 shots from long range on the way to a 101-72 win over Bucknell on Sunday afternoon at Sojka Pavilion. Aleksander Pachucki hit five treys of his own and scored a career-high 17 points for the shorthanded Bison, who played without injured starters Ruot Bijiek and Brandon McCreesh and lost another key reserve late in the first half when Pat Curtin left with an injury and did not return.

Freshman Amon Dörries added 14 points and seniors Quin Berger (9) and Josh Fulton (8) set new career scoring highs for the Bison, who dropped their seventh straight against a run of tough opponents. Bucknell’s last six foes have a combined record of 31-13.

Cornell, which has now won five straight after an 0-2 start, entered the game averaging 93.2 points along with a national-best 14.5 made 3-pointers and 21.7 assists per game. The Big Red upped all three of those figures on Sunday, setting the Sojka Pavilion record with 30 assists and the Sojka opponent record with 20 3-pointers. They finished 37-for-55 from the field, and the 67.3 field-goal percentage was also the highest by Bison opponent in Sojka.

That final field-goal percentage includes an 0-for-4 start, as the Big Red didn’t score for the game’s first 3:29. Bucknell also got off to a slow start but did well on the offensive glass. Three offensive boards from Grgur Brcic and another from Fulton led to second-chance buckets. The Bison led 7-4 after a five-point possession, as Curtin scored with a foul, missed the free throw, and Dörries grabbed the rebound and stuck it back for another and-1.

It was just a one-point game at 16-15 after a Jayden Williams 3-pointer, but a Jacob Beccles free throw followed by three straight 3-pointers from Adam Hinton, Jake Fiegen, and Gio Panzini amounted to a quick 10-0 Cornell run.

The Big Red hit three more triples later in the half, including a banked-in shot from Beccles that made it 45-27 with 16 seconds left. Berger beat the halftime buzzer with a three and Dörries scored on the first possession of the second half, but Connor Noard canned two from downtown to spark a 16-6 run that pushed the margin all the way to 23.

Bucknell got as close as 14 at 70-56 on Pachucki’s fifth trifecta of the day, but Corbin Zentner came off the bench and hit two in a row from downtown to send the Big Red on their way.

The Bison finished at 38.3 percent overall (7-26 from the arc) and hit 19 of 26 from the foul line. Brcic led the squad with seven rebounds, and Fulton had five rebounds, three assists, and three steals off the bench.

Noard led six Cornell players in double figures with 17 points, five below his season average. He went 5-for-6 from 3-point range, as nine different Big Red connected from downtown.

Things don’t get any easier for the Bison, who travel to defending Mid-America Conference champion Akron on Wednesday. The Zips are 6-2, including a 104-69 rout of Princeton, and they rank fifth nationally in scoring offense at 96.1 points per game.